Men live longer if they have their testicles removed

Researchers from the UK have now found that men and other male mammals live longer when their testicles are removed.

According to the report published in The Guardian a few days ago, the research showed that mammals who had their testicles removed had the ability to live longer compared to their counterparts with testicles – this includes human males.

This effect was observed in American men in the mid-20th century who were institutionalized, often due to mental illness, and castrated, as well as in Korean eunuchs.

Castrated men lived longer than, “their counterparts who frequently lived with ‘eggs’.”

“You could get castrated. Cut off your testicles. Don’t try this at home,” added Bohannon, a researcher with a PhD from Columbia University in narrative and cognitive evolution.

Men “get more infections” throughout their lives and “more cancer, and in many cases, the prognosis is 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 social and economic status.

The researchers concluded that the study, “supports the idea that male sex hormones shorten men’s lives.”

“Why is this? Why do so many men carry two tiny death machines?” Bohannon said. “I’m afraid we don’t fully know. A lot of good science is being done in this area.”