Bad News:  You have to lose the family jewels.

A research report that appears in the journal "Current Biology" examined
the history of Koreans and found that eunuchs lived 14 years longer than
ballsy males.  It goes without saying that this piece of research has been
picked up by the popular media, and here is one such source:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/09/24/eunuchs-lived-longer-than-other-men-study

The popular version of Science, known as "Science Now", also provide
an account:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/09/korean-eunuchs-outlived-uncastra.html?ref=hp

The original research can be accessed here:
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2812%2900712-9

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]

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