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Eunuchs reveal clues to why women live longer than men
BBC News ^
| 9-24-2012
| James Gallagher
Posted on 09/25/2012 6:46:49 AM PDT by Renfield
Castration had a huge effect on the lifespans of Korean men, according to an analysis of hundreds of years of eunuch "family" records.
They lived up to 19 years longer than uncastrated men from the same social class and even outlived members of the royal family.
The researchers believe the findings show male hormones shorten life expectancy.
The study is published in the journal Current Biology.
Castration before puberty prevents the shift from boy to man. One of the scientists involved in the study, Dr Cheol-Koo Lee from Korea University, said: "The records said that eunuchs had some women-like appearances such as no moustache hair, large breasts, big hips and thin high-pitched voice."...
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: castration; eunuchs; koreans; longevity; napl
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To: Vigilanteman
It’s both. Even men who make it past the crazy ages have a lower e pectancy.
To: montanajoe
Gee, I never knew so many guys hate their wives!
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:20:57 AM PDT
by
WVNan
To: Renfield
"thin high-pitched voice"
No sh*t Kimosabey, OOOUUUCCCHHHHH!!!!
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:21:43 AM PDT
by
Average Al
(The Democrat party is a free range zoo.)
To: Vigilanteman
Good men learn how to control the hormones.Face it...We are still always on the ragged edge...
Good women learn how to control the men who learn how to control their hormones.
Yes, passionate and affectionate :) girlfriends and wives know what's up....and what is needed on a regular basis to keep things in check.
Castration would be a fate worse than death...women have no idea what our "friends" mean to us.
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
LOL, I’ve never heard that one!
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:28:09 AM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Red Badger
In a related study: Why do Jewish men die so much earlier than their wives?..........................
And for a control, we have George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), who married a Catholic woman (Gracie Allen). She died forty years before he did (at 100).
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:45:39 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I have a new zest for life!"--Calvin from Las Vegas)
To: WVNan
Gee, I never knew so many guys hate their wives!
Oh, they are just teasing. The fellow suggests that it isn't the testosterone, but the estrogen hasn't even taken into consideration the fact that deviants who have no use for women at all have a FAR shorter life expectancy still.
I don't know how long I will live, but my life is MUCH better than it would have been without my wife.
[Is that good enough dear?]
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:50:43 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I have a new zest for life!"--Calvin from Las Vegas)
To: Renfield
Liberals believe that our planet can only support 30 million people.
“Eating people is OK!”
“Lop off your testicles and live longer! (and have no children).”
Eugenics lives on with the liberals.
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:51:35 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Renfield
Gee, I have been using a related tagline. SOMEONE better tell Calvin from Las Vegas what he’s DOING to himself!
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:53:28 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I have a new zest for life!"--Calvin from Las Vegas)
To: Renfield
In a related story, it was revealed for the first time that the reason Barack Obama will not publish his birth certificate is that he was born before such records were kept.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:11:58 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: Renfield
And yet testosterone replacement therapy for the aging male is promoted as being beneficial:
Mayo.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:25:03 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Renfield
Considering some of the things I did at the peak of
“testosterone poisoning” it's a miracle it hasn't taken a
few years off of my mothers life.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:31:01 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: Renfield
They did a study and found out that married men don’t actually live longer than single guys,, it just seems that way.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:43:16 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Renfield
“They lived up to 19 years longer”
I wouldn’t call that living!
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:44:59 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
To: Renfield
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posted on
09/25/2012 9:40:00 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(Sorry, gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international. Gone.)
To: Vigilanteman
“It ain’t the hormones. It is the crazy things which the hormones drive men to do.”
which is just another way of saying it’s the hormones
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posted on
09/25/2012 10:15:48 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Renfield
I think if they did a parallel study of (a)men who never marry and (b) rates of male deaths by occupation, and paralleled those results with occupations of eunuchs, they may find that a man’s occupation or marital status has just as much correlation with how long they live than whether or not they were a eunuch; thus, I think testosterone may not be as much the factor in the average life of eunuchs as is “life style” in terms of career and family life.
From everything I have read about eunuchs, though often classed as servants it was often a privileged servant class compared to the rough and tumble life of the ordinary citizen.
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posted on
09/25/2012 10:26:06 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Renfield; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz
Wait until the Obamacare panels get a load of this medical study. It is become mandatory “for your own good”.
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posted on
09/25/2012 3:28:09 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: Renfield; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz
Maybe when Jesse Jackass said “somebody should cut his nuts off” he was really meaning “LONG MAY OBAMA LIVE!”
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posted on
09/25/2012 3:29:19 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Did the eunuchs actually live longer, or did it just seem like it?
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posted on
09/25/2012 6:24:46 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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