Nonfiction Response

   I am going to write about the article named "The Drug-Dose Ginger Cap" By, Roni Rabin. According to the article, women respond differently to medicine then men. They also use more medications than men. The author wants me to know that scientists discovered something new about medicines. How it affects women more than men. This article shows me that women take alcohol, tobacco, and cocaine differently. Everything women take and do is a lot more different than how a man does his things. One example is, because of the opposite sex.
   I think the author wrote this towards women because, it's all about how women take medications and other stuff way differently than men do. "It’s not just because women tend to be smaller than men. Women metabolize drugs differently because they have a higher percentage of body fat and experience hormonal fluctuations and the monthly menstrual cycle. Some drugs are more water-based and like to hang out in the blood, and some like to hang out in the fat tissue, said Wesley Lindsey, assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Auburn University, who is a co-author of a paper on sex-based differences in drug activity. This quotation makes me feel a bit relieved because, now I know why women act so differently towards certain types of medicines and many other things. Also this quotation shows that women have more fat then men do.
  “This is not just about Ambien — that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. Janine Clayton, director for the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health. “There are a lot of sex differences for a lot of drugs, some of which are well known and some that are not well recognized.”  This quote shows that, scientists and researchers are still looking for answers and cant quite but the conclusion to this result. This makes me feel like there is still a lot more important information out there. The author wants the reader to know that this research is still going on.
   After reading this article, I have come to understand that even both sex are humans; we are very different in every way. And both male and female respond differently to many things. Example is, medicine, alcohol, tobacco, and many other things. We all are the same but different every way.

Website : http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/the-drug-dose-gender-gap/?ref=health

Work Cited : Rabin, Roni. "The Drug-Dose Gender Gap." Well The DrugDose Gender Gap Comments. N.p., 28 Jan. 2013. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.