Advantages of short men

Research shows that men with modest height have a longer life expectancy and lower cancer rates than others.

Short men have many advantages

According to Health Sina, many men are often self-conscious because they do not have the height they want, but in fact, short people have many advantages. American research has found that short men possess a superior gene related to longevity. Professor Wilcox of Harvard University and his colleagues studied the medical information of 8,000 Japanese Americans for nearly 50 years and obtained this result.

The people studied were born between 1900 and 1909, about 1,200 of whom lived to be 90 or 100, of whom nearly 250 are still alive today. The researchers divided them into two groups. One group was 1.56 m tall or shorter, the other was 1.62 m tall or taller. The results of the study showed that the group 1.56 m tall or shorter had a longer life expectancy.and lower rates of cancer.

Researchers have found that short men may have a gene called FOXO3 that promotes longevity. This gene causes men to go through puberty early and be short, but the upside is that it helps them live longer. In addition, short men have lower levels of insulin in their blood, which lowers their risk of cancer.

"This is the first study to show that height is directly linked to genes that regulate longevity," Wilcox said.We know that in the animal world there is a link between height and longevity, but we did not expect that there is also a link in humans. Many previous studies have recorded that mice, monkeys, and horses that are smaller than their peers often live longer.

Through this discovery, scientists emphasized that further research is needed to confirm the above results, such as determining whether the relationship between height and longevity applies to other human species. However, not all scientists accept the conclusion about the relationship between height and longevity above, they think it may just be random.

According to VNE