I've realized similarly and by being "blessed" with very low-grade chronic conditions (family of diabetics, fatigue), I've created my own low grade insurance po

I've realized similarly and by being "blessed" with very low-grade chronic conditions (family of diabetics, fatigue), I've created my own low grade insurance policy by creating lifestyle interventions in nutrition and exercise to maintain my health. If I were to summarize the thousands of hours of what the Phd/MD health podcaster space has promoted, the jist of it comes down to: - Get about 1 cup of 5 colors a day. Usually a smoothie is the way to achieve this. I make them in batches and they are conveniently available as grab and go. - Prioritize sleep - Exercise to improve v02 max as high as possible I think _most_ of the population on hackernews has the financial privilege to implement the above 3 in various ways. But those will provide such a quality of life improvement to anyone dealing with chronic illness that it reduces the need for medicine a ton. And much of the damage from the environment can be mitigated by providing the body with the nutrition necessary to detoxify and deal with the various stresses they bring. The way to look at modern medicine is that, modern medicine is very good at fast death scenarios. Heart attacks, randomly acute conditions, but they are terrible when it comes to slow death conditions like diabetes and dementia. We need to look to rely on modern medicine for quick death, while creating interventions on the slow-death side ourselves, unfortunately.