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Men and other mammals live longer if they are castrated, says researcher
The Guardian ^ | May 31, 2024 | Ella Creamer

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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To: billorites

Must be true. Males without balls don’t risk their lives trying to get laid.


61 posted on 06/02/2024 6:32:05 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: montag813

“she is hot”

Not IMO


62 posted on 06/02/2024 6:37:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN
I'll bet that she can't even get a battery operated gizmo to entertain her.
63 posted on 06/02/2024 6:38:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Lethal Force Authorized At Mar-a-Lago!)
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To: moovova

Make no mistake, these people have absolutely no designs on relinquishing power.....EVER.

And as everyone has their attention trained on an 82 y/o vegetable stumbling around the Whitehouse, the real evil is working 24/7 to ensure that comes to fruition.


64 posted on 06/02/2024 6:41:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN; moovova

Sorry wrong thread


65 posted on 06/02/2024 6:43:09 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: bankwalker

I wonder how much he / she / it paid for those ta tas?


66 posted on 06/02/2024 6:47:48 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: billorites

Weren’t the eunuchs living in the palace? ...surrounded by security and with access to better food then the general population?


67 posted on 06/02/2024 6:48:09 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: billorites

My grandfather and uncle castrated the young bulls. In fewer than two years, these steers were on the dinner table.


68 posted on 06/02/2024 6:52:06 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: billorites

No thanks. I’ll keep my God given jewelry and exit the planet when due. In this corrupted world a few more castrated years isn’t worth it.


69 posted on 06/02/2024 6:58:35 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Clutch Martin
So, what’s better? A doberman living a full active life for 9 years or to live a full active life for 9 years followed by 5 or 6 years of failing health as in other breeds?

I've been around dogs all my life. I've never owned a dog but have enough OJT while growing up and dog sitting for relatives over the years to comment. My observation is big dogs have a life span of around 10 years +/- of 2 years. Big dogs go down fairly quick do to cancer or hip failure when thier time is up.

70 posted on 06/02/2024 6:59:25 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: billorites

The “sample” is this “study” is highly questionable…(and rather stupid.)

“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. Researchers concluded that the study “supports the idea that male sex hormones decrease the lifespan of men”….”


71 posted on 06/02/2024 7:03:20 AM PDT by PsyCon
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To: montag813

Meanwhile many of the young women complaining about where are all the eligible men at? Many conflicted women are their own worst enemies.


72 posted on 06/02/2024 7:10:50 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: V_TWIN

how do you know she’s a skank, or does not date?
I know you know everything, but really.


73 posted on 06/02/2024 7:11:04 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: adorno

That would give new meaning to “go F yourself. “


74 posted on 06/02/2024 7:25:12 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: billorites

“Take my testicles...Please!”(?)


75 posted on 06/02/2024 7:36:48 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: billorites

They may live longer, but they won’t like it.


76 posted on 06/02/2024 7:39:21 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: billorites

So THAT’s why liberal men live longer.


77 posted on 06/02/2024 7:50:18 AM PDT by Signalman (I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
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To: billorites

That’s Living?


78 posted on 06/02/2024 8:26:39 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: God luvs America; All


79 posted on 06/02/2024 8:42:18 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Um, no thank you.


80 posted on 06/02/2024 8:44:39 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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