Dr. Eric Topol
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the AI can figure out the risk very accurately over the next five years.
And in fact, a company just got FDA approval for that last week here.
This is all part of that ability to predict our liabilities of our health, major, whether it's cancer,
heart disease, neurodegenerative disease, AI is having a big effect.
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,
for a stroke, for liver disease, kidney disease, for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's five years before they have any symptoms.
The retina, we can't see these things, but AI can.
And that's what's so extraordinary.
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.
We thought it was a gateway just perhaps to the brain, but it's to almost every organ in the body.
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...
the heart and the cancer diagnosis.
So, and we're gonna just keep getting better.
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.
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.
We've never done it before.
But we actually can't do that now.
Yeah, it's a great question.
So there's a few reasons why we're seeing this longevity moment right now.
There's never been more intense interest.