> I'm 50 and I refuse to go to the doctor unless I have either an infection or I have to go because life demands it. Eat right, brush your teeth, exercise, and

> I'm 50 and I refuse to go to the doctor unless I have either an infection or I have to go because life demands it. Eat right, brush your teeth, exercise, and call it good. Pushing back against this part but in support of your larger point: many of us don't really have that option due to chronic conditions. Society incentivizes us in various ways to hide them when we can, so people mostly don't realize how prevalent these conditions really are. By some criteria, American adults with no chronic conditions are in the minority. Much of that is due to hypertension and hyperlipidemia being their own diagnoses, but to pick one example, overall asthma prevalence may be as high as 8.3%. [1] [2] [1] https://www.rand.org/blog/rand-review/2017/07/chronic-conditions-in-america-price-and-prevalence.html https://www.rand.org/blog/rand-review/2017/07/chronic-condit... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/most_recent_data.htm https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/most_recent_data.htm