Most of the time there is a discussion among people that women live longer than men or men live longer than women? But no one knows the exact answer to these questions. People cannot reach any conclusion due to lack of some facts. Now, however, an American scientist claims to have found the answer.

Average age of women is more


 Virginia Zarulli, an associate professor of demography at the University of Southern Denmark, says that the average age of women worldwide is higher than that of men. There are two main reasons for this. Both of these causes are biological.

 The first reason-.                                the difference in sex hormones

 In general, women's bodies produce more estrogen and less testosterone hormones than men. Estrogen protects women from many diseases. It also includes heart related diseases.

 But when testosterone levels are high, women have an increased risk of developing certain diseases. For example, endometrial and breast cancer. Because of testosterone, some people die in their youth.

 Virginia said there are also some genetic factors that contribute significantly. The human body has two sex chromosomes, X and Y.

 Females have XX chromosomes. So males have YY chromosomes. Female X chromosomes contain additional genetic material, which protects them from bad mutations.

 Although one X chromosome suffers from a bad mutation, the other X chromosome mutation in a woman's body protects and gives women a longer life.

 According to a report published in the journal Population and Development Review, women have received a kind of biological gift from nature. Which allows them to live longer than men.

 The second reason- health

 Virginia, analyzing the age of 11,000 Bavarian Catholic nuns and monks between 1890 and 1995, said that women live longer. There are very strict religious rules. Here men and women have to live the same life. Both stay away from risky transactions. That is why women live here for 2 more years due to biological reasons.

 In 2018, a study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal. In which it was said that girls born in times of calamity, famine and pestilence live longer lives than boys.

 Women pay more attention to nutritious diet, while men are weaker in this regard. Men often eat fast food and fatty foods. The study was published last year in Clinical and Experimental Medicine. It states that an average of 33 percent of women go to the doctor, but men avoid it.

 Men, on the other hand, drink and smoke more than women. Which also shortens the lives of men.


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