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The last of the What, Me Worry? category in the awesome Principles of ANF Poster Longevity Science: The French Salute. What, me worry? III: The French Salute Woe is me; g'bye cruel world. That's it; I'm totally bug.gered! I can't exercise, read Thoreau, garden, find hobbies, join a support group, volunteer, take up yoga, join an exercise class, talk to a therapist, enjoy local scenery, play video games, find any friends, learn any new skills, study Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, get into art appreciation, go around doing good deeds, or write anything but cynical and solipsistic posts on ANF. Which don’t help neither. All I am now is few old taste buds, but I'm also helpless when it comes to following any delicious low carb recipes. So, ain't gon' do a d.a.mn thing for myself. I'm just gon' sit here in my same old bathwater and cry until I reach that Pies and Pastry Shop In The Sky. Sixty-five to 79 is the happiest age group for adults, according to Office for National Statistics research. The survey of more than 300,000 adults across the UK found life satisfaction, happiness and feeling life was worthwhile all peaked in that age bracket, but declined in the over-80s. The survey of more than 300,000 adults across the UK found life satisfaction, happiness and feeling life was worthwhile all peaked in that age bracket, but declined in the over-80s. , , , The over-90 age group reported by far the lowest levels of feeling their life was worthwhile, even though their reported levels of happiness and life satisfaction were comparable to those in their 20s and 30s. --https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35471624 unhappy seniors . . . were twice as likely to develop diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes. . . . What makes seniors happy? Health diet and exercise are two important factors. WOT? Read more: The Way of Living: Being Happy and Healthy at an Old Age

Coincidentally, about 56 years ago, I aced one of the toughest uni swimming courses in the US. It may be, then, that I already had a State Certified Lifeguard certificate when you were still paddling around in an inflatable pool ring. Later, to my surprise, I did well in gymnastics and discovered it a much superior form of exercise and fitness. But I'm not a natural athlete. Did poorly in tennis, basketball, even softball, ha ha. What I currently do, anyone can do w/ training. Now, any movement involves resisting gravity. Many a member will proudly cite the concentric contraction of lifting a bottle of Chang from bar to lips, and then of course lowering it for the eccentric contraction. As part of our pettifoggery, continuing your learning, we'll have to note the aerodynamic resistance offered in the sport of running. 'Course, the real resistance is encountered on the hills. Have you ever run the annual Big Sur marathon? Then you know what hills can do to you. So your next step would be to discover the common definition of resistance training and so communicate more effectively on the subject. Perhaps google again and come up, oh, the first definition in a long list: Resistance training is a form of exercise intended to increase muscular strength and endurance. It involves exercising muscles using some form of resistance. This resistance could be weights, bands, or even your own bodyweight working against gravity. --What Is Resistance Training and Why Is it Important? Not so much working against air or water for increasing muscular strength.????Then you might discover why it's particularly important for seniors, what with all the loss of muscle mass, skeletal muscle, cognitive decline, insulin resistance, etc. Surprising how falls are such a leading cause of death in our target group. And you've not yet gotten to functional fitness, so we dunno if you know what that is; and you might explain how swimming helps, as would be practiced by the average member on this forum, who's likely not doing multiple twists from a high diving platform. Not to denigrate swimming overmuch, however. Done right, can be good for cardio in the outdated Ken Cooper sense and more. Water aerobics, great option for the frail; I once got a friend to enroll in such a course at his local Y. After enrolling, he didn't bother to go and went to meet Elvis at age 59. A number of old whales regularly paddle around in my building's pool. I dunno if it's just for the sensual pleasure of it before quaffing another Chang or whether they really think it's exercise.

Excellent! That hydrodynamic water resistance.???? Certainly better than nothing, esp for our arthritics. OH--constant dripping will wear away a stone, too. We done yet?

No problem. Our forum is a wonderful resource, no?

We need far more details to round out your description. See ‘A Description of the Morning’ by Jonathan Swift to see how it's done.

My workout will end with HIIT on a recumbent bike. Muscles do best what they're trained to do, and here a Thai trainer has trained a few of your neurons for you. Best you read up on the undeniable essential benefits of resistance exercise (not "physical activity"), esp for seniors, and the concept of functional fitness.

Bring it on. Just had my walk on the beach, good rays out there today. Gonna have a healthy lunch and then hit the gym for an intense full body workout.

I'm finding it enough.???? Consultations at pvt hsps don't cost all that much. Use the heavy artillery in the (good) gov't hsp of registration when needed.

A self-serving contradiction, as you're actually not being generous. No energy. What are you, intubated on your deathbed?

And something they would rather you avoid, too. Just hand over the money. All good.

One more: you get to watch.

In lesson 2 you'll learn they are by far the best at manipulating that clitoris themselves. Lesson 3 will be to learn your proper role in facilitation to ensure a mind-boggling successful result. Course finished.

to avoid the need for healthcare as long as possible. And that should best start in your 50s if not before Got that right Get on Thai SS before you're 60. We have a number of members here, however, who have an Exit Stage Left contingency plan. Meet Our King early and sit contentedly at His Blue Suede Shoes.

