I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

So, it's not an option for low income patients.

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

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

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

In their final years, Jim and Shirley faced cancers, fractures, infections, neurological illness.

Even just in the last few years, patients with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease have a whole new set of therapeutic options that are directed at this re education process.

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

There's a lot of mistakes to be made out there, and the immune system makes them.

And even in the case when a disease occurs in both men and women, that disorder can be much more severe or have more severe consequences in one sex than the other.

And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.

Because 90 of suicides are related to a mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality, there's a long list of disorders that contribute, and as I mentioned before, often early in life.

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

Endometritis is a disease where bacteria enter the uterus and cause inflammation of the inner membrane.

My grandmother suffers from osteoporosis.

These are years that we could get.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

Let's flip the table yet again

18.Rare diseases

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

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

And there were a few.

In addition, it is rarely ordered because pancreatic cancer is, what we call, non symptomatic disease.

It told us about hormone replacement therapy.

It could be seen even onto the patient's body surface by projection mapping.

Of those rats that don't abort, atrazine causes prostate disease in the pups so the sons are born with an old man's disease.

Hands up two times. Pelvis Dance

Possible kidney or bladder irritation. You may wind up with increased bruising and bleeding.

This was at a time that treatment actually existed in rich countries.

OK. Now let's move from sleep to diseases.

They make up a small percentage of the population, but they make up a large percentage of the people in jail, the people who are addicted, the people who are mentally ill, the people who commit suicide.

Put your left hand on the pelvis.

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

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

I hasten to add that it's my experience, because everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own way.

Well, she found, through her online research, a nuclear bone scan that's usually used for cancer, but it can also reveal inflammation.

Here's an example from Kevin Eggan's lab at Harvard.

Tissue inflammation?

Then my father allowed me to proceed with my hope.

So if you override the hunger signal, you can have a disorder, which is called anorexia.

And yet, if you take, for example, subclinical osteoporosis, a bone thinning disease, the precondition, otherwise known as osteopenia, you would have to treat 270 women for three years in order to prevent one broken bone.

We brought patients in, six to eight weeks prior to their scheduled surgery, did X rays, and we then composed a scaffold specifically for that patient's size pelvic cavity.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things

brittle bones ,

300 to 500 million cases are reported.