Certain diseases – Alzheimer’s, depression – affect women more. But we find four times more autism among boys, and 20% more cancers among men. What if it was a gender difference?
The same treatments for everyone
The patient has the right to question: “personalized” medicine without differentiating the two halves of humanity? The same treatments for everyone despite more adverse drug effects in women, and no screening in men for osteoporosis, a “women’s” disease?
Our 63,000 billion cells
In their book “It's your sex that makes the difference”, Claudine Junien, emeritus professor of medical genetics, researcher at INRA, and Nicole Priollaud, explain to us that our 63,000 billion cells have a sex from the moment of design. More than 260,000 studies show to date that we do not function in the same way.
Change search codes
The mechanisms of pain and depression are different depending on gender, but the same treatment is prescribed indifferently! At all ages, even before birth, it is sex that makes the difference for life and therefore sex which must change the codes of research, medicine and society. They teach us how it works with lots of practical advice.
Read: It's your gender that makes the difference by Claudine Junien and Nicole Priollaud published by Plon.
 Didier Galibert
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17/04/2023 | 
