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The 2 big factors are level of activity and kids. They will drain the life out of you.
Like being in the trades. You trade your physical wellbeing for wages.
Ah yes. The Brendan Carr effect.
Im 42 and im just happy i have Head full of thick, long, black hair without a single grey. And I look more attractive than I ever did. I hated looking younger when I was in my 20s and 30s but I love it now. I don’t think I have a wrinkle more than i did in high school.
Im poor as shit and hate my job, but I have my hair!
Wow, you're the complete opposite of my partner. She's 23 and has about 20% gray hair. Apparently runs in the family because her uncle was fully gray by his college graduation.
I love gray hair! Looks so beautiful
I know right! I think her silver streaks are so cool.
Your 40s are where your life situations and choices seem to catch up to you
In your 20s people largely look young and energetic, regardless of whether they exercise, how they eat, whether they smoke, etc.
By the 40s, the smokers look terrible, the people with poor diet and exercise aren’t no longer getting away with it as their metabolism slows, etc. These are the years where you start to see the trajectories diverge.
By the 60s, I see people who are as spry as they ever were, and people who are resigned to the end being near.
Slight correction, metabolism doesn't slow in the 40s either. Though at least thats better than the slowing in 30s stereotype.
Metabolism stays the from 20s up to 60s, everything else is explained by lifestyle.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/surprising-findings-about-metabolism-and-age-202110082613
Sarcopenia generally progresses in your 30s to where a rule-of-thumb is the behaviors and muscle mass you make by age 40 is an indicator of mobility and bone density in late life.
Yeah, but that is very heavily effected by lifestyle choices rather than something completely outside of personal control like metabolism. Metabolism itself doesn't slow down, the results of not taking care of their health are catching up.
The fact that there are enough people who fail to take care of their health that it has created a correlational relationship or a rule of thumb, doesn't mean it's something that it's supposed to happen or outside of their control aka metabolism slowing down.
Propagating the metabolism slowing down stereotype creates a self feeding loop where people who still can do much to improve their health. Become complacent, because it's something that's supposed to happen anyway and the more people who succumb to that the more it strengthens that stereotype.
It’s both my amigo.
But that's the point. It's not, that's why i posted one of the biggest and most accurate study showing that metabolism doesn't slow down until 60s.
Millennial: "Socialism is my retirement plan!"
[proceeds to participate in no direct action whatsoever]
I was one of those lucky elder millennials who got to own a home by my mid 20s. Bought cheap, the market exploded and several years later made bank off the sale of the property. I thought for once in my life I would treat myself and wife and go after our dream home. I successfully did it and it was great, but real life caught up, had to take care of my grandmother and disabled sister since no one else in the family would. It drained our bank account and had to sell the house at a massive loss and am now living with in laws in a converted shed in their backyard. Now, strapped with debt, I barely see a way back to home ownership, even renting is not in the cards for at least a couple years.
It's awful that in the span of 3 years I went from the happiest, most comfortable I've been in my entire life, to the most stressed and on the verge of homelessness, all due to fucking shit healthcare and shit ass family.
'murica yeah!
Cynicism aside, I am sorry things are so fucked up for you (and also increasingly so for everyone).
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This arguably applies to a lot of adult ages. When you're in your 20s, a lot of that is also true. Some of your friend group look like like they'd reminisce about The War, whereas the others appear younger than the iPhone 3G.
Mid-forties are a decision point. It's when you decide to either get healthy, and stay healthy the rest of your life, or... you don't.
Your body starts falling apart faster if you don't maintain it. Unlike the years before, the health losses are forever.
Fair warning.
Your body starts falling apart faster if you don’t maintain it.
There's a corollary here that I don't see anyone talking about. If you set a good plan to maintain your body fitness from say your mid 30s on, one day you'll be doing that same reasonable workout routine and then you hurt yourself because its too much. Yesterday it was fine, the prior 15 years it had been fine, but now its not, and you have an injury you need 3 to 6 months to recover from. You think its a fluke and, once healed, you go back to your fitness routine and you injury yourself in a different way. Another 3 to 6 months of recovery.
There appears to be a need to modify or abandon parts of your fitness routine as you get older, but there's no guidebook on what to stop doing and when, nor what to be doing instead.
I feel like this is like tech debt, it's usually a result of neglect in other areas that are easy to dismiss or overlook. Stretching, foam rolling, staying on top of rest and recovery, avoiding ego lifting, etc. I think you can definitely course correct but it gets harder to do so the further you stray.
My guess is as you get older, those support muscles that help keep everything in place also need work. Also, bad form habits are more likely to rear their head as time goes on.
So the people who didn't perfect their form, the ones who use tricks to lift what they do (like a curl you can only complete if you start out my building up momentum on the lower part to get through the upper part), the ones who only work their major muscles, those are most likely to get hurt.
Though there's also wear and tear on your non-muscle infra, like your bones, joints, tendons, and cartilege. If you keep pushing for heavier weights, you put more and more strain on those. They can improve somewhat with training but they aren't like muscles where straining them to the point of failure and tearing encourages the body to build more and age doesn't help there either, especially if you develop arthritis or something that further weakens that support infra.
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Weirdly accurate. Early 40's and about to get a divorce and start over. Losing the house I've been in for 12 years and will likely see my children much less. I'm excited and petrified of whats to come.
I got divorced 10 years ago and since I decided to be child free I was able to travel a lot. Now I bought a new house and am just vibbing to be an old lady lol
Late 30's divorce here about 5 years ago.. It takes a while to start over all the life planning but once it gets rolling, things are so much better. That emotional bullshit you fight every day lifts off your shoulders and you can be more focused on the important stuff.
You won't notice it for a while. Keep going.
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Already felt like I lived too long. Not sure I can do this another 40
I'm 40 and still feel like 250 would be the perfect age for me to go out, but I'll take whatever I can get.
I'm nearing 60 and I feel like I must be about 110. Not physically, because I'm in great shape, bike 25-50 miles a day, work out, keep myself thin. But I've done so many different things in my life, different careers, lived lots of different places, that it feels like I've lived many lifetimes already. And since I grew up in the era of three TV channels, I think I'm already living in science fiction. People talk about their lives going by in a flash, but I kind of think that's a consequence of just doing the same things day after day.
I'm mainly thankful that I don't have any kids to worry about and that it's possible I'll be dead before the climate shit really hits the fan. Being killed by robots is looking very realistic, unfortunately.
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I have the opposite problem. In my early 40s and still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. Hell, I'm still not ready to have* kids!
Point I'm making is that there's not nearly enough time given to us to live our short lives. Especially once you factor in the age of the universe (or even just Earth itself). Humanity as a whole has been a brief flash in the pan; if earth's entire history was condensed down to one hour, you could literally blink and miss out on all of human evolution. That's how little time we're given.
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