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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Sort of, but if you're getting labs once per year, then yes.... you'd hopefully also catch the silent killers.
I've seen enough people barely make it to retirement age before having preventable health issues... sometimes completely ignoring that chill out alarm, other times not getting one.
It's not so much about getting to 95 instead of 90, but making sure I can enjoy some years of retirement once I finally get there. And yeah, it doesn't take anything extreme (I enjoy the hell out of red meat, bourbon, beer, etc.), just being cognizant of the bad shit you can do to your body over the course of decades and going to the doctor every once in a while.
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As a minor digression, I'll occasionally hear people say, "The years at the end aren't great anyway, so I'll just [drink/smoke/fight/whatever]." The problem is that the years at the end aren't the years that you lose. You always have the unhealthy years at the end. The years you lose are the healthy years right before the unhealthy years.