Scientists and researchers around the world have noticed that the male sufferings from reasons that were considered to be female specific traditionally are increasing significantly. It was generally thought that there are some specific factors which only contribute to the female suffering.

Addiction treatment programs across the world are now gaining importance in order to handle this extremely strange demographic variations resulting from various types of eating disorders. The problem is increasing very fast and affecting the health conditions of males throughout the world.

Researchers did notice the beginning of this shift during the year 2004 itself. There was a significant statistical increase in the number of male sufferings from eating disorders. This considerable growth in suffering subsequently translated in to more men looking for assistance.

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‘Intranasal Insulin’ is one of the devices to inject insulin developed to make the insulin intake to be less painful than the other methods. They are diagnosed to control the problem of obesity which is one of the resultant factors of diabetes. They decrease the food intake however a new study has shown that this is more likely to happen among men than women who don’t show that desirable levels of obesity control with insulin administered intranasal. The compound seems to be giving more desirable effect on enhancing the memory function among women.

This new study has been reported in the “Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM)”.

Gender plays an important role in determining the changes brought by brain insulin which brings alterations in food intake and other cognitive functions of the body. This is emphasized in the new study which shows that Intranasal Insulin brings higher decrease in the levels of plasma glucose concentrations in body. However obesity seems to be better controlled among men due to control on food intake. It also brings desirable improvements in the memory among the patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. However in this case too, the gender differences are evident. Intranasal Insulin shows better memory improvement among the women.

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