Why Women Have More Autoimmune Issues Than Men

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Fasthosts Techie Test competition is now closed! Learn more about Fasthosts here: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/scishow Our immune systems are wonderful things—if they work properly. Sometimes, they can turn on us and create challenging autoimmune diseases & conditions. Unfortunately, these autoimmune issues primarily affect women. Why is that? Join Hank Green for a new episode of SciShow and dive into the world of the immune system! SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Ron Kakar ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.statista.com/statistics/418328/diagnosed-autoimmune-conditions-prevalence-in-selected-countries/ https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/stiff-person-syndrome/ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/246960.php#1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114837/ http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijcd/3/4/8/ https://medlineplus.gov/autoimmunediseases.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4630965/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459262/ https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/lab-report/why-women-get-autoimmune-diseases-far-more-often-than-men https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2018/11/women-more-often-misdiagnosed-because-of-gaps-in-trust-and-knowledge/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091302214000466 https://transcare.ucsf.edu/sites/transcare.ucsf.edu/files/Transgender-PGACG-6-17-16.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2050116117300454 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568997209001761?via%3Dihub https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/landia/PIIS2213-8587(15)00032-7.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/variolation https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/mm/feature/specificity https://absoluteantibody.com/antibody-resources/antibody-overview/a-brief-history-of-antibodies/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27131478 http://centennial.rucares.org/index.php?page=Autoimmune_Diseases https://www.nature.com/articles/ni0401_279 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883799 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06531.x https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/12/in-men-high-testosterone-can-mean-weakened-immune-response-study-finds.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26884/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scientifica/2012/215308/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008874915000313#f0005 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04408-0#Sec12 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8570620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19828378/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894651/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712643/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22178198 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-08-chromosome-gene-women-prone-autoimmune.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640911/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0017873 https://www.nature.com/articles/5201614 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4329817/ https://omrf.org/2016/06/13/does-x-mark-the-spot-a-new-clue-why-autoimmune-diseases-target-women/ https://genome.cshlp.org/content/23/9/1474.short https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-015-0591-7 https://www.pnas.org/content/114/13/3491 https://www.pnas.org/content/114/15/3787 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190612084355.htm https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/pdf/S0168-9525(19)30079-4.pdf