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Dr. David Agus

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Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So the way these studies are done is your electronic health records are bags of words. And with AI now and these large language models, we can convert that to structured data and do analysis. So in three separate studies, this was observed. So nobody could ever do a randomized trial over 30 years and say,

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So the way these studies are done is your electronic health records are bags of words. And with AI now and these large language models, we can convert that to structured data and do analysis. So in three separate studies, this was observed. So nobody could ever do a randomized trial over 30 years and say,

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

get shingles vaccine i'll give you placebo see what happens we had to pull data and say who got the shingles vaccine who didn't let's make sure they're equal in terms of their weight where they live how old they are etc and see the observations and it certainly was a very important observation it didn't necessarily prove causality but it was a hell of an association from something that's already on the market already reckon or recommended for everybody over the age of 50

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

get shingles vaccine i'll give you placebo see what happens we had to pull data and say who got the shingles vaccine who didn't let's make sure they're equal in terms of their weight where they live how old they are etc and see the observations and it certainly was a very important observation it didn't necessarily prove causality but it was a hell of an association from something that's already on the market already reckon or recommended for everybody over the age of 50

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

get shingles vaccine i'll give you placebo see what happens we had to pull data and say who got the shingles vaccine who didn't let's make sure they're equal in terms of their weight where they live how old they are etc and see the observations and it certainly was a very important observation it didn't necessarily prove causality but it was a hell of an association from something that's already on the market already reckon or recommended for everybody over the age of 50

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

And it's certainly something that I acted on and I hope others do also.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

And it's certainly something that I acted on and I hope others do also.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

And it's certainly something that I acted on and I hope others do also.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

All right, so the pig. The pig is something, obviously, we make fun of all the time. You live in a pig pen, et cetera. So they studied the pig. And what was really interesting is they studied their pain response. And so when pigs had pain, they would squeal and they would run away from it.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

All right, so the pig. The pig is something, obviously, we make fun of all the time. You live in a pig pen, et cetera. So they studied the pig. And what was really interesting is they studied their pain response. And so when pigs had pain, they would squeal and they would run away from it.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

All right, so the pig. The pig is something, obviously, we make fun of all the time. You live in a pig pen, et cetera. So they studied the pig. And what was really interesting is they studied their pain response. And so when pigs had pain, they would squeal and they would run away from it.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

But what they showed is when a pig had altruism, when it was able to share its food with others, the pain threshold went up dramatically. And it was a staggering observation that altruism, sharing things, being kind to others actually changed our pain threshold and how we responded to pain. Pretty wild if you think about it. And then get a load of this.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

But what they showed is when a pig had altruism, when it was able to share its food with others, the pain threshold went up dramatically. And it was a staggering observation that altruism, sharing things, being kind to others actually changed our pain threshold and how we responded to pain. Pretty wild if you think about it. And then get a load of this.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

But what they showed is when a pig had altruism, when it was able to share its food with others, the pain threshold went up dramatically. And it was a staggering observation that altruism, sharing things, being kind to others actually changed our pain threshold and how we responded to pain. Pretty wild if you think about it. And then get a load of this.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

The queen ant, which is the same genetics, she gives birth to all the worker ants. Well, she lives 42 years. The worker ant lives six months, same genetics, dramatically different lifestyle. That queen ant doesn't go out into the wild, doesn't get exposed to bacteria, viruses, doesn't do manual labor to get inflammation, harm things, and she lives much longer.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

The queen ant, which is the same genetics, she gives birth to all the worker ants. Well, she lives 42 years. The worker ant lives six months, same genetics, dramatically different lifestyle. That queen ant doesn't go out into the wild, doesn't get exposed to bacteria, viruses, doesn't do manual labor to get inflammation, harm things, and she lives much longer.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

The queen ant, which is the same genetics, she gives birth to all the worker ants. Well, she lives 42 years. The worker ant lives six months, same genetics, dramatically different lifestyle. That queen ant doesn't go out into the wild, doesn't get exposed to bacteria, viruses, doesn't do manual labor to get inflammation, harm things, and she lives much longer.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

The ants, if you get sick and you're an ant, you stay outside the colony for three days. And if you get better, you go back. If you don't, you die outside the colony and you don't spread that virus or that bacteria to others. Well, look what happened during the pandemic, right?

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

The ants, if you get sick and you're an ant, you stay outside the colony for three days. And if you get better, you go back. If you don't, you die outside the colony and you don't spread that virus or that bacteria to others. Well, look what happened during the pandemic, right?

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

The ants, if you get sick and you're an ant, you stay outside the colony for three days. And if you get better, you go back. If you don't, you die outside the colony and you don't spread that virus or that bacteria to others. Well, look what happened during the pandemic, right?