X-Message-Number: 32587
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:24:20 -0700
Subject: Re: "Violating social norms" carries certain health risks
From: MARK PLUS <>

Re: Cryonet # 32586, by David Stodolsky:

The fact that this pattern showed up among married couples in Denmark,
a developed, egalitarian country with universal health insurance,
suggests that social and lifestyle factors overwhelm the alleged
benefits of such insurance for morbidity and life expectancy.

>The even worse news was that men involved with younger women tended to live
longer.

I throw out the conjecture that sperm competition accounts for the
difference in male life expectancy. An older man's fear that his wife
will cuckold him with younger men activates more DNA repair activity
in his reproductive cells to try to maintain sperm quality, with the
added benefit of more DNA maintenance in his somatic cells as well,
resulting in better overall health.

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Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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