Don't hurt yourself. I lost nearly my entire 30s to spine problems. I couldn't touch my own feet for two years. I had to change careers (luckily, into software,

Don't hurt yourself. I lost nearly my entire 30s to spine problems. I couldn't touch my own feet for two years. I had to change careers (luckily, into software, which doesn't require great orthopedic health and has boomed). I'm very lucky my wife is still with me because I was miserable to be around for a long time, constantly in pain and angry and frustrated. I wasn't able to have kids and am trying to adopt now, figuring the risk isn't worth it to go biological since my wife is also in her 40s. I don't know what actionable advice is really there, but I ignored a lot that I didn't have to and acted invincible when I wasn't. I'm a very athletic person, played sports my whole life, joined the Army. There are a lot of things I could have stopped doing, risks I didn't need to take. I'm lucky as hell that years of surgery and physical therapy and finally listening to doctors eventually brought me much of the way back, but 30s are, or at least should be, peak years. Losing them like that really leaves a hole.