Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

It may be that someone is listening to this in their 40s and actually for whatever reason, through no fault of their own, they didn't get the right inputs when they were a teenager.

Maybe their parents didn't know.

Maybe they had trauma.

Maybe they didn't do enough stuff that was going to maximize their ceiling of bone density.

And of course, it would have been better had that not happened.

But I think by saying that, it does two things.

Number one, it empowers you to go, okay, well, maybe I didn't have the best start in life.

But let me max what I can do now to make the most of what I have.

The second point is that person now could be a parent themselves.

I think, I hope most parents are certainly, this is how I feel, I want my kids to have a better life than I do.

I want to see them thrive and do things that I wasn't able to do or have opportunities that I didn't have.

And so if I, for example, didn't have the right inputs to me as a child,

I sure as hell want to make sure I'm giving my children that.

Yes.

So I think these conversations are important.

And I think sometimes, I don't mean at you, I think sometimes these days, maybe because of cancel culture, like we're sometimes too scared to say truth.

It's like, it's okay to say it.

It's like, you know, yeah, you may not have had the best start.

Okay.

But can you learn and give your kids something that you didn't have?