Aging, Genetics, and time after puberty

[Kory123]

So... I already posted a thread but why not post another?

After seeing a post about tanner stage 5..

once we are near adulthood, do we actually get shorter like older people in nursing homes/elderly age?

Does eating, sleeping, stress act as major factors we should concern about at a young age? :(:eek:

How can we prevent unhealthy aging, is it a genetic thing like asians stay young :mad::( (im just jelly at this possible stereotype). Or is it a genetic thing or maybe even a product thing for how celebrities pay for extreme treatments to prevent their age from being obvious for ex:

CHUCK NORRIS

[ska8er]

Why r u worrying bout this now?
Grow old first before u think of
staying younger.

[jamie_n5]

I think all of your questions are true and happen. Vanity is like a drug to some people. They just have to look perfect to themselves.

[Spooky_Eli]

you start to officially count down to natural death when you tern 25 i believe, ifv that.s what you mean, but i have reason there my be a cure for aging in as little as 10 years so..

[NewLeafsFan]

No, not unless you don't reach stage five until you are an old man

[Hermes]

The natural way of things is that the body's capabilties develop to a peak and then very gradually decline. At what age the peak occurs depends on the capability. Your eyesight, for example, probably has it's peak in mid childhood while your athletic ability will peak in late teens early twenties.

The getting shorter you refer to is, I believe, due to the cartilege discs in the spine becoming less elastic and I think that is very much a old person thing. I don't think you will be able to measure any of that effect in your teens or for many years afterwards. You are taller in the morning than in the evening, though, as the discs are gradually compressed during the day and expand again while your are asleep.

As for worrying about over doing things, some sports have as reputation for certain kinds of damage, for example football (soccer, not American football) has a reputation for dodgy knees and tennis for dodgy elbows but in generally you retain much more capability by using it than by not using it.

Finally, I am not convinced celebrities are particularly successful at remaining young looking. When someone has had a facelift such that her eyes are so wide open it looks like she is permanently surprised it may well have got rid of many of wrinkles but she still doesn't look like she is young - she looks like someone who has had a facelift.

Aging is partly genetic and partly how you look after yourself.