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What are good long-term investments in your health? - Marginal REVOLUTION

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1) what do you think are good long-term investments in your health? I know you’re a teetotaler and non-smoker, what about exercise? where do returns start not making sense? I do not think I am the expert you should consult, but I can tell you where my knowledge base comes from. I have endured a lifetime of people with very exact ideas about health maximization, but with a paucity of data or carefully controlled studies. I thus tend to be skeptical of very specific advice. At the same time, common sense appears to yield some broad dividends, or will involve no real cost. I think the answers that follow are pretty stupid and uninteresting, but this was the highest rated reader request, so here goes: 1. Don’t drink. It is fine or even beneficial for most people, but terrible for 10-15% That might be you. And even for those who are not “problem drinkers,” I’ve had plenty of people write me and tell me their lives are much better since they stopped drinking. Stop treating “drinking”

Stuart asks : 1) what do you think are good long-term investments in your health? I know you’re a teetotaler and non-smoker, what about exercise? where do returns start not making sense? I do not think I am the expert you should consult, but I can tell you where my knowledge base comes from. I have endured a lifetime of people with very exact ideas about health maximization, but with a paucity of data or carefully controlled studies. I thus tend to be skeptical of very specific advice. At the same time, common sense appears to yield some broad dividends, or will involve no real cost. I think t

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