People really think annual physicals ought to help, for all the reasons you listed. But they've been studied extensively in empirical trials, and they just don'

People really think annual physicals ought to help, for all the reasons you listed. But they've been studied extensively in empirical trials, and they just don't; not everything that seems like it ought to work actually does. (Just like how the Earth feels solid, flat, and stationary, but of course we know now that it's a spinning sphere.) Here's a review by Cochrane Collaboration, where they looked at 15 studies involving 250,000 people and found no effect: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353639/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353639/