Our family started doing regular DEXA scans and comprehensive blood panels as part of a longevity plan, but now my teenage kids are developing anxiety about their health metrics and my spouse thinks we're creating problems we're trying to prevent. We wanted to model healthy aging but we might be modeling health obsession instead.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parents implementing longevity protocols as a family are discovering that health optimization can become health anxiety, particularly for younger family members who didn't choose this level of medical monitoring.
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