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mtc_3 t1_jac8ufy wrote

Reply to comment by Charisma_Modifier in After about the first 17% of our lives, humans reach peak natural physical performance/potential (about age 17-18) and then the rest of our lives we degrade. But a deer for example can live to about 17.5 years and after 1st 25% (age 4-5) of their life they are beasts of max strength. by Charisma_Modifier

My (non-expert) guess is that we were not supposed to live this long? Only two centuries ago living to the age of 70 wasn't really a common accomplishment.

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Charisma_Modifier OP t1_jac95o5 wrote

Yeah I'm not a science expert either, I thought that was the point of shower thoughts, but oh well.

I agree that your theory makes sense. And my 17% is based off of max age (oldest human was 125) which is why I compared to max age of deer (even though it's rare deer make it to 17 in wild) for some continuity.

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