Yes. Men live less life in every country in the world, and in America, lead in 13 of the top 15 causes of death. They have worse health across every group, and higher mortality at every age. By more or less every metric, men have it worse; with American men losing 4.2 million years of life, three times more than women, every single year. Today, to be male, is the single largest demographic factor predicting early death; and if we could fix this, to make male and female mortality rates the same, we would do more good than curing cancer. The issue of men’s health, despite the scoffs, eyes rolls and outrage, is an impossibly huge, and entirely ignored problem, that society has been comfortable sweeping under the rug for decades. And if you ever dare utter a word of this, if you raise a hand, to ask the question “what about men’s health?” The fire and brimstone that will so often rain down upon you, will make you wish you hadn’t. Something about “medical research is based on mens bodies!” You’ll hear. Something else about pendulums, or a “catching up exercise”, or perhaps they’ll tell you about “drug trials excluding women until 1993.” Here, within this chorus of catchphrases, truth and myth are muddled together within an impossible web, that the world wont thank you for trying to disentangle. Because, if you did; the truth, the terrible truth, will shock you even more. So, does men’s health research get more funding than women’s? Were women excluded historically; and if so, when, where and why? And when will we stop swinging these pendulums, and start hepling those dying young, and so needlessly, right now? #menshealth #malesuicide #menshealthtips #mensissues #malehealth

2025-03-10