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Hormones play a HUGE role of course but those can be addressed with your doctor so not going to discuss that here.
Let's focus on the whole wanting to blame your "genetics" or say "it's a thing my family has" as a crutch.
Too many times people will just accept having to take a bag of medication with them or take ten pills a day as normal.
Sometimes things do happen to people randomly - such as my former healthy eater coworker who loved to run and workout but yet he had a heart attack in his 40's. I get it. Things can happen.
THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.
What gets me is watching someone eat something like two jumbo sized honey buns while saying "my family all has diabetes which is why I do too." Or watching someone eat food with grease dripping off of their food (and their chin) saying "My heart problems come from my family. Everyone has heart issues." Said person may or may not be sitting on the couch for six of more hours per day and can barely walk across the room without complaining of pain (just to add for dramatic effect).
Call me a jerk, but at times, it's hard not to roll my eyes.
Why do people not look at lifestyles of their family members with these conditions to see if there is a common denominator? I cringe whenever I have to give my family's health history. I swear I've seen doctors cringe.
Random fact to interject - I started thinking about my own health after my paternal grandfather (in his 70's), my father's sister (60's), and my father (52) all died from Colon cancer. Oh, let me add my maternal grandmother is a colon cancer survivor.
Maybe I'm too proactive or too much into research. I look at the conditions that are "common" in my family and ask myself "What can I do to change this?" "What can I teach my children from this?"
Break the family "curses." Look up risk factors and how you can mitigate those. The body is a machine and it's a pretty cool machine when you really start to look into how it works.
