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this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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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.
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