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- It may be harder to lose weight. Remember when you could cut out soda and fast food for two weeks and drop ten pounds? Yeah. That's not going to be the case once you turn 40.
- Your menstrual cycle might change. While it's highly unlikely you'll enter menopause at 40 (the average age is 51), you might see some changes to your menstrual cycle around age 40.
- Your chance of breast cancer increases. There's a reason the American Cancer Society and The Mayo Clinic recommend you get a baseline mammogram at age 40.
- Your bone density might decrease. Your bone density stays pretty consistent until you turn 35 or so. Every year after that, you lose about one percent of bone density every year.
Turning 40 is a significant milestone. There is often that point where you get to reflect on life and accomplishments, and, yes, there are changes in the body as well.
- Erika Cruz
- Your wrinkles become more pronounced. As we age, our skin gets thinner, drier, less elastic and less able to regenerate after sustaining damage. By the time we hit forty, this aging plus wear and tear leads to wrinkles, creases, and lines on the skin.
- Hair starts to grow in weird places. To the best of our knowledge, there's no study that has demonstrated a connection between ear, nose, back, or chin hair and perceived attractiveness.
- You experience more aches and pains. Wear and tear on the body is, by definition, cumulative. Knowing your limits, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, stretching, meditating, and seeing your doctor when something doesn't feel right are all part of a prescription for lessening some of the indignities of turning 40.
- Your hangovers become more intense. Talking to The Wall Street Journal, David W. Oslin, a professor of psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said that all of the effects of alcohol are amplified with age.
- Lambeth Hochwald
- Go easier on yourself. Once you hit the 40s, you may be starting to feel some mid-life changes in your health. Perhaps you’re having trouble sleeping or maybe you find yourself bumping up the font size while you type emails because you’re straining to see the text.
- Get those zzzzs. Now more than ever, getting seven to nine hours of sleep per night is important. Plentiful sleep is not only connected to productivity, it helps tame poor eating habits.
- Water, water everywhere. As you age, the health benefits of drinking water becomes even more important for your energy, kidney function and so much more.
- Add weight lifting to your exercise routine. Lifting weights at least two days a week is key to maintaining bone and muscle mass. That’s because muscle mass steadily declines at age 35 which leads to reduced metabolism and decreased bone density, says Rachel Straub, an exercise physiologist in San Diego and co-author of Weight Training Without Injury.
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Nov 30, 2022 · Health Changes to Expect in Your 40s . If you think you notice some physical changes after turning 40, you’re not alone. Srinivasan explains that habits such as drinking, smoking, recreational drugs, and lack of exercise catch up with us in our 40s, as do decades of sun exposure.
