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EC is a wonderful place for anyone to get help with issues, disorders, conditions, ailments and so on. In fact it is hands down better than any other site or medical doctor!
I would sooner use a site like this than go seek medical consultation with a white coat!
But, I have a few questions and I guess a statement...
First, Are people taking stock of their health and fitness? Or are people just looking to sites like this when they are ill?
I find as an Veteran, many of my ex and current soldiers 'let themselves go', then complain about things not related to service. They become overweight, then start having issues. They get lazy, sit around all day, and get issues. They eat garbage packaged food, fast food, then get issues.
Now of course people will say, as you age you get issues. Nah, I dont subscribe to that at all. Nowhere does it say you get issues just because your 50,60,70 or more. It doesn't have to be.
People need to take stock and take a good hard look at their life and tell themselves the truth.
Quick story from my life.
20 years service, many regions in the world. Been places and did things no one wants to do but a select few. We did them.
Our thanks, ptsd, depression, 6 fractured vertebrae, compressed and damaged left hip, perm nerve damage, headaches, episodes of fear and hate.
That was at 42, when I retired. They told me I would never walk without a cane, and most likely be in a wheelchair by 50. Lost my drivers license, spent 6 months in traction, meds and treatments for years.
Today perfect heath, 54 years old, no meds, 205 pounds of muscle, less than 10 percent bodyfat, can run 10k before left foot gets tingles, can squat over 400 pounds, hit the gym 6 days a week. No sign of anything else. Yearly check up on my back its almost completely healed. Bones healed, discs back in place, nerves good.
SO what I am getting at, is that no matter what crap comes down on you, and no matter how old you are, or what you think is 'normal' for your age, there is something you can do about it. If you eat right, exercise, take vitamins, and if religious-pray-you can overcome anything. Nothing is age related! Nothing can not be prevented. You don't need to get sick.
We need a massive worldwide push to get off meds, get away from the medical establishment, and start looking after ourselves BEFORE we get ill or sick.
Sorry all, I just needed to get it off my chest.
Best health for everyone!!
I think a general page on aging in "ailments" might be useful...I keep looking, for years, and there keeps not being one, LOL!
(somewhere, europe)
05/28/2025
Nope. While I believe in good, clean, healthy living genetics play a HUGE and major role in what comes down your way as you age. I've always been a heavy exerciser, then COVID took me down. I now have long COVID fibromyalgia and that means EVERY nerve in my body is affected. Yet I treated my body as if it were a Temple but an organism so small we can only see it with an electron microscope changed my life forever and killed millions of others. There's that saying "Never underestimate the little ones, they're spicy"..
(Eu)
05/29/2025
No, I am sorry but science does not support your assertions.
First and foremost...covid has never proven to be more than the cold/flu. Second there is a doctor in the US that had studied over 500 people with long covid and it is not long covid, but long vax. All were vaccinated. It is long term vaccine damage.
Second...many scientific publications/studies have proven that genetics only play a minor role in your health. It is environment and lifestyle that turns those genes (if you have the genetic marker) on/off.
Take your time to research and understand that the whole 'your genetically predisposed to get a/b/c etc', is just a cop out.
You may have the gene for heart disease. But as you will see in the links below, what YOU DO, decides whether or not you will get a/b/c.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4841510/
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/genes
The cleveland clinic also did a study on cancer using genetic markers and found less than 3.4 percent of people who have a genetic marker for colon cancer, developed colon cancer. If these individuals ate poor food/fast food/junk food, then they could activate the marker gene. But eating good food and exercising maintained gene suppression.
The blind belief that you will get what your parents/grandparents/great grand parents had, is just malarky.
Your health depends on you, not your family! Eat well and exercise, you will live long and healthy. Eat bad and sit on a couch all day, and yes expect to get ill. Humans are not made to lead a sedentary lifestyle.
Wow. That's an awful lot of self-righteous and just plain mean snark. We don't often see that here.
Good luck with the karma that comes with THAT!
(Eu)
05/29/2025
Sorry if you think that way, but it is not self righteous-its science fact.
I am never mean or snarky. It is your perceived idea that I am being snarky or mean. But I assure you I am not.
Regards,
I have long Covid and have never had the vax, so his research is 'off"...
As for science, science has been corrupted by politics long, long ago. I do believe in studies being done outside of America though esp where there's no agenda behind it.
Ah! Well, perhaps it just seems so to a joyful person because, yikes!
Mind your well-being, folks! It is your best remedy!
