[kay2thej]

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What do you all think about this? Just her opinion, but it makes me wonder, since the stats so clearly affect women way more than men. Graves disease does not run in my family. Anything else we may have been exposed to more of than men? Or am I supposed to believe this is a chromosome or estrogen thing. Or worse, do I have to accept an answer of, we dont know??

As for me, Ive definitely lived a life exposed to a wide variety of cosmetic and hygienic chemicals. Or hey, maybe it’s something in our tampons.

My apologies if any topics Ive posted have been posted before. I try to search first in the engine here but I dont know how good the search engine is. Thanks!

[Kimberly]

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Hello – The question of why more women than men tend to get autoimmune diseases is a good one, and unfortunately one that researchers have not been able to fully answer. Hormonal differences are certainly a prime suspect, but much is still not well understood. The guidelines from this forum (which can be viewed in the announcements section at the top of the forum) require that links come only from specific credible sources, but this is a fairly lengthy piece from the National Institutes of Health that might be of interest:

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/autoimmune/documents/adccreport.pdf

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