Your Body Has No Dashboard: Six Things Worth Checking While Nothing Hurts
Your car tells you when something is wrong. Your body doesn't.
High blood pressure produces no symptoms at all. Type 2 diabetes takes years to announce itself. Arteries clog up silently for decades, and in a meaningful number of cases, the first sign is the heart attack. There is a stretch of most people's lives, usually their thirties, forties, and fifties, when everything that will eventually matter is already underway, and nothing hurts.
Aviation worked this out a long time ago. Before every flight, somebody walks around the aircraft and checks it, and nothing is wrong. Nobody argues the walkaround should be skipped because the last four hundred were clear.
This short book applies that idea to the only piece of equipment you cannot replace.
Written by an Australian GP who also works in aviation medicine, it covers six pillars:
Move. Not exercise, and not a gym.
Sleep. How much, and just as importantly, how regularly.
Eat. No diet and no ban list.
Know your numbers. The four measurements that tell you what is happening inside you, even when you still feel completely fine.
The things that cost you quietly. Alcohol, smoking, vaping, sun, and sitting still.
Other people. The one nobody files under health, and the one with the strongest evidence behind it.
There is no program to follow, nothing to buy, no supplements, and no twelve-week plan. Five of the six involve no doctor at all. Every chapter explains itself through something you already understand and ends with one suggested action.
It also includes a plain-English guide to Australian health screening: what to check, at what age, how often, and what the numbers actually mean.
About ninety minutes to read.
You are not meant to do all six. Pick one.
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