Men have their own differences. They get Parkinson’s disease more often and commit suicide more, even though they suffer less from clinical depression. They are more vulnerable to infection than females (and not just humans but across nearly all species). That may indicate some hormonal or chromosomal difference that hasn’t yet been determined, or it may simply be that males on the whole lead riskier, more infection-prone lives. Men are also more likely to die from their infections and from physical injury, though again whether that is because we are hormonally compromised or just too proud
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