In one of those "classic" SHTF scenarios, how long do you think you'll live, realistically?

some foods can be made outside of the methods of traditional agriculture.

In ww2, the nazis were making butter out of coal. You chemically alter coal to turn it into edible butter.

In theory, we could take the energy from power plants and use it to grow algae and eat that. Spirulina and Chlorella are complete proteins.

Humans don’t ‘need’ carbs to survive. We can pretty much survive on just fat and protein (people live for years on low carb diets). But we could use chemical processing to convert the cellulose of trees into edible glucose.

We could also synthesize glucose out of CO2 produced from coal plants.

It would all be expensive and time/labor intensive, but it would keep people alive. This assumes the infrastructure necessary to do all this is still available though.

I think having a good water filter would be a sound investment. I’ve heard Katadyn filters are the benchmark in terms of quality. I’m thinking of getting one of their gravity filters.

Speaking as a diabetic, who has had A1c tests done for two decades:

The technical term for what is being tested is a blood test for glycated hemoglobin; the function being tested is “HbA1c”, but everyone – laymen, doctors, scientists – commonly refers to it as an “A1c test.”

It’s not actually an acronym, regardless.