Toys, yes. And you can help with those. Happy wife.????

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. ― Samuel Johnson, Rasselas

Recently, in a discussion on a fitness-oriented Twitter feed about health/longevity gurus whose appearance hasn't aged well, Sinclair was mentioned as an example. FWIW, of course. Paleo guru Mark Sisson looks great, but he's always kept extremely fit (former athlete) and he's on TRT.

No. BTW, this #1 in the What, Me Worry? category of awesome ANF Poster Longevity Science: What, me worry? I: The Genes It’s all me genes. Git nekkid! But . . . high physical exercise cohort compared with community controls over more than 20 years showed that disability at age 80 years had been postponed by nearly 16 years while mortality had been postponed about 7 years in the exercise cohort as opposed to controls. A similar study . . . followed from age 69 to almost 90 years of age. The zero initial risk factor cohort postponed morbidity by 10 years and mortality by 3.3 years compared to high risk. The differences increased over time, occurred in all subgroups, and persisted after statistical adjustment. --“On the Compression of Morbidity: From 1980 to 2015 and Beyond.” Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Jan. 2016, pp. 507–24. www.sciencedirect.com, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-411596-5.00019-8. Compared to control animals showing a median survival time of 6.4 years, CR extended survival by 50%, reduced aging-associated diseases and preserved loss of brain white matter in several brain regions. However, CR accelerated loss of gray matter throughout much of the cerebrum. Up to five years of treatment, CR did not change the cognitive status in spatial and working memory tests or neuromuscular performances. --https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420603/ Human longevity seems more consistently linked to insulin sensitivity than to IGF-1 levels, and the effects of IGF-1 on human longevity are confounded by its inverse proportionality to insulin sensitivity (Vitale, Pellegrino, Vollery, & Hofland, 2019). --Fahy, Gregory M., et al. “Reversal of Epigenetic Aging and Immunosenescent Trends in Humans.” Aging Cell, vol. 18, no. 6, 2019, p. e13028. Wiley Online Library, doi:10.1111/acel.13028. It’s a mystery why our Genetics Voodoo Believers bother themselves seeing docs and gobbling all those meds. Should do no good. Why try to fight the Voodoo? Save yourself lots of time, bother, and money. So hypocritical, no? Mark Baker's advice: . . make sure you keep healthy, because health is your supreme asset. If you’re ill your life is f**ked. Most people don’t become ill for no reason; it’s the consequence of being a w.a.nker, not caring about their physical condition or what they eat. Your life is f**ked anyway because you’re going to die; but don’t accelerate the d.a.mn process! Leave that to the morons who blame their genetics or hormones for their illnesses. Keep strong, build muscle, face physical tests and challenges. --Gang Fit (Part 2) But "genes" as a cause is an illogical conclusion, since he specifically cited an article recommending a healthy lifestyle to preclude the need for all docs & meds. Exactly, very few have those "bad genes" but merely blame them. Hold that thought . . . hold . . . no, wait! Wait! Too late. No, good health doesn't alter your genes. True, centenarians are blessed with genes that confer a certain immunity from the usual baddies (to use shorthand) and so delay the onset of chronic disease. Nobody here knows they have those genes, and it's practically a certainty they don't, or even the superlative genes of The Relative. I'm not counting on them; it'd be foolish to do so. So the point of a healthy lifestyle is similarly to delay the onset, as much as possible, of chronic disease through behavior that compensates for lack of that immunity: consciously and purposefully avoiding the baddies and limiting their impact as much as possible manually, so to speak.

No. Surprised Japan even made to "low," actually. Only speaking in Thai is hardly the most important limitation of many in the Thai education system in general. On the other hand, other countries may speak only English, and mostly badly, yet everyone here thinks they have great education systems.???? Fortunately, Urdu is becoming quite popular in the UK among the more intelligent inhabitants, so some of the limitation there, with all those unintelligible, uncouth dialects (often heard in Thailand), is now disappearing.

Social Darwinism in operation. Wasn't there a question about this recently?

I watched Dr. Zhivago again not too long ago.

The article's making a point about medical tourism. Thais aren't really considered foreign medical tourists. COVID is a sort of red herring thrown in there for dramatic purposes and allow you to demonstrate your exceptional shrewdness. Krungthai Compass estimates that of the 8.9 million foreign tourists who have arrived in Thailand in 2022, a relatively high percentage were here to receive medical treatment. While it doesn't give numerical breakdowns, but it does offer this projection: The research center predicted the private hospital business will continue to expand by 19.8% YoY in 2023, which will help boost the country’s medical tourism business as well as total foreign patient revenue which, pre-Covid, accounted for about 30% of the total. All happy now? ????

Great! Bring on the hotties.

Good question. If so, it might pacify our querulous pedants.

Merely silly, or rather, stupid, on your part to think that's where the cars would be parked, since the article specifically says Bali Hai Pier.

Oh, just learn to abstract and infer.