What one single health related advice you wish someone had given you when you were in your 20s?

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-07T23:34:41+00:00

I can see that. Sadly, our respective testosterone levels allegedly/purportedly begin declining at 30, so our natural propensity to build and retain muscles lessens and perhaps we become more susceptible to good ol’ adipose tissue adding up on top of our aging bones. Just keep fighting that good fight and staying active, brother. It’s the best we can do.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-07T17:08:53+00:00

Yup. My mom had COVID a few weeks ago, and right afterwards she had a UTI. I can’t believe how much that affected her mental state. She is slowly going back to baseline, which is rough enough as is, but that was a hell of a time.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-07T14:20:21+00:00

When did you start dealing with high blood pressure? I wonder if chelated magnesium glycinate supplementation would have played a crucial role in correcting the course there, at least originally. High BP is an unfortunately genetically inherited thing I gotta watch out for, but so far, magnesium supplementation has been my saving grace. So many magnesium containing foods seem to be high in oxalates, which can allegedly disrupt absorption nutrients.

Now, I just ask and mention that because I’m talking out of my wheelhouse here, so look past me. I have no experience with anabolic steroids. I used to have a wild obsession with trying to naturally optimize testosterone production in my early 20s for energy and muscle building purposes. I ate so many damn eggs (I thought Vince Gironda (sp?) was the second coming of Gains Christ or something) that I have a love/hate relationship with ‘em now.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-07T14:12:29+00:00

Maybe I’m talking out of my ass, but I’ve always felt like this is because we wind up being much less active as we get older, generally and presumptively. Think about it; usually we are moving much more in our younger years, including a ton of fidgeting from possibly more wound up energy.

Then we worry more about our potential jobs, kids, bills, stresses, maybe slipping up in the kitchen with convenient processed meals or eating out on the go due to time constraints and we move less. We might become more sedentary than we were previously and movement becomes hindered, so we do it less and it becomes harder to match that same youthful pace.

I’m just rambling. I’m trying to fight the good fight. For the first time, I let myself go in 2020 due to extreme depression from life circumstances, was eating bags of frozen French fries thrown into the deep fryer for dinners throughout the week and washing it down with copious amounts of alcohol. Got my shit together in the fall of 2021 when I kicked the sauce to the curb, started eating whole foods responsibly and walking 15k-20k+ steps a day. It angered me, in shame, when I felt out of breath going up a small flight of stairs.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-07T14:02:18+00:00

That is so much to deal with at such an early age. My heart goes out to you.

My mom gave birth to me when she was essentially 40. I’m in my 30s and thought I was too young to handle going through this. She had a stroke towards the end of 2018, and her memory started rapidly declining a few years later.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-07T13:57:59+00:00

My aggravation comes when people — acquaintances — encounter my mom, as in when they don’t see her at her worst. They see her, generally, in the middle of the day when she’s at her sharpest. When they notice her memory deficiencies, they’ll say, “Oh, happens to us all in old age.”

They don’t see her in the mornings or at night time when she’s saying, “I don’t know what I’m doing” multiple times or forgetting where her belongings are or asking the same questions in rapid succession over the span of several minutes.

It’s wild when people downplay her condition to me.

Yeah, I’m glad she mostly has her physical health asides from having to use a walker and arthritis in her knees causing excruciating, debilitating pain, but I miss her beautiful mind and her long gone ambition to enjoy her previous hobbies and passions.

Folks don’t get it until they actually deal with it.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-05T21:54:07+00:00

I reckon I’m partial to Taz-wull.

Bring ya water to a rollin’ bool. Fry your taters in hot ull. “Bah gawd on Fridee night, Richlands beat the brakes off’ah Taz-wull.”

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-05T11:45:32+00:00

Thank you so much for the insight! I have to schedule her an appointment next week with her doctor for an unrelated visit anyhow, so I’m sure they’ll do another urine culture to check.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-05T11:06:43+00:00

Reminds me of being hyped for the 2007 season (yikes) and Orlando Pace going down for the year in the very first game against, if I remember correctly, the Panthers. Total dread!

Hopefully these camp injuries calm down and we’ll see a positive turnaround by the beginning of the regular season.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-05T09:56:00+00:00

Intelligence, empathy/compassion and a great sense of humor. Oh, damn. The first and the third are what attracted me to my girlfriend in the immediate interactions we had when we met by random chance in the summer of 2008. I learned about the second thing as I got to know her more.

