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Eric Topol

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

And this is not a good time, but hopefully it's just a transient one.

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

And that we'll get back on track eventually.

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

Well, you're already ahead of the curve on the Shingrix vaccine, right?

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

Yes.

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

And that tells me you're over 50.

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

That's the good age to really get ahead of what you could be seeing when you're 70 plus, because that's how long these diseases take to incubate.

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

And of course, they start even before age 50.

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

So the question is about heart disease.

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

From that mammogram, why didn't you get the breast artery calcification defined to see if you're at high risk?

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

Why hasn't your doctor given you a polygenic risk score for

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

heart disease and all the common cancers and Alzheimer's disease.

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

Yeah.

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

And why don't you have an ApoE4 to know if you're at risk for Alzheimer's?

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

It used to be, Manoush, that you wouldn't want to know because nothing you could do.

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

That couldn't be further from the truth now because we know lifestyle has a big impact on at least deferring my years, the onset of mild cognitive impairment, no less Alzheimer's.

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

So this idea of the Cassandra, you know, I don't want to know, we're past that stuff.

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

Well, yeah.

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

The polygenic risk score, that set, basically it looks at every common disease, all the different cancers, atrial fibrillation, heart disease.

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

And I think you know women, their biggest killer is heart disease, and a lot of them don't know it.

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

Right.