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People SAY that your health 'suddenly' starts to decline in your 30s but that's not really a good way to put it A) bc that's not really accurate and B) bc it frames this decline as something inherent and unavoidable, which does nothing to convince you that you have some agency about this.

So I'm going to explain this in LOOSE NON-SCIENTIFIC language:

When you are an infant or child, you are actively growing. Nature is throwing tons of new cells into you bc your body needs to BUILD BUILD BUILD. What you're able to do, eat and heal from is all largely dictated by this-- for example little kids often LOVE sweet foods or dairy-like foods and are relatively less interested in anything else. This is bc their body is running on HIGH all the time since building body parts is very energetically intensive. They can eat a fistful of sugarcubes and burn them off in an hour. Ask me how I know.

When you are a YOUNG ADULT you are actually still developing to a secondary extent, but your bones and such are fused and now that development goes into solidifying the structure and also finetuning its reproductive capabilities and features-- these, too, are HIGHLY energy consumptive when they first come online. Nature is STILL, thus, throwing tons of energy and new cells your way hoping you'll do something cool with them. You regenerate very quickly, and recover from harm rapidly-- But please note: swift recovery from harm is not absence of harm. This most relates to the consumption of 'junk food' and alcohol-- many people say they could 'eat whatever they wanted and nothing would happen' when they're in their 20s or that they could go out drinking and 'not be affected'. You were affected. You didn't notice.

Once everything has come online you go into maintenance mode. Nature stops throwing excess cells and energy your way bc you don't need that-- your body is yours and you are now responsible for maintaining it...hopefully with what you learned by experience in your 20s. IF YOU WERE NOT PAYING ATTENTION, you did not learn this, and are in for a surprise in your 30s bc your 'free recovery' subscription has ended. Recovery and maintenance- processes that are constant in the human body- now cost MINERALS & ELECTRICITY. You can go into DEBT now, and that debt will come in the form of joints that pop, inability to recover well, lowered immune function, and feeling like shit.

This debt accrues interest RAPIDLY once you hit 36-- the age of around 36 to 46 or so is a kind of reckoning stage where Nature assesses how well you've managed your body and you will be SWIFTLY downgraded if the result is you were just winging it.

So how do you build this account? 2 main things ( LOOSELY SPEAKING this is so not 100% scientific but I have to be general here): MINERALS -- you get these from eating well, mostly. You might want to take supplements based on your unique needs. But you need Minerals & Vitamins (i'm lumping these two together) bc they are the chemical building blocks (currency) your body uses to rebuild and fix up cells. ELECTRICITY is- again loosely speaking- having the proper chemical voltage throughout your body. This 'voltage' drops when you don't move enough, or when you're dehydrated. The building and repairing process your body wants to do may have the materials (minerals and vitamins) but there's not enough power in the factory, or the AC isn't working and the workers are overheating and can't work well. To fix this, drink lots of water and MOVE AND STRETCH your body. The action within your muscles and bones GENERATES ENERGY and it keeps your cells happy.

So the thing is, it's not that you suddenly find yourself taking damage after 30+. You were taking damage the whole time. You're just kept from really feeling it bc you're young and full of extra juice and given time to figure things out.

But at some point Nature expects you to do that, and you will pay if you don't.

Best to start out giving a shit, even if none of your friends think you're cool, even if you get called a 'health nut' bc you will still be able to frolick at 45, 50, probably so on while everyone who said it was dumb to have 'balanced meals' shares memes about how they wake up feeling like shit every day.

The electricity stuff is no joke I literally feel different if I don't get enough potassium/magnesium. Trying different foods that are high in certain minerals/vitamins and seeing how you react is a useful thing to do. I need more of those than an average person, and found that out by experimenting with my diet.

Getting enough protein and fat is also really important for recovery and absorbing nutrients from what you eat.

I love love love all the analogies given because they're a great way to communicate the ideas in a way that makes sense.

🌑 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that had been getting more aggressive after every mission, even to the 141. His gentle nipping had turned into biting hard enough to leave teeth imprints. His growling got louder and deeper, less playful and more territorial.

🌒 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that constantly gets scruffed by you like he’s a pup because he insists on growling and biting like one. And you aren’t against grabbing him by the back of the neck in front of the others, making him go slack in your grip.

🌓 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that whines endlessly where you leave him to run errands around base. Even when Soap laughs at him for acting like a pathetic domesticated dog, he doesn’t have the heart to growl when you’re gone.

🌔 Wolf hybrid!Ghost doesn’t dare to misbehave even when you’re not around. The others will rat him out to you, and you don’t hesitate to punish him (a.k.a. make him sleep in his own room for one night). He likes to have your hand on the back of his neck to simulate being gently scruffed, it helps him sleep along with your scent surrounding him.

🌕 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that scares other people off from approaching you. Everyone outside of the team thinks he’s so scary, little do they know he will whimper nonstop if you don’t let him follow you around. Ghost is a chronic whiner, he sounds like a german shepherd.

🌖 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that pretends not to like getting ear scratches (he absolutely does). You showed the others that if they scratch right behind his ears closest to his temples, he’ll basically go limp with just his tail thumping happily. Soap takes almost every chance he gets to have his lieutenant lay in his lap while scratching his ears.

🌗 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that actually got more territorial since you came along, he just became less aggressive about it. The rest of the team was pretty surprised when he started dragging them into his room, clothes and other materials that smelled of them strewn about. He liked your room, but learning that he can make his own scented hide away was like heaven (only if everyone is in there with him).

🌘 Wolf hybrid!Ghost who has a preference of lying between you and Price when given the opportunity. Yeah, it was a little awkward, but you could get used to being next to Price in the same bed if it meant making Ghost happy. It’s just something about being sandwiched between his trusted handler and “alpha” that makes it so enjoyable.

🌑 Wolf hybrid!Ghost that’s never trusted anyone more than he does now that he has a handler to ground him.

happy new year -------------_--------------------

I’ve been doing this every night since I was a kid but it’s always whump scenarios and instead of me as the main character, it’s the fictional man I love being violated, bleeding out and on the verge of death before his archenemy comes and rescues him. and the recovery road is just as ugly.