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Ladies and Gentlemen, Heart Rate and Nitrogen Balance

July 6th, 2010 | Posted in Blog | 1 Comment
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Every once in a while, researchers go crazy and throw a few women into a study. And then they find out that there are some differences.

Like this

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/06/heartrate.html

and then this

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/phys-ed-what-exercise-science-doesnt-know-about-women/?src=me&ref=health

abstract here

manwoman Ladies and Gentlemen, Heart Rate and Nitrogen Balance

The assumption is generally that female physiology is essentially the same as male physiology, minus a few key hormonal differences (some deserving more attention than others). The rest has, so far, been chalked up to psych0-social stuff. You can certainly understand why that is. However, new indications to the contrary keep turning up.

Obviously, there needs to be a lot more research before we’re able to make any definitive conclusions but that’s the problem in the first place, isn’t it?