thanks. so many different walks of life was some are. street. looks for a cd or even one during the morning delusional marsh will enjoy. some of. their final resting place in the russian. documentary. hello and welcome to new fresh edition from in good shape here we are again are you male or female or do you define yourself differently i'm asking because we want gender equality you're asking why is this question so important if you're sick or

need to see a doctor that distinction might be the game changer men have a higher risk for developing heart disease but women are more likely to die from it with regard to mental health problems you might be unlucky if you're a man according to statistics more women get depressed this could be because doctors are less likely to think about depression in men and therefore don't treat them properly as a man or woman what you have to know when it comes to health and what do we doctors have to do to ensure that there's equality in medical treatment that is what our show today is all about let's take a current example the novel coronavirus research suggests that men fall into more frequently and more severely. today i'm with your play he's a biochemist turned writer he has written a lot of science books and he's a journalist thanks for having me today when we. take

a look at the cool grown up in that make it seems that the men are the weakest sex in this case this is really true when you look at the. corona virus outbreak actually there's some data from the city of hamburg in germany and they clearly show that. among the people who die from the virus the men are in the majority it's about 57 percent of the people who died are actually men it's because of their lifestyle they have more heart disease they have more problems with their lungs because. among them and that makes them weak and prone to get the virus and a severe. infection leading to the i will talk to your pleasure in more detail in just a moment one thing is clear there are many biological differences between the sexes then it's also clear that diseases take different causes and have to be treated differently but a lot is also due to our behavior women wash their hands more often and eat more

healthily men on the other hand think that the body simply has to function and what about as doctors we treat headaches or diabetes but do doctors care about if the patient is a man or a woman this question could make a difference between life or death. just never imagined she'd wind up in hospital yet she recently woke up at night with back pain later the next morning she was diagnosed with mild cardio infarction she had had a heart attack it's far from given that you were survived says cardiologist messa heart attacks are still regarded as something that men get even though it's the number one killer of women yet women symptoms are often this diagnosed. the homes are just as we've even seen women and their doctors who thought it was influenza. fortunately irises doctor who is

a woman herself thought it might be something to do with her heart ached a deft that's normally a routine consideration with men making a diagnosis we have to make sure it's always taken into consideration with women as well. it's not only our hearts that beat to a different rhythm there are many other differences between male and female that's due to our genetics. women have 2 x. chromosomes in each of the body cells while men have one x. and one y. chromosome and there's the chromosomes control a person's hormone levels which differ between male and female and as well as influencing our sexual organs hormones also have an effect on our entire organism. the proportion of fat in a woman's body is fundamentally higher than that of a man it actually confers no benefit at all on men as male fat isn't deposited

around the hips. instead it collects around the liver and the abdomen. and. that's why men are twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as women are. on the other hand women have broader hips they're more likely to be knock kneed and their knees have less cartilage this can make them wear out faster. it's why 2 thirds of only replacement surgery is carried out on women. women's immune systems are also more likely to over respond to pathogens that's why they're more prone to allergies asthma and arthritis and when prescribing medication for these and other illnesses a doctor has to take these differences into account after all. medicines that are

highly effective for men might be of no use to women others can have a stronger effect on women then on men that applies especially to beta blockers the consequences can be dangerous incorrect prescriptions can have negative side effects and even require detoxification. that's pretty common people rarely think that side effects or overdoses could be the cause of their symptoms. and that's why women aren't getting the right advice on why side effects might be ignored to begin with. but apart from medication invasive treatments such as heart catheter exams pose higher risks for women including even stop loss. if their blood vessels are more sensitive so there's a higher risk we might injure them that's why we insert softer tubes that are very gentle to vessel walls. in heart catheterization a cardiologist inserts

a long very thin tube through an artery or vein to the heart the doctor uses it to locate the constriction which triggered the infarction. here a plastic tube or standards being inserted to widen the constriction. because women tend to have more problems after receiving a stent and better uses digital imagery which allows very precise measurements that shows him how big a stent needs to be. the thing is this is this because i think that's just coming into focus now that women's treatment has to be done just as well as men. and that's why in the past it was certainly the case that the focus was more on the men either stop lost was lucky she got switched treatment she wants to stop smoking and lose weight she know understands that women also have to keep an eye on their heart condition. equality of the

sexes is a major issue in politics or working in social life all over the world at the same time the differences between men and women have been examined down to the tiniest difference for example a study with 5000 test persons found that men are funnier than women this is maybe because humor is an important criterion for women when choosing a partner this was found in a study on marriage ads maybe this is why men often display their humor more strongly but everything has its limits for example when a man gets a cold then all fun comes to full stop. it's a phenomenon half the population is affected and they're all man women might get a slight cold in the winter time but man end up suffering full blown influenza.

