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Is Health Always Worth It
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BreezeDoveal
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People often say, "well it is healthier" regarding the pure physiological and mortality rate affects without considering quality of life. Why? Ultimately, doesn't that mean we we should be contemplating this:
https://www.amazon.com/Castration-Advantages-Disadvantages-Victor-Cheney/dp/1414012292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471530212&sr=8-1&keywords=benefits+of+castration
https://www.amazon.com/Castration-Advantages-Disadvantages-Victor-Cheney/dp/1414012292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471530212&sr=8-1&keywords=benefits+of+castration
The book contains considerable data to substantiate each of the aspects of the castration results. The simple 15-minute surgery gives a whopping thirteen and a half years of average life expectancy increase, cures prostate cancer and improves the body's immune system functioning.
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You're right; prostate cancer is a higher quality of life.3
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:huh:0
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Of course it's not for people who already have prostate cancer!0
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BreezeDoveal wrote: »This isn't simply for people that have prostate cancer. The idea has been contemplated for clinically healthy males.
Is my ex wife one of those who has been contemplating it? :rim shot:
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Considering the number of erectile dysfunction commercials and ads, this may not be a significant change in quality of life for many.5
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BreezeDoveal wrote: »The idea has been contemplated for clinically healthy males.
Bit extreme.
Prostate cancer have high rates of survival if caught early, I never heard such treatment be recommended by most doctors, unlike for example breast cancer sometimes a preventative mastectomy on healthy females who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation is recommended.
Quality of life is important of course. But who doesn't consider it with health issues?
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That was worth it just to read the reviews. Almost as good as the ones for veet for men from the UK.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Men-Hair-Removal-Cream/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK4 -
BillMcKay1 wrote: »That was worth it just to read the reviews. Almost as good as the ones for veet for men.
Oh my gosh! Hilarious! Not sugar-free gummy bear level, but totally worth reading.2 -
BillMcKay1 wrote: »That was worth it just to read the reviews. Almost as good as the ones for veet for men.
The "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" titles were also quite amusing.2 -
BillMcKay1 wrote: »That was worth it just to read the reviews. Almost as good as the ones for veet for men from the UK.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Men-Hair-Removal-Cream/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK
Hahaha hysterical! I didn't check the OP amazon review at first, just did lol
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Considering the number of erectile dysfunction commercials and ads, this may not be a significant change in quality of life for many.
You know what prevents that? Exercise. The "magic" happens because of blood flow, people with good cardiovascular health never develop problems in that area. It's the couch potatoes who do.
I'm not old enough to know first hand, but this is what I've been told.0 -
I would rather have a more healthy life overall than a longer one. As it is, men's T-levels drop they get older, and the more like women they become (harder to maintain/gain muscle mass, etc.).
Men and women overall would be better served by losing the excess fat, moving more, and getting under a barbell. These things will solve more problems than whatever latest and greatest study the media latches onto and misinterprets.2 -
BreezeDoveal wrote: »People often say, "well it is healthier" regarding the pure physiological and mortality rate affects without considering quality of life. Why? Ultimately, doesn't that mean we we should be contemplating this:
https://www.amazon.com/Castration-Advantages-Disadvantages-Victor-Cheney/dp/1414012292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471530212&sr=8-1&keywords=benefits+of+castrationThe book contains considerable data to substantiate each of the aspects of the castration results. The simple 15-minute surgery gives a whopping thirteen and a half years of average life expectancy increase, cures prostate cancer and improves the body's immune system functioning.
I'm pretty sure QOL is always a determinant in how healthy one is.0 -
BreezeDoveal wrote: »BillMcKay1 wrote: »That was worth it just to read the reviews. Almost as good as the ones for veet for men from the UK.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Men-Hair-Removal-Cream/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK
Why would you want to put chemicals near that area?6 -
Yes.1
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BreezeDoveal wrote: »CipherZero wrote: »I would rather have a more healthy life overall than a longer one. As it is, men's T-levels drop they get older, and the more like women they become (harder to maintain/gain muscle mass, etc.).
Men and women overall would be better served by losing the excess fat, moving more, and getting under a barbell. These things will solve more problems than whatever latest and greatest study the media latches onto and misinterprets.
But is older men's T dropping a cause of poor health or a result?
Won't losing weight be a way to cause health testosterone in men like:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23412685
There's the question no one has a solid answer on. I don't have a number from when I was a fatass, but my current Free-T is right on the average for someone fifteen years younger. And research has borne out living longer won't massively increase life span, but will compress the time you spend circling the drain.
My actual life goal is to be the guy who still mows his own lawn at eighty and drops dead in the middle of it.2
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