Heart Disease

“If you look at any data in the US healthcare outcomes are horrible. Like, they're bad, they're getting worse, like obesity, you know, heart disease, all of these conditions are basically at record levels and continue to go up.”

“Things started to get much worse in the 19 seventies. You know, basically I think my view is that that is around the time when you started to see childhood obesity tick up. You started to see obesity, heart disease, things like this kind of start to move.”

“It's well known, and it's been often repeated, that medical error is a third leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer.”

“It takes 20 years to get these diseases, with rare exception. You know, heart disease, almost all cancers, and neurodegenerative, they are incubating for a very long time.”

“The most common presentation for having heart disease like that is not presenting with chest pain or shortness of breath, but it's simply having a catastrophic event, dying of a heart attack or suffering a heart attack at home with no antecedent warning.”

“When something has too many factors that are contributing to the disease, I think that the best way to do it is to find a single metric that integrates the lifetime exposure of That, to that, of that individual, to all of those known and unknown risk factors, …”

“It's about somewhere between 15 and twenty million people in the US every year who present like that.”

“Nine out of 10 killers of Americans are foodborne illnesses. I mean, we can dance around it. It's just that simple. Like, you would wipe out heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, respiratory illness, COVID deaths even, if you got our country metabolically m…”

“Like an Indian person living in North America, right? So we have the same exact like upbringing, whatever, is anywhere between four to six times more likely to have heart disease, diabetes, like it's just, it's real bad.”

“4000 people die every day of heart disease and cancer, and no one says a word.”

“You look at these emerging economies, and as GDP cranks, the first thing that happens is heart disease cranks up, and diabetes cranks up”

“Truly reset the age of the body and diseases of aging, like Alzheimer's and heart disease, even cancer will go away if we become young again.”

“It translates into depression, anxiety, heart disease, diabetes. They're all metabolic illnesses that come from a debt, running a deficit in your body budget.”

“Now, these are fundamentally very different diseases, different symptoms, different progressions, but they share the same underlying driving risk factor, which is how old you are.”

“All the companies that we invest in have drugs that have worked not just in kind of mouse models of Alzheimer's typically, but also diabetes and heart disease, and kind of typically the pathways that we invest in have been tested in and work in almost every Ag…”