Nobody wanted to live a long time but be unhealthy in their older years. Obviously, but they operated (and continue to) under a medical paradigm where preventa

Nobody wanted to live a long time but be unhealthy in their older years. Obviously, but they operated (and continue to) under a medical paradigm where preventative medicine means just avoiding a few major harm factors and getting just enough exercise to maintain the average observed health metrics for their age group. People increasingly do not want to wind up like average 70 or 80 year olds, so it is absolutely appropriate that they start shooting for upper 10% or 5% -ile attributes now while they are younger so that in their old age the relative decline still keeps them at those same upper percentiles they will objvetively need to do the things in old age they want to do.