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The human body is a wonderful thing, a marvel of evolution, biology, chemistry,

and a few bits like consciousness that we don't understand.

And for the most part, this meatbag of water and chemicals works pretty well.

But it's not perfect.

We will continue to age as long as we can't figure out how to improve the reproduction of telomeres,

those little strands of special proteins at the ends of our chromosomes. After many, many reproductions, they become ratty and degrade, which has a bad effect on our DNA and leads

to the symptoms of aging. We're susceptible to infections by bacteria, invasions by viruses,

and being plagued by fungal infections. And sometimes there are things within our own bodies

that turn on us, resulting in cancer and other diseases. However, this is all part of life.

It's something we just got to deal with. And because musicians are made of the same stuff as the

rest of us, we often hear of health issues that befall them. In this sense, they are just like you and

me. What we're going to do is take a look at some two dozen musicians who have had health issues,

how these challenges have affected their music, and how they're managing to keep on keeping on,

despite the difficulties.

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