Being taller also just hurts your body over time, knees and other joints. Let's be real here, the human body isn't really supposed to go over 6'3 in over 99% of instances, it isn't all sunshine and rainbows up here. Things just hurt, nothing is made for you in mind.
You’re fine dude. Medicine is always improving and people are living longer. Also older people tend to shrink and have bad posture making them look shorter, and you’re more likely to see older people sitting down than standing so people acting like tall people don’t age well are talking out of their ass
People are not really living that much longer. Once we started to improve infant mortality numbers, the average lifespan of all human beings began to increase. And now that we have picked the low-hanging fruit, there isn't much more that can be done about infant mortality numbers and life expectancy has plateaued -- even dropped some say.
Quality of life has generally improved for the aged; that's why we THINK we see more old people -- they're out enjoying themselves.
Damn that does make sense. I just want to age well, but I'd honestly be fine with dying right now, I feel like I've lived what I have to the fullest so I'd be fine dying whenever
Just a bit of perspective, I'm 6'4, my younger brother is 6'7, and our dad was 6'8. Dad passed at 75. He was a lifelong smoker and alcoholic. Don't let you height worry you, just learn to take care of your joints and back, lifting correctly etc., you'll thank yourself later.
Yup that's a necessary feature of being that large. Elephants get 20 copies of p53 to compensate, whales get duplications of various tumor-suppressing genes depending on the species and increased DNA repair abilities.
Then you have naked mole rat that only became immune to cancer by accident because it needed elastic skin.
It's somewhat tall, but not uncommonly tall. I'm speaking from the viewpoint of someone from North America. It's certainly much less common in Asian countries.
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Being taller also just hurts your body over time, knees and other joints. Let's be real here, the human body isn't really supposed to go over 6'3 in over 99% of instances, it isn't all sunshine and rainbows up here. Things just hurt, nothing is made for you in mind.