A few years ago my wife and I were down in the Dominican Republic and on the way home my wife started to have major gut pain. We considered informing the air crew to medically divert the flight into the US, but my wife insisted she would grin and bear it. When we finally landed in Calgary I took her directly to the hospital assuming an infected appendix. The doc's poked and prodded before declaring diverticulitis. My first question was "what heck is that?" followed by what can you do about it. They loaded her up with happy pills and ran some more tests to identify exactly what kind of infection they were dealing with. They made a concoction of antibiotics to totally clean out her gut. All the bugs, both good and bad were annihilated. Finally they fed her a drink full of good bugs to repopulate her digestive system. That was Feb 2009 and she hasn't had any repeat performances.
As far as diets and exercise like running or gym sessions, this poster pretty well covers my view ...
We have entered our "Golden Years" but so far the only Gold i see is all the coin going towards meds.
