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The wonders of the human body (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The primary difference isn't the exercise but the level of human growth hormone, which starts to drop after age 30

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 3 months ago

Unless you're in the early-'00s MLB.