As we are in the midst of the Holiday Season it's a good time to review some of the basic biological differences between men and women, and why they matter to medicine. So, a very short 🧵on Sex, Stress and the Holidays.

#BilgimizOlsun’da bu hafta kitapları çok sayıda ülkede yayımlanan ve ilgiyle takip edilen Amerikalı doktor ve genetik bilimci Sharon Moalem’in “X’in Hikayesi: Kadınların Genetik Üstünlüğü Üzerine” kitabını öneriyoruz. Keyifli okumalar 📚📚📚 #mikambilgimizolsun

Riva There's a theory by Sharon Moalem (amazon.com/Survival-Sicke…) that most of our chronic diseases are either caused by pathogens or are a reaction to pathogens. I had some ideas along these lines regarding Alzheimer's a few years ago wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2008/09/thinki…

It's been 20 years since I first proposed a possible correlation between infection with EBV and the development of multiple sclerosis. How many other conditions are the result of our interactions with the microbial world? nytimes.com/2022/01/13/hea…

The death of curiosity will be the death of us all.

The human face contains more data than the entirety of the human genome.

Sex is by far the biggest risk factor when it comes to the development of Multiple Sclerosis. As women are more than twice as likely to develop ms. Studying the sex differences of immune response to ebv might just help us tease out the underlying mechanism of this illness.

Caroline Criado Perez Currently listening to Shäron Moalem MD, PhD The Better Half, which adds another interesting dimension. So grateful for all this research about us.

I gave my grandma The Better Half by Shäron Moalem MD, PhD for her 90th last week, because I'd mentioned it and she expressed an interest. She rarely reads nonfiction but LOVES this, and we discuss each chapter daily. So nice to have something else to talk about. If he sees this, thanks.

Reading on the unit: Survival of the Sickest; Harper Audio, 2014. Shäron Moalem MD, PhD unpacks the survival pressures of common diseases and bugs and re-orients our understanding of human evolution. And there's a great fact about Lactobacillus, too. Let's read:

This is one of my all-time favorite book projects! Thanks again to Designer Melissa Farris, @DanielDKraus Shäron Moalem MD, PhD and Union Square & Co. 🐀✊

Here’s a preview for the end pages of WRATH By: @DanielDKraus and Shäron Moalem MD, PhD Excited for the publishing date on October 11! 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀#scifi #ericnyquist #bookstagram #bookcoverdesign #illustration Union Square & Co.

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Everyone knows how this story ends. We just didn't know how it all began. That is, until now... pic.x.com/s0w2INPdvH nature.com/articles/d4158…