Go outside and play

I believe in science.  I like modern medicine because here I am, a person who did not die of all the childhood diseases against which I was vaccinated, who survived two pregnancies with healthy outcomes for both me and the kids in spite of complications, and who needed pharmacological help with depression for years.

There are things, however, that medicine doesn’t do and science hasn’t figured out yet.  All the pills in the world are not going to make up for unhealthy food choices.  There is no drug to replace exercise.  For that matter, there’s no pharmaceutical substitute for hugs and the other human contact we need to survive.

Even when there are technological interventions, they always work better if we do the human stuff, too.  That knee replacement isn’t going to do much good if we shirk the physical therapy.  If we don’t change the lifestyle things that are causing the pain, we’re going to have to deal with drug side effects and maybe addiction as well.

It’s low-tech and not particularly exciting, but let’s eat the veggies and get sweaty and go outside to play.  That’s what life is made out of, even more than DNA and stardust.