Reminds me of something from my earlier work days interacting with people from Korea. A Korean man we worked with was saying ginseng tea would make you live long but he said he didn’t want that because he didn’t want to become old and weak. We were in our 20s-30s at the time.
Now in my 60s things are mostly good though I don’t have any ginseng tea. Not sure what happened to the Korean guy I worked with 40 years ago.
My father had a slip-and-fall accident at age 95 and we whisked him off to the hospital. We were sitting with him a couple stitches later when two doctors came in and congratulated him on his health for his age. “What’s your secret?” they asked him.
If one ends up like that guy in the comic, that’s not clean or healthy enough lifestyle. That was likely just clean, which extends your lifespan, but doesn’t maintain your body (or mind).
Personally I’d be up for dying young to a sudden overdose if it meant avoiding living decades with a debilitating and degenerative disease my body is slowly ineffectively fighting.
But also, I’d be up for the Jack Lalanne lifestyle of being able to pull a tugboat in the water while in my 90s.
Although, since those are known hazards [now anyway], they’re probably less risky.
It’s the ones they’re going find in the future that are poisoning us now…
When we bought our house, we didn’t find out we lived over the Linden fault, or that there was an EPA superfund site about 1-2 miles north of us until after we closed, and then my friends, one of whom is an environmental geologist, started to inform us.
The E.G. made it a point to sternly warn us against anything grown in the native soil of our property, which because it was part of a commercial apple orchard decades ago, likely has tons of heavy metals, which they once used for insect control over fruit crops.
Luckily, we’re not that ambitious as gardeners- and our local wildlife was always too clever [and ravenous] for any of the crops we did try to grow before that warning to make it into our stomachs.
Now, we just grow tomatoes and cucumbers in our container garden, when we get the energy.
@Cerridwyn@Kyeh@pakopako@PhysAssist Interesting what you find in deeds and old legal settlements. I found I had an exclusion to not sue Alcoa aluminum for any heavy metal elements in the soil from an operation in the post WW-II era where a big aluminum plant was running across the Columbia River (long closed down).
Reminds me of something from my earlier work days interacting with people from Korea. A Korean man we worked with was saying ginseng tea would make you live long but he said he didn’t want that because he didn’t want to become old and weak. We were in our 20s-30s at the time.
Now in my 60s things are mostly good though I don’t have any ginseng tea. Not sure what happened to the Korean guy I worked with 40 years ago.
This makes me feel “seen”
My father had a slip-and-fall accident at age 95 and we whisked him off to the hospital. We were sitting with him a couple stitches later when two doctors came in and congratulated him on his health for his age. “What’s your secret?” they asked him.
“I never drink coffee” he replied.
“We want a better secret” one said.
@aetris
If one ends up like that guy in the comic, that’s not clean or healthy enough lifestyle. That was likely just clean, which extends your lifespan, but doesn’t maintain your body (or mind).
Personally I’d be up for dying young to a sudden overdose if it meant avoiding living decades with a debilitating and degenerative disease my body is slowly ineffectively fighting.
But also, I’d be up for the Jack Lalanne lifestyle of being able to pull a tugboat in the water while in my 90s.
@pakopako Some of it’s just good old genetics, though.
@Kyeh @pakopako And whatever BS you were contaminated with when you were young
/giphy radioactive Spider-Man
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @pakopako
Can you say: “Love Canal”?
…or EPA Superfund site?
Although, since those are known hazards [now anyway], they’re probably less risky.
It’s the ones they’re going find in the future that are poisoning us now…
When we bought our house, we didn’t find out we lived over the Linden fault, or that there was an EPA superfund site about 1-2 miles north of us until after we closed, and then my friends, one of whom is an environmental geologist, started to inform us.
The E.G. made it a point to sternly warn us against anything grown in the native soil of our property, which because it was part of a commercial apple orchard decades ago, likely has tons of heavy metals, which they once used for insect control over fruit crops.
Luckily, we’re not that ambitious as gardeners- and our local wildlife was always too clever [and ravenous] for any of the crops we did try to grow before that warning to make it into our stomachs.
Now, we just grow tomatoes and cucumbers in our container garden, when we get the energy.
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @pakopako @PhysAssist Interesting what you find in deeds and old legal settlements. I found I had an exclusion to not sue Alcoa aluminum for any heavy metal elements in the soil from an operation in the post WW-II era where a big aluminum plant was running across the Columbia River (long closed down).
There is a Joke that goes:
A man talks to his doctor about what he can do t live longer.
The doctor asks “Do you smoke Cigars?”
The man “I never touched them”
How about your sex life? Are you active an have a regular partner?"
Man replies " No I am Celibate "
Doctor " How about Drinking, do you enjoy a good cocktail or beer to relax?"
Man " No I don’t like it at all"
Doctor, "Then why do you want to live longer?
@Oldelvis Honestly surprised that I haven’t heard that one before. (He says as going to pour some casemates wine)