Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

These are connected systems and the immune system sits at the heart of them all.

Yes, it's almost as if, you know, if we were starting medicine today from scratch, which of course is impossible, right?

we may not set it up in the way in which it's currently set up.

We may actually go, and actually I think it's reasonable to say this, if you look at both the research and the historical application of medicine from clinicians,

I think you could almost say the way we've got it set up in many ways is misguided.

Yeah.

Instead of organs, it should perhaps be systems.

Yeah, I guess the only problem with that, what I agree with you is that if you then became an immunology medical specialist...

You're basically doing everything.

Because the inflammation comes from the immune system and the inflammation is at the heart of Alzheimer's and heart attacks and strokes and types of diabetes.

So you're becoming the expert generalist.

Or at the very least...

Even if you work in an organ speciality, you should have some training or professional development in immunology.

Because frankly, a lot of doctors just don't have that.

Yeah, exactly.

We've talked a lot about the practical things that we can do for our immune system.

But I want to go back to...

One of the kind of main ideas in your latest book that I really enjoyed, what is the point of all of this?

Why should you make time to do these things?

What is the point of life and how we're living our lives?