Dr. Eric Topol

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954 appearances 18 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 14 May

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Ground Truths · Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan · 12 Jun 2025 podcast

The only thing that I think we can say is, you know, in that whole idea about the immune system and inflammation, our environmental toxins.

like ultra-processed foods and microplastic, nanoplastics, forever chemicals, our exposure to that just keeps growing.

We aren't doing anything with all these non-degradable plastics that are getting distributed throughout our body and have been shown to accelerate heart disease and be linked to dementia and everything else.

Yeah, a spoonful of plastics in our brains.

I mean, this is just so concerning.

We're doing nothing about it.

And this is where, you know, going back to RFK Jr., he talked about doing this stuff.

But at the same time, we're getting rid of the EPA and doing everything we can to take a

away any chances to get on top of this, whether it's with big food or with the environment.

But it's hard to come up with another explanation, at least as far as I can see, for these young people getting cancer, diverse types of cancer, without somehow invoking one of these environmental triggers.

I mean, that's kind of a new frontier that we don't know enough about.

So whether we can manipulate the bacteria in our gut or their metabolites, the stuff that they make while they're in our gut, residents in our body,

We don't know how to do that yet.

There's a lot of work being done.

We only have one disease that they can help with, that manipulation with prebiotics and basically changing our constituents.

And that's this pseudomembranous colitis bacteria caused by Clostridium difficile.

But other than that, we are in the dark.

And so we don't know.

I do think that's going to be another.

We were talking, Katie, earlier about the gut hormones talking to the brain.

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