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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nYes, sometimes our female hormones make us mainline chocolate, watch Bridget Jones' Diary on loop for two years straight without leaving the house, and bleed. But the Daily Mail reports that our estrogen actually works better in relation to our immune systems than dudes' testosterone does.Men are more likely to have melanomas than women, and during a rat experiment the Mayo Clinic found that the best way to boost the immune systems in male rats were to sharply decrease their hormone levels. (Those rats are now watching Bridget Jones' Diary.)Just stay away from the tanning bed, ladies. Think of it as putting yourself inside a giant gift box to give to skin cancer.Hell yeah, estrogen. Follow Anna on Twitter.  Image courtesy WB"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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