Eric Topol Returns (on longevity)
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What insights does Eric Topol share about longevity?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, experts on expert. I'm Mike Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman. Hi. Hi. Returning guest from the early, from the bygone era.
That's right.
And this is, there have been a few guests that have really captured our heart.
It's true.
We fall in love with their spirit.
We do.
And Eric Topol's like at the top of that list. We think he is the cutest person alive.
And smart as all heck.
Outrageously smart. He is a cardiologist, a scientist, an author, and the director and founder of Scripps Research Institute. His books include Deep Medicine, The Patient, We'll See You Now. That's what we had him on for last time. And now his new book, which is out, Super Agers, An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity. This was a blast.
Yes, and I want to say his approach to longevity is different from a lot of people's approach that we've had on or talk about a lot of optimization. He's actually, I mean, he's like, with a lot of those people, but he has a lot of other opinions about it as well. Divergent. Yeah.
And friendly dust-ups between Eric and I, because I'm on one side of the spectrum. Sure. Please enjoy Dr. Eric Topol.
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He's an object spreader You're promoting longevity.
We're giving you liquid death. I know. The irony. There's something wrong with that picture. Is that your super cute Bronco out there? That's my daughter's. Oh, I like it.
It is cool. It's a very cool car. It is a bit OJ. In a good way. In a good way.
Oh, in a good way.
Yeah.
Also, I like that there could be a good way.
Well, he was cool before he left.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you remember, but sales of those Broncos exploded after that. Oh, yeah. You couldn't get your hands on a white Bronco. No kidding. Oh, yeah. Ford couldn't make them fast enough.
Yeah, it was an accidental marketing. One of the main things you remember is the Bronco. What do you mean?
What was the appeal that you beat like OJ? That's a great question. I think just seeing a vehicle on display for such a long period of time, and I guess it looked formidable. And I think young men were like, oh, yeah.
It's like a nice car. It's nice.
Yeah, yeah. Someone should do some social science on that.
Malcolm.
Yeah. How are you? It's been a while.
Well, thanks. Yeah, it's been six years. Pandemic in between. We sure did.
Sure.
Lots of stuff's happened. And you've moved a few times. I don't know what it was when we first did it. Then you were on Spotify.
We were independent for three years. Then we were at Spotify for three years. And now we're at Wondery.
That's great. I was Monica's medical consultant for the show.
I think primary care physician for a while.
Yeah. I definitely did reach out to you about my weird experience that turned out to be epilepsy. Congratulations.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yeah.
Is it all under control now?
Yeah, I'm on medication and it's all good. But you said it could be.
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