Can We Prevent Aging? Eric Topol on Genes, Lifestyle, and AI in Healthcare
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You're listening to the Michael Schirmer Show. Eric, you I I don't think you've been on the show. The last time we met uh was at Caltech for your previous book. The doctor was, uh, the patient will see you now. Right.
That was a ways back. Yeah, that was a ways back. Well, lots of happening there. But let me give you a proper introduction here. Dr.
Eric Topal is the executive vice president and a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, the largest nonprofit biomedical institute in the United States. He is also founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and a practicing cardiologist. He is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine, known for his groundbreaking studies on AI in medicine, genomics, and digitized clinical trials. He was named to the Time 100 health list of the most influential people in health in 2024. And he writes the Substack newsletter Ground Truths, which I've been reading.
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