Bad news if you are 34 years old (or turning 34)

On the night I turned 30 I relived my twenties. I rented out a wine bar, invited all my favorite people, went from wine to beer to wine and gin until I crawled to the local döner supplier at half past four for two pita cheese. You can't live on one pita cheese, that's common knowledge. Actually, I didn't mind turning 30 that much and maybe I find it since turning 30 also quite fine to get older, but now I have bad news for myself and all 34-year-olds with me.

Scientific research shows that we humans age in three phases. The first time this hits hard is (but of course) at your thirty-fourth. But I would like to add a positive point to that right away: the next time your body ages significantly in a short time is only around your sixtieth birthday. Apparently, as you age, you also learn to focus on uplifting facts. I consider it a bonus, because then I still have 26 years before it hits again. It's nice to know that something like this is currently on hold.

What happens during that supersonic aging in a short time? The proteins in your body remain relatively steady for years, but the levels change significantly at your thirty-fourth, sixtieth, and seventy-eighth. This indicates rapid aging.

So do I suddenly feel the need to live significantly healthier? It would explain it, because people who lived bizarrely healthy generally had better proteins in their bodies. The older, the healthier? That seems worth googling.

First of all, there are tons of tips online about how to age healthily. You could say I have a theme here, it does affect you, such a sudden aging at your thirty-fourth. But the desire to be healthy could very well be linked to overcoming the thirties dilemma. Author Mark Manson asked his older friends (over 37 years old) what advice they would have liked to receive at his age. What turns out? The advice to live healthier. It's simply in the top three. Maybe a fun study for the scientists among us: does that aging impact your psyche? I gladly make myself available for research.

It's good to remember that being healthy is not just about half an hour of exercise a day and eating fruits and vegetables. It's at least as important to sleep long enough at night, laugh a lot, breathe correctly, and have meaning in your life.

Source: Wel.nl, Bedrock