Women are amazing. We give the gift of life, we are mothers, wives, daughters. We work, we raise children, and we look pretty good doing it. As Ann Rogers once said, “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
But did you know that the expression “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” may actually hold some weight?
For example, some studies have shown that women have a perfect memory for facial features.
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Read on to discover more facts about the female body that you may not have known.
1. Women’s immune systems are stronger than men’s
It’s all in the genes. Researchers from Ghent University in Belgium have argued these sex-specific health disparities may be due to genetic material called microRNAs.
The main function of microRNAs in cells is to turn off specific genes. The researchers say microRNAs located on the female X chromosome may give women an immune system advantage over males.
This finding seems to hold water as another study showed that women are diagnosed with cancer less frequently than men.
2. Women have a higher pain threshold
Though of course pain is subjective, it seems to be the case that women, in general, can at least handle the discomfort of pain better, a new study has proven. According to researchers at McGill University, men rated their pain higher than women did during a series of tests. Men also were observed being more “stressed and hypersensitive” when facing individual pain than women.
3. Women detect smells better
As Charles Wysocki, a behavioral neuroscientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, observed in his study, “It is quite difficult to block a woman’s awareness of body odor. In contrast, it seems rather easy to do so in men.”
The researchers think women are more attuned to underarm body odor because the biological data it contains helps them choose a potential partner. Well, it certainly beats Tinder.
