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A lot of younger people have no idea what aging actually looks and feels like, and the reasons behind it. That ignorance is so dangerous. If you don’t want to “be old,” you aren’t talking about a number of years. I have patients in their late 80s who could still handily beat me in a race—one couple still runs marathons together, in their late 80s—and I lost someone who was in her early 60s to COPD last year. What you want is not youth, it is health.

If you want to still be able to enjoy doing things in your 60s and 70s and 80s and even 90s, what you want to do, right now, is quit smoking, get some activity on a regular basis (a couple of walks a week is WAY better for you than nothing; increasing from 1 hour a day of cardio to 1.5 will buy you very little), and eat some plants. That’s it. No magic to it. No secret weird tricks. Don’t poison yourself, move around so your body doesn’t forget how, and eat plants.

If you have trouble moving around now because of mobility limitations, bad news: you still need to move around, not because it’s immoral not to, but because that’s still the best advice we have. I highly recommend looking up the Sit and Be Fit series; it is freely available and has exercises that can be done in a chair, which are suitable for people with limited mobility or poor balance. POTS sufferers, I’m looking at you.

If you have trouble eating plants because of dietary issues (they cause gas, etc.) or just because they’re bitter (super taster with texture issues here!), bad news. You still want to find a way to get some plants into your body on a regular basis. I know. It sucks. The only way I can do it is restaurants—they can make salads taste like food. I can also tolerate some bagged salads. On bad weeks, the OCD with contamination focus gets so bad I just can’t. However, canned beans always seem “safe,” and they taste a bit like candy, so they’re a good fallback.

If you smoke and you have tried quitting a million times and you’re just not ready to, bad news. You still need to quit. Your body needs you to try and keep trying. Your brain needs it, too. Damaging small blood vessels racks up cumulative damage over time that your body can start trying to reverse as soon as you quit. I know it’s insanely, absurdly addictive. You still need to.

You cannot rules lawyer your way past your body’s basic needs. It needs food, sleep, activity, and the absence of poison. Those are both small things and big asks. You cannot sustain a routine based on punishment, so don’t punish your body. Find ways to include these things that are enjoyable and rewarding instead. Experiment. There is no reason not to experiment—you don’t have to know instantly what’s going to work for you and what won’t, you just need to be willing to try things and make changes when things aren’t working for you.

You will still age. Your body will stop making collagen and elastin. Tissues you can see and tissues you can’t see will both sag. Cushioning tissues under your skin will get thinner. You’ll bruise more easily. Skin will tear more easily. Accumulated sun damage will start to show more and more. Joints will begin to show arthritis. Tendons and ligaments will get weaker and get injured more easily, as will muscles. Bones will lose mass and get easier to break. You’ll get tired more easily.

But you know what makes the difference between being dead, or as good as, in your 60s vs your 90s? Activity, plants, and quitting smoking. And don’t do meth. Saw a 58-year-old guy this week who is going to have a heart attack if he doesn’t quit whatever stimulant he’s on. I pretended to believe it was just the cigarettes, and maybe it is, but meth and cocaine will kill you quicker. Stop poisoning yourself.

Baby steps; take it one step at a time; you don’t need to have everything figured out right now. But you do need to be working on figuring things out.

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something about memories

#me just now: haha I'm gonna go on my blog and set the date to ten years ago to see what I was posting #*finds a comic that changed my brain chemistry and never stopped thinking about it since* oh. cool

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flingo

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Forgor to post chilchucks birthday art here!!! Ah so sorry

#WAHHH

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Shuro’s party 👹

https://x.com/bxnke/status/1790368090561429935?s=46

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#WHY AM I AN OUTLIER?#I am a black hair/black eyes marinette truther #outlier is not the right word. Not the Majority

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last weekend my friends and i went as dunmeshi to ren faire

#this is really cute

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if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality

#prev you joke but I don't think even most americans know a big chunk of oregon is desert

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When I was a kid I had a poster of Mei fishing on a tree branch, sitting next to Totoro. When I sat down to draw yesterday that old poster beamed into my brain and all I wanted to draw was my version. Except I thought this time Totoro should be fishing.

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sabertoothwalrus · 6 hours

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how it feels to come home from work at 8pm eat a huge portion of pork fried rice and immediately go beddy bye afterwards

#ive done literally exactly this before

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supporting palestinian armed resistance is a must. absolutely imperative. theres no halfway about being for a free palestine and freedom of palestinians. not fighting back is a death sentence and not supporting them fighting back is you siding with the oppressor but quietly & hoping you can wait it out until theyre all killed and displaced by israel so you can go back to not caring again. fuck all that. fuck everyone who condemns people fighting back against usamerican imperialism and its rotten settler colonial extensions in the world. fascism will fail and palestine will be free inshAllah

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sabertoothwalrus · 7 hours

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Your honor I love them…

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saw some debate over the english title translation of dungeon meshi and I am here to offer you this alternative

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another thing i love about Kabru is that he turned out kind.

he was the sole survivor of a tragic event, his family dead and home destroyed, and even before that his mom’s in-laws tried to kill him bc of his weird eyes so his mom had to run away…

all that trauma could’ve understandably sent him down a villain arc what with how unfair it all was, but instead here he is caring about others and trying to protect them against a similar fate

#I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!!!

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sabertoothwalrus · 8 hours

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We need more butch4butch cowboy media

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Okay, I said I wasn’t gonna spend too much time on twitter but oh my god!?!!! This is so COOL!?? He looks amazing, omg…!

I’m glad they gave the actor another hairstyle because every black person is absolutely tired of the Killmonger mohawk/comb over 😭!!! One day, we will be free- but anyway, it looks like the name of the anime is “Kawagoe Boys Sing!”

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