She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

So we know how to do this in many of the ways that are up there.

We think there's a future to this.

And many of these chemicals are now linked to the skyrocketing incidents of chronic childhood disease that we're seeing across industrialized nations.

18.Rare diseases

Now, when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here, because 90 percent of suicides are related to a mental illness depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

Conversely, we know that six million lean people in the United States are insulin resistant, and by the way, they appear to be at even greater risk for those metabolic diseases I mentioned a moment ago than their obese counterparts.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

Secondly, drug companies are not going to develop really sophisticated psychoactive drugs.

These are years that we could get.

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

You start with 3, 3 is being mapped by the function to 10.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

Now already in a case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, we don't have an in depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in those illnesses.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

But when it doesn't, we have to do something about that, therapeutically.

The death of Little Nell and Cordelia and all that sort of stuff just doesn't happen anymore.

Let's flip the table yet again

Really?

A little bit down the road from where I was studying medicine was the first major longitudinal analysis of the relationship between how we lived, how we ate, what we smoked, and whether or not we got chronic disease.

For every many with Rheumatoid Arthritis, there are 2 to 3 women who are affected with this disorder.

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.

He was taken off the Dutch ship in Martinique and died a week later of consumption. Oh...

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

We must focus on getting them into the best ballet companies.