10 unnecessary stupid facts about aging

Even though we may not be at the forefront of aging, it seems to only get better. After some in-depth Google research, it turns out there are mainly advantages to aging, except for that hangover thing. Sorry about that.

1. Yes, your hangovers really do get worse the older you are. How unfair is that? But it’s even a bit worse when you’re also on your period. 

2. You suddenly age a lot in your mid-thirties, to be precise on your thirty-fourth birthday. It has been scientifically proven that around that age, a significant decline is suddenly happening. Now you can guess how old I am, love my life.

3. No matter what you do to prevent it, your muscle mass decreases anyway. Lifting weights, running until you drop, nothing helps anymore. Muscles decrease, fat increases. I feel like this is a kind of mopping with the tap open scenario.

4. Soda accelerates aging. How bizarre is this? It turns out there is a substance in soda that gives the process an extra push, so easy on the cola.

5. Your brain shrinks, making you ultimately worse at remembering things or solving problems. So the older, the wiser is not true at all? What a farce.

6. No matter what you do, keep studying. It reduces the chance of dementia by 11 percent, which I think is worth it. So try to learn something new every day, and if you believe older people, you never stop learning.

7. The older you get, the less you sweat. This seems like an advantage, but it’s not. Because you sweat less, you can also dissipate less heat, making you worse at handling heat. So there seems to be a kind of internal warming going on.

8. You need less sleep. I must admit that I’m now down to less than eight hours, while I used to comfortably sleep eight to nine hours. My internal alarm clock just thinks it’s had enough when I hit seven and wakes me up. That’s where it starts. By the way, it seems to be because your brain picks up the signals from your body less.

9. Most people become increasingly happier, which is a nice prospect. It could be because your marriage often gets better, you care less about what others think, and you start to enjoy the work you do more. For some things, you really have to get older.

10. For the women among us, a positive conclusion: they still live longer than men. It is a requirement that you first reach fifty, but once you reach that age, you have a chance of an average of almost 87 years.