Sex hormones mediate the body’s immune response. For example, women mount stronger immune responses to vaccinations than men, possibly because estrogen enhances humoral immunity while testosterone is a suppressor. Concerning COVID-19, data suggest that men and women are equally likely to get the disease, but men are more likely to die. In a case series study of a subset of patients who died of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, 75 percent were male. In this clip, Dr. Rhonda Patrick describes the effect of sex hormones on immune function.
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