44 & 60

[Jolly]

https://www.foxnews.com/health/aging-speeds-massively-two-points-lifetime-stanford-study-finds-abrupt-changes?dicbo=v2-kVb5VWz

[jon-nyc]

I’d be curious how people here relate this broad averages with their own experience. I saw quite a decline in my early 40s but I’m a special case in that regard. Advancing lung disease overwhelmed whatever ‘normal’ decline I might have experienced.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in 44 & 60:

I’d be curious how people here relate this broad averages with their own experience. I saw quite a decline in my early 40s but I’m a special case in that regard. Advancing lung disease overwhelmed whatever ‘normal’ decline I might have experienced.

I think it's fairly true, as a general rule. Even most professional athletes show marked shifts in ability in their mid-thirties and the person who can still compete at 40 is a rare bird. I know that as I turned 40, I just didn't have the energy or stamina I had when I was younger.

Until almost 60, I was ten feet tall and bulletproof. From 1980 until 2017, I took 3 sick days off from work. Since then, things have gone downhill and I've had a couple of serious problems with more niggling, chronic ailments.

Which stands to reason, I reckon. Most older folks don't die from a single, catastrophic disease, but eventually succumb to several things being stacked up, until we get to the proverbial straw. I think we just wear out.

I don't know how many people have told me not long before they died, just how worn out and tired they were.

How to stay younger? I think we're on the right road... Genetics play a huge part, along with nutrition and exercise.