Re:Mental speed is high until age sixty
by walnutclosefarm on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:10AM
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Actually, if you put them all on an effective weightlifting and diet program, they'd still decline. More slowly to be sure, but no amount of exercise and diet will eliminate the effects of age. Same is true of mental exercise. Animals, and mammals in particular, lack the cellular and metabolic level repair mechanisms that would make it possible for us to keep running at peak ability indefinitely. We have no organ level repair mechanisms at all, outside of, arguably, our livers. Time is coming for you.
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Re:Mental speed is high until age sixty
by logicchains on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:17AM
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>Actually, if you put them all on an effective weightlifting and diet program, they'd still decline
The point is the baseline will increase. Someone who strength trains seriously could easily be at least twice as strong at age 40 as somebody without any training. Even if they unavoidably lose 50% of their strength over the next 20 years, that just means at age 60 they'll have the same strength level as a 40 year old who never strength trained (and twice the strength of a 60 year old who never trained, assuming it decays linearly).
> Animals, and mammals in particular, lack the cellular and metabolic level repair mechanisms that would make it possible for us to keep running at peak ability indefinitely.
Given some of the research on anti-aging, it's not clear that this is the case.
Re:Mental speed is high until age sixty
by wing-_-nuts on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:09AM
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The question isn't 'will they decline' it's will they be better than they would otherwise be, and that is unequivocally yes.