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Dr. Eric Topol

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Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

the AI can figure out the risk very accurately over the next five years.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And in fact, a company just got FDA approval for that last week here.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

This is all part of that ability to predict our liabilities of our health, major, whether it's cancer,

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

heart disease, neurodegenerative disease, AI is having a big effect.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

So the mammogram is just one example, but the retina is one of the most extraordinary ones because from the retina in people who are healthy, you can determine if they have risks for heart disease,

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

for a stroke, for liver disease, kidney disease, for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's five years before they have any symptoms.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

The retina, we can't see these things, but AI can.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

And that's what's so extraordinary.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

So the retina isn't commercially available yet, but the multiplicity of exceptional research reports have shown that it's the case with all medical images, as we were talking about with the mammogram, but the retina is just rich.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

We thought it was a gateway just perhaps to the brain, but it's to almost every organ in the body.

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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

Yeah, so someday, Katie, we'll be doing our retina selfies and then having AI analyze it and giving us... Now, you're bringing up, well, you don't want to know if there's not a way to prevent, but we do have ways to prevent, particularly Alzheimer's, but also...

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

the heart and the cancer diagnosis.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

So, and we're gonna just keep getting better.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

That's what's really, so for people who are young now to know in advance, they're gonna be having a great opportunity to truly prevent.

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Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

This is one thing to emphasize that all these years, we're talking about millennia that medicine's talked about primary prevention of major age-related diseases.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

We've never done it before.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

But we actually can't do that now.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

Yeah, it's a great question.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

So there's a few reasons why we're seeing this longevity moment right now.

Ground Truths
Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

There's never been more intense interest.