Reply #9: Oh, I'm with you on the supplements. I've been nagging various family membersrs [View All]

about Vitamin D and Vitamin B-12. They got tested, and they were deficient!

I guess I'm speculating if we'll end up with a situation similar to men who get prostate cancer in their 80's; before it can catch up with them, they're dead from something else.

I mentioned hip replacements specifically because that's the big scare tactic - *****They**** are going to cut Medicare so ****you**** can't get a hip replacement! My one grandfather was really crippled up by the time he was in his 50's although he didn't retire until 65. So far, I'm tracking a lot better than he did.


If you talk to your parents, they may recall having a lot more problems with osteoarthritis at age 64 than you do now. Maybe, maybe not. As you say, heredity can have its way with us.