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A lot of guys around the internet think this man was cool or "based", living his life on his own terms and beating the odds by making it to such an old age.
He must have built up quite an immune system.
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That doesn't mean they usually die by 75.7. Life expectancy rate calculation includes all deaths, including children. Just like they say "in 1930 average life expectancy was 59", but there were plenty of people older than that. But childhood deaths from diseases like measles, infant mortality rates etc were higher so that skews the number down to 59.
I think I can work out what average life expectancy means, and 94 is a good age even in Western nations.
I don't think the bath killed him. I'd think it was a combo of the following:
- seems to just have strong immune system (hereditary in his genes) to last 94 yrs
- eating all that roadkill, etc., his body got used to those types of germs, whereas if you & I did it for the first time ever one day, we'd die or be deathly ill
I don't think the bath killed him. I'd think it was a combo of the following:
- seems to just have strong immune system (hereditary in his genes) to last 94 yrs
- eating all that roadkill, etc., his body got used to those types of germs, whereas if you & I did it for the first time ever one day, we'd die or be deathly ill
It could have been stress, too, if the bath was forced on him.
I read the book, "Clean: The New Science of Skin" by James Hamblin.
We do ruin the chemistry of our body by using soap, lotions, shampoo, etc. It was an interesting book that made one think.
By no means would I give up soap, lotion, shampoo, etc. However, I am very organic and read labels.
Unless you have been hot and sweaty, there is no reason to take a shower everyday. During the winter, I am an every third day shower person--if I do it everyday I end up like a prune with very dry skin. Our skin/body is an amazing piece of chemistry.
Anyways...time for me to take a shower.
Years ago I read Life on Man by Theodore Rosebury, about all the various flora and fauna that live on human beings and how we sometimes ail from them but also benefit from their freeloading. Very interesting.
The one that really gets me is that we all have mites living in our eyebrow follicles. They come out when we are asleep to mate on our face. Aaargh! I wish they'd stop that. And last I heard no one knows what their purpose is.
I've been aware of this man for quite a while and am glad to hear what finally happened to him. And we sit here in the lap of luxury and complain. LOL.
When I was a kid in the Forties and Fifties all my young playmates and I were regularly given worming medicine. That was considered good health care for a child who played outdoors most of the day. Bet it sounds freaky to today's young moms.
Haji, covered in soot and living in a cinder-block shack, was reported by local media not to have bathed with water or soap in more than 60 years. Villagers said he had experienced “emotional setbacks in his youth” that led him to refuse to wash.
Amou Haji’, who did not bathe for half a century, reportedly ate roadkill and smoked pipe filled with animal excrement and believed that cleanliness would make him ill.
Well, it did! He died last Sunday, soon after he took his first bath after more than 60 years.
Sad to hear of it. IDK, he must have been afraid of water perhaps he almost drowned as a child. Long term depression will result in long periods of poor hygiene. Poverty can do that too. Maybe if he had running water available in his shack he might have dipped a toe. Perhaps he only gave himself a sponge bath?
Haji, covered in soot and living in a cinder-block shack, was reported by local media not to have bathed with water or soap in more than 60 years. Villagers said he had experienced “emotional setbacks in his youth” that led him to refuse to wash.
Amou Haji’, who did not bathe for half a century, reportedly ate roadkill and smoked pipe filled with animal excrement and believed that cleanliness would make him ill.
Well, it did! He died last Sunday, soon after he took his first bath after more than 60 years.
Yeah, I read that on Marco Polo's journey he was introduced to many people cooking their meals on camel briquettes!
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