What keeps you alive and (mostly) well?

Chris-380 said:
Lost about 90 pounds in the last year. Currently close enough to where I want to be

I run 15-20 miles/week
Swim 6 miles/week
Elliptical 2 hours/week

low carb, plenty of meat, egg and cheese

Last time blood pressure was taken a couple weeks ago, it was 106/65

physical annually, including psa numbers, had colonoscopy a month ago, all was good.

I haven’t done the prostate exam, rely n the psa, I am not that close to my doctor yet… lol

The only med I take is 10 mg rosuvastatin per day for cholesterol….

49 years old, hope to live another 30 years
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As a cancer survivor, definitely have your prostate checked. The Docs all use lube. :D
 
Soon to be 61yrs. After 32 yrs. in 2013 doing electric at a Power Plant I retired with a pension at 52 yrs. old. Took a low stress maintenance job at Daisy Brand. Started gaining weight and feeling like crap. Over two years stopped eating processed food and slowly stopped eating meat except seafood AKA pescatarian. Also stopped eating after 5:00 which made a big difference with my weight. The 5:00 thing I stick to through the week on the weekend nothing after 7:00.
 
dvx216 said:
Soon to be 61yrs. After 32 yrs. in 2013 doing electric at a Power Plant I retired with a pension at 52 yrs. old. Took a low stress maintenance job at Daisy Brand. Started gaining weight and feeling like crap. Over two years stopped eating processed food and slowly stopped eating meat except seafood AKA pescatarian. Also stopped eating after 5:00 which made a big difference with my weight. The 5:00 thing I stick to through the week on the weekend nothing after 7:00.
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Interesting. I had a horrible bout of acid reflux early in 2021. It reduced the amount I could eat. Eventually the reflux got better, but my eating patterns were altered permanently. When I had the bad reflux I could eat well in the morning but as the day progressed and as my metabolism ramped up the reflux would fire up and I could eat less and less as the day progressed. But it was worse if I didn't eat at all, so I had to eat something. But now dinner is by far my smallest meal of the day and I think that has a lot to do with how I lost 38 pounds. I got back into an exercise routine about a month ago and feel a lot better.

I have always hated distance running. Even when I had a 30" waist and could shovel asphalt or concrete all day without breathing hard, I could only run about 3 miles before body parts started falling off. Just was never built for it. So I developed a routine involving walking on the treadmill, hitting a heavy bag and speed bag and free weights. Gets the pulse rate up for 20 - 30 minutes, gets the blood flowing and is good strength training to boot. I want to lose about 15 more pounds, but that will go slow since I am trading fat for muscle.
 
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62 years young, no chronic diseases no meds thank God.

Firm believer in high intensity weight training w Anaerobic training 3x week. It’s getting harder to recover so hump day is body weight low impact day.

I read Life Extension book by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw 30 years ago and it’s served me well.
 
Juliery said:
As a cancer survivor, definitely have your prostate checked. The Docs all use lube. :D
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Cancer survivor here also. I bent over but the doctors never found any prostate cancer nor the rectal cancer that I had. Went in for a routine colonoscopy and it was found. No symptoms except that I thought I had hemorrhoids. Surgeon checked and felt it with the tip of his finger. WTF. If the urologist would have noticed it I wouldn’t of had to have the radical surgery I went thru…
 
Steve S said:
Cancer survivor here also. I bent over but the doctors never found any prostate cancer nor the rectal cancer that I had. Went in for a routine colonoscopy and it was found. No symptoms except that I thought I had hemorrhoids. Surgeon checked and felt it with the tip of his finger. WTF. If the urologist would have noticed it I wouldn’t of had to have the radical surgery I went thru…
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Sorry to hear of your experience, Steve. The urologist should have found it. But we are still here and I'm grateful for that, my friend! :)
 
mrsrobinson said:
And honestly, we will never know if what we do really helps. We could clone ourselves to do a case study/comparison...
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I actually have a natural one he has always weighed less than me but drinks a lot more and doesn't go to the Dr so no way to compare the numbers directly other than weight BP and over the counter sugar test
 
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