Eric Topol

We don't do screening, of course.

Should we do screening?

And there's certain people that you consider at high risk that should get screened.

So I wasn't aware.

I mean, the one type of supplements that you zoomed in on, how do you say it?

Ayurvedic

Oh, yeah.

Now, it's pretty striking, of course, that you have.

Is it true that airlines fuel is still with lead today?

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting that we still have these problems.

And I'm going to, in a minute, ask you what we can do to just eradicate lead as much as possible.

But we're not there yet.

But one study that seemed to be hard to believe that you cited in the review, a year after a ban on leaded fuel in NASCAR races,

mortality from coronary heart disease declined significantly in communities near racetracks.

Can you talk about that one?

Because it's a little bit like the one you just mentioned with the airports.

That's interesting because as you show in a really nice graphic in adults, which are the people who would be listening to this podcast, um, of course they ought to be concerned too with about children and all and reproductive, um,

health but the point about the skeleton 95 of the lead is is there and the main organs uh which we haven't mentioned the kidney and the kidney injury that occurs no less the cardiovascular the blood pressure elevation um so these are really and you mentioned not not necessarily um

highlighted in that graphic, but potential cognitive hit as well.

You also wrote about how people who have symptoms of abdominal pain, memory impairment and high blood pressure that's unexplained, maybe they should get a blood level.