CryoNet #32587 - #32588

CryoNet - Thu 20 May 2010

    #32587: Re: "Violating social norms" carries certain health risks [MARK PLUS]
    #32588: Re: message #32586 [doctor Robert]

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

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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Message #32588
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:16:19 -0700
Subject: Re: message #32586
From: doctor Robert <[email protected]>

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Signing up for cryonic suspension, certainly "violates  social norms" and
has its consequences, of which a shorter life span (if we take David's
reference with an uncritical eye) is suggested. We obviously don't think so,
perhaps by the semantic devise of re-defining "lifespan". It would be of
minor interest to compare our first life cycle spans to an actuarial table,
but I suspect that there are so many variables that such a comparison would
be meaningless. I can also think of three hundred alternative explanations,
other than social ostracism, to account for German Cougars attenuated life
span, but won't go into them here due to propriety. Dr. Robert.

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