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Dr. Eric Topol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
676 total appearances

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

It's not just about weight loss or helping diabetes.

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

It's about inflammation.

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

They are potent blockers of brain inflammation, testing now in Alzheimer's, in big trials, and also body-wide inflammation, which is critical in cancer and in heart disease.

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

So we're going to be using these drugs in the future in pill form.

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

To block inflammation.

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

And if those trials are coming out in early next year for Alzheimer's work, for these, you know, ozempic-like drugs, that's going to be one of the biggest changes in the history of medicine.

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

We've not had a really potent and safe anti-inflammatory drug, especially that gets its effects through the brain.

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

You know, I speculated that in super ages because that's where it looks like we're headed.

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

And remember, we're still in the early days.

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

We have these two hormone, gut hormone memetics, basically, that look like the hormones that we have naturally in our body.

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

There's another 15 more that have been discovered.

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

that are gonna be made into pills like these are, and all kinds of combinations.

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

And what we've learned is that the gut speaks to the brain and the immune system through these hormones.

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

So, you know, it used to be thought that a way to a man's heart was through his gut.

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

Well, now it's the way to a human's health, immune health, is through their gut hormones.

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

So we're going to see an explosion of this whole.

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

It's not just the ones we have today.

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

There's just so many combinations.

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

They're so potent.

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

Some of them get in the brain so much better than ones we have right now.