Why Women Outlive Men, Sex Cells Explain Female Longevity
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Removing germ cells equalized lifespans, suggesting vitamin D's potential role in enhancing longevity across vertebrates, including humans.
Most people think that women live longer than men do. Better stress management, healthier lifestyle choices, and biological variations are some of the explanations credited with this development. Women tend to live longer because they focus on their health and have greater social networks. But regardless of gender, life expectancy varies greatly among humans.
Biologists have hypothesised that reproductive variables may have a role in the gender disparity in life expectancy.
In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Osaka University have discovered for the first time that germ cells, the cells that develop into eggs in females and sperm in males, drive sex-dependent lifespan differences in vertebrate animals.
