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Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?

The Joy of Why

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Why Do Women Live Longer Than the Men?

In every society that records mortality across the world, women live longer than men. There are four biologic reasons for sex differences in longevity. In males there's a presence of a y chromoso we what an idea? Well, why do living things get at all? Why don't we live forever? What causes aging in the first place? That's a very simple, yet philosophical question.

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