Does gender affect the accumulation of lactic acid?
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No, but sex might.\n\nGender: is a socially acquired characteristic, and includes psychological, social and cultural characteristics, such as ideas about "masculinity" and "femininity".\n\nSex: A biological construct premised upon biological characteristics enabling sexual reproduction
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Here's a study from something called "Acta Physiol Hung" at PubMed. Short answer: Women tend to have slightly lower resting heartrates. A search on "gender pulse rate" at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed will bring up tons of results. I hope this isn't too late...
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Generally speaking, men tend to have more muscle mass and women a higher percentage of body fat.  Muscle generates more heat than fat.
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yes males have a higher rate....check for stats with the CDC
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A lot of people get neurotransmitters and hormones confused.  They are both signal molecules, but I don't know of any neurotransmitters that influence gender.  There are the obvious HORMONES; testosterone being the major influence before birth.
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Here's some text from a 2002 study reported in Neuroendrocrinology Letters that indicates male pheremones (at the heart of "body odor") may have a positive attractiveness effect to a majority of women.\n\nPrevious research has revealed that natural and synthetic pheromones can enhance ratings of opposite sex attractiveness. The present study investigated the effects of exposure to male axillary secretions on female ratings of the sexual attractiveness of male stimuli. Thirty-two female undergraduates, half of whom were contraceptive pill users, rated male vignette characters and photographs of male faces on aspects of attractiveness. On two separate study days, corresponding to different phases of their menstrual cycle, stimuli were presented while exposed to male axillary pheromones and under a control condition (no pheromone). The order of testing was balanced with respect to pheromone/control condition and menstrual cycle phase. Pheromone exposure resulted in significantly higher attractiveness ratings of vignette characters and faces. Use of the contraceptive pill or menstrual cycle phase had equivocal effects on some vignette items and neither had any influence on female ratings of male facial attractiveness. The results of this study suggest that exposure to natural male axillary pheromones can significantly enhance female perceptions of various aspects of male attractiveness.\n-----\nThere's no question that overt and extreme body odor is repellent to many (and certainly it can be!) -- especially since we've been trained by countless advertisements to find it so.  \n\nHowever, it's an evolutionary adaptation of some kind, which (certainly in the pre-bath eras) must have operated as a signal of some kind to females: of health, of strength, of non-sickness perhaps.
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I think it varies for men and women...more common in men..no clue on the stats, look it up on the net.
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Women are affected twice as much as men.  It is more prevalent among Caucasians of northern European ancestry, but is found all over the world.  The farther away from the equator, the higher the concentration.  The average age of diagnosis is 30.  For more info, check out the link below.  I was diagnosed May 2005.
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Yes, there could be, but men get breast cancer and I've not heard of many men taking the pill. There are millions of women who don't take the pill and still get breast cancer, but that doesn't mean there isn't a link, it just means it hasn't been found.\n\nI think the rise in cancers throughout the world is more likely to be linked to food preservatives, we all eat them. But I have no proof of this...
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GGT has to do with protein synthesis. In terms of steroid use, they increase synthesis. Just a side effect.
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go to webmd.com it all depends on male and female and their hieght.
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Hormones... just hormones. Female sex hormones tend to lower your basal metabolic rate (BMR). BMR determines the rate at which you burn calories and produce heat. With a low BMR (as with excess female sex hormones) means less calories being burnt and more weight gain as fat. Thyroid hormones also play a vital role. Testosterone which is the male sex hormone, raises BMR. That is why men are bit more physically active than women, because they have more testosterone. Both sexes have both hormones but not in equal amounts. Of course there are aberrants.
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Lactic acid builds up in the larger muscles, usually the leg muscles. It usually will result from excess exercise while not getting the proper hydration.  Increase your fluid intake, if chronic/ or pregnancy issues the potassium can be out of whack, try eatting a bannana. If severe of course call and make an appointment with your DR, they can draw labs and help diagnose the culprit and medicate you appropriately.
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Meat for men? or women!!????  lol
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Male:\nLow: 6-10% fat\nOptimal: 11-17% fat\nModerate: 18-20% fat\nObesity: Greater than 25% fat\n\nFemale:\nLow: 14-18% fat\nOptimal:19-22% fat\nModerate: 23-30% fat\nObesity: Greater than 30% fat
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The lactic acid system is capable of releasing energy to resynthesise ATP without the involvement of oxygen and is called anaerobic glycolysis. Glycolysis (breakdown of carbohydrates) results in the formation of pyruvic acid and hydrogen ions (H+). A build up of H+ will make the muscle cells acidic and interfere with their operation so carrier molecules, called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), remove the H+. The NAD+ is reduced to NADH which deposit the H+ at the electron transport gate (ETC) in the mitrochondria to be combined with oxygen to form water (H2O).\n\nIf there is insufficient oxygen then NADH cannot release the H+ and they build up in the cell. To prevent the rise in acidity pyruvic acid accepts H+ forming lactic acid which then dissociates into lactate and H+. Some of the lactate diffuses into the blood stream and takes some H+ with it as a way of reducing the H+ concentration in the muscle cell. The normal pH of the muscle cell is 7.1 but if the build up of H+ continues and pH is reduced to around 6.5 then muscle contraction may be impaired and the low pH will stimulate the free nerve endings in the muscle resulting in the perception of pain (the burn). This point is often measured as the lactic threshold or anaerobic threshold or onset of blood lactate accumulation (OBLA).
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Slightly higher for females than males. They said the ratio was 1.2