[BurningFrog]

I guess young people don't always know this, but there are plenty of medications a lot of people take for the rest of their lives. Blood pressure and cholesterol pills are maybe the most common.

This gives a vast number of people 5-10 years longer lives, and I think this is great thing, even if some pharma executives end up getting rich.

[ido]

Or insulin. I’ve been shortsighted since childhood and will need to wear glasses for the rest of my life (unless I get laser corrective surgery, I guess).

Many people in my wife’s family have thyroid gland dysfunction and have to take thyroid hormones their whole lives.

[Karrot_Kream]

Not just young people. High blood pressure runs in our family. A cousin, despite being healthy in most indicators, developed high blood pressure at 23. She's still going in her 50s just fine but has had to take blood pressure meds for the last 27 years.