We age so fast in our 20s because…

There isn’t a clear adaptable plan to approach food or an understanding of how food affects our individual metabolic health in the present (much less in the long term). Health has become an industry for business predicated on a concept, not its consumer.

People, in general, are not taught how to eat correctly and what proper nutrition means relative to one’s unique body, hormones, genetics, etc. As a result, I would argue that “disordered eating” is significantly more prevalent and broad than the extreme cases to which the label is assigned. It is of the utmost importance for those that are focused on health to concentrate on turning eating disorders into eating orders that we as a society can actually understand. We can accomplish this by seeking to attain clear directives as opposed to general guides that may be helpful but are not clear to the individual. While aging is a process, the food we eat needs to be whole food to be processed properly.

The near-universal lack of information (and prevalence of misinformation) that results in poor health applies equally to both women and men, yet women are unfairly judged for the consequences of this lack of education. This, in my view, is not right. Life is already unfair. We do not need to add unfair judgments to the mix simply because we all love the result of “perfection” (yet most of us have no clue about the detailed steps to attain its zip code — much less its exact address).

There is nothing wrong with wanting to see beautiful women in their prime and at their best. However, we need a more accurate framework for what “in their prime” and “at their best” look like because simply being young isn’t it. My mother is absolutely beautiful but that will never have anything to do with her age. Young is merely a fractal of what it means to be youthful. Looking young holds no meaning beyond superficial aesthetics. While we as people will always judge the outside first and most, we need better rules on how to measure what we are seeing. What we see is often an image that is as confusing, convoluted, and informative as NFTs and cryptocurrency in the 20s.