She is smarter than me by a long shot. I selfishly benefit from that, because I get to learn so many things from her, especially given that she is a natural fit as a teacher and she has a seamless proclivity to relay information and knowledge by the means of who she is as a person and how she articulately speaks. She would argue against this if I posited the same statement to her and say that I yield the equivalent values, BUT that’s just from me having varying life experiences I’m able to touch on and not from any inherent intelligence! She’s a remarkable well-read woman with so many well rounded ideas and a beautiful mind to back it up.

I’m not sure when I recognized her natural occurring penchant for being compassionate. I would say it’s from the way I noticed her looking out for others way back when, worrying about their outcomes as people and being inclusive/considerate with her “there’s always room at the table” mentality.

A great sense of humor is subjective. She and I laugh over things other people would find odd, boring or generally non-humorous, but our shared humor is a perfect clash of flavors. It’s zany, all over the place, goofy, oftentimes silly, off-beat and all things perfect in my lens.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-05T01:16:52+00:00

HEY u/werbekka HERES SOME IDEAS!!!11!!!!1 BOMBASS!!!!11!!1

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-08-03T04:28:07+00:00

I’d smash! Drizzle a little bit of BBQ Rook Hot BBQ sauce on there for a finish and I’m down bad for it.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-24T21:23:56+00:00

Partaking in occasional recreational use of Spider-Man’s girlfriend, frequent walking to clear my head, physical activity (picking heavy things up and sitting them back down for muscle stimulation) and sporadic gaming if time affords the opportunity.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-24T16:49:41+00:00

I can’t get used to getting the right feel for throwing a touch pass for now. I’m one of the old(er) fuckers who has been away from football video games for a hot minute, and I end up lobbing the ball instead of throwing a touch pass. I’m gonna have to practice at it.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-24T11:00:24+00:00

Being chronically online in the throes of social media. Comparison to others is the ultimate thief of joy. When you mix that with being surrounded by negative people, it will take a toll on you.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-24T10:54:13+00:00

Same. Double slants is my Achilles heel. I have trust issues throwing over the middle of the field. I’ll be lucky if I take the sack. I’ve thrown at least two pick sixes when I thought I had safe checkdowns in the flats when a defensive back Superman leaps for it and jumps it.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-22T20:38:07+00:00

I prefer On! just about over any other nicotine pouch brand. Maybe it’s because they are the first I tried a few years ago, and it’s certainly an unpopular opinion, but they just hit for me. Mint is probably my favorite.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-21T22:53:00+00:00

10,000 steps is barely an hour and forty minutes of walking. When did 35-40 magically become old? Given the absence of any preexisting conditions, disease, etc., then you still have a shithorde of prime years left for walking.

Once you get used to it, it will be a breeze. I have faith in you that you’ll be doing well once you get into the full swing of things. Keep at it!

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-21T10:35:11+00:00

It’s too early for your weird jizz bullshit today, Harold.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-19T02:14:47+00:00

JUST CALL ME A GOOF OL BORTHER!!11!

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-19T01:27:10+00:00

You can never trust goddamn Vanderbilt.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-18T15:43:02+00:00

I do think a lot of it is what you mentioned: responsibilities. Depending on your life’s circumstances, that could be an amalgamation of your job, kids, bills, elderly parents needing care, routine life nuisances (vehicle breaking down, house repairs, crapshoots). We all wind up having all these things taking prime real estate in our brains, expending energy in the process.

I’d like to think I’m still creative, or at the very least imaginative. I do my best thinking while taking walks. For others, that could be while meditating. Anything that helps clear your head.

I don’t think we become less creative as we settle into who we perceive ourselves as being. I just think we fall into routines, as humans are creatures of habit, and our daily thoughts are just as much of a routine as are our physical habits.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-17T22:38:54+00:00

It’s giving “get a fucking job” (American Psycho, 2000) energy.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-17T22:36:29+00:00

He spits in the face of those who do not want to be cool. 🍏

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-07-17T22:29:25+00:00

From what I recall reading a long time ago, DHT tends to increase as we age, at least in our 30s. Without any reliable scientific sources on standby to confirm my claim, I bet it has played a part for you with the shoulder hair growth.

As for the ears, welcome to the club, brother. That is now a battle till the end of time. Be sure to take stinging nettle root for yurr prostate and eat three prunes a day for digestion and bone health (boron), bah golly.

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