Aging Kiwis - Deterioration, hard to spell... no effort to do. Tell your story, ask advice and respect your elders god damnit.

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Poppavalyim Andropoff said:
but in reality your just squashing baby shit into jars
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Could you not add a couple drops of food coloring you'd use to color icing like three drops of green and a drop of yellow might get you a more appealing color? The next time Kiwis go on sale I may make some jam and report back.
 
PhoBingas said:
three drops of green and a drop of yellow might get you a more appealing color?
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Sure might
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UCantCCPMe said:
Here's big secret fellow old folks. Decrease stress. Learn to stop worrying about shit you cannot control and focus on what you can. Right now, at 41, I still have women thinking that I'm in my late 20s or early 30s cause I don't hold on to shit that causes me axiety to the best of my ability. Physically, I still feel 30, minimal health issues, good physique, dick still working and and its all because I refuse stress about everything. This modern world with 24 hour news and social media is creating a sickness that has left people anxietal, over-medicated, lethargic, lazy, fat and aging at a rapid pace. What most people need is to cut the chord, focus on themselves and let the world burn if it's going to.
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Weird. My life was nothing but stress yet at 30+ people still give me 5-7 years less. Guess, exercising and nutrition helps. Or I will suddenly start falling apart one day.
 
Juan But Not Forgotten said:
Weird. My life was nothing but stress yet at 30+ people still give me 5-7 years less. Guess, exercising and nutrition helps. Or I will suddenly start falling apart one day.
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The body interprets stress whether physical, mental or emotional in the same way, by releasing cortisol. Regular exercise, a balanced diet and adequate sleep contributes to hormone regulation and lower cortisol levels. So whatever stress you may be dealing witj in one aspect of life can be mitigated with proper balance in another.

I mean, good genetics don't hurt either.
 
Vriljami said:
If nothing in your body hurts when you turn 40, you're dead.
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I had no issues until 50 (a couple of years ago). And then shit got real. I had a very long bout of frozen shoulder (first one side then the other, lasted years) and still have adhesions and near-constant shoulder pain (it does improve somewhat with exercise, intense stretching, ROM exercises, regular light weights); in addition to the shoulder adhesions, I've got some cervical degeneration near the top of my spine, which adds to the fun; a loose ligament in one ankle (a forever thing) now demands a brace for any sustained active movement; my muscles atrophy quicker if I'm a lazy fuck; and my eyes have gone to shit. ...Most of these are minor annoyances - I'm not usually that bothered or inhibited by pain (except the frozen shoulder, which was excruciating), but they're to the point of being distracting or noticeable mostly daily.

Pee Cola said:
My eyesight - which was always a bit tenuous for distance - completely turned to shit in my late 40s. Now I need two pairs of glasses: one for driving/distance, the other for reading. I should probably get bifocals, but wearing those will make me feel even older than I already do.
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Always significantly nearsighted, I now need reading glasses constantly if wearing contacts (and my contacts are multi-focal!), and then I have 47 different strength distance glasses for when not wearing contacts, depending on whether I'm driving, working on the computer, watching TV, or just around the house, bc if I wear full-strength around the house or working, it's too much, plus then I can't see close-up. It's maddening.

The Skeksis Emperor said:
I got these deep naso-labial wrinkles almost overnight. I don't really mind wrinkles but these bug the hell out of me. I look permanently unhappy now.
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I don't have those, but lately my upper lids have fallen HARD. I have large eyes and they've typically been a best feature, but the crease is all fucked up now. :cringe: And my lips are thinner (my mom: "I don't know what happened...You always had such nice, full lips." Thanks, Mom!). Plumper everyday, and I've decided I'm not above getting a little filler one of these days.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
I take a lot of glucosamin/condroitin, that's a big help for joints.
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Thinking of adding that. You've felt a difference?
 
Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
Thinking of adding that. You've felt a difference?
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One weekend I ran out for a few days including a job event with heavy lifting and stairs, figured I can go just as hard and gut it out
By the end I felt half past dead and had my wife pick me up from work instead of biking home that day.
 
