{"id":12804,"date":"2024-09-12T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:23:28","slug":"what-is-man-flu-and-can-men-really-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12804","title":{"rendered":"What Is \u2018Man Flu\u2019 and Can Men Really Get It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Videos and memes mock men for overreacting when they catch an everyday illness. But is there a biological reason for men\u2019s behavior?<\/p>\n

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According to the Cambridge Dictionary<\/a>, man flu is \u201can illness such as a cold that is not serious, but that the person who has it treats as more serious, usually when this person is a man.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the farcical Urban Dictionary<\/a>, man flu is \u201cmore painful than childbirth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, man flu, which has been parodied<\/a> online<\/a> for years, is not a diagnosable affliction, and it goes without saying that not all men become helpless fatalists when they have run-of-the-mill sniffles, while some women do.<\/p>\n

But experts say at the heart of the joke are some fascinating immunological differences that exist between the sexes \u2014 not only in humans, but also in some other species<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something to the idea that men and women, males and females, suffer the effects of infection differently,\u201d said Marlene Zuk, a professor of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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