The Student Room Group
Reply 1
something to do with the fact that mens hearts age much faster than womens?
Reply 2
Women drive men to an early grave?
:p:
j/k
Reply 3
Studies done at John Moores University in Liverpool, England, showed there are some things to overcome if you are a male if you want to live as long as the women. They found that 70-year-old men had the hearts of 70-year-olds but their female peers had the hearts of 20-year-olds.

Researchers led by David Goldspink, professor of cell and molecular sports science at John Moores, studied 250 healthy but inactive volunteers ages 18-80 over a two-year period. They showed the power of the male heart fell 20-25 percent from ages 18-70, yet the power of the female heart remained undiminished.

Between ages 20-70, men lose a third of the contractile muscle cells in the walls of their hearts, while women lose hardly any. This is significant as there is a strong link between the number of these cells and the function of the heart. Nonetheless, men can't use this decline as an excuse. In a related study, they discovered the hearts of veteran male athletes were equal to those of inactive 20-year-old male undergraduates.
Reply 4
test raises cholesterol, amongst other things...
Reply 5
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why do men live less than women?


They don't really do they? I thought it was about the same though women can sometimes tend to live a couple of years longer.
Reply 6
they do more strenous work
Reply 7
To make up for all the time the woman has spent being pregnant.
Reply 8
alio~
They don't really do they? I thought it was about the same though women can sometimes tend to live a couple of years longer.

lol, more like 5-10 years. 85% of centenarians are women.
Who cares? We'll live a few years shorter, but all we'll miss out on is the years where you continually sh*t your pants. I'm glad.
I heard a theory that it's because women are more biologically "useful" when it comes to propagating the species - i.e. in looking after young. Although how it would be "useful" having a 90 year old hanging around the cave I don't understand :P