When I was 20 I could drink, live on 2hrs sleep, eat junk and stay thin and work 20hrs a day.
Now at 40 I can’t drink without a week long hangover. I eat one wafer and put on 10 stone. I sleep 12hrs and still feel like shit.
Is this normal?
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No. I’m 50 and I still feel energetic. I do try to get 6-8 hours of sleep. If I sleep longer, I’m exhausted.
I work out 6 days a week and eat a fairly healthy diet.
As you get older, diet and exercise are critical.
Have you had your testosterone levels checked?
Nothing lasts forever. That’s pretty normal. I’m experiencing the same.
Something worth considering; how you treated your body in your 20s potentially had an impact on how bad your body functions now. We all break down in time, but how bad those breaks are influenced by the decisions we made over time.
Welcome to your 40’s
Yeah ya gotta stop treating yourself like shit and start doing some maintenance mein freund
To be honest, I started feeling like that in my late 20s and stopped drinking after my 30th birthday. I’m afraid all those late nights and junk food in your 20s take it’s toll. You are basically paying off the debts your younger self has piled on you.
The good news is that it is reversible - I just had my annual checkup and all my blood work is in the green and the numbers are trending in the right direction (although I was told to eat more oily fish, which I don’t like).
All the improvements I’ve made have been me pretty much me making it up as I go along but it is starting to pay off. However, there’s now better advice around and if I could suggest just one thing, it’s the radio show of the same name on Radio 4. I can find his tabloid pronouncements a bit suspect but the radio show is spot on. The latest episode was an inflammation special and if I could suggest just one episode of Just One Thing, it’s that one. Inflammation is increasingly being seen as the root of a lot of age-related issues and you can do plenty about it - eat better and move more.
I see the next episode is on taking Vitamin D and, for anyone in the UK, that’s vital as we don’t get enough sun for 6 months of the year and those, like myself, who are so pasty they burn under a Full Moon, so wear sunscreen much of the rest of the time then it’s needed all year round.
I’m 34 and it really depends on what my day to day looks like. If I’m doing active, fun things, I have more energy. If I’m doing nothing but working, cooking, video games, then sleep, I’m tired af.
Im a decade or so older and I feel like an engine that is put under to much load just week to week.
