by Sadie Harley – Medical Xpress

Why do women, on average, live longer than men yet often face a greater burden of chronic disease later in life? Why do some of the most fertile animals in nature, including queen bees and naked mole-rat queens, also live exceptionally long lives?

A perspective published in Cell introduces the Reproductive Resilience Hypothesis (RRH), a new way to think about these questions.

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