Glad there are researchers helping us to learn stuff like this, would never have guessed 
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I feel this. All my aunts and uncles on my mumās side have had their L5 fused, and its the same place I slipped mine and keeps causing me grief. Genetics eh.
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Whole lumbar is bad. My family doesnāt like that I lift because they say I wonāt be able to walk when Iām olderā¦yet my whole dadās side of the family is broken anyway. My brothers are all sorts of messed up health-wise. Genetically, Iām boned. High blood pressure, cancer, my lumbar was on special at AliExpress for $2.99, and my elbows are useless. So far I think lifting is keeping me together despite the occasional ouchies Iāve accumulated.
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I feel the same way - genetically boned.
Momās side has bad cholesterol and Dadās side has cancer, diabetes (already have that one), and a host of other issues.
Sometimes I wonder if I would have survived without modern healthcare.
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As far as my own personal anecdote, the bigger my deadlift and squat have grown the less frequent my black flare ups have been, and the faster they have healed.
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Completely agree. Plus, I have a chance to be the first to ever come off BP meds if I can avoid fucking up the momentum I have right now. My younger brother just had to go on and is younger than I was when I started. The older brothers started younger than I did as well.
I find the fiber in quest bars to be somewhat misleading. I was up to 4 a day at one point before I realized I had a problem, haha. Jon ANdersen talked about eating 10 a day to put on weight (heād have 1 at every feeding on top of a regular meal). But I am also way too caffeine tolerant.
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This is me, too. Well, thereās really no saying what-all my family is prone to, since theyāve all dropped dead - most of them very young.
However, looking at my peer group as we navigate middle age, the injuries I sustain from my workouts are nothing to the things happening to my sedentary friends. Honest to god, I consider strenuous exercise the fountain of youth, even though sometimes I canāt walk or turn my head as a result of it. 
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I also can demolish those candy bars, or the gatorade whey ones. Theyāre so easy to eat and honestly add just enough calories and protein per meal/in between meals that it seems worth it to spend the money on them.
Again, same. Caffeine seems to have almost zero effect on me unless I condense my intake into a very small timeframe.
However, those MIO water flavor additives absolutely destroy me. I think itās the coloring they use. It just goes straight through me in minutes. Quite a colorful experience tbh.
Seeing them as a treat instead of a āgood decisionā was big on helping out my nutrition. Of course, I then decided I was going to swap out those evil quest bars with some good old fashioned cheese like nature intended and then my LDL shot up, haha. Nutrition is too complicated for Conan.
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I read this as animals that were just bornā¦
I listened to 86,234 which was a significant drop off from 2019
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Iām continually amazed how badly some people (most people?) let themselves go over time, but Iām even more amazed when I see people in their early 20s who have already given up.
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This is my biggest fear. Itās crazy how far one can slip with just a little lack of awareness
Yep. The amount of people that just burn out post-college or a few years after high school is staggering. Even if they do well in career/personal endeavors, so many just let health drop off. My mom carried a 6-pack and a set of guns that rivaled the average man until about 6 months from her death, but my dad got pretty heavy right at 30. He stayed active, though, and did really well up until about 55 before slowing down. Trying to keep him moving as much as I can so that heās still around and lively when I retire.
Youāre careening toward a worse outcome at an even younger age.
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Oh, let me tell ya! 
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I thought it was @T3hPwnisher
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He makes the same noises I do! How crazy.
Here is my confession: after spending about 45 minutes making all my food for work, I went for a run with the Mrs and found myself short on time to make lunch for myself, so I settled on something TRULY international
Canned salmon
Chili verde
Sauerkraut
Buffalo sauce
All mixed in a mixing bowl with a fork. A true blending of cultures!
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Out of curiousity, are good marriages the ones that donāt end in divorce or is it more nuanced than that in this research?
I saw something that broke down divorce rates into demographics and the prevalence of divorce in poorer marriages is significantly higher (more than double). People are probably more resilient to fights and to the things that cause fights if there isnāt financial stress but I wonder about root causesā¦
ā¦ and how much does our society care to address it nowadays?
Today I got some great news!
So, around January, I got the idea of coding a web board for students of calculus to practise for the tests we have in university.
It was a simple database containing calculus questions taken from the actual tests of my department, all written in LaTeX, nicely formatted and everything. It was basically a port from paper exams to an online platform.
Users could sign up and thereād be a button to generate a test made up of 10 randomly chosen questions among those in the database. Those are all multiple choice questions, so the user would choose their answers and get the score, along with the solutions to the questions they got wrong. A few other smart features I thought about were implemented too.
So I kinda forgot about this project as the months went by, also because the biggest task would be to manually write the solutions for 700+ exercises, which as you can imagine is too much for a single person (or two, or five).
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I remember about even having made this and I decide to send the website to my former calculus teacher. Turns out he really liked the initiative and asked me if he could show it to the principal.
Guess who emailed me this morning? He complimented me on the idea and, hear this, told me that theyāve been thinking about building a similar platform for other courses and told me that, if Iām down for this, they can get some funds from the government and HIRE me to work on it for them!!!
I canāt believe this. My university paying me to build something and then using that software, which will have MY NAME on it! I am so proud and honored for this!
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But how much can you bench?
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