I'm falling apart

[shootingstar]

No, I don't have any medical issues thus far. However in the past 5 years, I do tend to be more vigilant on what I eat, my balance so I don't fall.(After 2 unexplained incidents of severe vertigo..), etc. I'm 50 which I consider experienced in life, but still "young" and still much learn.

As mentioned months ago here, I do have a warped perception of aging because my partner is 16 yrs. older and he is cycling-fit, active, with occasional problems with a knee from an old injury decades ago. And our lifestyle is cycling oriented anyway without a car. We're friends with several cyclists in his age group so this messes me up how people normally "look" and move in their 60's and 70's.

I do come from a family, where there is clear evidence to me, that lifelong reasonably (though not always perfect) healthy diet, means ..less medical complications when one become truly sick/ill.

I would not say that in my family the previous generation did sports, etc. Their physical fitness was more due to physical labour/lack of mechanization for certain activities.

Attitude of one's own physical capabilities is important also. If a person believes that walking is not a huge effort, but an enjoyable daily activity then that also contributes to overall physical and mental well-being. Saw that in my partner's mother who walked to store for grocery shopping for 2 kms. or so in winter snow ..up to when she was 88 yrs. She didn't drive. What determined her physical decline, was when she could no longer walk her dog daily without tripping and falling over the dog leash several times (and breaking her glasses, bruising her face, etc.).

It was rather amusing when she in her early 80's was pals with another woman in her late 60's. The woman in her late 60's was suffering alot more (cardiopulmonary problems) and greater mobility problems...because she didn't eat healthy during her lifetime. She still nixed veggies much to the disgust of her older friend. It's wierd to see an older woman refuse to eat vegetables. Like part of childhood never left her.