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

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

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

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

These are years that we could get.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

Let's flip the table yet again

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...

He's definitely the star of my show.

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

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

And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.

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

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

It is a tiny prick to your finger.

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

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.

Hey. You really got a bad case of the nerves there, man.

I'm not sensitive.

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

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 got your nerves shot.

Remarkably 1.1 million deaths averted every year.

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.

It's made a mistake.

Oh, it's just nerves.

Master of Sensitivity.

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

That means other forms of cancer, other diseases such as E Coli, Rotavirus, Salmonella, and those HlV, AlDS.

Eighty percent of Americans have chronic disease, or 80 percent of age greater than 65 have two or more chronic disease, 140 million Americans have one or more chronic disease, and 80 percent of our 1.5, whatever, trillion expenditures are related to chronic disease.

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

His hypersensitivity to light and sound...

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

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

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