> Age related diseases are not due to age, in this day and age. They are down to poor lifestyle choices, cancer and all. Forget genetics too, sure, some people win the lottery, and others lose the cancer lottery. But the more you know then the more you realise that no amount of pills, procedures and testing will spare anyone from blocked arteries due to saturated fats with side portions of bad cholesterol.

I wish more people understood that. Medicine definitely has its place but if you don't put in the preventative work on your side it's a losing battle.

I know 80+ years old who go skying every single day in winter, still chop their own fire wood, &c. Meanwhile there are plenty of ~50 years old who are already in worse health/shape, eat like shit, sleep like shit, never exercise, complain about their bad backs and bad knees, bad digestion, &c.

Medicine is very good at keeping you alive, but if you want to keep a good quality of life there is nothing medicine can provide that is even remotely as good as being fit. And even if you lose the genetic lottery: medicine will be much more effective if you have a clean base, you better go to chemo with an extra 20kg of muscle rather than 20kg of fat, high blood pressure and diabetes