Well... if a ship left the dock, there is only that much that can be repaired while its swimming.
this is why we always want to refactor
Human body from birth to age 29: I am invincible!
Human body once you hit 30: Hey, remember that time your knee was sore for an hour when you were 12? Well now it's gonna be sore for the rest of your life
tail bone fracture enters the chat
What's special about tailbone fractures?
It's highly innervated (sensitive) and it's cartilaginous. Cartilage is mostly nonvascular, meaning that it doesn't have blood flow to it, and which also means healing takes forever.
Because it tends to hurt for a while due to the actual physical trauma, our nervous systems also tend to send the pain messaging well after the actual trauma, even if healing has taken place. This specific pain presentation is a form of chronic pain (mostly a nervous system disorder) that is usually onset by some sort of physical trauma.
I have met 35+ plus people who fractured their tailbones when they were kids and it still hurts once in a while
Not my tailbone, but my hip, specifically where it joints with my leg. Fell while ice skating once as a teenager and every couple of years since I've gotten sharp pain in that joint that makes me almost immobile for a couple of weeks. Best I've ever gotten from a doc is a steroid shot to "hopefully" boost the healing.
Hasn't happened in a while... knocks on wood.
I used to crack my thumb a lot when I was I jr high.
Now that in 40, it's perpetually sore
Hmm sounds like they got old. Getting old is widely known to adversely affect your health.
It's one of the leading causes of death actually
Human body: I can grow a fully formed human baby OR regrow your big toe nail in like 9 months.
If you would like a brand new big toe nail, simply get pregnant and produce a baby.
have you tried putting that ankle in a uterus for most of a year
I've tried, the cops keep stopping me.
This is the best description of stem cell therapy I've ever seen.
Behold the power of stem cells
If you’re over thirty and your joint injury isn’t healing, take collagen.
The efficacy of taking collagen specifically is very much in question. It seems to be about as effective (but much more expensive) than just increasing protein consumption.
There are things you can do, like apply heat and to an extent certain supplements can help (glucosamine and turmeric are the notable ones that have evidence to support them). That said the main thing that really helps is doing dedicated and systematic strength and mobily training for your ankle.
What people tend to forget about infants and small children is that they are constantly exercising, eating a ton of calories, and then getting tons of sleep.
Adults, by contrast, tend to be very sedentary with slower metabolism and a ton of anxiety from stimulants/stress that prevent long, regular rest cycles.
Also, incidentally, if you really want to fuck up a child early in life... Malnutrition, immobility, anxiety, irregular sleep cycles, and lots of stimulants (particularly cigarettes) will have your teenagers looking geriatric.
The primary difference isn't the exercise but the level of human growth hormone, which starts to drop after age 30
Unless you're in the early-'00s MLB.
In my experience, injuries go from not healing to healing when I take collagen.
Probably that's a combination of placebo and the result of the fact that collagen is a protein supplement. You can most likely get the same result by using whey or other proteins for much lower cost.
One is a requirement to be an organism. The other is a nice to have. A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn't as important, if we like to view it that way.
Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process involving chance errors of various kinds and variations in the way parts grew. In a sense, the person formed would never be exactly the same if you tried again with the same inputs either.
That this system works as well as it does is a miracle.
EDIT: Missing words.
A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn’t as important
Octopi are these incredibly intelligent and exceptionally resilient, but they kick it inside 3-5 years, typically right after reproducing.
Sounds like they should have made their kids' survival dependent on their survival. That's the ticket, right there. Now we just need to make our great-grandkids' survival dependent on our survival, and we'll all be healthy right into the next century!
Boomers slowly doing that by making sure their offspring can't afford houses.
Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process
That describes perfectly the state of my bedroom after.
Something the OOP also forgets to take into account is that a LOT of pregnancies fail. Especially in the early stages, before the pregnant person even knows that they're having a miscarriage.
I feel like once you hit your 40s, you really start to understand that concept of your body only being evolved enough to ensure that you can reproduce and the next generation survives.
In your 40s and you hurt your knee? Fuck you, your knee now hurts for the rest of your life - why aren't you dead already?
I'm 40 and and haven't reproduced. Get your shit together body.
This makes me wonder; why then would women typically have longer life-spans then men? Once women hit menopause they are biologically useless for propogating the species whereas men retain the ability impregnate women for their whole lives.
We're social creature and older generations can help rear children.
I saw something that mentioned having 2 X chromosomes is beneficial. Something about redundant copies of DNA which helps prevent some problems. I dunno, I'm not a scientist.
I think, that having purpose in life helps, and women tend to prioritize social connection from a very young age, therefore they are on average more connected and that helps in finding purpose. The rest is pure force of will to fulfill the purpose
Can ask the same about men. Orcas have menopause. Female orcas live somewhere between 60 and 90 years. Male orcas only 30. Also... post menopausal orcas pimp out their sons. Imagine your mom as your wingman.
We live so long because we rely on experience. Menopause (and andropause) are just ways to make sure the parents don't compete with their offspring, but stick around long enough to help.
Death and aging is needed to make animals stop reproducing. This is because the only way we can adapt to changing enviroments, is through having offspring with a mutation that is hopefully useful. Lots of algae, fungi, bacteria don't have this issue. They can just transfer genes they developed/found to anither member of its species like it's christmas. No need to die if you can just adapt your own genetics.
Menopause (and andropause to a lesser extent) is our copout and allows us to live longer.
So if I don't have kids I can be immortal. I can be the midlander. THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE!
Physical therapy will rapidly accelerate your recovery time and results.
Human Body?
Like Disco Elysium
I walk the land telling whores and liars of the end to come. There are 9,855 days remaining.
Have you tried jizzing on the ankle? That's the secret sauce.
Oh good. 4 more years to go.
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