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From a personal perspective, I feel that opening sentence. Genetics has had me have high blood pressure since I was 25, left handed, prostate, lung cancer in f
by irjustin 5y ago
From a personal perspective, I feel that opening sentence.
Genetics has had me have high blood pressure since I was 25, left handed, prostate, lung cancer in family.
I put effort into low salt diets, exercise, monitoring, some small drugs, yet I know a lot of people who are significantly less healthy will outlive me. From time to time - I feel the pang of bitterness at that notion.
It is 100% recognized, my overall disposition in life is _extremely_ privileged. It's still a feeling nonetheless.
- rob74 5y agoIf it makes you feel any better, the study that claimed that left-handed people have a much shorter life expectancy has been debunked: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23988352 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23988352. Left handed myself...
- danuker 5y agoA lot of one's health depends on the environment. Moving to a different part of the world might be worth it: https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease#the-global-distribution-of-the-disease-burden https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease#the-global-dist...