You don't sweat right, You're a woman!

I feel so vindicated right now!  For months now, I have been struggling to run in the heat and had male running partners who have continually showed me up in this regard (well and in their speed and athletic abilities in general).  Nevertheless, it always seemed to me that while I was SO affected by the heat when running that they were completely impervious to it.

I just read this article, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/do-women-sweat-differently-than-men/.

For those of you who will not click through and read the article, I wanted to ensure that you saw this take home point:

But does this difference in sweating rates, whatever its cause, have practical implications? “It appears,” said Yoshimitsu Inoue, Ph.D., a professor of physiology at Osaka International University and one of the authors of the study, “that women are at a disadvantage when they need to sweat a lot during exercise in hot conditions.” On the other hand, it may be that women, during evolution, had the good sense to get out of the hot sun, and their bodies adapted accordingly. The “lower sweat loss in women may be an adaptation strategy that attaches great importance” to preserving body fluids “for survival,” he wrote in an e-mail, while “the higher sweat rate of men may be an adaptation strategy for greater efficiency of action or labor.”

Looks like I might need to decrease the estrogen and increase the testosterone to manage running in heat better....