Eric Topol
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, it all gets amplified.
Well, keep up the great stuff and stay safe, Peter.
We all want to make sure that you're not hurt by people who could do something like that.
So we're so appreciative of everything you're doing.
Take care now.
but we're going to make up for lost time with a great discussion of your new book.
It doesn't have to hurt.
It's about pain.
And it's a topic that involves a fourth of Americans or people that have chronic pain.
It's a big deal.
And you've given a whole new outlook on it.
And what I thought we'd start with, Sanjay, you get very personal in the book, which is really admirable.
And you talk about your wife, Rebecca, who has an autoimmune disease.
so bad that you had to carry her up the stairs.
And can you tell us how she was able to get on top of her chronic pain problem and emerge doing really well?
That's fantastic.
And it emphasizes how these lifestyle factors, like an anti-inflammatory diet, and also you, of course, get into sleep,
how important that is to deal with this pain.
And then you have a very refreshing outlook about coping, dealing, managing pain, which, of course, most people think it's rooted at the site of injury or where the pain is felt, where obviously it's the master control center at the brain.
And that gets us to, before I get into the new approaches and new approaches,