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Cheap: SUN fitness Buakao Otherwise, https://pattayasanook.com/fitness-centers-and-gyms-pattaya/
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Such Victorianism here. Best thing to do is bring her along, and together they could choose a suitable lady for an exciting threesome. All the jealousy disappears when she knows she's getting in on the action too. Trust me. Oh, spend some time in an orientation session first. Just massages, you know. Yeah, put some spice in all these old marriages. Pattaya provides.
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That's what I think, too. I had that happen on my PC for a time then it gave up and went away. Autoruns: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns Be sure to look at the scheduled tasks and see if you can find some correlation there, too. You can disable stuff using this program if you run it as Admin.
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Good post, @Walker88, spot on. Fairly recent study: Caloric restriction extends life span mostly by reducing excess mortality due to obesity. •Most pharmacologic interventions to slow aging, including resveratrol, rapamycin, NAD + and metformin, also cause weight loss. •Dietary restriction and weight loss is beneficial only for obese subjects. •Investigating mechanisms of caloric restriction will not help prevent or slow aging in healthy weight humans. --Rodent diet aids and the fallacy of caloric restriction Many do believe that fasting may have benefits beyond those of mere weight loss. Mikhail V. Blagosklonny, true researcher, gets buzz. I read his Twitter feed sometimes. Big on rapamycin.
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When you got nothing else, work on the member's username or avatar. Now you may wish to broaden your musical horizon by listening to genres other than your old cartoon themes, though you may also still be into Lawrence Welk. Quite a lot of good stuff was written in later years for more mature, hip audiences. Big Star created a "seminal body of work that never stopped inspiring succeeding generations", in the words of Rolling Stone,[1] as the "quintessential American power pop band", and "one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll".[2] Three of Big Star's studio albums are included in the Rolling Stone's list of the Top 500 Albums of All-Time. --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star I've always wondered whether Michael Steele's cover of "September Gurls" in The Bangles meant she's bi. She ain't tellin'. I dunno QuickDraw McGraw, was never a big fan of cartoons except as little kid of course. Later I did watch Rocky & Bullwinkle, a bit of The Jetsons when it happened to come on while my girlfriend was getting ready for a date, some Flintstones. Oh, a bit of Dudley Do-Right. Fortunate, as I'm able to recognize and call out our Dudley Do-Rights on the forum. Back on topic, today P. D. Mangan tweeted out: Primary aging: the unavoidable process that leads to higher risk of death as time passes. Secondary aging: the completely avoidable process caused by eating garbage food, being sedentary, and body fat gain that leads to dying before your time. And I see Peter Attia's coming out with a new book on March 28: Which I'll take a look at if it's to be found somewhere at a significant discount.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2022)
BigStar replied to CharlieH's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Parts of this are quite good, biographical footage from his travels, some of the concert footage. Lots of forgettable Bowie ramblings, annoying dated "art" collages to elevate more obscure and spurious musical attempts, and a big emphasis on the androgyny, as one might expect these days, that many of us might prefer forgotten and must sit through patiently. Didn't know he also came out with so much schlock. Very much a showman, but great when at his best. The greatness of "Heroes," for example, is undeniable in the genre, IMO. For Bowie fans only and once will be enough. I did like David Bowie: The Last Five Years. -
That'll do. Congrats!
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OK, how about a high percentage????? Look around. Very few, even in this selective age-related thread, are aiming for a long life. The ideal here is almost always a short but happy life. Ideally, it should end during a bonk, with a smile on one's face. Haven't seen much evidence for the supposed smile, but such is rationalization. The main reason lies in #1 of the mighty Principles of ANF Poster Longevity Science: 1. Sour Grapes, or the Bedsit Paradigm Live longer, spend more years miserable in the bedsit Ironically, it helps ensure the earlier onset of chronic disease, a longer period of suffering with chronic disease in proportion to total lifespan, an earlier admission to the nursing home, and again quite possibly a longer period of time there in proportion to total lifespan.???? Besides this, we have the overlapping What, Me Worry? Principles to absolve responsibility. I dunno why Believers don't let the Voodoo work rather than trying to thwart it through dependence on the medical and pharmaceutical industries. Seems contradictory, don't it? I: Genes It’s all me genes. Git nekkid! II: Fate It’s all me fate. Might be hit by a lorry tomorrow. Git nekkid! III: The French Salute Woe is me; g'bye cruel world.
