As you may or may not know, the Food and Drug Administration implemented the Adverse Event Reports (AER) system last year. In an effort to protect the end consumer, this process requires manufacturers of dietary supplements to report all AERs to the FDA, much like pharmaceutical companies do. Since the AER process began, there have been 604 adverse event reports submitted. To put things in perspective, 450,000 AERs were received in 2007 from prescription pharmaceuticals.

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So, who lives longer, men or women? Well, according to Tom Perls, founder of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University, across the industrialized world, women still live 5 to 10 years longer than men. Among people over 100 years old, 85% are women.

Women live longer than men. It is unfair, but true. The question is, why?

Thomas Perls offers two reasons: one is the evolutionary drive to pass on her genes; the other is the need to stay healthy enough to rear as many children as possible. A man’s purpose is simply to carry genes that ensure longevity and pass them on to his children. All right, so that’s a little history for you from our caveman past. Read More