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QOVES Beauty Podcast Ep. 17 - Women's Attractiveness Is Linked To Expected Age At Menopause.
🕑 Added 2021-12-12 00:59:00 +0000 UTCGuest host, Simon Groome, talks about the relative effects and severity of ageing in men as compared with women. With reference to Bovet's paper, this leads us to talk about whether female attractiveness can act as a cue for residual reproductive value (RRV) or future childbearing potential. Finally, speculating on why a growing number of young men actively prefer older women. The life history trade-off theory suggests that organisms that invest more heavily in their own personal growth over quickly reproducing (think elephants vs mice) reach maturation later, and so this can also apply to humans who reach menopause later and can stay youthful and virile for longer.
- Bovet, Jeanne, et al. "Women's attractiveness is linked to expected age at menopause." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31.2 (2018): 229-238.
- Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Lucio Vinicius, and Marta Mirazón Lahr. "Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.51 (2007): 20216-20219.
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What the research is suggesting, is the later menopause is the bigger the fertility window is. Birth control or contraceptives do not stop the clock from ticking - in the sense that, at birth women have 1m eggs, and by puberty this has decreased to 300k, and none (theoretically) remaining by menopause, hence menopause. (so please do not OD on birth control pills!). This suggests that the body loses eggs over time other than by ovulation. What you might be interested in, if your goal is to remain youthful, is reading about the anecdotal evidence that there are post-menopausal women who regain their periods after taking Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN). This has been used as evidence to suggest that NMN assist in delaying, if not reversing, the aging process. As such, what we've known about the female fertility, in particular, women's' egg inventory being a declining slope once born, could be incorrect and is being relooked at.
So if essentially Fertility = Attractiveness. If a woman was to somehow find a way to prevent ovulation and stop their eggs from going into the Fallopian tube to possibly get fertilized. By taking birth control, having surgery or what not. Would that cause a woman to stay youthful and have a better chance of having good offspring.
