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Tuesday, March 28, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Study of women's health could benefit men's lives
by Marian Weeks Kansan staff writer
Hormonal evolution has designed women for short, brutal and sexual lives, and has designed women for child bearing and longer lives, an endocrinologist from the Georgetown School of Medicine said yesterday.
Estelle Ramey, the endocrinologist, opened Women's Health Week at the University of Kansas, speaking at the University of Kansas Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Hormones account for why the females of species live longer and resist stress better than males, she said.
Women and women's health issues are frequently excluded as subjects of medical studies even though women's special capacity for coping with stress and outliving men could be helpful to help them to help live longer, she said.
More than 70 percent of women older than 65 are widows and 75
percent of those in nursing homes are women, she said.
Ramey said the human species was the most profoundly sexual of all the species, accounting for survival even though long gestation period and infant helplessness make humans the most vulnerable species on the planet.
"It was necessary to keep every uterus pregnant in order for the species to survive." Ramey said.
And testosterone permanently affects the brain to prime the human male to move fast and react physically, she said.
In early evolutionary periods, testosterone served human survival by making males the "profoundly sex-enslaving – en way — any place, any time, any way."
But modern man faces the stress of helplessness instead of the stress of fight or flight, she said.
Now the fight response is a liability for those who cannot control their circumstances, she said.
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