[PREMIUM] 72-year-old transformation — proving age is just a number (full photos)

Dr.CardioMD said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

wei_SG said:

Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes.

Dr.CardioMD said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

I read this differently from Dr.CardioMD, on substance rather than tone. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.

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