We live in a world in which obese indolent people think popping a few pills can compensate for their atrocious lifestyle choices. In reality, eating healthy foods and taking strenuous exercise for at least 30 minutes per day at least three times per week is the most reliable way to maintain health. We've known since the studies done by Melov at the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing back in the early 2000s that even people who've been indolent their whole lives can significantly benefit from belatedly making less inadequate lifestyle choices. Melov & co found that people in their 70s, formerly sedentary, could alter their gene expression profile and thereby produce many of the essential compounds required for health simply by adopting a regular regime of strenuous exercise. While I personally supplement, I rely on eating healthy foods and exercising strenuously at least six days per week. As a result, in my mid-60s I can routinely out-perform 90% of people a third of my age. That this should be so tells us (i) the adverse impacts of ageing can be to some significant degree mitigated by making adequate lifestyle choices, and (ii) today's youth is for the most part shockingly unhealthy.