Metabolism

[theevilchemist]

I also got my thyroid checked. Around 2007, I noticed that I started needing less and less sleep and my appetite has been slowly increasing. I also noticed other physiological changes, such as dry eyes and dry earwax

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[greylock]

Just sayin, as I understand it, the essential metabolism changes over time.
Could some of your changes be aging?

I mean, I used to get by on 3-4 hours of sleep a night (and 20-odd spoons of coffee) a day.

I cannot do that now.

Could Be

[theevilchemist]

the essential metabolism changes over time.
Could some of your changes be aging?

could be, but it's odd that my metabolism is speeding up, rather than slowing down.

But then again, I've had this theory that the metabolism doesn't slow down on it's own that much, but that people slow down as they get older, less school, less learning, less exercise, and the metabolism slows down in response.

That is lifestyle causes metabolism slow down as much as metabolism slow down causes lifestyle slow down.

jv

Re: Could Be

[greylock]

You're the science dude, and you might be right to a point, but I thought there was a point where the body went from "growing" to "statis" to "degeneration", and I thought the latter was circa 35-45 because the body isn't supposed to live as long as it does.

You may be right on the lifestyle/metabolism thing, it certainly makes sense as far as UI can tell, but AFAIK, a lack of sleep is essentially human. We get older, we sleep less, or so it seems.

My exposure to older people is limited though.

Re: Could Be

[hirez]

Vegan athletes are complete outliers, though. One of the tutors on a spod-course a few years ago looked about my age (then) but was at least fifteen years older in person years. The bastard.

You know, I wish there was a way of instrumenting this stuff. I really would like a watched-sized pie meter. One that went 'Yr current consumption is .45 pies/hour. Eat more pie.' or 'You're overcommitting your glycogen production. have a nice cup of tea and a sit down.'