Dr. Eric Topol
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And so this is yet another category which is fueling the interest.
And then finally, there's actually real stuff that we can do now
that we should be doing.
And especially, you know, when we were talking about, you know, this make America healthy again, or whatever you want to call Maha, we could do this.
We have the tools to do this now, but we're not doing it.
So that's what I think is the real opportunity for today.
Yeah, this is of course what we're after.
And, uh,
Longevity, if you have dementia or other horribly debilitating diseases, no one really wants that.
But the whole idea is how can we extend healthspan where you're free of these age-related diseases.
You actually have a very high quality of life.
And to be at 85 plus and not have any cancer
not have any neurodegenerative disease, and have no heart disease.
That's really the goal we can achieve now.
I don't know about 100, but we certainly can get to 85 plus.
And the patients who I present in the book,
particularly Lee Russo, who's 98, who's just entirely intact in every possible way.
She's kind of prototypic of the future.
We're going to see a lot more of these super-agers or welderly.
And we used to think it was tied to our genes, but it isn't.