After I started to seriously engage in endurance exercise (specifically swim, bike, run.. no coincidence), I've made the surprise discovery at how massive the i

After I started to seriously engage in endurance exercise (specifically swim, bike, run.. no coincidence), I've made the surprise discovery at how massive the improvement has been over the assumed cost of having these changes. People, judging from the advertisement airing by the day, would have paid 1000s for medications that would only cover a portion of benefits and had side effect in others. I've became generally happier, more energized, lost 30 lbs, and generally able to do so much more with my body then I previously could, along with alleviating a few vices (e.g. doom scrolling) from my life due to necessity. And the entire time I was running or cycling or swimming I was quite happy. If this is a product that are gated behind a purchasing decision, I would have a hard time trying to assign it value seeing how much change it introduced. But it's not. I feel like we as a society are not emphasizing the benefit of exercise, specifically endurance exercise enough. There's a lot of money to be made selling Ozempic but Nike make more money selling Jordans than trainers. There's a small group of people that unlocked this secret but the gospel is hard to get out. I wonder if over time we will see more people getting involved in these sports - I do think the society will benefit a lot in general if even 20% were to try running a half marathon or a triathlon.