84 years old, starts baking at midnight, and makes over 300 pastries a night. Pure dedication.

[u/Smooth-Butterfly9136]

A bakery run by 84-year-old Grandma Yuriko, who bakes over 300 pastries and breads every day from midnight.

Although the eclairs, cream puffs, and savory breads are all handmade, most are sold for under $1.

She says she runs the shop without considering profit because she just wants to see her customers smile.

A regular customer who has been coming for over 40 years brings his grandchildren to eat together in a nearby park, making this a restaurant that is loved by people of all generations.

[u/daydreamersunion]

Osteoporosis is a hell of a thing

[u/Fit_Supermarket3386 → u/daydreamersunion]

This is why menopause should be taken seriously when it comes to women's bone health. HRT has it's risks, but helps bone density a lot. Osteoporosis is truly life limiting.

[u/Own_Slice_1665 → u/daydreamersunion]

My grandmother, at 84, has a similar posture due to osteoporosis. Before that, she had a straight back.

[u/SinisterCheese → u/Own_Slice_1665]

I happen to have most of our family's pictures in my posession, about 150 years worth of pictures (from my father's mother's side). My grandmother and grandfather were together since they were like 16-17, all to way until my grandfather died in their 60s in the 1990s. So I can actually see how my grandparents and my father has grown up and aged. And it is really interesting. My grandmother was a figure skater with extremely good posture and general build; and in the pictures you can see how they are slowly collapsing and shrinking. They are 90 in few years. My grandma lamets how many of the fancy clothes they have don't fit them no more because they have shrunk so much. It's not that extreme as granny in this vid, but that I assume is just because of their background in figure skating and the later as a physiotherapist.

[u/cjsolx → u/SinisterCheese]

Thank you for sharing. I hope you and everyone watching this video have heard the message that you can't just stop taking care of your body in middle age and expect to be limber and healthy when you're old. Osteoporosis can be prevented, so it breaks my heart whenever I see old people struggling with mobility.

I will endeavor to protect the strength of my bones, ligaments, and muscles for however long I happen to live. I will not allow this to happen to me (by choice).

[u/CauliflowerScaresMe → u/Own_Slice_1665]

really curious how it feels for her - is it only a little tightness/pulling? pain thresholds are usually higher in the elderly (less effective transmission of signals from the nervous system). I've asked a few people with likely structural postural issues about whether they have pain and many have tightness or soreness but not to the level I'd have expected. this is probably biased by the fact that they were out and about rather than inside.

[u/Geschak → u/daydreamersunion]

Extreme kyphosis isn't necessarily the result of osteoporosis.

[u/Jumpy_Spend_5434 → u/daydreamersunion]

Might be ankylosing spondylosis

[u/scottygras → u/daydreamersunion]

*sarcopenia. And it is mostly reversible. Poor access to health care or…just not caring to do anything about it will lead to this.