So here is a thought. Why does one do things that are bad for one’s own health for 45 years, then expect to change suddenly and have their health improve overnight.
If one has abused one’s own physical body with smoking, or drinking, or sloth, or eating too much, but at age 66 suddenly change lifestyle behavior (quit, abstain, tidy up, eat right, you might think that it is appropriate for the healing to take place in a matter of a few weeks. Biology isn’t like that. If over a 50 year span one has been neglectful, what gives us them the right to expect healing overnight. Forgiveness is a moral issue, there is no forgiveness in biology…. but there is repair, so repair of cells and tissues is biology takes time, a long time. There is no “get out of consequences free” card in biology.
- Doctors (even though they tend to think this) cannot save everyone. Nor should doctors go about the business of pressuring us into having procedures which are good for the “bottom line in profit” but ultimately may affect our health negatively. The same is true for Big Pharma, telling us that we should medicate every ache and pain (largely stemming from our inactivity and innatention).
- We make choices (the up quark and down quark (physicists, forgive me) minute by minute, hour by hour, and so on, and even attempting to do what is biologically right may not work (because of overriding and as yet unclear processes).
- We can repair, this is a good thing, but repair doesn’t come to those who hide.