Eight ways to help men live longer

Longevity secret 1: Be content with what you have

Finnish researchers have found that men who feel more satisfied with their lives are more likely to live longer.

Researchers say that women are more likely to seek solutions to their problems through physical exercise or talking to others, while men who are dissatisfied with their lives are very likely to drink to relieve their sorrow or smoke to relieve stress, both of which can seriously damage their health.

Studies show that men who are dissatisfied with their lives are twice as likely to die from all causes as men who are satisfied with their lives, and are three times more likely to die from illness than men who are dissatisfied with their lives. In addition, men who have a habit of alcoholism have a higher chance of dying.

Longevity Secret 2: Appreciating Beautiful Women

Remember, we are talking about looking at beautiful women, not marrying them. Scientists say that when men gaze at beautiful women, it is like appreciating beautiful landscapes, which is good for physical and mental health. Staring at a beautiful woman for 10 minutes is equivalent to doing 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

British researchers conducted an experiment on 200 men over a five-year period and found that men who gazed at beautiful women every day had relatively low blood pressure, slower pulses, fewer heart diseases, and an average life expectancy of four to five years longer. Scientists explained that when men first saw a beautiful woman, their autonomic nervous system would become hyperactive, causing blushing, palpitations, cold hands and feet, etc. However, seeing a beautiful woman every day would create good emotional memories in their brains, keep their emotional center stable, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke.

Spending too much time alone with an unattainable woman can increase levels of the stress hormone paclitaxel, which has been linked to heart disease, a Spanish study suggests.

The researchers asked 84 male students to participate in the experiment. When the woman left and only two men were left sitting together in the room, the man who volunteered to participate in the experiment did not experience an increase in stress level; however, when the subject and the woman were alone in a room, his cortisol level increased. A small amount of cortisol has a positive effect of increasing alertness and promoting health. However, long-term high cortisol concentrations can worsen diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and impotence.

Longevity Secret 4: Cry when you need to

"It's not a sin for men to cry!" Crying can really drive away depression. Women crying more is believed to be an important reason for their longer life expectancy.

According to the American Journal of Mental Health, when people are depressed, they secrete a hormone called adrenaline, which makes people feel depressed and listless, and reduces their lifespan. Fortunately, the pain hormone can be excreted through sweat, tears or urine. Therefore, when you are depressed, you can do more exercise, sweat or cry a lot, which can expel the pain hormone from your body.

Longevity Tip 5: Eat more soybeans

Soybeans contain phytoestrogens, which are beneficial to women, so many people think that men should not eat so much soybeans. However, soybeans are also beneficial to men.

Researchers have found that Japanese men who regularly eat soy products have a lower risk of prostate cancer than Western men, and that soy is also effective in improving bone loss in men.

Many men think that chewing food in small bites is too "feminine", but in fact, it is very good for health and helps to prolong men's life span. Men's eating habits are often to wolf down or often overeat, so the incidence of stomach problems in men is 6.2 times higher than that of women on average. In addition, men generally eat more fat and protein foods than women, which has been proven to be an important cause of rectal cancer and shortened life span.

Longevity Tip 7: Drink half a glass of red wine every day

A research report pointed out that drinking about half a glass of dry red wine every day can extend men's life expectancy by 5 years compared with non-drinkers, while reducing the risk of heart disease.

The research team analyzed the lifestyle and drinking habits of 1,373 men who were born between 1900 and 1920 and lived between 1960 and 2000.

Longevity Tip 8: Benefits of Red Wine

The results showed that compared with men who did not drink, men who drank 20 grams of different alcoholic beverages every day had a two-year longer life expectancy; and men who drank less than half a glass of wine a day had a two and a half year longer life expectancy than men who drank beer and other alcoholic beverages every day.

The ingredients in the grape skin of red wine can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, and the purine (a substance that increases uric acid in the body) contained in red wine is lower than other wines. Red wine can also prevent arteriosclerosis and dementia.