My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes

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• procrastitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your wife is right.

  Most of the signs of aging are really just the cumulative effects of repeated skin damage, and the two most common causes of that damage are sun exposure and smoking.

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  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was just talking about this in another thread!

    I avoid the sun at all costs but my slightly older sister used to burn on purpose to get a tan every summer. I don’t smoke, she does. She has a lot of very deep wrinkles- I have none.

    Worlds of difference.

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  • florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also not giving a fuck about the world around you. Climate change? Guess I’ll drink more water if it gets hot. War? Nice, I get to pick new recipes depending on what the grocers has available. Famine? Yay, I get to make more friends with the refugees.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most people going with “reducing stress” instead of “willful obliviousness” but you do you

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    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep, old folks definitely never made any mistakes or ignored any problems, that’s why the world was perfect before 2001 right?

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• dingus182@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

  Truck driver’s sun damaged face comparison from left to right side

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• Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, we traded lead for microplastics which is better i guess.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It definitely is. Today’s environmental problems are certainly bad, but it’s nothing compared to 30 or 40 years ago.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Today’s environmental problems are certainly bad, but it’s nothing compared to 30 or 40 years ago.

      What we lack in degree, we make up for in volume. “Carbon emissions aren’t nearly so bad as sulfur emissions” is technically true, right up until you’re living in a village that’s crushed by a glacier.

      The global scale of industry is so much larger than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Even if you want to talk about microplastics, we’re creating such an enormous waste disposal crisis that it’s having cumulative effects at scale.

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ehh. I don’t think we’ve really seen the bottom of the microplastics global problem. For all we know, the global reproduction rate dropping in developed countries is due to side effects of plastics in our brains and reproductive organs. Lead might be more obvious and immediate, relatively speaking, but we’ve not studied enough the effects of our plastic world on our bodies.

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• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Amazing she hasn’t gotten any older in the last 40 years!

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• Protoknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I also think using moisturizer early and often helps.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Obligatory Moisturise me!

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The last human being

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can confirm. I’ve been using it for the past 30 years or so and look a lot less crinkly than a lot of dudes my age.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have a hard time imagining that women didn’t moisturize in the 80s, though.

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    • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I may have been just a young pup back then, but I’ll say in the 90s, moisturizer wasn’t as important. I’m not so sure for women, but men definitely ignored it.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably staying inside more in addition to sunscreen.

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• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are the artists just getting older, like me? 50 was ew, now 50 is mmmm!

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• hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It really does make a huge difference. My friend’s parents are the same age and are relatively young, in their early 50s. His mom smokes, and looks even worse than the left image, while his dad isn’t even in great shape but easily looks 10 years younger than her at a minimum.

  I also know someone who stopped smoking and after a year or two she looked significantly younger, it was kind of crazy. Didn’t even really make any other significant lifestyle changes tbh.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    , while his dad isn’t even in great shape

    Surprisingly, higher bodyfat can help with that. Fills out the wrinkles.

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• isekaihero@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I already have gray hair. I’m going to look like an old man at 50 and all the other millenials will look like they’re 30.

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least it’s not receding

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s because we’re more pure and full of love than previous generations

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