I’ve heard that the orange-like texture of the skin women sometimes experience is linked to how their body stocks lipids. Men stock lipids with a different layout and can’t experience it.
Why is that so ? Is there a practical reason for both or is it just because of testosterone and the likes ?
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It’s not so much the fat being different, but the connective tissue. Women have different connective tissue than men. It has a different structure and it’s less tight, so the fat isn’t held together as tightly as in male bodies. It is influenced by hormones and women also have more body fat to begin with, which therefore squishes more easily through the connective tissue, causing the orange-like texture.
Women having softer connective tissue is mostly due to pregnancy related reasons. The female body has to stretch a lot during pregnancy and childbirth.