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Careful. Don’t optimize for longevity at the expense of not living your life. There’s a balance of course, but we often forget that it’s not about the years in
by Swizec 8y ago
Careful. Don’t optimize for longevity at the expense of not living your life. There’s a balance of course, but we often forget that it’s not about the years in your life but the life in your years.
> Early to rise early to bed makes a man healthy wealthy and dead.
> James Thurber
- volkl48 8y agoYou are correct that it would be bad to do so to an extreme, but what the poster describes doing doesn't seem like much of an impediment to living a full life other than maybe the fasting if they're being extreme about it.
- swsieber 8y agoAnd failure to do that can result in unhealthy, unweathly, and still dead. Generally the things that help you grow old also help your quality of life.