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Women get sick more often than men. A survey of 3,000 people, conducted by Engage Mutual, a British insurance and financial company, found that women get sick an average of seven times a year and men an average of five times.⁴⁶ There can be many reasons—stress, greater exposure to toxins, the vulnerability of pregnancy. But a key piece, especially in susceptibility to autoimmune illnesses, is sexual hormones.

“It's pretty difficult to find any single factor that's more predictive for [certain] diseases than gender,” said Thomas Insel, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health.⁴⁷

While more men than women experience extreme aggression, autism spectrum disorders, Gulf War Syndrome, and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), women are more likely than men to suffer from the following health problems, which can add to stress on the brain.