Rhonda Patrick· PhD
So the name of the game is avoid the amplifiers. Now, the other reason why I think this is an important concept that goes beyond cancer but now gets to the broader aspect of aging is, when you look at the people who live the longest, when you look at these people who live to 100 and beyond, for the most part they die of the exact same diseases as the rest of us schleps. They just get them later. That's really important because I think it offers an insight into longevity that is often overlooked. So if the people who lived to 100, 105 were all dying in car accidents and plane crashes, you might make the argument that there's two classes of citizens, right? There's the people who get chronic disease and then there's people who will never ever, ever get it and eventually they just die of something else. Because remember, the fourth leading cause of death or the fifth leading cause of death starts to become accidental stuff, once you get outside of the chronic stuff, but that's not the case. The point is we're all, sort of, preprogrammed to go through this process, but if you want to live longer the name of the game is delaying the onset of the big three, the big three being the diseases that will kill 75% of us, so cerebrovascular and cardiovascular, cancer, and neurodegenerative.