Unfortunately I think a lot of us had similar experiences of being nearly made into trannies by terrible diets in our school years. I can only imagine what would have happened had this not been so. One thing I will give the zoomers is that some of them - younger relatives of mine and their networks - have been athletes and eaten high protein diets throughout their youths, and they look far better than I did at that age. There really is a biological determinism here: If you had an unfortunate upbringing of the kind we did, you cannot fully recover from it no matter what you do, because those formative years are so important.

And I say this as someone who is quite fit and healthy for my age, but I had to fight against everything - all societal conditioning, all the habits of family and friends, my own intemperate personality - in my 30s to reverse it. Obviously I would've preferred getting it right from the beginning.

I also have low regard for humanity in particular since Covid because they were revealed as being dangerous tribal animals as soon as they were subjected to more than ordinary pressure.