Health sciences are imprecise at best. We creatures of the King are so incredibly complex in our makeup. (You probably read that some institution recently “dscovered” an unknown and unrecognized muscle in our jaw structure.) Medicine is a guessing game and we are the puzzle pieces.

I am not recommending this to anybody, but as a man moving from “old” to “older than dirt”, I’ve found myself easily breathless and tired. I have moderately elevated blood pressure and have been on BP medication for years. I read that some medical “experts” are suggesting that old people like me are better off with our MEBP left untreated, and I’d developed an alergic reaction to the meds. So I quit taking them.

It snowed yesterday and we had about 10″ on our driveway needing shoveling. So I shoveled the snow. No breathlessness and no exhaustion! I feel so much better since quiting the meds. They were making me feel older than necessary!

Did you know that almost 80% (I believe that number to be correct, but you can check me on that.) of US medical cost is spent on fighting off death in the elderly? And the fight is lost every time? I believe in the sacredness of life from conception to natural death, and the American medical industry is devoted to profiting off the natural process of dying. Most of the billions spent on Covid treatment enriches the medical industry but does very little in promoting the quality of life in the natural process of death. At least this is my not-so-humble opinion.