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What's good is you aren't 55 yet.
You have outlived all the childhood diseases and ailments. You are less likely to be depressed, have substance abuse, suicide.
Emotional intelligence improves with age.
Your fight and flight receptors have started to decline. That is good. Those contribute to anxiety, so that lessens with age. After age 65 new onset panic disorder is almost non-existent because those neurons aren't there.
Response times start to slow with age. Bad for being a race car driver, great for decision making. It is about age 35-40 that impulsive reactions drop, which leads to few mistakes when operating tools or managing decisions.
Peak income is about age 44. Higher income correlates with a LOT of health improvements.
Age 55 is where a lot of biological process start to turn negative. For instance up to age 25 it's really easy to grow new bone material because you literally are still growing new bones. Age 25-55 it's roughly one-in/one-out, meaning you have to exercise more to grow more bone tissue and sedentary lifestyle you will lose bone mass. After age 55 it's roughly 1-in:1-and-a-bit out - meaning you have to exercise a lot more to grow new bone tissue, exercise somewhat just to retain what you have, and sedentary life means osteoarthritis becomes a problem, breaks take longer to heal.
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