Physically shrinking when you're older
 

I've heard that when you get over 65 years of age, two things happen. Your ears get a lot bigger and you physically shrink.

I saw a guy I'd not seen for about 10 years and he was about 5 feet 11 last time I saw him, and now he's about 5 feet 5. He's 78 years old, by the way.

I'm nowhere near 65 but I swear I'm shrinking already....I used to be 5ft 6 but I was measured recently at the docs and they put me down as 5ft 5.5

Blimey. I'm already short. I'll be a midget by the time I'm 60 :joker:

3 things happen...if we are talking about things that dangle from the outer body

Aww. I'm 5ft 8 but was 5ft 9 previously.

It happens with age ,also it's to do with your posture aswell.

Do people actually shrink or do they just stoop

I don't think that true :hee:

My uncle sometimes says "I used to have five inches and a wrinkle, now I've got five wrinkles and an inch!"

Just putting it out there.

Well what ever you do dont go on this morning or arista will make a thread about you

Sign of the times

It's both ,but I guess it's more the stooping.

Thanks for your replies. :D

I forgot to mention, soon as I start to shrink I am gonna get myself a pair of 5-inch elevator shoes. :p :laugh::joker::joker:

https://www.chamaripashoes.com/image...eight-m-en.jpg

Be carefull, they look like they might make your stoop more evident.

YOur nose and ears never stop growing

women shrink more so than men, but it is a fact that your spine loses bone and joints and cartilage wear out which causes you to shrink

Every morning when I go into the smallest boy LTs room and see the clothes he took off the night before it looks like he walked into his room and shrunk down to 6 inches tall and went to bed as his clothes and concertinaed together on the floor
:oh:

So if I get to my 70's I'll be the height of Carlos Tevez.

Your nose gets bigger too as well as your ears.

Can't wait to shrink a bit - I'm far too tall as it is. :joker:

Of Course it is they Stoop

nonsense

I think it’s down to gravity

It could be compression in the spine too. I think I've lost an inch too over the last few years.

Our spines compress about half to 3/4 of an inch throughout each day then goes back to normal overnight.. apparently

Some people have to adjust their car mirror slightly on the drive home from work .. fun fact


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