• daannii@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Well it’s probably side effects from prescription drugs. So a lot of people don’t know this but a lot of prescription drugs only ever ran trials on white men. As you probably know. Men are typically physically larger than women and have a different muscle to fat ratio.

    So it’s actually more common for women to have side effects from a lot of these drugs because the dosage is not adjusted for women.

    Also. Toxic masculinity. Men are told not to complain about things like this. Even though they should. Men have a shorter life span and visit doctors less, coincidence?

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        9 days ago

        Even drugs for kids have mostly just been tested on adult white men.

        They say it’s unethical to do drug testing on kids. So instead we just give millions of kids drugs that were never tested on them.