“Don’t blindly trust health checkups!” Early detection and early treatment are illusions! Numerous tests actually cause illness! There are many cases where health checkups that are performed to live a long and healthy life actually increase anxiety, and this even shortens life expectancy. It is pointed out that people are often terrified when their cholesterol is just a little high, or make a fuss when their blood pressure is just a little high, or reach for antipyretics when they have a slight fever, or become anxious when their appetite decreases even a little, thinking that there might be cancer hiding somewhere in their body. Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and osteoporosis, which are commonly found through health checkups, are representative ‘health checkup diseases’ that point this out. All phenomena that occur in our bodies have a purpose. Coughing is a phenomenon that causes foreign substances in the lungs to be expelled out of the body by creating strong wind. Having a fever when you have a cold is a phenomenon that kills viruses that are weak to heat. Diarrhea is a phenomenon that causes bad substances in the intestines to be expelled out of the body at once. Losing your appetite when you are not feeling well is a signal to ‘stop putting food in your body and rest.’ Thanks to that reaction, we can maintain our lives. ㆍ In fact, we want to eat, but we hold back because it is harmful to our health. ㆍ We exercise for our health even though it is difficult to move our bodies. ㆍ We refrain from smoking or drinking because they are harmful to our health. ㆍ We hold back because we want to do something, but we say, “At this age.” ㆍ We continue to take medicine because we “want to live long” even though we do not feel any effect. These things that we do with the intention of living a long and healthy life are things that people over 80 do not need to refrain from or overdo. “It is better not to get a health checkup when you are over 80.” “It is better not to cut down on cancer.” “You can eat whatever you want. You can drink alcohol.”… These claims, which are likely to be met with criticism as if they are strange, are surprisingly made by a geriatric psychiatrist and clinical psychologist who has been working in the field of geriatric psychiatry for over 30 years and boasts the highest authority. “Everyone over 80 has cancer in their body. Many people live without knowing this. I learned that there are many cases where people die from other diseases without knowing they had serious diseases in their bodies while alive. In short, this means that there are diseases that we don’t realize until the end. Cancer is one of them. If you perform an autopsy on the remains of people over 85 years old, cancer is found in almost all of them. In other words, everyone over 80 has cancer in their body.” This means that although many people have a fear of cancer and desperately try to avoid getting cancer, it is better to accept it as a natural phenomenon that comes as you get older. 📚Reference book title: The Two Faces of Health Checkups / Lies in Health Checkups Author: Mitsumasa Matsumoto Publisher: Editor #HealthCheckup #HealthInformation #50s #60s #70s #80s