Among the conditions most likely to cause death are lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), plus breast and prostate cancers.
A doctor has issued a chilling warning about the exact age deadly illnesses are most likely to strike.
Steven Bartlett, who hosts the Diary of a CEO podcast, spoke to Dr Vonda Wright regarding the average age when patients are expected to develop what could be a fatal disease..
Among the health conditions people could face are lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), plus breast and prostate cancers.
His data looked at the death rates for each disease and he concluded: “62.94 years old is the exact age that on average, I’m going to get one of these [diseases].”
The Manchester Evening News reports Dr Wright, confirmed the accuracy of the data.
He said: “Those are when they manifest, you may have them before then, maybe you never knew it. “I have people say to me when I ask them their health history, ‘What medical problems do you have?’ And they’re like, ‘I don’t have any’. Only because they’ve never been to a doctor.
“Or, maybe they’ve been diagnosed but they haven’t gotten so bad that they’re not spending three days a week in the doctor’s office, or maybe they are sick.”
“Those three categories right, but your chat GPT data is correct, that is when it shows up. That corresponds to when the average person retires,” she warned.
“So just when you start thinking you have time to live the life that you envision, you’re saddled with health problems that you have not taken care of.”
She stressed the importance of addressing health issues early on and said the 40s are a critical time for getting one’s health in order.
Dr Wright added: “Whatever the circumstances are, between 40 and 63, you have time to course-correct, but if you decide at 63 to pay attention, it is much harder.”
She added: “[It’s] to not only take care of people in my middle-aged demographic, but to really get to my millennial children and my millennial nieces and nephews and say, ‘You have so much control of your health if you just look up and pay attention’.”
The doctor also touched upon the foundations of a healthy lifestyle, which begin in childhood. “It begins with what we teach our children,” she said.
“I hear parents a lot of times who say, ‘Oh, my kid won’t eat this or that’ and ‘I can’t get my kid to do anything’.”
“I’m not scolding them in the way that I’m about to respond, I get it, I’m the mother of a family of six blended children, but here’s what I know… children learn from what they see. The time to begin is when our children are little.”
