It's also morbidity.

It's also morbidity.

And one sixth the rate of cardiovascular disease.

So it's not just in the cardiovascular system it arises.

And this, over the years, can cause real damage, cardiovascular damage.

Some of you may have lost parents prematurely to that cardiovascular disease epidemic.

It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease.

Their heart was still pounding, but this is a much healthier cardiovascular profile.

And in Africa, cardiovascular disease equals the HlV and AlDS deaths in most countries.

One out of two of you women will be impacted by cardiovascular disease in your lifetime.

And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease.

And this is one of the reasons that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease.

So here, further data that ultraviolet that's sunlight has benefits on the blood flow and the cardiovascular system.

And what we're asking now is does the very same relationship, physical health, morbidity, how long you live and productivity, follow the same relationship?

But what really drives these numbers, this high morbidity and to some extent the high mortality, is the fact that these start very early in life.

But what really drives these numbers, this high morbidity, and to some extent the high mortality, is the fact that these start very early in life.

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

In addition to conditions like marasmus and kwashiorkor, we can consider diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and obesity as related to malnutrition.

I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension all of which are completely preventable for at

Could the sun activate those stores into the circulation, and there in the circulation do its good things for your cardiovascular system?

And after week one, it was about cardiovascular mortality, a dry subject how many people die of heart disease, what the rates are.

It is interesting that in the United States, the most significant health care budget goes to cardiovascular disease care, whether it's private or public.

And this is something that sobers us in our field everyday in that, obviously, we've made remarkable impacts on cardiovascular disease, but look at cancer.

We've been actually using adult stem cells now in clinical trials for about 15 years to approach a whole range of topics, particularly in cardiovascular disease.

It also acts on your body, and one of its main roles in your body is to protect your cardiovascular system from the effects of stress.

But when you're in a hurry or stressed out, that triggers something called the inflammatory response, which is associated with everything from Alzheimer's disease to cardiovascular disease.

85 percent of global disease burden for cardiovascular disease is in developing countries not in the West and yet 90 percent of the resources are in the West.

The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world is how important chronic stress from social sources is affecting the immune system, the cardiovascular system.

And here's this incredibly simple molecule, a nitrogen and an oxygen that are stuck together, and yet these are hugely important for unclear our low blood pressure, for neurotransmission, for many, many things, but particularly cardiovascular health.

Fifty percent will have onset by age 14, 75 percent by age 24, a picture that is very different than what one would see if you're talking about cancer or heart disease, diabetes, hypertension most of the major illnesses that we think about as being sources of morbidity and mortality.

This has, of course, implications beyond the mouse world, because studies in humans have shown that women who don't eat well during their pregnancy, who eat bad foods, will go on to have children who are more susceptible to developing obesity and cardiovascular disease.

And it's not just our own existence, but how does the woman's body understand to have genetic structure that not only builds her own, but then has the understanding that allows her to become a walking immunological, cardiovascular system that basically is a mobile system that can actually nurture, treat this child with a kind of marvel that is beyond, again, our comprehension the magic that is existence, that is us?