Dr. Eric Topol

You know, it was like, I don't have a two or three day hiatus here that I can just get sick.

But finally I said, well, the data here are really compelling.

But that's just, we don't, the shingles vaccine is an example of revving up the immune system in older adults.

And that's what we're, you know, in the future, we're going to be using vaccines just to bring the immune system up at a higher level to maintain its integrity.

And we're going to use anti-inflammatory drugs.

So these drugs like Ozempic and Moonjaro, they're real actions.

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

It's about inflammation.

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.

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

To block inflammation.

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.

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

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

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

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

There's another 15 more that have been discovered.

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

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

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