Juan But Not Forgotten said:
Not him, but yes, this with MSM and collagen made my joints feel like new.
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
One weekend I ran out for a few days including a job event with heavy lifting and stairs, figured I can go just as hard and gut it out
By the end I felt half past dead and had my wife pick me up from work instead of biking home that day.
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Y'all've sold me - got some on the way for tomorrow. I'd rather the gluco than taking pain reliever at the end of every day. And interestingly (to me), I don't feel joint or muscle pain/ stiffness after doing non-repetitive physical things - I've spent the last 3 weekends hand-hauling and spreading endless mulch , tree-trimming & hauling branches, digging holes, weeding, etc., and have had zero (extra) muscle or joint ache - which I shouldn't bc it's a lot but what I think any fairly fit person under 80 should be able to do comfortably. It's more the day-to-day. My neck is always stiff, and my traps burn and my shoulder cries mid-afternoon on days when I'm in the office at a desk - we have adjustable (any height up to standing) desks, adjustable monitors, and ergo chairs, but nothing helps. It's bad enough to wake me at night. . Thanks!
 
UCantCCPMe said:
Or you could just chill out.
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True, but also absolutely worthless advice because it doesn't tell the person suffering from stress and anxiety how. Control of the autonomous nervous system can be learned, but it requires a regular practice of a specific mental activity. If the average person could "just chill out", i. e. suppress sympathetic activity and enter a hypometabolic state, there wouldn't be any epidemics of hypertension, dyslipidemia and the plethora of mental diseases that plague modern man.
 
niggercattle said:
True, but also absolutely worthless advice because it doesn't tell the person suffering from stress and anxiety how. Control of the autonomous nervous system can be learned, but it requires a regular practice of a specific mental activity. If the average person could "just chill out", i. e. suppress sympathetic activity and enter a hypometabolic state, there wouldn't be any epidemics of hypertension, dyslipidemia and the plethora of mental diseases that plague modern man.
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I think you're a little deep in the weeds there homie. What I'm talking about is a mindset shift, something I think many people could do given the right perspective. Not to say it's perfect or that people still won't have the occasional worrying fit, it's a learning process, not a magic trick.

I don't control the world around me, only how I respond to it. I cross bridges when I get to them, not 20 miles before in my own mind. I do what I can to help myself and others but only what I can, I'm not a superhero, I'm not here to save the world, I'm just one person. When I stay calm, I think more clearly and can better handle any situation that comes my way with the kind of objective perspective that will keep me from making emotional or irrational decisions.
If someone does cause me stress, I take a little time, let the emotions process, then address the situation from a more solid place.

These are simple concepts, hard to master, but nobody is expecting perfection and like I said, it's a learning process. Now, if you enjoy being high strung, losing your shit over every little thing and driving yourself into madness, be my guest. Life is short and you're not guaranteed a full ride. I'm not going to waste mine worried about boogymen in the closet or monsters under the bed.
 
DumbDude43 said:
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This is pretty much me:


Except 31 was longer ago than I care to think about. Anyway, I managed to have surgery today and not die. So there's that I guess.

Oh, and the guy in my hospital room was just a few years older than me and had liver problems, a bad heart, and was getting evaluated to see if he had pancreatic cancer. Really helped me to put things into perspective...
 
Oh motherfucker...
It has been like 3 weeks when I hurt me little toe. Nail split. My shoes hurt to walk for a week, by the end of the week my calf had tightened up because I walked wrong.

Well toe healed, all fine. Yeah fuck that. Day by day for two weeks now calf has been tightening more and more. Hamstring starting to follow.
I think I need to go to fucking doctor, because of split nail 3 weeks ago.
 
Three weeks into a weird mild elbow injury. Massive pain the first week and it’s just felt like a weird strain since.

Can’t box or do weights. I’ve had injuries that have put me out before but not something like this which seems to refuse to heal.

Just going to train on it and hope that it goes away since it’s not mad painful anymore.
 
Drive-By Comment said:
I need to go to fucking doctor
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Well I fucking didn't. But at the gym I had gotten into my head to pick up some functional strength stuff. Well Farmer's walk specifically. This despite my calf, I decided to try if I could do it or if my calf murdered me.

Surprisingly after doing it 2 times at the gym, my calf felt much better. Like fuck me did walking with weights correct my walking or something, must be.
Well that was last week. This week I have not been to gym, but at work I had to take some running steps and jump... Yeah sometimes I have to do such thing at work... And pain made return.

Tonight or tomorrow morning more farmer's walk, fingers crossed.
And if that little shit tries to escape over fence next week, I will not run or jump. Someone else gets to do it or the little shit can make the escape.
 
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