Jessica Knurick

Thank you.

Happy to be here.

I mean, I guess it depends on what we mean by healthier, right?

Because if we're talking about life expectancy, we're certainly doing as good as we've ever done.

If you're talking about infectious diseases, we're doing as good as we've ever done without the last year, maybe.

Yes, thank you.

Not getting infectious diseases.

Right, combating infectious diseases.

But if you look at lifestyle-related chronic disease, we're certainly in a place where the vast majority of Americans have at least one chronic health condition, something like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cardiometabolic disease.

And a lot of that, again, is related to lifestyle.

So things like your diet, your physical activity, your stress levels, your sleep levels.

And so that's where we are kind of missing the mark in this country, and we could be doing better.

Those are things like cardiovascular disease, so people having heart attacks, type 2 diabetes.

I was just using the all-encompassing term for what I had already said.

Things that have to do with your heart and your metabolism.

Yeah, it's relative.

So the percentages are higher now.

So people who have type 2 diabetes, significantly higher.

People who have cardiovascular disease.

But, you know, as I mentioned, we're living a lot longer now.