Eric Topol

As an adult, your chance of recovery or lack of remission is much, much higher.

And here again, we thought the thymus gland was doing nothing in adults, and it's doing a lot in some people.

Great question.

There's lots of things being considered about how we could keep our thymus healthy.

But the things we talked about that work on our immune system in general

exercise, a diet that's anti-inflammatory, good sleep, health.

These things probably do help keep our thymus in a healthy state, but we need to do more than that.

So there are various new studies in recent times that certain growth factors, one's called FGF21.

And there's this incredible Mexican salamander that has the ability to keep their thymus and regenerate it even after you surgically remove it.

We're learning about the pathways from that organism.

But we don't know enough.

about thymus health now that there's been this really remarkable discovery about its importance as we get older.

Well, I'd say yes and no.

Firstly, I don't believe they should charge patients to get the AI read, but that read does give a higher detection rate.

About 30% more breast cancers are picked up from the AI read.

as compared to the radiologists.

So that part's good information.

But what really unnerves me is there are other two types of AI tools that should be incorporated as well, again, without charging patients.

And that is the AI of the normal mammogram to detect the risk in the next three to five years.

And then also the AI of the breast artery calcification, because that quantifies the risk of heart disease in that person.