Posted on 03/08/2025 10:27:00 AM PST by nickcarraway
By understanding the reasons, scientists hope to help both sexes age better.
omen outlive men, by something of a long shot: In the United States, women have a life expectancy of about 80, compared to around 75 for men. This holds true regardless of where women live, how much money they make and many other factors. It’s even true for most other mammals. “It’s a very robust phenomenon all over the world, totally conserved in sickness, during famines, during epidemics, even during times of starvation,” said Dr Dena Dubal, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.
But the reasons women live longer are complicated and less established – and the fact that they are outliving men doesn’t necessarily mean they are living better. Women tend to have shorter health spans (the number of healthy years a person lives) than men, said Berenice Benayoun, an associate professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Women are generally more physically frail than men in old age; they’re also more vulnerable, particularly after menopause, to developing cardiovascular issues and Alzheimer’s disease, in part because age itself is a risk factor for those conditions, Dr Benayoun said. Scientists are trying to uncover the reasons men and women age differently in the hopes of extending life span and health span for both.
“If we can understand what makes one sex more resilient or vulnerable, then we have new pathways, new molecular understanding, for new therapeutics that could help one or both sexes also be resilient,” Dr Dubal said. Here’s what they know so far about what causes the longevity gap.
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In before, because we don’t want to!
A man can only take so much nagging..
FUN FACT:
Not just in fully grown humans, but as sperm, the XX lives longer than the XY.
XY is faster but short lived. XX is slow, but lives longer.
Much easier to have a boy than a girl, but it is all about timing and knowing your day of ovulation. I wanted to have a girl after my boy and knowing this, I was able to have my daughter!! :)
A better question is why do men usually die before their wives?
Answer: Because they want to.
Women live longer than men because they’re not married to women.
I’ve listened to 2 women say “Nobody wants an old woman.”
What’s left for old men? We can’t all be Bill Belichicks.
Isn’t fentanyl driving life expectancy downwards?
The simple answer as to why woman live longer is simple... Woman are less likely to work in industries that result in death from accidental workplace incidents. Every year thousands die in work related accidents, and most of those who do die are men.
Oh, I thought it was just that we stressed them out till they dropped dead.
Where’s all the memes of men doing stupid stuff?
Ask and you shall receive...
Proof, in the long run women make more.
Women nag men to death....
“LIVE”
Men are fueled by testosterone. More power means more wear & tear on parts and higher risk of a high-speed crash.
Out of spite.
Genetics are Darwinian in nature
Very smart move. Glad your family worked out that way.
I had no idea about this but had a son first and my daughter two years later.
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