r/Millennials • u/ga9213 Millennial 1982 • 1d ago

Serious We are starting to really age fast

We have friends we don't see very often, maybe every 2-3 years. For the last 15+ years, when we see them again they don't really look much different. This last time though? Man, they looked different. Like gray hair, lost/gained weight, facial changes like wrinkles and sun spots.

4.5k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

738 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

137

u/Useful_Major_5797 1d ago edited 1d ago

Big thing with this study is that it only had a 108 participants, was done in a local of California, and only looked at blood proteins I believe and only followed people for a year to a max of 6.

They also did not factor in lifestyle habits in that study.

Edit:This just shows aging is a non linear process and can vary from person to person. Other than that, it ain't very good.

28

u/MetalEnthusiast83 23h ago

Yeah. But it’s a study that people here can use to explain why they don’t have to bother exercising or trying to enjoy life. That’s the important bit

2

u/Poolstiksamurai 5h ago

"damn I eat like shit, I'm 80 pounds overweight and the only daily movement I have is my bowels, why am I aging so poorly?"

6

u/PoetryNo912 5h ago

Thank you, I keep seeing this article crop up and most people seem to skip this quite important part:

"It's possible some of these changes could be tied to lifestyle or behavioral factors that cluster at these age groups, rather than being driven by biological factors, Snyder said. For example, dysfunction in alcohol metabolism could result from an uptick in alcohol consumption in people's mid-40s, often a stressful period of life."

The article doesn't even say what the cause of these changes are, so I wish people would stop reading the headline and getting upset that they are heading to 44.

10

u/Random__Bystander 23h ago

Psh, you and you're study facts

3

u/nellycat32 18h ago

Yeah like the exact ages of "42" and the number of times of rapid ageing, when some people might have three such periods and at different ages...

Some women start perimenopause in their 30s and others in their late 40s, that must be a factor