Women have a higher pain threshold than men according to a new study - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life Women have a higher pain threshold than men according to a new study By You Magazine - January 11, 2019 It’s official, women are stronger than men – or at least we can handle pain a lot better, a new study has proven. The research, conducted by Canadian scientists at McGill University, suggests that women are able to forget past pain quicker than their male counterparts. In fact, they were surprised to find that men and women didn’t remember past pain in the same way at all. Getty Images According to their study, men are more ‘stressed and hypersensitive’ when facing individual pain than women. Lead scientist Dr Jeffrey Mogil explained the results saying: ‘We set out to do an experiment looking at pain hypersensitivity in mice and found these surprising differences in stress levels between male and female mice. ‘So we decided to extend the experiment to humans to see whether the results would be similar. We were blown away when we saw that there seemed to be the same difference between men and women as we had seen in mice.’ The study saw human participants in two separate experiments. In the first one, 42 men and 38 women experienced low-level pain, which in this case was heat on their forearms. They were then asked to rate the level of pain they felt on a scale of zero to 100. After this, the participants were immediately subjected to a more painful experience – they had a tightly inflated blood pressure cuff strapped to their arm and were asked to do 20 minutes of arm exercises while wearing it. Getty Images This turned out to be so painful that only seven of the 80 participants rated the pain as less that 50 on the scale. To test the way in which pain memory factors into our pain threshold, the scientists then repeated the two exercises the next day and found that men rated their pain ‘higher than they did the day before, and higher than women did.’ ‘We believe that the men were anticipating the cuff, and, for the males, the stress of that anticipation caused greater pain sensitivity,’ Dr Mogil explained. ‘There was some reason to expect that we would see increased sensitivity to pain on the second day, but there was no reason to expect it would be specific to males. That came as a complete surprise.’ Interesting! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved