Old age

So yesterday my best friend and I had lunch together and the conversation always varies drastically from one silly subject to the next...I suppose that's what happens when you've been friend for over 10 years. Amid phrases like "I drink jalapeños for breakfast," and "oh my gosh, that puppy is so cute!" Or, "don't look, her leggings are sheer!! Eek!" We stumbled upon a rather serious topic...see, we are both over 30, and while that's still relatively young, we arent quite green behind the ears anymore. I just turned 30 a little over a month ago, and she is 32 and newly married...so yes, by all stretches of reality, we are very young still, and that's great!!
However...have you ever heard someone tell you that the crazy things you did when you were younger would some day catch up with you??
Well, 30 seems to be the golden ticket ladies and gentlemen!!
We have both led very active lifestyles and both have very physically demanding careers; she's a massage therapist and I'm a professional ballroom dancer. We have both been doing these things for the vast majority of our adult lives and we are finding things have been catching up with us.
I can't go into her physical ailements too much, other than she has the hand of an angel but theyre stronger than steel, and she's constantly hurting her upper neck and back to the point she can't move.
I have danced my entire life and have chronic arthritis in my knees and hips, pinched nerves in my back, and just an overall tightness in my body regardless of how much stretching is done.
Well, I was hiking with a friend on Saturday at lost maples (again, if you haven't been, GO!) And my hip started hurting in a way I've never felt before!
My bff and I were talking about it yesterday and the fact that we always heard that around 30 things just start falling apart.....well, she mentioned something that is slightly less comical and much more serious.
Vitamins.
Calcium to be more specific, and the fact that maybe its time for both of us to start taking it.
Talk about a buzz kill.....oh man, what a dose of reality that I was not prepared for!! If turning 30 and not being married and having no children (not that bad in all honesty, but not what I imagined either) wasn't bad enough, NOW I was faced with my own mortality being told it was time for us to start taking calcium....oh man....the age thing is beginning to feel more relevant again...
So I guess what i would like to know is if those of you over 30 take vitamins and supplements?
Those of you UNDER 30, has that ever even crossed your mind?
Tbh, I have taken vitamins off and on for several years..about as long as I've been a professional dancer really.....bouts with glucosimine and chondroitin, vitamin d and (yes) calcium, fish oil, garlic, cinnamon, st johns wart, melatonin, among many other things....my problem is I have found MOST supplements make me feel very sick. So, I stop.
I guess its time to find something that doesn't make me sick....my hip's health depends on it!

And about those jalapeños for breakfast... We really do. This AMAZING juice and coffee bar in Alamo Heights (Revolution on Broadway for interested parties... NOT the gym...);has this juice they make in house called Glow....its AMAZING!! Cucumber, jalapeño, and another green ingredient I can't think of, probably kale....
But yeah, we drink jalapeños for breakfast. ;)