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We talked about this a little bit earlier, but I want to get into more of the specifics because I find this really interesting.

The headline sort of hides a lot of the really good stuff.

The headline being that you reach your functional peak as a human later than they had previously thought.

Now, functional is what we're going to get into defining here, that word, as they use 16 different dimensions. This is a serious, like, university study. This is not, I don't know, so many studies, and you should look out for this. It's fun to talk about them. So many studies that you hear that are, you know, it turns out, you know, it's paid for by the pudding corporation.

And it turns out you'd be better off eating more pudding in your life or whatever.

Right, exactly.

Yeah.

Just dumb stuff like that.

But it turns out that people reach their functional peak in their late 50s, early 60s, decades later than most people assume when you figure in all these different things.

So physical strength, obviously, and certain cognitive abilities like processing speed declined steadily after your mid-20s.

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