Not necessarily. I built houses and remodeled for 35 years and up until about 50 I could still carry two 90 pound bags of mortar or 4 or 5 fifty pound sheets of plywood. I'm 68 today and have no arthritis or any disabilities. I do love being in A/C in the summer and the heat in the winter instead of working outside year round
I think you got really lucky- I’m 28 and after six years of the rigging electric department in the film industry, chucking around 100’ pieces of 4/0 power cable for 12 hours a day, i ended up with a bulging disc, sciatica, and now one of my hips is like two inches higher than the other one. Most of the old timers in my industry have fucked up knees, backs or hips as well
Lifting smart and with good form goes a long way but eventually the repetition adds up
Thanks man, I got the cortisol injections about a year ago and they helped with the sciatica pain tremendously. I loved the work so I’m trying to work back up to being able to do it healthily
I’m glad you were able to make it out without any lingering shit- that’s like the dream in these lines of works i know
Oh they cause cancer, just not everyone. I knew a lady who drank and smoked up until pneumonia caught up to her at 97. My dad smoked for almost 50 years and never developed cancer. I was just anecdotally mentioning that hard labor doesn't always mean your body will break down
This is a logical fallacy. Anecdotal fallacies would be like if someone once tried to set wet wood on fire and said that wood doesn't burn because it didn't work for them. You just don't know the equivalent "wet" condition of your gramps.
There's a lot of science and evidence against you, also a lot more anecdotal fallacies that contradict yours.
It's called Genetics. The people who smoked every day of their lives and never got cancer, and then lived to a ripe old age are just genetically superior to the rest of us.
It's an old article so I'd love for someone to chime in with more info, but this study found that genetically identical twins who both smoke are not linked in their chances to develop lung cancer.
So at the very least it seems that it is more complicated.
I understood that, But even an obvious statement can spark legitimate debate.
The problem with that test is it's too short. And it's really old, As we have gotten better at identifying genes we have found that maternal twins are not nearly as identical genetically as we once thought.
As you can guess from my username, I breed dogs, specifically German Shorthaired Pointers. We test for the following breed trait issues.
ACRAL MUTILATION SYNDROME
CONE DEGENERATION
DEGENERATIVE MYELOPATHY
EURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS
VON WILLEBRANDS
But in the last 8 years or so I have gone down a DNA rabbit hole
The DNA test we use checks for 274 markers. I now look for other markers when breeding.
One of those is Shedding (MC5R) I like dogs to have the TT marker which means light shedding. Ziva has this marker, The first male Gunner that I bred her to had it. Her first litter was DNA tested and 6 out of the 8 pups all had the TT marker. I initially kept two males out of that litter, I keep in close contact with my clients. It was confirmed that the 6 with the TT marker are light shedders while the other two shed heavily.
There are 6 other markers I look for but for the sake of brevity I won't get into that
We also do echocardiograms for the heart and x-rays of the hips and elbows.
My point is genetics are a fickle bitch. to get consistency takes decades. The human genetic one is so polluted with bad DNA it would take centuries to clean it up. With dogs, we have a much smaller gene pool and it goes faster. But with selective breeding, it could be cleaned up.
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u/Kingsolomanhere Feb 25 '25
Not necessarily. I built houses and remodeled for 35 years and up until about 50 I could still carry two 90 pound bags of mortar or 4 or 5 fifty pound sheets of plywood. I'm 68 today and have no arthritis or any disabilities. I do love being in A/C in the summer and the heat in the winter instead of working outside year round