Are we getting old because we imagine ourselves getting old?

[whistlingwh0res]

It's all inside of our head?

[Sour-rose]

i stg it is. You know what my family says all the time "I'm getting too old for this." "I'm old, rose!" "I'm a 66 year old woman now! I can't be-"

All of them... say they're getting old and act old. I'm sure they are, as am i, but the thing is... each day i'm still alive, i can still move with confidence and youth. Not with old thoughts and tired bones. Soo yeah, if you imagine you're getting older and sulk with it, I do think you'll think you are.

[leahzrc]

I try to force myself to enjoy what I used to enjoy but my mind is aging more than my heart

[Kelly6]

totally agree

[Bricealan]

You can reduce or nearly eliminate the mental and physical things that happen to you as your age. Nothing is in concrete, unless you develop some terrible disease, not under your control. If you exercise and eat a well balanced diet, stay lean, and take a positive view of you life and what you have to be grateful for, you will do as Mr. Spock said..."Live Long, And Prosper"

[Fireguy17]

We are getting older because we wake up every day.
As far as are we feeling older that can depend on your health and your mind set.
I can hold my own with the younger members at the station, but I have what they lack, experience, wisdom and treachery, all which comes with age.

[OlderAndWiser]

When an old man wakes up three times every night to go take a leak, it's not in his head. When an old woman develops vaginal dryness and loss of libido, that's not in her head.

[whistlingwh0res]

Bitchness make things worse

[Anonymous]

I think we're young until something tells us we're not. I went 45 years without ever breaking a bone. Then I broke 5 over the last 2 years. Up till then I felt indestructible and fearless. Now I ask myself am I getting weaker or did I just have a run of bad luck.

[coolbreeze]

You are as old as you think you are. If you act old your going to be old. if you act young you be young. Its like a mind over matter thing.

[Berethor]

No, there is a lot of immature people that still get old body-wise.

[Curmudgeon]

It says you are 40. You should know the answer to this by now. We ARE getting old. :D

[ColHathi]

Mentally at least, I like to think so. Yeah. I think a lot of people "let" themselves get old.

[BourbonAndBacon]

I'm not old but I do find it weird that I am the same age as old people.

[Forceinhand]

If it was that easy, don't you think immortality would've been discovered and announced ages ago?

[leahzrc]

it was discovered. Gold juice. we are low class to them

[genericname85]

no, we're getting old, cause our body is biologically primed to age.

[crazyymann]

nope. some molecular microbiologist reports that human body can repair dna damage of the cells daily around 50.000- 70.000 . but people who have deficient of some macro and micro food elements have no ability to repair this. so you think ur body is biologically primed to age. no no. its a myth.

i have also read a research about people who has old damaged cells have not enough strong immune systems. so viruses that infected to those damaged cells can not be killed and you have lifetime chronic inflamation. this is 2023 reasearch. I've shocked when i saw that. they even say if people had strong immune system, their cells would be
rejuvenated.

[genericname85]

@crazyymann the reality that litteray all people without exception age die shows that what you just said is fundamentally wrong.

[genericname85]

@crazyymann our body eplaces cells at a certain rate. that rate reduces over the course of somenes life and that's what we call aging. the body can in fact not repair "all" dna damage, cause if it could, cancer wouldn't exist.

[crazyymann]

you can not repair dna damage if your insulin level is not down. Many research says all the cancer types have a common point. its "high insulin".

wanna know the root of the dna damage? its chronic inflammation and at the same time you have no enough anti-oxidant to protect the healthy cells. the root problem of inflamation may be viruses or pathogens and weakened immune system i dont know this part. but most of cancer disease people has low body temperature which makes me think they have no enough strong T killer cells in their body which is important killing cancer cells. probably cancer people can't have low insulin because of this weakened immune system and increased cortisol

[crazyymann]

Dna damage makes people get old and shortens telomeres. most of the dna damage we get comes from elevated sugar levels, especally from stressful lifestyles. thus its important to have hobbies.

[ThrillSeeker01]

Right, there's always that saying, age is a state of mind

[Anonymous]

Getting old is like a reward for me
It shows that I MADE it this FAR, who would’ve known

[Anonymous]

Yes I agree with you age is just a number it's all about in our head...

[eagle1951]

yeah that's it

[HouseMoat]

Nope