Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies?
T156@lemmy.world 3 months agoAt least in people, though, doing that can also cause problems like bone density loss, which seems like it might cause more health issues than it would otehrwise help.
sgnl@midwest.social 3 months ago
That’s the case in doing it too early in animals as well, especially noticable in larger breeds. There’s been a longtime pushback for dogs to get spayed / neutered at later ages, than one size fits all.
Also there are other interesting studies that differ between humans and animals, such as the lifespan of animals that are neutered / spayed tends to be longer than the other way around, and supposedly in humans it’s the opposite.
I didn’t do a ton of vetting when I was researching the information though, so I don’t know how well the studies were controlled and what they accounted for.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
spayed/neutered humans do live longer than their intact counterparts. There was a paper on Thai men who were castrated to serve as royal guards. IIRC, they lived 17 years more than average.