{"id":430,"date":"2023-01-19T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=430"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:31:14","slug":"could-your-longevity-sexual-maturity-be-all-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Could Your Longevity &amp; Sexual Maturity Be All in Your Head?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While many younger people think little about how long they will live, as we get older, our longevity becomes more important to us. After all, who doesn\u2019t want to live as many years as possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past couple of years, we\u2019ve written a number of posts on things that can have an impact on a person\u2019s longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyarenalifestyle.com\/night-owl-or-early-bird-who-lives-longer\/\">early birds<\/a>&nbsp;tend to live longer than night owls, how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyarenalifestyle.com\/walking-speed-can-affect-longevity\/\">fast or slow you walk<\/a>&nbsp;can affect one\u2019s longevity,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyarenalifestyle.com\/keep-your-body-young-with-a-low-calorie-diet\/\">diet<\/a>, exercising,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyarenalifestyle.com\/supplement-to-help-reverse-cardiovascular-aging\/\">supplements<\/a>&nbsp;and even various&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyarenalifestyle.com\/bad-germs-make-us-healthy\/\">germs<\/a>&nbsp;one contracts and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no doubt the healthy living \u2013 eating right and exercising \u2013 does have an impact in helping many people live longer, unless you get hit by a car and killed while jogging for your health, as one man did or if you accidentally ingest something that causes you to get deathly ill or cause a severe allergic reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no doubt that taking the right supplements and vitamins can also help one live longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there is the question of one\u2019s sexual maturity. We know that females tend to mature sexually earlier than males and to be honest, some males seen to never mature sexually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What control\u2019s one\u2019s sexual maturity? Is it genetics or hormones or both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if I told that both your longevity and your sexual maturity are determined by your brain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/lifespan-maturity-brain-10124\/\">study<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNew Vanderbilt research finds how long humans and other warm-blooded animals live\u2013and when they reach sexual maturity\u2013 may have more to do with their brain than their body. More specifically, it is not animals with larger bodies or slower metabolic rates that live longer; it is animals with more neurons in the cerebral cortex, whatever the size of the body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/lifespan-maturity-brain-10124\/\">Suzana Herculano-Houzel,<\/a>&nbsp;one of the authors of the study and associate professor of psychology &nbsp;and biological sciences at Vanderbilt, commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhether you\u2019re looking at birds or primates or humans, the number of neurons that you find in the cortex of a species predicts around 75 percent of all of the variation in longevity across species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you are asking, what exactly is the cerebral cortex, I\u2019ll give you a quick biology lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve all seen pictures or drawings of the brain. You know who it looks all wrinkled and folded? That outer wrinkled layer is the cerebral cortex. It is a thin layer (0.39 0.20 inches thick) that is divided into four distinct regions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Frontal \u2013 the front portion of the brain. Is responsible for higher mental processes including thinking, planning and decision making.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Occipital \u2013 bottom back of brain. Is responsible for visual function.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parietal \u2013 upper back (between the frontal and occipital) portion of the brain. Is responsible for sensory information including taste, temperature and touch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Temporal \u2013 bottom middle (the temple areas) of the brain. Main function involves hearing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The principle they discovered works from species to species and it also works within a species. In other words, the thicker one\u2019s cerebral cortex is, the more neurons it contains and therefore, the longer one will tend to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many younger people think little about how long they will live, as we get older, our longevity becomes more important to us. After all, who doesn\u2019t want to live as many years as possible? Over the past couple of years, we\u2019ve written a number of posts on things that can have an impact on a person\u2019s longevity. We saw that&nbsp;early birds&nbsp;tend to live longer than night owls, how&nbsp;fast or slow you walk&nbsp;can affect one\u2019s longevity,&nbsp;diet, exercising,&nbsp;supplements&nbsp;and even various&nbsp;germs&nbsp;one contracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}