Dan the man

For me it’s always been about a quality of life. I would love to be a centurion, but with predisposed genetics it’s most likely not going to happen. Every family has a health history, our forefathers gave us the genetics weather it’s great hair, skin, teeth or like my family where high blood pressure affected every generation as well as some sort of cancer. Both of my parents died from cancer, diabetes is also a family factor. We also have the drinking gene, on my mother’s side all my uncles were drinkers, it also may have been caused by the women they married. So through all that I have learned early on to take control of my own health, both parents smoked, although my mom quit when she was probably in her late 30’s my dad smoked cigars his whole life. My brothers and I all smoked, my brothers still do I stopped 25 years ago. Sugar is an issue and my two older brothers are diabetic, I have been managing my own food for over forty years, high blood pressure is a huge issue in my family all three of my brothers take meds for it and I was very close to taking them myself, but years ago I learned that stress is a major contributing factor so I learned how to manage it without meds, I walk everyday, workout at the gym, ride my bike, eat right do yoga and meditation. It all works very well I must say, it took a bunch or years, but after over forty years I have not taken medication because I don’t have any medical issues. My hopes are to live a full satisfied life, one I’m proud of, one that leaves warm memories. It doesn’t matter if it’s in my eighties nineties or even into the hundreds as long as it’s well lived.