[venomsnake]

Is there info about social status. Because Trump should be on his deathbed now and Obama must be already very very sick.

And generally speaking successful politicians live long. Castro, Mugabe... And they did had a lot of adversaries. And won against the odds.

[redmaverick]

That was exactly what was going through my mind. Trump basically fought and won against the GOP establishment, the democrats, media and the pollsters and made it. He is still at war with the media and the world at large still hates him. He seems pretty unperturbed though.

[Retric]

Lot's of stress over a decade is not what this is studying.

Suppose he aged 20% faster for 2 or 10 years that's simply not a big deal. However aging 20% faster for 50 years is.

[davidf18]

Interestingly, Trump doesn't drink alcohol (his older brother had died of alcoholism).

[leereeves]

Trump seems to enjoy the fight; I wonder if he finds it stressful.

[Applejinx]

If you start with a massive inheritance, to some extent that will diminish the stress. Bathing in gold-plated bathtubs also cuts stress, and grabbing felines because you can.

One could argue that a black American would have great difficulty taking advantage of these stress reliefs.

[leereeves]

Can we put aside the partisan attacks and have a rational discussion here on Hacker News?

In that spirit, I think you're wrong about inherited wealth, gold, and women who "let you do it" being unavailable to black Americans.

A small number of people of both races have access to these things.

[sg47]

I don't understand how that was a partisan attack. Are you saying he didn't grab women's genitals?

[leereeves]

Apparently we can't put that topic aside to discuss campaign stress making candidates sick.

I called it a partisan attack because, prompted by the mere mention of Trump's name, that comment pulled the conversation so far off topic for no reason other than to attack Trump.

[yarou]

I agree that people, regardless of race, can end up ranking pretty high on the ladder of Western society.

However, it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that everyone starts out in the same position on that ladder.

[leereeves]

When did I suggest that?

[oculusthrift]

it's the cocaine that makes him seem unperturbed

[jjawssd]

He would be dead by now if he did coke because coke accelerates cellular mechanisms for aging

For example, cocaine and alcohol addiction are associated with robust alterations in sleep architecture, including disturbances in slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM), which has implications for several age-related diseases, since sleep contributes to the homeostatic regulation of the neuroendocrine and immune systems.

src: http://dalgarnoinstitute.org.au/images/resources/pdf/researc...

[adventured]

This is a certainty. Based on the damage cocaine causes, had Trump been a long-term user of cocaine, he'd have likely died 10 or 20 years ago. I say long-term, because based on his status in the late 1970s and 1980s, it would be far more likely that were he a user, he'd have started back then and continued to use. Very unlikely he would still be walking around and performing as well as he is at 70.

[nostrademons]

Look at pictures of recent presidents when they enter office and when they leave office:

https://newsandfroyo.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/why-the-draft-...

(Ignore the article, I just picked it because they've already collected before & after photos of each of the last 4 presidents.)

[refurb]

I always find those pictures a little suspect.

First, except for Obama, the first picture is a nicely choreographed headshot (make up?) and the second is a candid photo with no attempt to make the person look good.

Second, except for Bush'88, all of those Presidents were in office for 8 years. I don't know about you, but I'm not surprised a person in their later years looks older almost a decade later.

My Mom was never President, but she looks much older when she was 60 vs. 52.

[tomascot]

I guess a psychopath shouldn't show the same level of aging as "normal" people.