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Any one doing the OMAD diet ( One Meal a Day )
BigStar replied to MrScratch's topic in I'm Too Fat Forum
The key aspect of our study is that we did not reduce the portion size of meals but lowered their caloric content by including potatoes. OH. Yep. reducing caloric intake does work. Hence Twinkies worked in the so-called Twinkie diet. -
Funny. Here I can agree with our Thainess experts.
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What's unacceptable about a credit/debit card?
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Finally. A number of members have probably been waiting for #5 in the Principles of ANF Poster Longevity Science. (It's all been well-researched over the years by our ace Longevity Experts.) 5. Stress Dieting or exercising causes stress. Stress means suffering and premature death. A pillar of ANF Poster Longevity Science and one of our most disingenuous. 'Nuff said! ‘Course in real studies, stress really refers to chronic severe work/relationship stress, not foregoing an ice cream cone or lifting a dumbbell. For example, Work stress and risk of death in men and women with and without cardiometabolic disease: a multicohort study. And a healthier diet and exercise, meditation perhaps, are actually recommended for reducing stress. WOT??? Good thing our members never suffer any relationship stress with their Thai women. In fact, Thai wives/girlfriends and their families are just the greatest stress reducers, no? However, we gon’ conveniently pretend the science means the exact opposite, heh. Ergo, simply avoid the invented stress of something we’re too lazy to try--and do something fun instead! Simple, innit? For proof, look no further than fun related in the Health forum. There members are constantly posting about what fun they’re having clawing after docs, hospitals, meds, and surgeries, sitting in waiting rooms, worrying about payment and insurance, recovering, fighting the effects of chronic disease, and suffering pain and disability. Whee! That ain’t no stress! And thank god it’s not boring. Boredom, you see, is one of our most dreadful kinds of stress; the fun and excitement in our lives continue non-stop without interruption. We're all just havin' so much fun that we just ain’t ever gon’ believe anyone could learn to replace the love of an ice cream cone with love of something healthier. We've never tried it, of course, but we know. But anyway, as noted, we’re loving our docs and meds and carrying around big pregnant bellies. And more! In the Health forum our members all affirm that financially helping out all the impoverished docs, pharmacies, and hospitals is also extremely relaxing and satisfying. One can never be bored studying over a long itemized hospital bill! This, although all Posters confess themselves ready to Depart at just any time, having already enjoyed a happy and exciting life with their beer, pies, pastries, recliner and TV. Who needs both their legs or eyesight anyway? Long as you don’t diet & exercise, you’re happy. Patients needs to be educated on the fact that stress is literally a willpower deficiency through involuntary blood flow & hormonal changes and if they don’t have defenses in place to defend their lifestyle, they will likely regress to what’s easy and available. --https://twitter.com/DoctorTro/status/1415481336610033667
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Thank you for sharing. We'll all make a note of that and keep it in mind. Though I've always been conscious of the benefits of staying fit, years ago a vid on theory by Peter Attia oriented my thinking towards longevity and the compression of morbidity. First person to make the round-trip swim between Maui and Lanai, BTW. In later years he's been too influenced by the profit motive, so isn't as credible as he once was, IMO. Still, excellent. One point of special relevance here is not to be smug about those fasting glucose and HbA1c numbers.. By the time they exceed normal range, damage has already been done, and you're in a world of work getting them down. Get an OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test) and see what that says. Anyway, the battle to compress morbidity's got to be fought on a number of fronts. I try to hit as many as I can within my limited means and abilities while following a rational approach. I try to optimize expense, time, and results/effort expended. So I happen to like creatine as a dietary supplement without regard to my boringly normal level of creatinine. The benefits afforded to older adults through creatine ingestion are substantial, can improve quality of life, and ultimately may reduce the disease burden associated with sarcopenia and cognitive dysfunction. --https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21394604/ While often viewed as a performance enhancement supplement for athletes, creatine continues to demonstrate exciting new anti-aging benefits for older adults, including fighting muscle loss, improving cognition, and modulating inflammation. --Anti-Aging Benefits of Creatine Sufficient credible info out there. Doing computer tech support for seniors in cognitive decline, notably one w/ growing AD, not to mention reading posts on the forum from the seemingly cognitively impaired, has helped raise my consciousness of the issue. I also make food choices that may be helpful--Berries, Tea and Other Foods That Slow Mental Decline--as they work with a low carb diet.
