The facial bloating could be from medication such as corticosteroids or ACE inhibitors.

Taking the flight this early before more testing may also indicate that he is not well. It might also explain him leaving Amazon.

Or he's just been craving some greasy burgers recently. Jumping immediately to health issues is a bit much IMO

You see his outline a bit later in the video, still looking fit. I actually thought the same when watching the video. I saw similar features in the faces of multiple friends who needed regular cortisone intake.

If he wasn’t doing well the stress from the G forces of the flight would kill him off.

There’s an interesting trend I’ve seen where a lot of folks who were previously super health conscious, put on weight when they are in a relationship they enjoy.

Anyone have a study or article of this phenomenon?

The chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. We are machines that work to attract mates, reproduce, and rear young. Once one has achieved the goal of attracting a mate, there's little need to devote energy to courtship displays - though perhaps more need to reserve energy in case of hardship. I might be being a little reductive though :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

> We are machines that work to attract mates, reproduce, and rear young.

How would this be distinguished from people simply having the desire to orgasm which unintentionally causes reproduction? At least for males, I can see a case for the machine’s goal to spread the seed as far and wide as possible, so there need not be any biological imperative to stop at one mate.

> How would this be distinguished from people simply having the desire to orgasm which unintentionally causes reproduction?

That's reverse causality. Evolutionary fitness is a strong driver of human behavior. There's plenty of incidental behaviour, but in terms of baby making it's clear cut.

> so there need not be any biological imperative to stop at one mate.

It's more efficient when you consider humans have a long maturation time. Reproductive success is also greater when grandparents are involved with child rearing, implying that a strong family unit leads to better outcomes. Promiscuity is definitely favorable if the rearing duties can be foisted onto someone else, though paternity tests and prophylactics have changed the landscape somewhat.

There's a lot more to it, and much of what I've learnt is from an old Stanford lecture series by Robert Sapolsky called human behavioural biology. Worth a watch if you're interested

> That's reverse causality. Evolutionary fitness is a strong driver of human behavior. There's plenty of incidental behaviour, but in terms of baby making it's clear cut.

That does not seem to be consistent with declining birthrates in developed countries. By and large, the more freedom and self sufficiency women have, the lower the birth rate (not a scientific conclusion, but what I see so take it with a boulder of salt).

I often wonder if we went back in time and asked all the women who had 3, 4, 5+ children, how many of those were wanted pregnancies versus how many of those were due to “pressure” of some kind from the father or society.

> It's more efficient when you consider humans have a long maturation time. Reproductive success is also greater when grandparents are involved with child rearing, implying that a strong family unit leads to better outcomes.

I would also guess tribes that prioritize monogamous relationships with multiple generations cooperating with each other outlast tribes that do not. But I would also guess that the biological (or “machine” aspect of it) is for males to be promiscuous. The tribes that fight this biological urge by whatever means (even just keeping it hush hush so it allows for peace) would be more successful long term than those that do not?

> There's a lot more to it, and much of what I've learnt is from an old Stanford lecture series by Robert Sapolsky called human behavioural biology. Worth a watch if you're interested

I’ll check it out. Here’s a link for anyone else interested:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199

> That does not seem to be consistent with declining birthrates in developed countries. By and large, the more freedom and self sufficiency women have, the lower the birth rate

I have read this before and I think it's an accurate phenomenon. There's some amount of 'evolutionary warfare' between sexes. I think the biological mechanism for it is called 'imprinting'. Also women have preference for someone who will help with the cost of pregnancy (which can be fatal) and rearing, as for men, they might not include this in their calculus.

> I would also guess tribes that prioritize monogamous relationships with multiple generations cooperating with each other outlast tribes that do not.

The picture is, of course, complicated. Societies/tribes have varied between polygamy and monogamy, and a number of factors are involved, including culture. All better explained by that lecture series. Though keep in mind is over a decade old

Being fit serves many goals other than attracting a mate. I wouldn’t personally even put it in the top 3, although admittedly most people probably would.

Keeping fit permits a longer lifespan, which can be important for the evolutionary fitness of grand kids. Also, I'm being a bit facetious, I don't believe all our behavior neatly fits into evolutionary motivations, and the science doesn't claim such rigidity. It does, however, have startling explanatory power about a bunch of things we do. I'd suggest watching the lecture series in the sibling thread

Stress reduces weight, so that could be a factor.

Enjoying life with a partner includes fine dining and relaxing more (less sport).

I don’t think they put on more weight than people in a relationship they don’t enjoy. So the enjoyment factor seems irrelevant at best.

I think he looks fine. But maybe I'm just not used to how he usually looks. Others in this thread say the same as you.

It looks like he had some face procedures done

This was my thought too. Looks like some typical swelling from some sort of cosmetic procedure.

Would not be surprising given the divorce.

his shirt also seem "puffy" under hist shirt compared to how he usually looked.

I do not believe it's possible to decide whether he's swollen from corticosteroids, or because he's bulking up in a gym, he's just just eating more because he's happy or because he's sad.

I hope he's fine, time will tell.

That’s what I thought. It doesn’t move as I would expect it to, and I usually see that with Botox or whatever other plastic surgeries there are.

Also looks like he gained weight, at least in the face.

PS: It is disappointing when people use services that don’t let you skip back and forth in video.

Someone reuploaded it here, if you want to skip back and forth https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/nu98n7/jeff_bez...

Looks like he has put on some pandemic lockdown weight.

This is a picture from 2017:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#/media/File:Jeff_Be...

Doesn't really look that different?

Slightly bloated from pictures shared a year or two ago maybe, but he still looks very healthy for a 57 year old.

My guess is that he stopped working out and now retired he put on lots of weight. Hopefully not health issues.

Isn't facial bloating a common side effect to zero-g training? I wouldn't be surprised if he's been spending time flying parabolas.

It's fun, he's got the resources, and there's a relative goal on the near-term.

Here's a Youtube link for what I think is the same video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgZA2SzCc78

He’s always looked a bit strange like that, I don’t think it’s a recent change.

He’s getting older.

I thought the same, hope hes keeping well.

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