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

Up there, like $800, $900 are these cancer, multi-cancer early detection tests.

They're going to come down too.

The point being is, if you prevent one of these diseases, the difference in spending $100, $200 versus the treatment for these diseases, which are very expensive, if not even ineffective,

case in point, Alzheimer's.

The trade-off here is something maybe not in the United States, Katie, but in most of the rich countries around the world, and an example would be the UK, but many others, they're going to be providing all these things because they're low cost to everyone because preventing these diseases and promoting health of the population is what we want to do, right?

Of course.

We have this crazy system here, which is, you know, out of pocket and poor insurance coverage and inaccessibility.

We're not positioned well to implement this new era of prevention, but other countries will.

Yeah, that's kind of why I wrote the book, Katie, because the people should know about this stuff.

I mean, there's a revolution going on and it's very quiet.

You know, nobody's heard of organ clocks, you know, or PTAL 217 or, you know, a lot of things that we're talking about, how inexpensive it is to get polygenic risk scores for all these conditions or even a genome sequence.

So most doctors are unaware.

Maybe with AI, they'll be more aware as we go forward.

But we have a void of knowledge in the medical community.

And it's because everyone's busy and they just can't keep up with these.

You know, these are big discoveries that are being made.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you nailed it, which when why aren't we doing this?

We should be investing in this, not gutting the resources, because we've never had such a propitious time in medicine to change the whole arc of these big diseases, which, you know, by 65, the majority of Americans have at least one of these diseases.

And it's just the elderly.

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