For me, the constant stream of other health data shattered my willful ignorance. For as much as I would worry, the data kept insisting I was stubbornly healthy

For me, the constant stream of other health data shattered my willful ignorance. For as much as I would worry, the data kept insisting I was stubbornly healthy and that when I did feel poorly, it was almost always attributable to something specific I’d done recently. It made it very hard to maintain the anxieties I’d spent decades culturing, so I eventually just gave in and accepted that I was pretty darn fine and had some specific bad habits that had been surreptitiously fueling the anxieties. So while more data might make things worse for you, that experience is not universal.