Your body speaks softly before it learns to shout.

Warnings begin quietly. A slight stiffness, a mild ache, sleep that is not quite right, tiredness that does not clear. Ignored, these do not disappear, they escalate, because escalation is the only way a signal gets through to someone who is not listening. By the time it is loud, the options are fewer and the recovery is longer.

Think of the quiet thing you have been noticing and postponing. Attend to it while it is still quiet. Listening early is almost always the shortest route through.