My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

So we know how to do this in many of the ways that are up there.

We think there's a future to this.

Now, when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here, because 90 percent of suicides are related to a mental illness depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality.

Conversely, we know that six million lean people in the United States are insulin resistant, and by the way, they appear to be at even greater risk for those metabolic diseases I mentioned a moment ago than their obese counterparts.

18.Rare diseases

And many of these chemicals are now linked to the skyrocketing incidents of chronic childhood disease that we're seeing across industrialized nations.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

It's made a mistake.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Secondly, drug companies are not going to develop really sophisticated psychoactive drugs.

These are years that we could get.

And from these extracts, we can reconstruct the human genome at different points in time and look for changes that might be related to adaptations, risk factors and inherited diseases.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

But now let's apply that to systems diseases like cancer.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

Let's flip the table yet again

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

So, it's not an option for low income patients.

How does that play out in terms of application to a disease?

But when it doesn't, we have to do something about that, therapeutically.

Really?

By switching out that antibody, you can look at a different protein, thus, a different disease potentially any disease in the entire world.

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This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

A pause there

Why does this matter?

A little bit down the road from where I was studying medicine was the first major longitudinal analysis of the relationship between how we lived, how we ate, what we smoked, and whether or not we got chronic disease.

He was taken off the Dutch ship in Martinique and died a week later of consumption. Oh...

For every many with Rheumatoid Arthritis, there are 2 to 3 women who are affected with this disorder.