{"id":337846,"date":"2016-01-19T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/uncategorized-hk\/man-flu-is-it-real-337846.html"},"modified":"2016-01-19T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:32:29","slug":"man-flu-is-it-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/hk\/health-hk\/medical-news-hk\/man-flu-is-it-real-337846.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Flu: Could estrogen be the medicine of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":" <p><span style=\"display: block;\" class=\"wrap-img\" id=\"wrap-img-148015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" class=\"wp-image-148015 img-responsive  size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/151063620-625x417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/span><\/p> <p>Man flu is a phrase used to refer to the exaggerated idea of men having a cold or flu. Regardless of many scientific reasons and evidence, the idea is still prevalent and it has also been a controversial issue prevailing in the advertising and medical industry.<\/p> <p>From a recent <em>TIME<\/em> article, a recent study in American Journal of Physiology suggests that particular estrogen-based compounds make women more resistant to flu viruses. Not surprising - from the fact that estrogen is a female hormone.<\/p> <p>Don\u2019t get it wrong; the study itself did not prove that women exposed to the flu were any less prone to fall ill than men. This is because the researchers only studied cells from nasal passages of both men and women in the lab dish.<\/p> <p>What it did suggest is that there might actually be something about the female hormonal physiology that we could use to find new ways in fighting against the flu.<\/p> <p>Another good news is there\u2019s some investigation that reveals a connection between estrogen and our immune system. As such, as women\u2019s levels of estrogen changes throughout the course of life (pregnancy or menopause), women\u2019s inflammatory (part of the immune system) responses could change as well.<\/p> <p>Looking towards the future, we could see if injecting estrogen-related agents to flu medicines would help the male counterparts. For now, more detailed research and using human volunteers could be done instead of working from the lab dish.<\/p> <p><em>Sharon Salim<\/em><\/p> <p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notion of men being the worse sufferer of the flu virus has been popular across all cultures. 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