The seven-year itch has been around for a long time. But what is the root cause of the seven-year itch? There is no definitive answer yet, and we are all happy to pursue this answer. Is it possible that it has something to do with the fact that human cells metabolize once every seven years?
The “seven-year itch” generally refers to a crisis that people may experience in their seventh year of marriage due to the boredom and tedium of the humdrum routine of married life. The term “seven-year itch” comes from the fact that the cells of a person will complete an overall metabolism in seven years. The term “affair” is synonymous.
Love comes to an end in seven years. The body’s cells metabolize and are replaced every three months, and as the old cells die, new cells are born in magnificent fashion. Due to the different time and interval of different cell metabolism, all the cells in the body will be replaced. It takes seven years, which means, physically, we are another person every seven years. You are you, but you are also not you anymore. Could this be the root cause of the seven-year itch?
In 1955, a movie starring Marilyn Monroe? The movie was released in the United States in 1955, starring Marilyn Monroe. In the movie, the hero always takes advantage of all the circumstances to fantasize about having an affair with Monroe. The film’s title, TheSevenYearItch, and its Chinese translation, The Seven Year Itch, became a direct synonym for marital instability.
Why seven years? A recently circulated twitter feed offers one explanation – “The body’s cells metabolize and are replaced every three months. Due to the different time and interval of different cell metabolism, it will take seven years to replace all the cells in the body. In other words, physiologically, we are a different person every seven years.” What? What, I’m not me after 7 years? This is rather suspicious of talking nonsense in the garb of science. However, there are indeed serious studies about the age of cells.
The seven-year itch because of human cell metabolism?
The human body has many more cell types than those studied by Professor Friesen, and there are few cells that have a high replacement rate. In addition to the intestinal epidermal cells mentioned above, red blood cells are also viable for an average of only 120 days. The slightly longer-lived liver cells have a lifespan of about 300-500 days, and the seemingly lifelong human skeleton is also re-replaced about every 10 years. When these different kinds of cells are taken together, the average age of cells in the entire human body is about 7-10 years. For that matter, 7 years is not too far off the mark, but the interpretation of this is just plain wrong.
I don’t believe anyone is “tickled” by the metabolism of their partner’s gut cells or skeletal muscle cells, and to the extent that knowledge exists, except for a few olfactory bulbs or hippocampus that can renew In the current knowledge, except for a few neurons in the olfactory bulb or hippocampus that can be renewed, other neuronal cells remain with a person for almost his or her entire life, including those that are the basis of human emotions. Even if there is a “seven-year itch” between a man and a woman, which has to be interpreted with knowledge limited to cell biology, it should be attributed to the altered influence of these neurons on human behavior, not to the unwarranted metabolism of neuronal cells. In addition, the relationship problems between men and women are not only at the cellular level, but also the education, environment, and experiences that people have had will have an impact. The seven-year itch is not only a matter of neuroscience, but also a matter of the heart to find out why.
To take a step back, even if there is a replacement year for cells throughout the body, do we really have to become a new person physiologically? There is an implicit “Ship of Theseus” problem here. Theseus describes a ship in the sea for a long time, inevitably some damage, so the ship’s skilled craftsmen regularly replace part of the ship to maintain the normal navigation of the ship. After a few years, the entire ship’s parts are replaced once, so the ship is still the original ship when it set out? If so, what is the relationship between the two ships and the original ship when it set out if the discarded parts are collected and reassembled into one ship? If not, then when did the ship become different from the original? I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to ponder these age-old questions.
The “seven-year itch” is too far-fetched to be explained by “seven years to replace all the cells in your body”. The seven-year itch is too far-fetched. Some short-lived intestinal epithelial cells have an average age of only 5 days, while the gray matter cells of the cerebellum can stay with a person for almost a lifetime. Although the average cell age is about 7-10 years when the different cells are calculated together, I’m afraid no one would think they have become another person because of the metabolism of intestinal cells or liver cells. As for the so-called seven-year itch, it has even less to do with the lifespan of cells.
A relationship is always tempting
Many wonder if there is any way to get a partner to be dedicated for ten years as one day? In this matter, we must face the truth. Life just comes with a lot of this kind of betrayal. Life must always go on, and we cannot imagine marriage as pure, even if this responsibility is the essential requirement of marriage. If we are always high and mighty, for example, we will always just say how wonderful love is, or how good monogamy is, or how faithful this marriage is, which is actually unrealistic, and these statements may be a dream.
The reality we face is that we desire and enter into partnerships, and then there is destruction and disappointment in the partnership, which itself changes; we have the city of the institution of marriage, and there are those who come to attack it and those who want to escape it; similarly, we have the need for fidelity, and there is the need for fidelity. need, there are stowaways and betrayals of the need for fidelity.
This is life, there is no panacea, the ladies are there, they can’t be wiped out, but there is nothing to fear, we still have to live, we still have to operate, we have to love, all we can do is face this life. The only way to get the most out of your life is to face the darkness of human nature and the dilemma we are in right now, in front of life, so that we are not like a baby with the illusion that the world is my imagination.
In addition to improving your own cultivation to increase your charm, you should also care about your husband and have enough communication and traffic between the two of you. And also the relationship between the two people should be carefully maintained in order to keep warm. Is this a tough way to run a marriage? Yes, but that’s life. Giving doesn’t always pay off, but not giving has a much greater chance of being let down.