"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." ~ Betty Friedan
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aging
Why do such characters never age? In popular culture and film art, you see male cybery characters aging, but never women. I'm so annoyed. As I age, I want to keep on having cool futuristic space role models. I want the wise, experienced, middle-aged cybergirl. Cyberwoman. Cybergrandma. Please, pop culture, give me cool aging women. Thank you.
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A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
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Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Aging: bleached animal bones, broken down water fowl viewing platform, skeleton forest #aging #forest #foxisland #indiana
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Hi! Time for an updated #introduction!
I'm Matteo — a geriatrician and researcher.
Professor of Geriatrics (on leave) at the University of Milan, now at WHO working on healthy #ageing and care for older people.
My research focuses on #Frailty and #IntrinsicCapacity, and on preventing the disabling cascade.
Working in #Geriatrics, #PublicHealth, or #aging research? Say "Hi!" and let me know what are you working on👇
Daje #ASRoma fino a quando non ci portano via!
What I’ve been reading this week ending 15 March 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-this-week-ending-15-march-2026-97dbd2fb1a28 #housing #ClimateChange #AI #aging #statistics #management
He blinks upon the hearth-rug,
and yawns in deep content,
accepting all the comforts
that Providence has sent…
—Alexander Gray, “On a Cat, Ageing”
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #poem #poetry #cats #aging #ageing
SAM’S STORY TOOK ME BACK
TO MY OWN STROKE 💎
Watching Sam's video on YouTube today, I couldn't help noticing his weight.
https://youtu.be/l6UNS8zFdGE?si=BwlIxbTWYv--obu2
For an able-bodied person, he might simply look on the bigger side. But watching him struggle with movement, I found myself wondering how much additional work that weight must place on a disabled body already having enormous difficulty moving.
I say that with enormous understanding and sympathy, because I had a major stroke myself and have lived with left-sided hemiplegia for decades now. I know how much effort an impaired body can require simply to get through an ordinary day.
In my own case, losing a substantial amount of weight through daily fasting has changed my life.
Moving is vastly easier. My balance has improved to the point where I can now stand still comfortably. I no longer feel so top-heavy and unstable. Walking is easier both uphill and downhill. I live in Hobart, so walking around this city provides plenty of opportunity to test that.
I can dress myself again. For years, I needed my partner's help with much of my self-care and dressing. My body simply feels lighter and easier to carry around, and I can reach everything with my one usable hand.
Breathwork has been equally important for me. I practise it every day, and together with fasting, it has changed the way I experience both my disability and my body.
For me, breathwork has coincided with far less depression, clearer airways and a much more active mind. I write every day now, often using AI to help me turn my thoughts into words.
I'm not suggesting either fasting or breathwork is a treatment for what happened to Sam. His medical situation was vastly more complicated than mine.
I'm only speaking about what happened to me.
When I was Sam's age, being disabled and overweight didn't seem particularly important. Nobody in the medical world said much about my weight, so I didn't either.
By 50, carrying it was becoming challenging.
By 65, it was crushing.
That was when I began fasting.
Becoming physically lighter has given me an extraordinary amount of my independence back.
I'm still disabled. That hasn't magically disappeared.
But at 70 now, I'm lighter, fitter and more independent. I can walk 10,000 steps in a day, dress myself, and move through the world far more easily than I could several years ago.
For this disabled body, it has been life-changing.
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#disability #stroke #hemiplegia #fasting #breathwork #recovery #mobility #independence #aging #health #livedexperience #Tasmania #Hobart #AI #accessibility #people #peace #person