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    He was in and maintained his amazing shape. Genetics definitely playing a role but I really believe proper resistance training and diet (ie lots of protein, proper caloric intake) is the fountain of youth. So many older in-good shape dudes at my local gym. You can tell they lifted heavy for decades.

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    If you go out in the world and see people in public, you probably see a few every day who are either much younger, or much older than they look, but you don’t notice, because people don’t have their age printed on their shirt.

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      Very much so. The big thing is moisturizing which black people do waaay more of than whites, and especially beneficial if it’s an SPF moisturizer. Sunscreen and low UV exposure in general, as well not smoking or drinking are also huge factors, but are much less racially skewed. Stress and illness are also pretty big factors, but tend to be racially skewed against blacks for socioeconomic reasons.

      (Observations from an RN having observed many different real vs visual ages and also getting the chance to know their medical and lifestyle histories)

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    I reckon he’s done some sort of trade with Danny Glover who has looked a week from retirement for about 40 years now.

    Shit, he’s actually older than Danny.

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    I think Morgan Freeman is his painting of Dorian Gray. That poor fucker was born looking like an 80-year-old man.

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        Yes true, in this case even with enhancing supplements it is very impressive. He also looks to never have been excessively large like a bodybuilder, which might help.

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    Hey, I wouldn’t wanna be cancer! Look at him! He’s got big muscular arms! You be cancer! Not me man! You do it!

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    I met Ernie a few years back at a comic con. I was wearing an absolutely idiotic huge baby face costume I put together at the last minute. He sent his handler to grab me because he wanted to talk and get a picture with this stupid outfit. I was dumb founded and forgot to ask if I could take my picture with him at the same time. But he was pretty cool to talk with.

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    Like, if he’d been the absolute picture of health for the whole time, yeah, okay, that’s achievable. But cancer TWICE!? Holy hell!