We love American culture.

We do a lot of the similar things and I talked about some stats looking at obesity and diabetes

and smoking rates and there's really not that much difference between us, but we live seven

years longer.

Both men and women live longer on average.

Australian women live a little longer than the Australian men and same in the US, but really

the gap is very similar.

Hopefully we can start to recover that.

Dr. Coist, welcome.

Thanks so much for having me.

Thanks for coming.

I'm super excited for this conversation today.

You have a really interesting background as a professor of emergency medicine,

emergency room physician. How did you get interested in

longevity? Well, it's a massive question. You know, I unfortunately get to see a lot of folks

in the emergency department who come in on the worst day of their life. You know, some of them

are unfortunately dying. Some of them are having complications of

like chronic diseases, which are going to cause them not only mortality and death, but morbidity.

So their life will never be the same. They'll never be able to like exercise as much as they used to

or do simple things like get up off the floor, off the, of the chair at home, you know, in a safe way.

So, and I think some of the things that kept sort of coming back to me is that a lot of these folks are living with diseases that are preventable.

It's very well known that vast majority of cardiovascular disease is preventable.

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