A big thanks to Enden Carberry Group. I think this is a fantastic initiative and we should be seeing a lot more of this all across Ireland.

And what was just said there, farmers are in the human health business and I couldn't agree more because human health comes primarily from nutrition and nutrient dense foods.

Yeah, there's some genetics, but it's mostly from what you put in your mouth.

So I'll go through some heart disease realities here now.

So I work on behalf of David Bobbitt, who's an Irish entrepreneur, who set up the Irish

Heart Disease Awareness Charity.

So IHDA.i.e, you'll get a lot of the information around what I'm speaking about today,

and short videos to explain things to the

non-expert if you will. As was mentioned there by Enda, yeah, I've spoken to the British Association

for Cardiovascular Prevention and other medical and nutritional conferences all around the world

for the past several years. I just want to start with looking at health span. Now, lifespan is one thing, but you really don't want to spend a long time at the end of your life in poor health.

So health span is how long you can live while still being vital, engaged with life, productive, enjoying life.

So basically, the best choice people often get up into the 80s with good health and I'm sure you know many

However, if you make very poor choices in nutrition and health or if you're unlucky in some other manner

Your health span can only go up to the 50s and 60s and I'd say a lot of you know people like that as well who have chronic disease in around 60

and it impacts their life. Now the reality is that you guys bust your ass working your whole life

so you can have the money, resources and security to enjoy this period after you back off from work.

And there's a huge amount of value out here. There's sports, socializing,

watching the grandchildren grow up or being part of their development, huge amount of very delightful life out here.

But that's at play, that 20 years is something you play for with your choices.

So basically this is the biggest killer that takes away that period at the end of life. It's coronary disease, atherosclerosis, vascular disease, heart attacks. And interestingly, heart attacks kill five times more women than breast cancer adults. So it's not just the men, but we often associate

it as a male problem primarily. So it's a huge issue and that's what I'm going to talk about.

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