• Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, but that is very heavily effected by lifestyle choices rather than something completely outside of personal control like metabolism. Metabolism itself doesn’t slow down, the results of not taking care of their health are catching up.

    The fact that there are enough people who fail to take care of their health that it has created a correlational relationship or a rule of thumb, doesn’t mean it’s something that it’s supposed to happen or outside of their control aka metabolism slowing down.

    Propagating the metabolism slowing down stereotype creates a self feeding loop where people who still can do much to improve their health. Become complacent, because it’s something that’s supposed to happen anyway and the more people who succumb to that the more it strengthens that stereotype.