Do you want to live to 100? Thanks to modern medicine, you have a decent chance of doing so. But if you want to live well to 100, physician and best-selling author Peter Attia says you may have some work to do so your last decade of life is healthful and rewarding, not limited by disease. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says Attia talks about “the Four Horsemen of Chronic Disease”-cardiovascular disease, cancer, cognitive diseases and metabolic disease. Mueller says Attia believes a goal should be improving your health span so that when you’re 80, you actually function like a 65 year old. “All of the first three are exacerbated dramatically when you have a matabolic disease such as Type 2 diabetes,” Mueller told WFDL news. Mueller says you can help avoid that by healthy eating, sleep, and exercise. Attia says the question is what’s the alternative? He says the alternative is continuing to do what we’re doing. How is that working out? Not so well. If preventive measurements are too expensive, treating them is costlier.
