Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

You know, for one thing, yes, as I said, as you know, exercise and food and sleep, who could object to that?

But it leaves out the most, in my view, the most important thing.

The first most important thing is social relationships.

You know, you look around the world and almost all the long lived places.

And by the way, places that are happy, social relationships and sociability around meals turn out to be absolutely integral to their culture and their way of life.

And that is often left out of these books.

And in fact, they suggest you should be, you know, individually work hard and, you know, pump weights and whatever else.

The second thing is, you know, as my father so kindly says in one of the chapters is entitled.

Pediatrician and probably his biggest public health effort.

He was a practicing pediatrician taking care of it.

But he had a big public health effort around banning lead paint and getting rid of lead paints from apartments in the early 1960s.

He led that campaign in Ohio.

And so, you know, there are plenty of things we do that are schmucky, as it were.

You know, the number one, I had a student that's like, I'm going to climb Mount Everest.

Well, that's a schmuck move, okay?

Lots of your audience may or may not know this, but, you know, your chance of dying going up Mount Everest are one in a hundred for all age, all comers, including the experts.

The chance of dying if you're over 59, and I'll confess I'm over 59, is one in 25.

What an idiot.

Who would do that?

Make a chance of dying one in 25 for a few weeks or months of bragging rights that you climbed Everest just doesn't stand.