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How does aging affect muscle tone?
Aging reduces both muscle tissue and muscle tone, according to MedlinePlus. As people age, muscle fibers shrink and muscle is replaced more slowly. These changes begin for men in their 20s and women in their 40s. As people reach middle age and beyond, Gaiam Life explains, the aging-related muscle degeneration process known as sarcopenia continues.
How does aging affect muscle tone?
The Gay Midlife Crisis: It’s a Thing
I’m a 50-year-old gay man and my life is going really well. I’ve created the life I’ve always wanted with a great career, husband, and friends. However, for the past six months I’ve found myself mildly depressed for no particular reason. I had a good childhood, with a supportive family, so I don’t feel I’ve got past trauma to explore in therapy. Is this what they call the midlife crisis? Any thoughts?
Therapists don’t often share their own life stories. Our focus is on you, not us. But sometimes what we’ve learned from our personal challenges can inspire others. So here goes.
A couple of years ago my life looked great. In fact, some would describe it has “gay heaven.” I really did have it good. I had a wonderful relationship of 25 years (and the sex was still good); a great apartment in San Francisco (and a view); loving friends and family (with people I could tell anything); an adorable dog (I am not being biased — everyone said she was the cutest dog ever); meaningful work as a therapist (and a full practice); the appropriate amount of money saved for retirement for a person of my age (that’s what the financial planner said); good health and a super cute trainer (no photos available).
Advocate
Airports and train stations are germ-infested cesspools
If Thanksgiving travel leaves you sniffling by the time the stuffing hits the table, you’re not alone. No matter how you travel for the big meal, you’re likely come into contact with massive amounts of germs, says Dr. Susan Whittier, a microbiologist at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. They’re impossible to avoid, but you can boost your odds of staying healthy by steering clear of the dirtiest spots in airports, train stations and rental cars.
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This terminally ill man says California's aid-in-dying law means he can end his life 'fully, thankfully and joyfully'
When doctors told Robert Stone last year that he had terminal cancer, he didn’t feel scared of dying.
Stone, a handsome man with glasses and a salt-and-pepper goatee, said he’d come to accept death as a natural part of life. What he did fear was having too little energy or too much pain to enjoy his remaining days.
So last month Stone, 69, became one of the first people in California to obtain lethal medications under a new state law that allows doctors to write prescriptions for terminally ill patients to kill themselves.
Sitting in his airy Silver Lake home on a recent afternoon, Stone explained that he won’t take the pills until the growing fatigue caused by his bone marrow cancer becomes debilitating.
LA Times
Husband dies minutes after losing his wife of 63 years
PLATTE, S.D. — A husband and wife died within 20 minutes of one another side-by-side in a South Dakota nursing home after 63 years of marriage.
KSFY-TV reports Henry and Jeanette De Lange died July 31 at Platte Care Center.
The couple’s son, Lee De Lange, says his 87-year-old mother suffered from Alzheimer’s and had been in a nursing home since 2011. He says his 86-year-old father visited her daily before recently entering the same nursing home.
Lee De Lange says after his mother died peacefully, he told his father, “Mom’s gone to heaven. You don’t have to fight anymore, you can go too if you want.” He says his father looked at his wife, closed his eyes and died minutes after.
NY Post
This wacky trend could make you look 10 years younger
The latest hot beauty trend may sound like a sadistic medical procedure — microneedling basically does to your face what an aerator does to a lawn — but that hasn’t stopped celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston from signing up for it.
The anti-aging treatment is being heralded as a less invasive alternative to Botox, fillers and lasers, which can cause flare-ups of melasma and rosacea, as well as hyperpigmentation.
NY Post
Why Aging and Caregiving Are Harder for LGBT Adults
An estimated 44 million Americans work as unpaid caregivers. If they are caring for older adults, as most are, their lives are often incredibly difficult. For those in the LGBT community, all of the stresses of caregiving are compounded.
Why Aging and Caregiving Are Harder for LGBT Adults
Selfies are making you age faster
Unless you get eight hours of sleep nightly, never overdose on sodium or sugar, and are vampire-level vigilant about sun care, you’re going to have the occasional skin freak-out.
But when, like most 26-year-olds, U.K. blogger Mehreen Baig noticed new skin flaws (blemishes, whiteheads, dark spots and dark circles), she blamed her 50-selfie-a-day habit and told the Daily Mail about it. Whaaa?
Selfies are making you age faster