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logic in general and everywhere in the world
BigStar replied to jwest10's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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QED! Again yourself. We can do this for pages and pages. If you had something of any relevance, a case to make, you'd post the evidence, as invited in good faith. All you got, then, is a childish pretense to superior knowledge arising from envy and sour grapes. And ooh--that scary music!???? Boo! Since you're just trolling, you may soon need a little attitude adjustment from our mods. Enough with the time and webspace wasting.
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I've got his book and regularly read references to him online. He's quite an expert and a big name. His book offers a lot of futurism and tantalizing research done on cells and mice, mostly. Retreads a lot of common ground. Takes a number of supplements and has financial interests in companies selling at least some of his supplements. A number of them are often mentioned on fitness sites. Creatine is a notable one he misses. Then he degenerates into a SJW and wastes a lot of space pandering for book sales I suppose. Also panders to the vegetarian crowd a bit, out of date and wrong re: red meat, eggs, even processed meat. Standard stuff. Very interesting, or maybe 100 pages are, and in the end not that useful if you want some hard evidence backed by human studies. The vast majority of people should just eat a healthy diet, maintain a healthy weight, and exercise, not count on any magic supplements. Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw did all this in 1983 with Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach. In retrospect, mostly nonsense. Made a ton of money, still hawk supplements, and they can afford the best of medical care. I think Durk got fat then managed to slim down. They both look a little better than their ages--Sandy's obviously had a face lift--but anyone can do that w/o spending a fortune on supplements of various kinds. Not that they're all necessarily bad. I take creatine, for example, among just a few others. So this isn't an anti-supplement rant.
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Oh, you gon' keep those numbers a secret, heh. But I bet you and your docs know them, and that's how you know what meds to take and their dosages. We had one old fart not long ago preening himself on his "normal" blood pressure and how "he'd never been to a hospital." Ha. Normal meant taking a handful of meds--prescribed at a hospital, of course. Then you'll need to point me towards the sources of your superior education, in the spirit of forum helpfulness. I'm just totally lost, man. And you had to go play that scary music, too! ???? Ooh! Got me ALL worried.???? Yep, medical checkups are a good thing, unless you're an idiot. What, Me Worry? is one of the ANF Poster Longevity Principles, remember. My checkups and scans tell me I need no meds, the docs agree, and so I (cough) see no reason to take any.???? Scientific studies, fitness trainers who walk the walk, highly educated writers on nutrition--even a large number of credible anecdotes on a subject can be given some credence, I think, when there's some additional rational backing. I'm not opposed to trying different things I read about sometimes. Mostly, though, I go by how I feel, and I feel great, fit, lean, easily able to cope with tasks coming my way. And I look about 10 years younger than my real age. I should stop doing what I've been doing for decades and get educated????, since you done gone and played that scary music?
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Oh no! Can I make things clearer for you?
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Swiss guy in my building lived to about 95 with the loveliest caretaker you can imagine. SO nice. I hope he left her well off.
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I don't see a danger of either. For the education of the forum, please tell us the blood markers and other signs that would indicate risk of a heart attack and indeed that correlate with mortality risk. I watch mine pretty closely and would be happy to compare with yours.
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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
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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.
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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?