Tag: longevity

The Annual Physical Every Man Over 50 Should Be Getting and What to Make Sure It Covers
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The annual physical that most men over fifty are getting is not the annual physical they should be getting. This is not primarily a criticism of the healthcare system, though the system has genuine limitations. It is a description of a structural mismatch between what a reactive, symptom-oriented medical visit is designed to detect and...

Preventive Health for Men Over 50: The Screenings and Tests That Are Not Optional
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There is a pattern in the stories that oncologists and primary care physicians tell about men over fifty who receive serious diagnoses. The pattern is not the disease itself. It is the timeline. The man who felt completely well. The man who had not seen a physician in several years because nothing hurt and nothing...

Making It to 100: The Daily Decisions That Either Build Toward It or Quietly Work Against It
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The conversation about longevity tends to happen at the wrong level of abstraction. Men talk about wanting to live a long, healthy life. They read articles about centenarians. They think about their father's health history and what it might predict about their own. They hold the goal of living well and living long in a...

Why Men Over 50 Should Be Building Their Life Around Making It to 100 and What That Standard Actually Demands
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Most men over fifty have never seriously considered that they might live to one hundred. Not as a realistic planning horizon, not as a daily operating standard, not as something that has any meaningful bearing on the choices they make about how to eat, how to train, how to manage stress, how to invest in...