Jessica Knurick

And so part of chronic disease is it takes quite a few decades to see chronic disease on average.

And so the longer someone lives, the more likely they are to get a chronic disease.

Well, I mean, we have great medical advancements and medical technology that help people live longer with those conditions.

Well, it depends on what you mean by the solution.

If the solution is to live longer, a lot of these medications help us do that, help people to live longer.

And so they are effective in that way.

If we're talking about prevention, we're looking at more lifestyle-related things, things like your diet, things like your activity, your sleep, your stress.

And that's where we would look at preventing these chronic diseases or at least mitigating them so that you –

wait 10 more years until you get some sort of chronic health condition.

Yeah, I mean, in humans, we don't have great long-term data, obviously, because it hasn't been out.

So you have to look at animal models that kind of can accelerate long-term trials.

In order for a drug to come to market, it has to pass many different stages of clinical trial.

It's very difficult.

Over 90% of drugs fail in clinical trials.

And so in order for it to come to market, we know that it has proven its safety, right?

It's shown its safety in these trials.

Within some acceptable limits.

And I'm not well-versed in what those limits are or those trials, but that's how it came to market.

And so there's a good estimate by scientists that—or a good assessment that it's safe long-term.

And there's obviously follow-up studies as well, and so they'll be testing this and they'll be monitoring as time goes on.