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David Fajgenbaum

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

So they're leaving mutated, and so they're not good at reading its own DNA.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

You did a 180.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

I did, I did.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Yeah, yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

And that kind of distended stomach you get when you, I forget what condition that's called, but yeah, there's a lot happening.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

A lot's happening, yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

True vulnerability hits when you relapse like that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

And you had three relapses in five years?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Okay, so when do you get the kind of breakthrough thought that maybe I should approach this in an off-label way?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

And let's just talk about off-labeling in medicine and how that works.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

4,000 FDA approved prescriptions one could be given.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

As someone who loves someone going through that stuff, you're always really having a hard time debating whether or not you're going to snuff out their hope or help them get to the part where we have closure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

That's what you're trying to navigate.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Like, no, my love, it's time for us to take stock of all the good stuff and have as much gratitude as we can have on the way out.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

So once you have this idea, where do you start?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

There's 4,000 drugs.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

You start doing classes of drugs.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

There's a doctor dealing with six patients over here that calls it this thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

It could be the same thing, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Exactly.