# You can have one of your young attributes back. Which do you choose?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-one-of-your-young-attributes-back-which-do-you-choose/736932>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 7, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-one-of-your-young-attributes-back-which-do-you-choose/736932 "2015-11-07T18:21:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-one-of-your-young-attributes-back-which-do-you-choose/736932/61 "2015-11-10T22:02:20Z")

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I chose “metabolism / appetite”, for two reasons:

- The metabolism of my twentysomething self wasn’t diabetic
- I would have much more easily been able to lose these 15 pounds that I really would like to dump

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**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-one-of-your-young-attributes-back-which-do-you-choose/736932/62 "2015-11-11T02:48:49Z")

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Can I compromise and just have my 30 year old body back?

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