People who look fit and feel well can be in terrible cardiovascular health without realising.
Also, the damage that accumulates while you're feeling fine is irreversible.
Reminds me of my doctor (who's a friend) telling me of a patient who's husband just dropped dead at 50 something. "He was in such a great health " the lady said, "never ever went to see a doctor!"
Well, there might be a funking correlation right there.
Care to elaborate?
First part: Lot of people who workout barely do any cardio, there's even this belief that cardio will make you lose muscle mass, but unless you're an athlete it's completely ridiculous to worry about that. The people that are in the best all around shape are very often not the ones who look the most fit or that are the strongest. We need fat on our body as an energy reserve, just doing cardio doesn't build enough muscle mass to slow down the effects of aging on it, just building muscle mass without doing cardio means your heart might be the weakest link in your body...
Second part: Not sure, I guess they mean that it takes a while to not feel fine from the damage accumulated from not taking care of yourself and by the time you don't feel fine anymore most of the damage is irreversible... I guess it's true for many things... If you damaged your knees from being overweight for a long time, suddenly losing weight won't make the cartilage reappear for example...
I recently had a heart attack at 41.
I'm not obese and look and feel fit and well. I cycle regularly and don't eat a lot of refined foods (particularly carbs). I didn't think I was particularly "fit" but nor did I think I was at risk of heart disease. About 2 months before my heart attack I rode my mountain bike 150km over rough, remote, Australian terrain in 4 days.
Yes I have high cholesterol, have been a smoker in the past, and a family history of type 2 diabetes - I knew these things were problematic in some vague sense but no idea how they relate to cardio problems. Also information is very complex - there's a lot of misinformation about cholesterol for example and as someone who is not a cardiologist it's hard to know what it really means.
Basically, shit builds up in your arteries over time. You feel 100% fine until something clogs up. It's not a progressive deterioration of feeling unwell and not doing anything about it, it's fine > fine > fine > fine > dead. There's no therapy to clean the shit out of your arteries, it doesn't get reduced over time. Once an artery clogs the options are inserting an internal scaffold, or taking an artery from somewhere else to build a by-pass.
I kind of got unlucky but also lucky - unlucky with all of these contributing (mostly hereditory) factors - lucky in that my arteries are generally ok - there was only one bad spot which could be remedied with an internal scaffold. Imagine feeling fine through to your 60s and then finding that your arteries are generally fucked with many trouble spots.
I shouldn't be alarmist in that I don't think this is a problem for people generally, but in terms of things I recently learned that everyone should know - I think cardiovascular health is definitely on that list.
Suffice to say I recently learned that feeling fine does not necessarily mean that you are fine.
It really can be a silent killer. I know someone who's mother was in her 50s. She was thin, fit, active and seemingly healthy. She would enter in races and such, to give you an idea of how fit she was compared to others in their 50s. Now, she wasn't exactly a professional runner or anything, but certainly did it more than others at her age.
Well she died of a heart attack a few months ago during a workout...
Thank you for bringing this up. I'm a nurse on a cardiovascular progressive care unit, and we get a handful of young people (40-50s) who come in with "no prior history" having heart attacks or borderline heart attacks.
One of the things I'd note is that most of them have high blood pressure that they didn't know about. High blood pressure doesn't feel bad, so they never felt a need to see a doctor. But it is silently damaging arteries, particularly the delicate ones in your heart, kidneys, and brain.
The only way to know if you are developing high blood pressure is to get it checked regularly. Get an automatic blood pressure cuff for your house, or go to your primary care physician once a year. And when they tell you that 140/90 is putting you at higher risk of heart attack, take them seriously.
Birds don't live in nests.
They don't sleep. They were spy drones. They recharge on the wires.
/j
I was surprised to learn recently that was more than just an internet meme:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=7LMUb4k5w_hVrzaR&v=3VEkzweBJPM&feature=youtu.be
Repairing your bike is easy and checking the important parts every couple of months makes riding it a lot better.
Same thing with cars. Checking tires increases milage, checking fluids can save you a ton of money, changing oil isn't hard and takes basic tools.
Idk I try to take care of my bike but replacing the chain and adjusting the gears is something I'll probably never wrap my head around
I'm still yet to lubricate my chains. I know I need to.
Also what do you use your bike for?
Mainly to get to work (10 minutes), but also all other short ways and occasionally getting out in nature.
As soon as money allows it, I'll get a better one though. It's used and I mainly bought it because the seller was close to where I live, but I need a larger frame and I want more modern mechanics, e.g. disc brakes, overall.
Be careful around popcorn kernels when you’ve got an old filling.
Cooking.
I had always been afraid of it. Now, I love it.
My biggest advice to anyone who wants to start cooking or is too intimidated to cook: just start doing it. Find a recipe that's simple, follow it to a T and then just keep doing it. You will suck at first, but that's step 1 of any skill. If you cook every night, by month 1 or 2, you'll be significantly better and can expand. Also, whatever time the recipe you looked up says, 1.5 times or double it (especially anything involving cooking onions). You don't have the skills to get it down to that time, and most skip prep work to make it a "quick" recipe.
An important skill to have when cooking is: it doesn't cook faster when you turn the heat up.
I see so many people try this, it's not how it works.
And don't be discouraged when it never turns out, because a lot of recipes these days are written by influencers that aren't giving you the proper measurements, so it'll never actually work out.
When you find a person that actually uploads some proper recipes, follow them, and continue to make their other recipes.
You'll never learn if you're set up for failure and think it's your fault.
Economics. I never understood it that well having taken two years of high school classes for law and government, then watched a single Economics Explained video and understood so much that I hadn't understood before.
You should share the video
Shitty arsed boring teachers probs Vs a well worded video
That you can think of an average as the center of mass of a dataset. Similarly, that you can think of a standard deviation as the center of mass of the distances between each point and the average.
Violin plots make this easy to visualize
Violin plots are bad and you should feel bad. Summary of why: Link
The difference between bear arms and bare arms.
They are actually called paws! >:)
That's bear hands.
I demand the right to keep and arm bears.
Its pretty easy to make your own soda. 1 tsp Sodium or Potassium bicarbonate, 1tsp citric acid OR ~3-4 tablespoons vinegar, flavoring (fruit juice or drink mix + sweetener to taste) and 2-4 cups of water in a bottle with 3-4 inches of room to prevent it from exploding before you cap it. Throw it in the fridge or use cold water.
Alternatively you can make fermented soda using yeast but this isnt something I normally do since I am purposefully using potassium bicarbonate as the bicarbonate source to pressurize the soda. (More potassium in my diet)
The main advantage of making soda yourself is you can make it any flavor you want. You arent really limited by what flavor of soda you can buy.
I guess that works. There’s also Soda-Stream( and other carbonation systems) that just directly injects CO2 into a bottle. Then you can add whatever flavourings you like. Personally, I like doing something like 50/50 heavily carbonated water and fruit juice of choice.
I realized last night while doing a puzzle with friends that I can just take a picture of the puzzle box. That way we aren't fighting over the box, and I can zoom in and rotate the picture anyway I need to.
I'm not sure this is a brilliant discovery or I am just a bit slow.
No, this is revolutionary
If your life includes:
- Aging
- Obesity
- Chronic cough
- Manual labor job
- Weakened muscles
… you’re probably gonna get hernias. Just got my first and it sucks.
I’ve been slowly gaining weight. I smoke weed, which leads to some coughing every day. I move heavy shit at my work but got transferred to a half desk job two months ago, basically cutting my heavy lifting in half. I’m 40.
And suddenly my belly button balloons out as my intestines push through. Good god. I don’t have the money for this.
