Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

I read one of the books on wellness and it made me pissed off beyond belief.

Part of what bothered me about a lot of these wellness books is the sort of narcissism of them.

You know, it's about me living a long time.

If you want to both be healthy and live a long and happy life, it's about purpose, engaging with other people and engaging your mind.

The people who are talking about wellness today and longevity and pursuing it obsessively, it consumes their life.

It's the total focus.

The first thing is social life is critically important.

One of the reasons we have a loneliness epidemic is because we're not interacting.

Social media is not helping, and we have a lot of forces pushing us to be isolated.

The number one thing for a long and

Happy life is social relations and robust social relations.

And the last thing is you got to stay mentally engaged.

You got to be mentally on it.

Be curious about the world.

You got to have purpose.

That's my great honor.

I don't know how long we've known each other, Mark, on and off for pushing 40 years.

Well, I would say that there are three confluent streams.

So it is true that primarily in the Obama administration, I worked on health care reform and the Affordable Care Act.

But it wasn't the only thing I did.