Dr. Eric Topol

Yeah, I mean, I like the holistic part of this, that when we see a person and trying to evaluate their health and promote their health span, we should be thinking about everything, their mental health, every organ.

I mean, that's what's exciting now is we actually have organ clocks.

We have specific protein markers.

We even have a protein score for health span that just got published this past week.

I mean, we have new ways to get at

this total body brain, total body health.

And like, for example, a lot of people have no idea that there's a marker for Alzheimer's, which is incredibly accurate and can be picking up the risk two decades ahead.

Well, you know, if you have a family history of Alzheimer's,

and you have, let's say, an APOE4 allele, you would want to know because if your PTAL217 is low, that is liberating.

And if it's high, if you exercise, if you need to lose weight, if you have a better diet and better sleep health, it markedly lowers this marker.

And it should greatly extend your health span without the worry of Alzheimer's.

So this whole notion of I don't want to know, that's old stuff, Katie.

No, that's okay.

The new thing is I can do this.

I can prevent the three age-related diseases.

particularly Alzheimer's, heart disease, and cancer.

We're in a new day for this.

And people don't realize that we shouldn't have this defeatist attitude.

It's not necessarily in our genes at all.

And so I like holistic idea of treating the person, but using the tools, the science we have today.