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Who Feels the Cold More -- Men or Women? Related Links Crossing Your Legs Like a Woman-Is It Dangerous for Your Health? Do Laptops Reduce Sperm Count? -New Study Soy Reduces Sperm Count -New Study Low Folate Harms Your Sperm Laughter Improves Erectile Function BodyBuilding-How Much Protein Do You Need? Whey Versus Creatine-Which Is Better? Zinc Increases Your Testosterone Level Fatty Diet Linked to Prostate Cancer Foods That Strenghthen Erectile Performance Blood Pressure-What It Means Foods That Reduce Blood Pressure Penis Shaving Bumps-Home Remedies Yoga That Improves Erectile Performance Better Tasting Sperm Get Lean Diet for Men May 12, 2011 By Zach Watson, Contributing Columnist If you're in a relationship with a women, you have undoubtedly had one of those arguments. You know, the one where you want to open the window and she says, no, because she's freezing. Or, you want to sleep open and natural but she needs 3 blankets. Why is it that men and women feel cold so differently? Why do women seem to get colder so much more than men? Is it our imagination? Or is there a scientific way to settle the question once and for all -- do women feel cold more than men? Evolution May Be Part of the Explanation Mike Tipton, Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Portsmouth as quoted in The Times said, “Man is a tropical animal. We evolved on the Equator and have since migrated to all parts of the planet. The only way we've kept warm is by modifying our behavior: we've learnt to wear clothes, build buildings, make fire.” Being non-adapted biological creatures we use our technology to control the temperature of our environment. We have heat, electric blankets, clothes, hats, gloves, etc. to keep us warm. And that use of technology, to the naked eye, seems to vary between the sexes, men roll down the window and women roll it up. The question of which gender feels cold or heat more-- and if so why -- is a highly debated subject between leading researchers and scientists. There are many different factors contributing to the effects of temperature on the body -- sleep, menstruation, Raynaud's syndrome, menopause, diet, exercise, age, among others. It is hard to pinpoint specific causes that peg an exact reason that woman feel the cold more than men. A 1994 study presented at the Sixth Annual Conference on Environmental Ergonomics in Montebello, Canada tried to settle the question. The study, led by Dr. Peter Tikuisis of The University of Toronto put 11 women and 14 men in 18C° of water for 90 minutes. The study found that the reason men and women feel cold differently has to do with the amount of our body fat. As the study concluded, “these findings suggest that no gender adjustments are necessary for prediction models of cold response if body fatness and the ratio of body surface area to size are taken into account and that a potential gender advantage with regard to carbohydrate sparing during cold water immersion is not supported.” The Tikuisis study suggests that in an extreme circumstance, when a body battles the cold, that a man would have no better chance than a woman if they had the same body fat/ surface area ratio. But it doesn´t disprove that a woman gets noticeably chilly quicker than a man. A 1998 study in the science journal The Lancet discovered that women may feel colder, not because their entire bodies are cold, but because their hands are colder. The study, led by Dr. Han Kim of the University of Utah School of Medicine, examined the hand and core temperatures of 219 men and women. Women averaged a higher core temperature by 0.4 degrees than men. But they have lower hand temperatures on average by 2.8 degrees. Having a lower hand temperature could prove that women feel colder faster than men because their extremities are affected quicker than men’s extremities. “Women do tend to have more body fat, which holds in heat and yet, counter-intuitively, may make the extremities colder,” says Mike Tipton. Don Young of the International Facility Management Association says that the blood vessels of women are more constricted than man. This causes blood to be closer to the skin which tends to make them colder. Another reason could be, that on average, women do have less muscle than men. Muscle is known to generate a third of one’s body heat. A 2007 Japanese study from the University of Tokushima Graduate School found that women have a greater sensitivity to cold. Drawing from a survey given to 154 men and 180 women, the study found that, overall women have a greater sensitivity to cold, but that a man's sensitivity to cold increases as he ages. Men with low body mass also are more sensitive to cold than other men. What about hormones? Is there any connection between hormones and cold sensitivity? Apparently, not. After a complete multivariate analysis, no association with hormonal concentration could be drawn, although at first it seemed, that men had a higher sensitivity to cold if they also had low levels of the gonadal hormone FSH. So, this is yet another study that confirmed that cold sensitivity is linked with body mass, and not to any inherent biological hormonal difference. Scientific evidence does point to, but does not prove, a few different possible explanations. It could be that women feel cold in their extremities before men. It could be that women have fewer muscles to create heat. It could be that the blood vessels of women are more constricted. Although, the most likely reason seems to be, as the Tikuisis study shows, that woman on average have a higher ratio of body fat/surface ratio than men, causing them to lose heat faster. What does all this mean to you? It means that the next time your lady complains of feeling colder than you, believe her. Because, when it comes to enduring cold, men are more like Eskimos and women are more like Amazonians. Most Viewed: Foods That Strengthen Erectile Performance How Yoga Helps ED Soy Reduces Sperm Count Improve Recovery Times Between Erections Register--it's free fast and easy, Members get updates and new articles first. 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