As a student taking bachelor of secondary Education major in biological sacience, we are more dealing about human life while disscussing one of the component of the blood which is the erythrocyte. There is many question one question is why do women tend to have a lower erythrocyte count than men, I guess it is because women bleed regularly, women loose blood tru menstration and I think this is one of the main reason why women have lower erythrocyte count than men.
According to (christal21 2007) women bleed regularly more often man do and the hematocrit is inversely proportional to percent body fat, which is higher in men. Fats is more present in women when we have a higher level of fats in our body the hematocrit is lower and when we have a lower level of body fat the hematocrit is higher. Christal also cited that androgen is more present in men which stimulate red blood cell production thats why men have a higher erythrocite count.
