Why Females Prefer Warmer Rooms - Neuroscience News
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Why do women generally prefer the thermostat set higher than men? Researchers at King’s College London discovered that two thermosensitive ion channels, TRPM2 and TRPM8, are molecularly tuned to activate at warmer temperatures in females, resolving a long-standing biological debate.
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