Peter Attia· MD
in 2016 the Nobel Prize was awarded for the basically the genetic elucidation of at hoffa G what are the salient features of that award what was it about Asami's work that led to that award so what Osumi did was quite profound and very creative he developed an assay well he asked what are the I mean yeast requires nitrogen for survival and he asked what are the genes that are required for nitrogen survival and he identified the autophagy essential autopsy genes and I always wondered whether if he was in the United States would work like that be funded because it just seems like it was an important question but it didn't have such a clear application down the line that's right it was a bit too high-risk to fund right and also the clear disease connection wasn't there and so forth and so on