{"id":1272,"date":"2023-06-01T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:10:03","slug":"guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Guts<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger once said \u201cdon\u2019t be a girly man\u201d.&nbsp; Perhaps this was meant to toughen up timid men with the unfortunate inference that girls are intrinsically timid.&nbsp; New research has found that women have more guts than men.&nbsp; This is a newly found anatomic difference but perhaps the metaphor applies as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duke University has done comparative anatomical studies and found that women\u2019s small intestine is 30 centimeters longer than men\u2019s.&nbsp; This newly discovered difference has led to both speculation and possible explanation.&nbsp; The speculation is that since women bear children and the small intestine is where nutrients are absorbed that women have evolved a greater absorptive surface area to provide for fetal growth and development.&nbsp; Having a longer small intestine lessens the chance for escape of absorbable nutrients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a possible explanation it might play a role in weight issues and GI disturbances.&nbsp; How often have you heard of a husband and wife going on the same diet and the husband loses 10 to 15 pounds while the wife loses 3 to 4?&nbsp; Could this be due to greater absorptive efficiency?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) is a fairly common reason for GI tumult, either in its own right or as a confounding variable for IBS.&nbsp; SIBO tends to be more common, more severe and more difficult to treat in women.&nbsp; Again, is it due to greater length of the small intestine?&nbsp; Since the anatomic difference has been newly identified there is ongoing research to better understand its ramifications.&nbsp; Stay tuned.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger once said \u201cdon\u2019t be a girly man\u201d.&nbsp; Perhaps this was meant to toughen up timid men with the unfortunate inference that girls are intrinsically timid.&nbsp; New research has found that women have more guts than men.&nbsp; This is a newly found anatomic difference but perhaps the metaphor applies as well.&nbsp; Duke University has done comparative anatomical studies and found that women\u2019s small intestine is 30 centimeters longer than men\u2019s.&nbsp; This newly discovered difference has led to both speculation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1272\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[621,622],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guts","tag-sibo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}