Posted on 06/15/2025 2:56:06 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Getting older might seem like a slow, gradual process – but that's not always the case, research suggests.
In fact, if you wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and wonder if your aging somehow accelerated, you might not be imagining things.
According to a recent study into the molecular changes associated with aging, humans experience two drastic lurches forward, one at the average age of 44, and the other at the average age of 60.
"We're not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes," geneticist Michael Snyder of Stanford University explained in August 2024 when the study was published.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
I just turned 40 and I cal already tell life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it unrolls
Cal=can.
A means to edit would be nice.
I’m over 60 and quit aging (?) Other than that the vaxx is still trying to kil me.
If these are metabolic changes, for example, from menopause or andropause, you may be able to offset the aging effect by mitigating the changes, for example, by supplementing hormones.
I just turned 40 and I cal already tell life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it unrolls
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I’m 74 and know what you mean. I don’t remember 40 as getting old, though. 40 is a good age.
Happy belated birthday
After watching my kids grow up I would have to add that period from 13 to 17. Huge overnight acceleration difference than from birth to 13.
LOL.
Lol, and that seems to be true...
I still remember the day I needed to use reading glasses (at 45). Literally one day I did not need them to read fine print and the next day I did.
try it after 70. It gets really accelerated!
Ain’t it the truth. Time is relative, as Mr. Einstein said, and most of my relatives are dead...I was such a young pup at 40.
Thanks a bunch. I turn 70 in 3 weeks.
Mine really started at 74 or 75 as my back went to hell, limiting my life and forcing me to accept pain as a limiting way of life.
I did great through my 40’s.
sorry for the redundant redundancy
God bless you
Mileage is rough. Parents died together when I was young, one of a heart attack and the other of heartbreak, the house got burnt down by a stupid kid, mine and my siblings inheritances with it, really too much to detail here, but it’s been a nonstop shit storm since I was 16, with a few sparse commercial breaks of something resembling happiness. Dead nieces, dead nephews, dead sisters, brother has pancreatic cancer, only remaining sister just got her leg amputated due to diabetic complications, and on and on. Next week will be something else.
Thank you, I appreciate it
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