I I don’t believe that aging is linear. I think there will be a long period of stagnation and then everything will collapse at once. I realized this at the end of my miserable 31st year, when I looked in the mirror and didn’t notice the sad gray ghost staring back at me. One day I swore I was young, had a functioning musculoskeletal system, and was reasonably wet. Next my face collapsed and soon so did my knees (yes, it was a fun year). French has a word for this kind of rapid aging. Prendre en Cou de VieuxThis feels appropriate. Because I lived in France during the period of that first precipitous decline, and it was at least partly due to long-term exposure to the angry harshness of Parisian life.
Anyway, science is now catching up. Earlier this year, researchers identified two “peaks” of aging at ages 44 and 60. new paper We show that there are three peaks in brain aging. At age 58, there are changes in proteins associated with wound healing, metabolism, and mental health. At the age of 70, it is a brain disease associated with aging. And at age 78, immune and inflammation-related proteins are affected.
This confirmation of my hunch almost makes up for my recent unscheduled time coup d’etatThe song, like Kendrick’s new album, features his sudden worsening of varicose veins, bunions, and gum problems, and it annoyed him so much that he had a fight with his dental hygienist last week. A lot of fun work came out of Tombola’s physical decline.
But what to do with this new knowledge? Why not sit around and wait for things to fall apart on schedule? I think the sensible answer is that preventive testing could become more targeted. But what if science gives us some good news? Perhaps it’s already in the form of that. bell curve of happiness (This shows that we are still going strong after 50). But in 2025, we want to be able to segment it further. For example, we want to know exactly when we will reach that legendary moment when we stop caring about what people think of us. I keep hearing about this blessed release, but when exactly will it come? Looking forward to it will be a nice distraction from the bunions.
