Chronic Disease Became the Biggest Scourge in American Health
2 nradov 2 5/15/2025, 2:00:23 PM wsj.com ↗
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FrankWilhoit · 5h ago
The human body is designed to last 40 years. Past that, the cellular software doesn't know what to do, and it just sort of blunders on -- mostly fairly well, but weird things happen. We call the weird things "chronic disease", because that is the conceptual frame within which we try to understand our attempts to motivate them.
nradov · 3h ago
And yet many people go well past 40 years with no signs or symptoms of chronic disease.