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I'm 6' 1'' & do the same except I skip lunch whenever my weight rises above 185 lbs. and only resume eating lunches again when my weight drops back below that threshold. It's not Buddhist in the traditional sense but is gentler in its daily time spacing when fasting is being called for.
Since my diet is pretty healthy (Ovo Lacto vegetarian and usually local & organic) my weight is** best** controlled by being mindful that any meal's true volume matches what I really need over what I want, along with a general avoidance of snacking between meals. Being careful of my sugar/salt and fat intake also seems to help.
In addition to daily walks and bike riding, on every even-numbered day, I do a half hour of weight exercising at a gym, and on odd-numbered days it's a cardio-taxing hill climb.

All of this just allows me some mobility that many of my peers are no longer able to match but time eventually evens out everyone's physical & mental differences.

I came across this…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft

And it seemed interesting that The Guardian would publish it, the guy must have a pretty good reputation. Maybe there is something to this UFO malarkey after all…

So here is a question for you: say you have lived a meditative life and followed the dharma, been peaceful, generally an advanced practitioner. Then when you are 70 you get Alzheimer’s and you become grumpy, cantankerous, and you start hitting your wife. What has happened to that peaceful practitioner? Is all that you’ve worked on gone, was it just a thin surface layer?

According to neuroscience the seven parts of the brain control
Thoughts and decisions.
Memories and emotions.
Movements (motor function), balance and coordination.
Perception of various sensations including pain.
Automatic behavior such as breathing, heart rate, sleep and temperature control.
Regulation of organ function.
Speech and language functions.

Also one has to take into account what happens to the brains of Alzheimer’s sufferers, its gradual deterioration...which includes the part of the brain which controls the central nervous system for example....

The hypothalamus handles information that comes from the autonomic nervous system. It plays a role in controlling functions such as eating, sexual behavior and sleeping; and regulates body temperature,emotions, secretion of hormones and movement.

No doubt there's also a Karmic element to it...bearing in mind karma is neither good or bad it's just results of past ( this life or past lives) actions...

And in a sense we are just vibrating bundles of energy flux held together by karmic glue...the physical part (the part which we need to communicate with other sentient beings) is prone to deterioration...making communication difficult...

The more we can understand what the person with Alzheimer’s is going through, may assist us in how we react to their often 'incontrollable' nature...

It must be a very scary time for them...and their loved ones...

How deep does Dharma go?
How deep does life go?
Same question.
Fathomless
When you begin to understand that life, your life, extends from your deepest core within to envelope the entire universe, you will have a a glint of a glimmer of the depths of the Dharma.
Good hunting.

Peace to all.