Posted on 06/02/2024 5:36:27 AM PDT by billorites
Whether it is the fountain of youth or the elixir of life, men have travelled the world looking for the key to increasing their longevity.
They should be looking a bit closer to home, according to one leading researcher – although after they do, they might end up taking the years God intended for them.
When it comes to increasing the lifespan of any male mammal, “there is one way you can intervene”: castration.
Cat Bohannon, the celebrated author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, said men went through life “smuggling two little death nuggets”, with research suggesting an orchiectomy can lend a few more precious years.
Speaking at the Hay festival on Friday, Bohannon said castration was a “way to make male mammals live longer”. This effect was observed in American men in the mid-20th century who were institutionalised, usually because of mental illness, and castrated, and in Korean eunuchs. The castrated men lived longer than their “regularly balled peers”.
“You can castrate it. Cut off its balls. Don’t try this at home,” added Bohannon, a researcher with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition.
While it used to be thought that the average lifespan discrepancy was behavioural – “dumb boys doing dumb boy stuff” – it in fact “seems to have something deeply to do with the immune system and cellular repair”, she said. Males “get more infections” across their lifespan and “more cancer, and the prognoses in many cases tend to be a bit worse”.
A 2012 study published in Current Biology found that the average lifespan of 81 eunuchs born between 1556 and 1861 was 70 years, which was 14.4–19.1 years longer than the lifespan of non-castrated men of similar socioeconomic status.
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The same science that says masks and vaxes work.
Well it is true married men live longer !!!!
Well... we all knew that they were out to destroy men and male-ness in general. Now “the science” says it can buy you more time... but at what cost?
My grandfather is 93. All of his friends are dead. His second wife is failing mentally. He doesn’t work anymore and is generally cooped up at home. From the outside, it seems that longevity is more of a curse than a blessing.
“Men...live longer if they are castrated, says researcher”
Tough call for the Feminists. OBVIOUSLY they want every man castrated (and they’re making pretty good progress with little kids going to public schools, but that’s another subject), however if castrating causes the men to live longer, then more men would be around, which is DISGUSTING to them.
You have a choice guys. Liver longer or ........
Is the Researcher Castrated?
This is pure stupid.
Men live longer by having offspring.
Hahah! Ain’t that the truth.;-)
The so called “researcher” is an obvious man hating female
I’m sure it seems that way.
Regarding this life extension proposal: “That takes balls!”
Like William Wallace said, “All men die, some men never really live.“
My first thoughts exactly.
The left has made science a joke.
And I bet wearing a sundress will extend it more.
Must be why Biden is still alive.
but those bazooms!
The left dreams of eliminating men. It can’t do that right now, so it settles for castrating them. Until now, it was a virtual castration that they worked for by condemning manhood by calling it “toxic masculinity.”
The left would love to take a knife to all men and slice off the family jewels. They can’t quite do that right now, so they write articles praising the castration of men.
PS. If the article is right then Bill Clinton should live to be 120. (He’s married to a castrating witch).
Cult of castration.
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