More people using sunscreen and lotion on the regular prevents skin damage. More people are eating healthy, working less physically demanding jobs. Also there's a pretty huge bias with seeing pictures of older people and seeing them as older than they actually look. It has to do with seeing older styles of clothing and how people tend to keep their core styles longer. This makes people in the present see past photos as "older people" regardless of how young the faces look.
Also the microplastics are preserving us from the inside out. We're all deli-wrapped now.
People also smoke way less now. See the skin of someone at 30 who started smoking at 15, to see someone who looks like 40.
And everything around us smokes less too.
In 1950 cars had basically no emission standards, factories didn't either, and a LOT of people heated their homes with coal or wood.
Also smoking was banned indoors
Why is this?
Smoking.
And not using sun block when working outside all day.
I smoke, just turned 39, and people still regularly guess I'm in my early 20's. Frankly, I'm surprised we don't look older considering how much stress can cause visible aging. Where are the 13 year olds that look 102?
Also being outside in the UV radiation of the sun ☀☢️
- Smoking
- Smoking
- Smoking
There are already a lot of good answers but I want to highlight this. Chronic tobacco smoke causes increased aging due to multiple mechanisms. Moreover, environmental tobacco exposure from second hand and third hand smoke prior to the 1990s was MASSIVE. So even if you didn’t smoke you got insane daily exposures to the same chemicals.
We're a lot sadder now, so we don't smile much. The lack of smiling saved us from face wrinkles which keeps us looking young.
I don't see any links to Vsauce's video on this so I'm going to assume every response is wrong. TLDR: Styles become associated with eras and people in those eras become associated with our perception of that age bracket.
Also, because of increased healthy lifestyle awareness, we are actually ageing slower than we used to. The clue is in the cigarette the top cartoon smokes. Today we smoke less, we exercise more, we use more sunscreen and we eat healthier, all allowing our bodies to produce more firm collagen in less damaged skin cells.
Omnivores vs plant based eaters
U mean based plant eaters?? 🫡
The micro plastics sustain me
I put that shit on everything!
in the '80s*
Lower testosterone is probably a big part of it. Look at 23 or 24 year old enhanced bodybuilders. they look like theyre 35. For whatever reason peoples T levels have been going down about 1 percent per year for the last 50 years. Its bound to have an effect.
How much testosterone you have is not directly related to how 'masculine' you look. It's far more complicated than that. There are people with baby face that have very high levels of testosterone, and people who look very masc that have low levels.
