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09 Nov 2013 13:26 #162201
by ketchim
Women's lung muscles have to work harder than men's :
making breathlessness more common after exercise,
say scientists in Canada.
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09 Nov 2013 13:28 #162202
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Their study in the journal Experimental Physiology examined :
the activity of the
diaphragm - the muscle that drives lung function.
It had to work harder in women to compensate for smaller lungs....
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09 Nov 2013 13:32 #162204
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"In both health and diseases, women are more likely to show signs of breathlessness
after physical activity than men,"
said lead researcher Dr Dennis Jensen.
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09 Nov 2013 13:33 #162205
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"Women have biologically smaller lungs and they have to activate respiratory muscles more to move a given amount of air."
He said it was an "important insight into why women with emphysema and heart failure have worse breathing symptoms than men".
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09 Nov 2013 14:05 #162219
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Even with a man and a woman of equal size , Kwami and socafighter :
socafighter lungs are smaller and her airways narrower.
BUT she mouth bigger with nuff Picong , mamaguy and bacchanal !
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09 Nov 2013 14:19 #162221
by Kwami
Now, now ketch there you go including me . Have you no respect for my wit all this time?
I could easily have said that you don't need no expert from Mc Gill to tell you about women physiology when you are an expert yourself .
After all three women left you but like I said , I wont say it
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09 Nov 2013 15:53 #162233
by Kwami
I thought that you would more of an expert on thigh muscles rather than lung muscles being the wuk bench king and all
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