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I think medical research is also biased against healthier people. The "standard baseline... male body" isn't particularly healthy, especially in older ages. People just don't take very good care of themselves, they eat crappy food, and don't exercise. I'm thinking specifically of high LDL cholesterol, and statins being universally shoved at us to bring it down. But, recent research shows that high LDL cholesterol alone, in an otherwise quite healthy person, may not be the risk to plaque build up it's assumed to be. Because, most of the research is done on less healthy, "standard baseline... males."