Eric Topol

People should know there are dangers.

You don't have the ability to send them to independent labs before you inject.

When you get them, they say on the bottles or the syringes for research use.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, it's really troubling because we used to have this notion that all the things that are recommended for population health should have evidence to back them up.

And now we are willing to see things supported with zero evidence and worse than that, potential real harm.

And so it's very troubling.

And it goes along the continuum of the anti-science, anti-vax,

And what's so paradoxical here is 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.

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

So none of it makes sense, really.

Yeah, we have a big problem here because we don't have the kind of universal health care that every other high-income country does have, so that our fragmented setup is very poorly positioned to integrate these new things.

And not only we have the barriers that have been entrenched for many decades, but we also have now the people that are running the public health agencies that are going against evidence.

So

It's a troubling time.

Still, everyone has agency to, as you say, do their best with their lifestyle factors in terms of air quality, particularly indoors.

There's things you can do.

There's reducing the plastic burden intake, keeping an eye on the things that are in your home regarding forever chemicals.

It's not enough, Manoush, but yeah, it's difficult.