Jay Furr's LiveJournal - If You Could Change One Thing About Your Metabolism, What Would It Be?

From: jhvilas Date: May 4th, 2008 03:49 am (UTC) (Link)

It may not be so much your tolerance for caffeine as it is just generally sleeping worse. My understanding is that people, men particularly, sleep less well as they get older. I try not to have any caffeine after lunch now. :(

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From: l_l_u_w_d Date: May 4th, 2008 04:30 am (UTC) (Link)

My tolerance of caffiene hasn't changed. Yet. I still drink massive amounts of it, though I have cut back quite a bit. It doesn't keep me awake, per se, but neither does it really 'wake me up' so well, either, anymore. But, woe be the day that I don't have it. LOL

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From: tafkad Date: May 5th, 2008 01:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

I'd like my metabolism back. Period.

When you walk over 2 1/2 miles to work (and the same distance back at night), walk 3/4 of a mile to church, walk several blocks to the grocery store, walk a mile to the library, walk 4 miles to go to the mall, and don't even think of it as anything but normal, but you keep gaining weight, and everyone (ESPECIALLY YOUR DOCTOR) tells you it's because you don't get enough exercise and should be ashamed of yourself for daring to be fat. . .

Yeah, I found a better doctor. Yeah, he found the brain tumor, and yeah, it's been removed, but the pituitary gland and tyroid are still trash and will be for the rest of my life.

I want my @%^^$%&^# metabolism back.

Edited at 2008-05-05 01:23 pm (UTC)

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From: jayfurr Date: May 5th, 2008 01:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

Jeez, Ben, I had no idea you'd had a brain tumor. I must have not been reading your livejournal closely enough or something. How long ago was that?

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From: tafkad Date: May 5th, 2008 02:28 pm (UTC) (Link)

It was removed in 2005. Pituitary gland. Hormonally speaking, according to the charts for such things as prolactin and testosterone, I was not only female, I was pregnant.

Now hormonally speaking, I'm not only female, I'm in menopause and will be FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. Vitamin B-12 is my friend.

Oh, and due to unbelievably incompetent care while in recovery from the surgery, I have sciatic nerve damage and walk with a cane much of the time. Those wonderful long walks are now just memories from my distant past.

At least I don't live in Darfour. It could always be worse.

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From: interrociter Date: May 5th, 2008 11:02 pm (UTC) (Link)

More robust telomeres, so that whatever metabolism I've got, I'll keep for a long, long time.

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From: jayfurr Date: May 5th, 2008 11:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

Good answer. I was sort of wondering if anyone would say that. (Well, I didn't expect anyone to use the word 'telomeres', but I'm pleased that you did.)

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