Women may be the Superior Gender

[DrJMW]

As men and women age, men become more like women and women become more like men. In the aging man, test levels drop because of failing Leydig cell production as well as higher conversion rates of estrogen. GH levels drop also. Insulin resistence occurs. Superior genetics determines the "how bad." The worst case scenario: Aging men have high estrogen levels, causing more water retention and more fat accumulation in the feminine areas: breast, tricep, hips, thighs. Low test/GH levels lead to muscle catabolism and poor mental faculties. Insulin resistence leads to type II diabetes (the body is unable to efficiently utilize carbohydrates). Goals for antiaging in men: minimize estrogen levels, maximize test/GH levels, and overcome insulin resistence. These are all possible with today's prescription medicine.

In aging women, Test. levels are low to begin with, but they rise in proportion to the lower estrogen levels. Estrogen levels decrease because of the failure of the uterus/ovary complex. Women still convert some of their Test. to estrogen because of their higher BF% (genetics at work here). Women also suffer from low GH levels and insulin resistence.

Research is starting to find that estrogen replacement therapy is the wrong approach. Now, researchers are looking at Test. as the drug of choice in women. They have found that women, because of their increased BF%, will convert enough estrogen from the "New Test." to meet the body's needs. Women, because of their genetics, solve the Test/Estrogen dilemma themselves (men cannot do this). Low GH levels and insulin resistence can be tackled in the same manner as men.

Obese women are a problem, because their blood profiles look like an obese man's. They are low test., elevated estrogen, insulin resistent, low GH, etc. Initially, they have to be treated like men until their BF% is down around 10-12%.

Appropriate diet and exercise regimens are basic to both sexes. Food for thought.

 

[DrJMW]

Just stating the facts..just the facts, maam.

 

[Sassy69]

As men and women age, men become more like women and women become more like men. [\quote]
So sounds like we all start out as gonads, and then end as gonads as well LOL!.

Sooo... in the future perhaps we will see more women in the higher age groups at bb contests? There was a wonderful 72 year old woman in my first bb comp who got into competition because she started lifting to address osteoporosis. Very inspirational... though I'm not sure if anyone is going to want to see me in a posing suit at age 72.......eek

 

[DrJMW]

You will be surprised. According to my "fountain of youth" theory, I can have you looking good well into your nineties--I just can't find anyone disciplined eough to maintain The Program that long.

 

[Sassy69]

I would like to drive a Harley and wear cycling leather and blast old heavy metal music when I am 90... it would also help if I dont' drool on myself and get stuck if the bike tips over....

I may have to take you up on that Program....

 

[buksoon]

What's this "may be" business?

 

[MS]

I would have thought that adipose aromatase activity would not be high enough in an elderly woman at 10-12% bf. Surely for postmenopausal test therapy to contribute significantly to estrogen replacement the bodyfat (and therefore significant aromatase activity) needs to be there. So I don't understand why you need to get "obese" elderly women down to 10-12% BF for test therapy to work??

I also thought that women develop more insulin resistance BECAUSE of excess estrogen, not from a lack of it. This is well born out in premenopausal women who's insulin sensitivity decreases mid-follicular through luteal phases when their estrogen levels are at their highest.

 

[Tatyana]

I thought I would bump some old threads (I am looking for one in particular), but also ran across this one.

Women are actually genetically 'superior' (this term is used differently in biology) by virtue of having two X chromosomes.

This confers protection against a number of sex linked and other genetic disorders.

The Y chromosome only carries a very few number of genes, and all of them are geared towards making the embryo/foetus male.

One of the X chromosomes shuts down at about week 6 in embryonic development and becomes a Barr body, which is often seen in the nucleus of the cells when stained in a certain way.

This used to be the testing procedure for sex in events like the Olympics, however, it has been found that just because you have XX, you may not become female, or XY, you may not become male....................

In fact, you could have the other's sexes sex chromosomes.

It is the hormones that are released during development that change certain tissues to become the sex organs (and they are all more or less derived from the same tissue except for the Wolffian (seminal vesicles) and Mullerian (fallopian tubes) ducts, but all embryos start out with both.

If anything goes 'wrong' during this process of embryological development, the foetus will 'revert' back to its natural state, which is being female.

It is also thought that exposure to different levels of oestrogen, testosterone and progesterone in utero does have a few structures in the brain develop differently, and gay and transgender males (male to female transexuals), show this pattern (I would have to google for the specific structure).

There are ALL sorts of inborn errors of certain enzymes,receptors etc, that result in one in two thousand births being a child with ambiguous genitalia, which basically means it is really not clear if the child is male or female.

One such enzyme deficiency is alpha 5 reductase deficiency. This enzyme converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is about 40 times more powerful than testosterone.

DHT is responsible for the changes that occur in the genitals in the foetus, so baby boys with this are born looking like little girls, even though they do have the testosterone and internal testicals of boys.

At puberty though, when testosterone is the hormone that results in the development of secondary male sex characteristics, these 'little girls' start to turn into little boys.

This is one of my favourite areas of study, sex differences, if you haven't noticed.