The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Bear in mind that he is only 47 years old. We will just have to wait about 30 years when he would reach the average American male lifespan and see just how much of his claims actually pan out. I remain skeptical; something's very suss about this dude from the start.
I do find it amusing that the oldest verified person indulged in the likes of dark chocolate, port wine and cigarrettes.
There’s a pretty persuasive theory that Calment was actually her daughter impersonating her, but in either case she still lived a very long life.
It seems to me obvious that each of us have a natural life expectancy that is probably decided before and during birth and possibly to some extent in early childhood. We can reduce this by poor luck or by destroying ourselves by becoming alcoholics, drug addicts, taking unnecessary risks, being exposed to toxic substances, but we can’t increase it.
If your destiny is to die at 65 or 70 for genetic reasons there’s probably nothing you can do. If your destiny is to die at 103 then all you need to do is have some luck (not die in a war, accident, get exposed to a mountain of asbestos etc) and practice the most basic self care - like not getting ridiculously obese - and you will meet that expectancy.
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