Research Shows Estrogen May Save Soldiers And Trauma Victims

High levels of estrogen in female mice seem to prevent life threatening septicema. (Corbis)

 More than 80% of US soldiers’ deaths between 2001 and 2011 were the result of blood loss and septicemia [Editors note – septicemia is a blood infection, also known as blood poisoning. This is dangerous because the bacteria and their toxins can be carried through the bloodstream to your entire body, causing sepsis). There’s limited time to save trauma victims experiencing significant blood loss — the so-called “golden hour” — and researchers at the University of Alabama have been working for 19 years on a way to extend that time so that wounded soldiers and remote trauma victims are more likely to survive the long trip to a hospital.