| Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
| Ooh, I'm Hot for Your Immune System |
First they say that opposites attract, then they tell you to look for a love partner with similarities to yourself. So how on earth are we supposed to know what criteria to plug into www.find-my-sexy-soulmate.com ?
Science has come up with an answer and the answer has not a bit of either eroticism or romance to it. A Brazilian team of geneticists (Bicalho et al. from the University of Parana) say that love just boils down to MCH, which is an immune system factor. Well, technically MCH explains the attraction, that may work through body odor or structure of the face (they don't know for sure). Somehow it grabs you and sends you sniffing after that one special love whose immune system is so diverse from yours that it gives your potential offspring a chance of having a wider range of immunity and therefore better ability to fight disease.
Does this mean that next time you are drawn to an exotic Guatemalan beauty or a stalwart Masai warrior (either in deed or in fantasy), you shouldn't deride yourself as a slut or brute, but remind yourself that nature was practically urging you on?
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| Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| Not Tonight Honey, I Have Diabetes |
With most diseases, their epidemiology is established for men far sooner than it is studied and established for women. Diabetes is no exception. We know all about what it does to the male pecker but not too much research went into following up on the sexual difficulties of gender with the real sugar cravings. Until now, that is.
Recent research by Enzlin and team at Leuven University in Belgium have found that 35% of women with type 1 diabetes suffer from some form of sexual dysfunction. Loss of libido and orgasm problems were reported in more than half of all the female diabetes patients, but all the major female dysfunctions – lubrication problems, arousal problems and pain – are common.
These facts may have been something that doctors have known to be true for a long time, without having seen evidence of it, but now that we have it in print (Diabetes Care, May 2009), it is yet another reason to eat well for your sex life.
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