"In your 50s, that's when you're really implementing some of those prevention techniques," says Spar, noting that the bulk of his patients seeking performance-based medicine fall into this age group. To stay proactive, he also recommends snagging a wearable health tracking device, if you can. That way, you can assess everything from your sleep to your stress to your blood sugar levels and make precise, personalized tweaks.

And if you are going to focus on one specific avenue, stress is a good place to start (long-term stress, after all, can affect your health in sinister ways). "At least figure out a way to know what stress feels like in your body," he says. "Get to know when you're stressed and what you could do to attenuate that. Try out different apps for meditation or breathwork, prayer, journaling. What can you be doing around your diet and supplements? Just try very consciously different things to tweak what your concerns might [be]."

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