but why are men by their nature not as robust as women immunologists have discovered that men and women have different reactions to infections. there's evidence that it could be true women's and men's immune systems seem to function very differently. and does has to do with hormones women have lots of east region that stimulates immune cells to react quickly that's why women's bodies can fight off an infection faster and more aggressively than men's bodies which contain high levels of testosterone. as men have way more testosterone in their blood than women do we know from various studies that testosterone has an effect on the immune system several studies have shown the testosterone is the reason why men get the flu more often than women. do you might come to the conclusion that man with extra. himly high levels of testosterone would get sick more often but the

opposite seems to be true. high testosterone levels metabolize some of that testosterone into. a female hormone and that in turn has a positive influence on their immune system. this means that men with high testosterone levels are well protected against infections and are less often sick than men with low testosterone levels. men also have a genetic disadvantage. even the difference in chromosomes that influences their immune systems. of a lot of antioxidant and immunological processes or coded on the x. chromosome which means that while you may like this one are white chromosome. that's another reason why we're much more susceptible to infections. so hormones and genes determine that men fall ill faster but do they get sicker than women do.

actually their scientific evidence to suggest that the opposite is true and women get his harder than men do. many studies about the differences in pain between men and women the conclusion was that women experience pain more intensely. what's more the intense immune response that women experience puts their bodies under a lot of stress and that can lead in the short term to even stronger symptoms. but men are more focused on their pain than women are so they suffer more when men get sick they concentrate on every symptom like a scratchy throat. there's also another reason why men get more infections than women they wash their hands less frequently than women do and washing your hands is the. best way to kill 5 or 6 whether you're a man or

a woman. i'm still talking with your place could it be that men are just more squeamish than women actually i would say they are more squeamish they have a tendency to too. to lead a life that's not very healthy. you find among men more people who smoke there's more folks who have a lack of exercise and they eat more unhealthy food and the repercussion is that. i have more medical problems and that they might even die earlier than women in almost every country in the world men die earlier than women here in germany approximately 5 years earlier in russia even 10 years why is that so russian men love to drink vodka and even if they appear to be very

strong and healthy some of them drop dead because they wrecked their liver and that is a problem in russia actually in all societies men have a tendency to to be smokers to exercise less and also to have more accidents and that's an explanation of why the life expectancy of men is lower and this is true in all societies to get to the bottom of this phenomenon you went to the island of sardinia in the mediterranean sea why sitting here there's one village in the mountains that is very peculiar because. men live to be about 100 years to the life expectancy amongst men in extremely high i can say it's one of the highest in the world and the other thing is men and women have more or less the same very high life expectancy

in sydney there was a environment with a lot of exercise because men many of these men would look after the sheep when the weather young so they would be in the field for many many months per year every year they would hardly drink wine they would eat a lot of vegetables and so that was a combination of very healthy food and no smoking by the way and this created a situation where men could really live to become a 100 years old so behavior and lifestyle have a stronger influence cell biology the genes were always overrated there's no real biological explanation it really boils down to the way of life what can every man in regard lives where he lives in the world do to lead a longer and healthier life it is very interesting to see what the men it's

a dinner did when they were young so they wouldn't smoke so my advice is quit smoking eat healthy foods mostly plants and you should have a lot of exercise and if you follow these things. you do a lot to to have the full potential of your own personal life expectancy in one of the cover stories of the most famous magazine here in germany you claimed that men who live in the family and take care of the family live a longer and healthier life but isn't this just boring. at least then you could say it's boring for a longer time so have more boring days but i think also on the same time you have more days full of happiness because if men livin in healthy and good relationships they have less accidents they take less drugs

they have better foods they're not that stupid and so i think the real.