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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
We think of aging in terms of increased risk of exceptional, cumulative, and chronic diseases. While that's true, both my own experience and watching my parents age is teaching me that aging is primarily about steadily declining ability to spring back from mundane things. A fall is nothing to a baby. It can be death to a geriatric. You can shrug off a cold at 25, but at 50 it will lay you low for a few days, and at 85 it might end up hospitalizing you. Weight is harder to take off. Small wounds heal more slowly. Basically any kind of recovery process takes longer, has more severe transients, and is less complete in the end.
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Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr
100%. A pithy statement that encompasses this: "Get fit to take the hit". Health is about getting better at taking hits as you age.
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