Midlife’s Hidden Health Issue—And the Study Offering Hope
Adding one more study to my "watch closely" list
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I consider myself a prevention person.
Basically, I don’t wait for trouble to start before I take action. I can read about what could happen and plan accordingly.
I’m talking mainly about health.
Many of us would do this more at midlife if only we knew how to prevent or decrease our risk of what I call silent conditions.
These are the conditions that don’t get attention but are super impactful to our health.
I wish for a day when health professionals treat midlife like childhood stages by incorporating anticipatory guidance.
Anticipatory guidance is when health professionals help their patients (and parents) understand what to expect and what to do if things don’t progress appropriately.
We simply don’t do this with adults who have finished growing, particularly not during midlife when biological aging occurs and women go through the menopause transition.
So I want to add a study to my “studies I’m closely watching” list because I think it has the potential to change the game on a silent condition that most of us will get in our lifetime.
The hidden condition
Margaret instinctively knew there was something wrong with her health despite being told she was fine and had a “heart of a 25-year-old.”
Her health took a turn as she experienced peripheral neuropathy in her feet and eye muscles. This time, she was told it was probably just aging and menopause.