Men and women process pain differently, study findswww.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241016120023.htm
281 sats \ 4 comments \ @IamSINGLE 18 Oct science

The study found:

Blocking the opioid system with naloxone inhibited meditation-based pain relief in men, suggesting that men rely on endogenous opioids to reduce pain.
Naloxone increased meditation-based pain relief in women, suggesting that women rely on non-opioid mechanisms to reduce pain.
In both men and women, people with chronic pain experienced more pain relief from meditation than healthy participants.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 18 Oct
Women must be built different in order to go through child-birth.
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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 18 Oct
Yes, this indicates the strength of women but here we're talking about how men and women react differently to pain.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RoundaboutStacker 19 Oct
Not to be a pain, and noting it can be fun to take a line out of context, couldn't help but notice this direct quote from the article: "These results underscore the need for more sex"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 18 Oct
Synthetic opioid drugs, such as morphine and fentanyl, are the most powerful class of painkilling drugs available. Women are known to respond poorly to opioid therapies, which use synthetic opioid molecules to bind to the same receptors as naturally-occurring endogenous opioids. This aspect of opioid drugs helps explain why they are so powerful as painkillers, but also why they carry a significant risk of dependence and addiction.
"Dependence develops because people start taking more opioids when their original dosage stops working," said Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., professor of anesthesiology and Endowed Professor in Empathy and Compassion Research at UC San Diego Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion. "Although speculative, our findings suggest that maybe one reason that females are more likely to become addicted to opioids is that they're biologically less responsive to them and need to take more to experience any pain relief."
This is fascinating. If true, this would really require doctors to prescribe meds differently based on their patient's gender.
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