3 Jul
Length Matters
There’s a long-lived mistaken belief that the size of a man’s nose, his feet, measurement of his wrist to index finger, and even his hand size reflects the size of his Johnson… and we’re not talking outboard motors. As much as women would love to have a reliable predictor for the height of the pup-tent in their sheets the next morning, I’m sorry to say a reliable, scientific correlation just doesn’t exist.
So, now that that’s out of the way, we need to move on to the length of your ring and index fingers, and how that measurement could affect your long-term health. Years back my nutritionist told me the following information and it wasn’t until recently that I found it dead-center in Men’s Health magazine.
The difference in length between your index and ring fingers depends on the amount of testosterone you were exposed to in the womb. If your index finger is LONGER than your ring finger, you were exposed to less testosterone before birth and you may be one-third less likely to develop prostate cancer… you may be half as likely to develop osteoarthritis, and your sperm count may be on the low side.
On the flip side, if your index finger is SHORTER than your ring ginger, you were exposed to more testosterone before birth and you may be less likely to have a heart attack in your 30’s and 40’s… tend to be more physically aggressive than men with longer pointers… and you’re probably mentally tough and optimistic (which is good if you’re an air traffic controller and there’s a plane coming in for landing up-side-down).
So, that’s the long and short of it from Healthy Spouse. Don’t forget to zip up!
