Posted on 04/04/2023 11:30:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Chris Hemsworth has said that he’s slowing down — but not retiring — after learning that he’s at very high risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
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Hemsworth, 39, discovered he’s at high risk for the disease while filming his National Geographic and Disney+ docuseries, “Limitless.”
He recently told the glossy about “the intensity [of] navigating” the test results last November, and emphasized it’s not a diagnosis — just a sign that the neurodegenerative disease is more likely to be in his future than it is for most people.
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Sounds like a weird decision. I think it is foolish, but hey. His life, not mine. And, he probably has FU money.
Somebody is having a midlife crisis.
From the script, I mean.
The last latest news on him was Bond producers were eyeing him as a possible next James Bond. He’d be the second Aussie to play Bond besides George Lazenby.
Excuse me, my mistake. I meant to say his brother Liam Hemsworth.
With Alzheimer’s it’s not always knowing who you are; with hollywood, it’s habitually pretending to be someone else. I can see where he gets the logic.
STFU and keep on living dumbass
I guess we’ll just have to muddle through without him.
Wouldn’t you be more inclined to live life large while you can instead of shying away from living, if you had good chance of getting Alzheimer’s in the future?
These dna test are sketchy at best... If you live long enough, maybe you’ll get Alzheimer’s disease. Then again, maybe you’ll get hit by a bus, or die in a plane accident instead.
Remember Angelina Jolie getting her breast removed because she had a ‘chance’ of getting breast cancer? My mother and all of her sisters had breast cancer... Most of them in their 80’s... She had one sister who actually died from breast cancer in her 60’s... So yes... You may get breast cancer but if you catch it early enough, you can treat it. Why chop off your breast at the ‘hint’ of getting breast cancer?
Liver for today... Worry about tomorrow when it comes.
There seem to be ways to prevent Alzheimer’s. Maybe he’s taking time off to research and come up with a program.
Adapting to changes is what people do. You have no idea what he deems as “slowing down”. Hes going to be 40 soon. If he can mitigate some risk by making some changes now that delay it or knock down the intensity, it may allow him to do more across those future years and actually let him get more out of it than if he changes nothing.
Worry wart
Well, the answer is in those families where the women have those genes, and several women in the family have developed cancer and maybe died from it already, its pretty huge chance they will also get it - so rather than let it develop and possibly spread to other places, which usually is the killing stroke in the end, they do a pre-emptive removal. Its not done on a light whim and small possibility.
Honest to God, for so called conservatives, I tell you. I wonder. He’s got a wonderful wife of 13 years and three young children. Could it be possible, he’d rather spend time with them than on location doing a movie? We should be praising the decision. Not being a jerk.
Dumb approach. Live life to your fullest. Don’t waste years worrying that you have a higher risk for Alzheimer’s risk. . You may or not be afflicted with that anytime soon.
Who says he wouldn’t be living life large? That could be the reason for fewer roles, he does a lot of special effects movies, those are long hard shoots. If you’ve got a ticking clock do you want to spend 16 weeks of 12 hour days filming movies, or travel and adventure? Especially when you’ve already made generational wealth. Also there’s a lot of diet and lifestyle stuff that “may” contribute (lots of maybes with Alzheimer’s), set food and trailer life is probably on that list. Less filming means less of that.
Or you realize you’ve already made enough money to last the rest of your life, and want to get away from all the craziness that comes with being in that industry.
Yeah. It’s the old maxim “nobody on their death bed said they should have spent more time at work.” Not even work those of us in the proletariat don’t generally consider work. You can spend 6 months filming and promoting a movie, or you can ask your kids what things they want to see anywhere on the globe and spend 6 months doing that. Not actually a difficult choice.
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