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

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

Fifty years ago, when I was a medical student in Boston, we were in the midst of the cardiovascular disease epidemic.

And there were a few.

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...

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

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

Here's a classic example

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

He's dying. Coronary blockage.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

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.

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.

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.

He said, Look, there's a guy down here.

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

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.

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.

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

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

Depression, for example, is the third leading cause of disability, alongside conditions such as diarrhea and pneumonia in children.

Interestingly, one of those birth defects has seen a 200 percent increase in the U.S.

Now already in a case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, we don't have an in depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in those illnesses.

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