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Eric Topol

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TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You've got the same people who wouldn't take a vaccine, which has, you know, randomized trials, tens of thousands of people with overwhelming benefit to risk ratio.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And there's the same people that would inject an experimental peptide in their blood.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Right.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Well, you know, we have a

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

a moment where the medical community's word and judgment is being challenged every day.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And the idea that there's these influencers who they have the secrets they know, right?

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

They have big impact.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

So like example, cold plunge, right?

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

This is remarkable.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

I mean, I'm a cardiologist and I would consider a cold plunge a stress test.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Much more than a treadmill, because you get in a cold plunge, you are getting a big jump in blood pressure.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You're constricting all your blood vessels.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Your heart rate is jacked up.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And if you're going to have a heart attack, you could find out in the midst of a cold plunge or soon thereafter.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

I would never suggest people who might have risk for heart disease to have that.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And there's no real data to show benefit.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Yeah, yeah.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You know, it's going to give you more brown fat.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

I mean, help me.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

I mean, this is just too much.