He Stress She Stress Summary

In the article, “ He stress, She Stress” by Susan Galdos talks about the difference between male and female stress levels and why. Men and women take in stress completely different. Throughout both lifetimes, females have a much higher risk of getting stress-related disorders than men. Stress disorders like PTSD and Major depression are twice as likely in females than in males. Since males and females have different sex hormones it causes a tremendous difference in how each sex deals with stress. In 2010 Bangasser’s group of scienctist did a study on rodents to test their stress levels. The scientist made the rodents swim for fifteen minutes and then checked their stress levels. Female rodents had tons of CRF showing that they had high stress during the activity. However, male rodents had few CRF receptors showing that they were able to cope with the situation they were in.
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Brian Trainor, A scientist, is performing experiments to see what this hormone does with people dealing with depression and migraine pains. He has found out that this nice feeling hormone could start to cause anxiety for people. Females gain a lot more anxiety because of Oxytocin than males do. They did this test with mice for ten weeks and as the testing went out the mice reacted differently. When seeing other mice more Oxytocin was produced causing high anxiety. They got really aggressive with mice and because the other mice in a way bullied the mice that was being tested, it caused more anxiety to be produced. High Oxytocin production is what some people think helps the cope and understand what is going on. Stress in females and males are completely different in many ways, however everyone still stresses. Females and males both produce similar hormones that make you stressed out. Females just take it a lot differently than males do because of