Gary Brecka

We're very good at disease management and symptom maintenance.

We're not very good at disease prevention and symptom alleviation or remission, cure, to use that word.

So will you talk about some of the specific agenda items?

And certainly I would love for my audience to know, what are some of the big wins at the FDA?

And what are some of the agenda items, legislative items that you've got squarely in your crosshairs

you are like, I am going to accomplish these during my tenure?

Well, first of all, I think we have to be honest with ourselves.

If we were to evaluate the US healthcare system over the last 50 years,

When it comes to gene therapy and sophisticated operations and proton beam therapy for cancer, it's been a sophisticated success story for some individuals.

But if we talk about the US healthcare system in terms of the performance indicator of the health of the population,

US healthcare has been a 50-year failure.

We have got to do something different.

We cannot just hope that the next gene therapy is gonna solve all our problems or the next pill is gonna come along.

We have got to talk about school lunch programs, not just putting six-year-olds on Ozempic.

We've got to talk about the quality of sleep

not just putting somebody on first and second line antihypertensives.

We've got to talk about natural light exposure, something I know that you talk about.

Think about what we do with kids.

We take a kid in the middle of their circadian rhythm of a deep sleep.

We rattle them, put them on a school bus while it's dark outside, not because it's good for their circadian rhythm or natural light exposure, but because it's convenient for adults going to work.