Why did men look so much older back then?

[Callooh_Calais]

There is almost no real scientific research to back it up (and currently most if it is anecdotal at this juncture), but it seems as if people born in the 1990s and beyond age much, much slower than those who were born even just as recent as the 1970s. I've long been wondering what exactly is the cause of this, and can't seem to pinpoint exactly the catalyst for the decline in premature aging, but it's clear as day when you look at baseball and rugby rosters from the 1930s compared to modern times:

Yale Rugby, circa 1910s (remember, most of these guys are between 17-21):

Yale Rugby, 2019:

Except for the obvious chad second to the right in the foreground, it seems like virtually all these men (if you can even call them that) just have something very 'adolescent' about their faces that I can't quite ascertain; Most of them would have passed for freshmen in high school in the 1980s:

Half the team looks like it's in 8th grade, the other half, old enough to start considering alternate plans for home owner's insurance.

Now you could say "But it's all down to facial hair", Yet when I was in high school nobody but the Mexicans could grow full beards or moustaches like any of these guys; I'm almost 30 and I still can't grow a full moustache.

So what changed? Is it the lack of cigarettes and alcoholism among Millenials and Zoomers? The preservatives in our food? What exactly changed so much that Cupertino High School's team looks like this now?

East Texas Baptist University Homecoming King 1975:

versus 2019. The skin is better, looks less aged, proportion of eyes to the size of skull is larger--why?

 

[Deleted member 7076]

higher T

 

[Ultramental]

because they had higher T levels

 

[Deleted member 4430]

many many factors: advances in healthcare, no hard work, less spending time in the sun, reduced testosterone, people have smaller bones in general now

 

[Deleted member 12216]

Interesting!
It might have to do a lot with diet and upbringing.

 

[Deleted member 4044]

T levels simple as that

The shit they put in the food is estrogenic today

 

[Deleted member 13076]

1910 Yale team look like chads, they looks better than the new one.

Also people aged faster more for said above reasons, however people used to be better looking, everyone has weak bones now.

 

[reptiles]

1910 Yale team look like chads, they looks better than the new one.

Also people aged faster more for said above reasons, however people used to be better looking, everyone has weak bones now.

It was such a long time ago it's hard to belive there corpses in the ground know

 

[MulattoTrenMaxxer]

Birth control in the water and (((them)))

 

[Deleted member 9217]

Black and white makes people look older. Plus people had more life experience back then and it showed on their faces. Higher t could also be an explanation.

 

[anti caking agents]

They had like 200-400% more T than us.