Eric Topol Returns (on longevity)

Episode overview

Eric Topol (Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity) is a cardiologist, researcher, and author. Eric returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss being Monica's epilepsy consultant after their early interview, recent findings suggesting that AI aids doctors in providing better care, and an intense gag order suppressing getting a detrimental drug taken off the market. Eric and Dax talk about hospital beds that can monitor people as they sleep, no one having yet done a healthy aging study of genomics, and the true anecdote that inspired him to write his new book. Eric explains creating a segue to effectively prevent diseases we never could before, how Viagra was initially a failed blood pressure medication, and why despite troubling trends in diseases he remains optimistic about the future of aging.

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1. 0:00Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. Uh I'm Mike Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
2. 1:02:36is fascinating. Uh this is one of those there's so many things in medicine that we don't know for sure. We've talked
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