‘Get rid of the pseudoscience’: top doctor’s plan to improve America’s health | Coronavirus

DThe new REC TOPOL book is looking at the best evidence-based methods, and seeks to challenge “Mal Markey” for vibrant movements, age return, and science control-which all found a new purchase in American society amid movements Scientific lack of confidence I enjoyed the roaming epidemic.

“This book is trying to set the record straight, get rid of false science, and draws an incredibly optimistic image of how we are well put to prevent the three -related diseases that weaken on our health,” says Topol, director and founder of the SCRIPPS in an interview with the guards.

The new Topol, released on Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, is called Super Agers: a long -standing evidence approach.

“For the moment, they are dark times in medical research,” says Topol. “This is a book that I think is burning with optimism, and we will get there. I am sure of it.”

Topol argues that we are in a moment to prevent the three major diseases: cancer, heart disease and neurological degeneration diseases. This is amid the closeness of knowledge about health behaviors, newly available biometric data and the power of computing of artificial intelligence.

If one of them stumbles when Topol mentioned the “healthy period”, then this is when he says that we must search for the longevity, but health in those additional years, or “health period”. The book is characterized by the visions of Topol in “Weldenly”, a group of people who have identified in a related study greater than 80 years but they have no chronic conditions like a majority even Many younger Americans.

To clarify the type of luxury that Topol imagines, one of his patients describes: Mrs LR, a 98 -year -old “young man” who led herself to Topol. MRS LR did not suffer from a chronic disease, or with the exception of edema, or swelling of the legs, which are currently seeing Topol.

Topol says the newly available and upcoming interventions can help us live in twilight years such as MRS LR – not forever, but with less diseases. To do this, people need medicine to help prevent the conditions of industry years by creating plans dedicated to patients. This philosophy, known as “precise medicine”, has Critics.

Topol’s long -term health vision varies from systems that attract other attention, such as those in Billionaire Brian JohnsonWho seeks to challenge age, and anti -vaccine activists, who may be Avoid modern science. Instead, the Topol width is one where vaccines and famous drugs such as GLP-1 (such as Wegov and OzemPIC brands) helps us. Cancer or Alzheimer’s.

It shaves these medical interventions with a focus on what we know about preserving health: eating a lot of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fish (sometimes called medium diet), mild caffeine and alcohol, exercising regularly, and staying socially and getting a deep sleep.

“Everyone must do all these things now,” says Topol. “This is the problem: when you have a prescription to do all these things, almost no one does it.”

It is claimed that personal and exact medicine can invade the greatest obstacle: human behavior. Diet and exercise habits Notorious For change, even if the evidence is convincing.

“But when you say specifically,” you have this danger, it’s sensitive. We can confirm this on many hours and different databases. We have listened to it. This is your thing. This is what you want to avoid in your life, and you can prevent it. “

Factors that we cannot change as individuals, but they certainly affect health are environmental exposure to pollution, poverty and racism, and whether we live in healthy neighborhoods, and is often called social determinants of health. This is “Lifestyle+” of the Topol, and those that were discussed at least by the movements of wellness “only for the wealthy”.

Topol makes the warning that this optimistic future has changed dramatically in recent months, at least in America. At that time since he finished writing, the Trump administration has successfully confirmed Robert Kennedy Junior, who can be said to be the leader of the country’s denying science, to head the health department.

Kennedy rejects many basic principles of modern medicine-from the founding principle that dates back to a century The theory of germsThe idea that individual pathogens cause a disease (even in healthy people), to the most recent resident that health is a human right – see Kennedy Confirmation sessionWhere he wonders if it is Smokers It deserves health care.

The Ministry of Health is the largest public health agency in the country and the largest health insurance company, with a A $ 1.8 trillion budget Accounting for the fifth federal spending. This enhances the largest general salt in the world for medical and behavioral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the drug approval agency in the world in the Food and Drug Administration, and Medicaid public health insurance programs (covering 78.5 million People) and Medicare (cover 68 million) – to name a few.

Since he took office, Kennedy has reduced 20,000 people from the Ministry of Health, or about a quarter of the workforce. He has Hundreds canceled From grants in the National Institutes of Health, the frozen money of researchers for diseases such as Alzheimer’sAnd A new grant slowdown Exclusively with $ 2 billion in science was injected into the first quarter of 2025.

He cut off the programs in the centers of control and prevention of diseases (CDC); closed Critical transmitted diseases laboratories; Installed Defenders of Al -Qahim In power sites; and Once again $ 11 billion In public health funds from regions. Scientific experts with Contracts of experience He was forced to go out. the existing He goes on.

However, the Topol offer is wider than the current disturbance in the United States. The guardian is mentioned how European countries have banned many unhealthy materials before the United States took a long period of action – only for America to arrive later. It includes things like food additives such as Unsaturated fats (And based on the American research) and Old toxins Like lead.

“This is really for me, a unique moment, and I hope we will continue to do so now,” says Topol. “Of course, the expectations are not great in this country, but many other parts of the world will get it. I’m sure of that.”