Eric Topol
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It's almost like we're tolerating it, not taking on big food, whereas this seems like a real recipe for adding to the burden of chronic diseases and chronic inflammation.
What do you think?
Yeah, I mean, I think the link to young people's cancers, as you mentioned, is something that's so notable.
And we don't have to hunt too far to find an incriminating factor.
But one of the things I really liked was the 80% rule.
Was that Hachibu?
And tell us a little bit about that because, you know, I wasn't familiar with that rule before I read your book.
I think it's fascinating.
I'm going to start trying to implement that too.
Exercise, you're unique because here you are, you're a professional global health expert and you also became a personal trainer.
Yeah, and you tell us about, this is, I find remarkable, that in the Netherlands, the Dutch, 96% of them are really fit with exercise.
In the U.S., it's not even 25%.
And I guess it's not that much better in the UK, somewhat better than the US.
What's the story and what prompted you to add to your mix of your portfolio of what you can offer folks?
Well, I mean, I didn't know about this Dutch capability of 96%, you know, into the โ I think it's just โ imagine if the whole world was like that.
Wow.
Now, you basically get into every aspect of how we can have better healthspan on a global level, this unique picture of knowing, you know, pockets around the world that are best and worst practices, I guess.
Air quality.
This is a big one because we know air pollution is a potent pro-inflammatory risk of cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disease, this pollution fatalism that you have.
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