I thought this was worth sharing. So many of us have been told that the healthcare by numbers method most doctors use by taking your blood sample, suggests how healthy you are. While there is validity to this, it is not health but a window into it, often used to place people on medications that are far from healthy for us. There is growing evidence that musculoskeletal health is significantly more important to our health, which is different than what patients are told during medical visits. The concept of health span versus life span has been discussed recently in numerous articles. Health span is the number of healthy years. Lifespan is how long you live. The healthier your musculoskeletal system is, and the better your physical conditioning is, the more likely you are to have many more years that are disease-free. While we all age, some of us age better with more activity, healthier habits, including eating healthier food. In my own 66 years of life, I have always been an active person, and I do my best to eat healthy. I stay away from most overprocessed foods that have calories than benefits to my body. I avoid sugar most of the time unless it comes from fruit or other healthy sources. Healthier active lifestyles reduce disease processes and reduce health risks. I decide what does and does not go into my body. Medicine always wants us to line up for the latest vaccine, treatment, etc, but is this good for us? I always tell patients that less is more, and hard lessons are learned when the preventative test or exam lands us in the hospital for a procedure to prevent a problem. My body, my temple, period. Poor musculoskeletal function will cause knee, hip, back, shoulder, and even neck problems. As people become more sedentary due to these problems, which are often preventable with proper management, they do less. The less we move, the more problems we develop in multiple systems in our bodies. The more efficiently our systems work mechanically, the fewer problems we tend to have as we age. The game of aging changes over time, and we must adapt as well. Chiropractic care helps us move, function, and feel better, which makes being active easier as we are more likely to have fewer injuries from falls that are caused by poor balance. They are primary care for the musculoskeletal system, something modern medicine’s care models often fail with, resulting in arthritis and many other problems that destroy the joints and leave us in chronic pain as we age. Seniors move and feel better with chiropractic care, and the improvements in activity improve their health span. Think health span rather than lifespan. Think chiropractic and live a healthier and active lifestyle. Check out the article below Musculoskeletal Health Is a Better Predictor of Longevity Than Blood Pressure or BMI While traditional health markers like blood pressure, cholesterol, and BMI dominate clinical medical practice, research now shows that simple functional tests may be more powerful in predicting how long we live and how well we age. 📊 Key findings: 1. Grip strength outperforms systolic blood pressure in predicting all-cause and cardiovascular mortality(Leong et al., 2015, The Lancet). 2. Gait speed is strongly correlated with survival in older adults(Studenski et al., 2011, JAMA). 3. Functional tests like sit-to-stand and balance provide real-time insight into frailty, disability risk, and biological aging(Cooper et al., 2010, BMJ). 4. 🚫 BMI and waist circumference, while helpful for metabolic risk, don’t reflect strength, coordination, or resilience.🧠Muscle function integrates metabolic, neurologic, and cardiovascular systems, making it one of the most holistic indicators of health span. ✅ Best part? These assessments are: 1. Low-cost 2. Equipment-free 3. Clinically validated 4. Predictive of morbidity, mortality, and independence Let’s evolve our understanding of health.Start measuring what matters most: strength, speed, and stability.#LongevityScience #MusculoskeletalHealth #GripStrength #GaitSpeed #PreventiveCare #HealthyAging #FunctionalMedicine #PublicHealth #BiologicalAge #StrengthIsVital #LinkedInHealth #Chiropractic #Healthspan Chiropractic should be part of your healthy lifestyle to stay active and improve your health span. Book online or call today.