Mm-hmm.

Meaning we are feeling okay, we have no symptoms, no complaints, but we do go to see at least annually our primary care, uh, uh, physicians to have a regular testing, blood pressure testing, blood glucose, our liver chemistries, the liver enzymes that are part of the annual, uh, uh, lab testing.

And what happens is that by so doing, a condition can be picked up early, can be treated to prevent the bad things, quote-unquote, uh, from happening, the more advanced stages of, of, of many, uh, illnesses.

Sure

... perhaps even for a couple of years.

And yes, there's that sense of, "Oh, it could be this." They, they actually do even...

It, it, the thought crosses their mind that it might be something serious, but that sense of denial, "I, I just don't want to sort of, uh, deal with this or have this diagnosis," and then they put it off and put it off, uh, until it's too late.