Paul Rudd has passed the Brimley/Cocoon line.

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As of today, Paul Rudd has passed Wilford Brimley's age was when he was in Cocoon. Brimley then looks like he could play Rudd's dad today.
 
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People in their 40s and 50s look way younger today, than they did back then
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
...at least those of us currently in our 40's like to think so. LOL.
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It's funny because my perception of boomers is that they were so much healthier than us as kids and teens but that is not my perception at all as middle-aged adults. I look younger than my Dad and he was one of the relatively rare fitness weirdos running marathons in the 1980's.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It's funny because my perception of boomers is that they were so much healthier than us as kids and teens but that is not my perception at all as middle-aged adults. I look younger than my Dad and he was one of the relatively rare fitness weirdos running marathons in the 1980's.
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Lower T (each generation of men over the past 3-4 has less T than the one before them)
Sedentary lifestyles/less manual labor
Less time spent in the sun
Higher estrogen (environmental factors + less T makes it easier to accumulate in the body)

A lot of factors at play here. Not calling you out specifically, lol. I look younger than my dad did at the same age as well, but I also have more hair than he did.

The hair thing is a big factor. I think a lot of men take Propecia or use Rogaine to keep their hair, whereas men in previous generations were less likely to use it or it wasn't even invented yet.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It's funny because my perception of boomers is that they were so much healthier than us as kids and teens but that is not my perception at all as middle-aged adults. I look younger than my Dad and he was one of the relatively rare fitness weirdos running marathons in the 1980's.
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I'm 46. My dad likes to tell me that he had six pack abs when he was my age... the only six pack I have is the Miller Lite in my fridge.
 
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Aesius said:
Lower T (each generation of men over the past 3-4 has less T than the one before them)
Sedentary lifestyles/less manual labor
Less time spent in the sun
Higher estrogen (environmental factors + less T makes it easier to accumulate in the body)

A lot of factors at play here. Not calling you out specifically, lol. I look younger than my dad did at the same age as well, but I also have more hair than he did.

The hair thing is a big factor. I think a lot of men take Propecia or use Rogaine to keep their hair, whereas men in previous generations were less likely to use it or it wasn't even invented yet.
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At this point it doesn't appear I'll ever go bald, so that's a big one. My Dad still has hair but he didn't have thick teenager hair at my age like I do.

Seems like my sedentary friends are the ones that age the worst, so I'm not sure that's a factor in our favor.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I'm 46. My dad likes to tell me that he had six pack abs when he was my age... the only six pack I have is the Miller Lite in my fridge.
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That's impressive. Was your Dad into bodybuilding or something? Just natural? It was really rare back then for somebody that age to put effort into that.
 
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n_huffhines said:
That's impressive. Was your Dad into bodybuilding or something? Just natural? It was really rare back then for somebody that age to put effort into that.
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He was an avid jogger well into his 50's, and he was into the Atkins/low carb diet long before it became en vogue. He didn't drink soft drinks and would plead with me not to either. This was in the 80's when EVERYONE was still drinking soft drinks. He has always been really skinny. Only weighs about 150 lbs now at age 78.
 
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Aesius said:
Lower T (each generation of men over the past 3-4 has less T than the one before them)
Sedentary lifestyles/less manual labor
Less time spent in the sun
Higher estrogen (environmental factors + less T makes it easier to accumulate in the body)

A lot of factors at play here. Not calling you out specifically, lol. I look younger than my dad did at the same age as well, but I also have more hair than he did.

The hair thing is a big factor. I think a lot of men take Propecia or use Rogaine to keep their hair, whereas men in previous generations were less likely to use it or it wasn't even invented yet.
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I think the sun part is big too. I really don't spend a lot of time in the sun anymore and most people tell me I look way younger than my age. But we also have a family history of skin cancer and I've had a few moles that were considered pre-cancerous so I have a good reason to stay out of it.

I have more hair but I also think I inherited the good side of the family for that. I'm not sure on the T thing but I'm in better shape than almost all the previous generation men in my family at the same point, and in some cases it's not even close.

Having said that, both sides of my family live pretty long so I think I owe a lot to genetics.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
He was an avid jogger well into his 50's, and he was into the Atkins/low carb diet long before it became en vogue. He didn't drink soft drinks and would plead with me not to either. This was in the 80's when EVERYONE was still drinking soft drinks. He has always been really skinny. Only weighs about 150 lbs now at age 78.
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Some key differences with me and my Dad...I got some of my Mom's genes, which kept me leaner. I lift weights, which is the best cosmetic exercise because you can actually shape your body. People think about runners being skinny and fit, but if you're at the finish line of a marathon you're going to see some surprisingly bad figures. Yeah, they might've lost some weight but running does little to shape that weight. In the 80's, lifting as a primary form of exercise was for meatheads. Lifting weights is very normalized now.

Diet is the other factor. My Dad always watched what he ate, but now we have much better information about how we should be dieting.
 
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Worth noting: Wilford Brimley's co-stars and peers in "Cocoon" were Don Ameche, who was 77 when the movie was released and Hume Cronyn, who was 74.... compared to Brimley who was only 50. LOL. They were all 3 supposedly living in a retirement community.

Also, Max Von Sydow was only 44 when he played Father Merrin in "The Exorcist" in 1973. That shocks me even more than Brimley in "Cocoon". He could have passed for 80.
 
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