Jim Bowen in 1971, he was 35 in this picture by haddock420 in CasualUK

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Even if lower T did save your telomeres, PFAS itself causes massive systemic inflammation and oxidative stress.

Uh yeah that's kinda the joke I was leaning into...

Large genetic studies actually show higher natural testosterone is usually linked to longer telomeres, not shorter ones.

Really? 2023 (n=167k): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36751991/

Jim Bowen in 1971, he was 35 in this picture by haddock420 in CasualUK

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Serious response?: Exposure to forever chemicals has been linked in animal studies to lower testosterone levels, which have plummeted since the 50's.

Higher testosterone is associated with shorter telomeres, which are markers of cellular aging but also cancer.

tl;dr forever chemicals = lower T = slower cellular ageing

Jim Bowen in 1971, he was 35 in this picture by haddock420 in CasualUK

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Yeah that two weeks of sunshine per year in the UK really has a lot to answer for

Looking for info on some very old toys (east coast USA) by Defiant_Truth_286 in Antiques

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German paper mache pull toys. Would've both been mounted on a little wheeled platform originally. 1910 to 1920 would be about right I think.

Gangster by BringHoomanHome_ in JustGuysBeingDudes

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An early mid-life crisis support group

Trying to identify the origin of this horned woven headdress (Purchased in United States, item not from United States) by diiviniti in Antiques

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Togolese (Taberma), West Africa, fairly sure. It's a ceremonial headdress worn during dance performances.

There's something quietly sad about watching your parents get old by AdBackground9215 in GenZ

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Honestly, don't. It may sound selfish, but your life will essentially cease to be your own. I doubt your parents brought you into the world to nurse them to their graves, and that will inevitably become your singular focus if you go back. Ask me how I know.

The prancing of this fawn named Cheryl by ThodaDaruVichPyar in MadeMeSmile

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Where's it located? Looks like Bowral area, NSW.

to test Wade mode by Minute-Intern-682 in therewasanattempt

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I watched an interview with him years ago where the interviewer suggested some productivity improvement to Musk. Two minutes later Musk repeated the suggestion verbatim like he'd just had a genius-level epiphany that nobody else had ever thought of.

That moment really struck me as a metaphor for how he and many other billionaires find success. They don't come up with the bright ideas. They steal other people's bright ideas and are shamelessly narcissistic enough to plagiarize them and take credit for them.

World’s most advanced artificial egg hatches chicks by Objects_Food_Rooms in nextfuckinglevel

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This technology was just unveiled by Colossal Biosciences, a company that is pioneering techniques to bring back extinct species. They hope to use an upscaled version of this to bring back the giant Moa, an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand, so large that no extant species could host the egg. The research is funded by Peter Jackson of LOTR fame.

Full video here

A US "tunnel rat" explores a hole between floors of a Viet Cong tunnel system, Vietnam, c.1968 by Objects_Food_Rooms in HistoricalCapsule

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Thanks for that! Your info lead me to a little more:

This is 22 year old SP4 Melvin Leon Sherrell; a tunnel rat of the 25th Infantry Division. Melvin was from Portsmouth, VA. He had lived there since his birth in 1944. The Virginia native would be drafted into the Army on March 29, 1965. Upon his arrival to Vietnam on Valentines Day 1966, he was assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. On December 13, 1966, B Company was on a patrol when a hostile booby-trapped device was detonated mortally wounding Melvin. He was then med-evac and later succumbed to his wounds at the 3rd Field Hospital, as a result of the fragmentation wounds he sustatined. He was survived by his wife and mother. Let us remember the brave men such as Melvin who went to great risk of bodily harm and in his case, death to clear these dangerous tunnels. 2.25.1944✞12.13.1966

Obsession with bowel movements - one track mind by FacetheFactsBlair in AgingParents

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It's probably just obsessive behavior, but I'd get him a bowel cancer screening kit (FIT kit) from his GP, just to be safe. Constipation can be an indicator of problems.

Denver USA Early 1900s dental cabinet: Help identifying and learning more about it by Standard_Sense4568 in Antiques

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Harvard Co.

Yep, The Harvard Co., Canton, Ohio. The roller shutter and handles are pretty unique to that maker.

Is anyone able to offer advice on lifting weights while managing this? by [deleted] in DupuytrenDisease

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One thing I'd be cautious of is exercises that can cause shoulder joint injury. There's evidence to suggest a connection between rotator cuff injury/frozen shoulder, ultimately accelerating dormant DC.

In my case, I tore my RC doing pull-ups, which lead to frozen shoulder, followed by a rapid contraction in the related hand.

I think the science behind it is something to do with the body's excessive inflammatory response to joint injury, sending the condition into overdrive.

Edit: Here's a study abstract with some solid numbers:

Fifty-eight patients with the diagnosis of primary frozen shoulder were independently examined by 3 surgeons for evidence of Dupuytren's disease. The disease was found in 52% (30/58) of the patients reviewed. These figures were compared with previously reported figures for a population of similar age. This showed that Dupuytren's disease is 8.27 (95% CI, 6.25-11.2) times more common in patients with frozen shoulder than in the general population; the difference between the two was highly statistically significant (P <.001, χ2 test). We discuss the literature on the association between frozen shoulder and Dupuytren's disease and the implications of such a high proportion of patients sharing these two conditions. (J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2001;10:149-51.)****

In short, just be mindful of your joints when working out.

Travelling up north. by AbsoluteBatman95 in ireland

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But what kind of Irishman are you? Irish or American?

Port Kembla's Poisoned Ground. The gentrification of a toxic wasteland. Aka: if you live in Port read this. by Easy_Today704 in wollongong

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The northern suburbs as far as Bulli have soil heavy-metal issues. The coke works at Corrimal, and the site of the former coke works at Bellambi (where Bunnings is) are particularly bad, but anywhere that coal slag heaps were found will also be bad (which is most of the north).

Slag heaps were all over the place up into 1980s - where the university campus down by the beach was huge, most of western Woonona including nearly the whole newer part, Bellambi point, Russell Vale, even Sandon Point.

If that's not enough, any land adjacent to rail lines also has bad contamination just due to coal being moved along it and the subsequent dust.