Peter Attia· MD
and the sex as well matters so females are actually more sensitive to radiation than men meaning if you took a 20 year old male and a 20 year old female so both in their reproductive prime are you saying that the ovaries of the woman are more sensitive to DNA damage in the egg than the sperm are in the testes of the male exactly I didn't know that why is that and that actually has to do with the fact that the egg was actually produced during embryonic stage and as that DNA is effectively frozen in time and so as women are getting older and older they're releasing these DNA and eggs so therefore the young you are the fresher the DNA whereas you know when they're prime sort of round 12 which is when this DNA comes out of the I guess frozen state during the beginning of menstruation that's when these eggs start to be released