If You Could Change One Thing About Your Metabolism, What Would It Be?

[jayfurr]

Me, I think I'd like to have back the tolerance to caffeine I had when I was in college. I could drink a gallon of sweet iced tea and sleep like a baby that night. These days I have to be careful about even having a diet coke with dinner if I want to avoid insomnia.

Comments

[jhvilas.livejournal.com]

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. :(

[l-l-u-w-d.livejournal.com]

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

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

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.

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

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?

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

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.

[interrociter.livejournal.com]

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

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

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.)