My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

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

These are years that we could get.

We think there's a future to this.

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

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

Let's flip the table yet again

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

This was at a time that treatment actually existed in rich countries.

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.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

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.

OK. Now let's move from sleep to diseases.

18.Rare diseases

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

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

Relevance

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.

Remarkably 1.1 million deaths averted every year.

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

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

What's the connection?

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.

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

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

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

Similarly, we have the tools with which to ask the question

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things

Because 90 of suicides are related to a mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality, there's a long list of disorders that contribute, and as I mentioned before, often early in life.

Gretchen, excuse me for interrupting, but whose discovery is this?

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

It's a really good thing.

It's made a mistake.

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I want to tell you about another disorder.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Really?

Some of you may remember that.

It was a study to specifically ask, what's going on with women?

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

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

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

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

There's a lot of mistakes to be made out there, and the immune system makes them.

One of the things that we say about all of this female physiology because again, as much as we're talking about women and heart disease, women do, on average, have better longevity than men is that unfolding the secrets of female physiology and understanding that is going to help men and women.