• isekaihero@ani.social
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    6 days ago

    I already have gray hair. I’m going to look like an old man at 50 and all the other millenials will look like they’re 30.

  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    It really does make a huge difference. My friend’s parents are the same age and are relatively young, in their early 50s. His mom smokes, and looks even worse than the left image, while his dad isn’t even in great shape but easily looks 10 years younger than her at a minimum.

    I also know someone who stopped smoking and after a year or two she looked significantly younger, it was kind of crazy. Didn’t even really make any other significant lifestyle changes tbh.

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      , while his dad isn’t even in great shape

      Surprisingly, higher bodyfat can help with that. Fills out the wrinkles.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      It definitely is. Today’s environmental problems are certainly bad, but it’s nothing compared to 30 or 40 years ago.

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        Today’s environmental problems are certainly bad, but it’s nothing compared to 30 or 40 years ago.

        What we lack in degree, we make up for in volume. “Carbon emissions aren’t nearly so bad as sulfur emissions” is technically true, right up until you’re living in a village that’s crushed by a glacier.

        The global scale of industry is so much larger than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Even if you want to talk about microplastics, we’re creating such an enormous waste disposal crisis that it’s having cumulative effects at scale. The Holocene Extinction has not abated in the last generation. It’s accelerating.

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        Ehh. I don’t think we’ve really seen the bottom of the microplastics global problem. For all we know, the global reproduction rate dropping in developed countries is due to side effects of plastics in our brains and reproductive organs. Lead might be more obvious and immediate, relatively speaking, but we’ve not studied enough the effects of our plastic world on our bodies.

        • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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          I wonder if we are going to be able to truly study the effects of plastic. We’ll surely be able to point at certain effects, but like porn, you just won’t be able to find people who can be the control group.

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          6 days ago

          Sure. But still better than lead. Just look at the current state of US politics. A lot of it is due to lead poisoning.

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    6 days ago

    Your wife is right.

    Most of the signs of aging are really just the cumulative effects of repeated skin damage, and the two most common causes of that damage are sun exposure and smoking.

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      I was just talking about this in another thread!

      I avoid the sun at all costs but my slightly older sister used to burn on purpose to get a tan every summer. I don’t smoke, she does. She has a lot of very deep wrinkles- I have none.

      Worlds of difference.

    • Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      Also not giving a fuck about the world around you. Climate change? Guess I’ll drink more water if it gets hot. War? Nice, I get to pick new recipes depending on what the grocers has available. Famine? Yay, I get to make more friends with the refugees.