May 30, 2025 • 45 mins
There have been some big medical breakthroughs in the past couple of weeks. The FDA just approved a simple blood test to detect early Alzheimer’s with no spinal tap or scan. Scientists in the UK have now shrunk brain tumor diagnosis time from 8 weeks to 2 hours using real-time DNA sequencing in surgery. Then, in Philadelphia, a baby’s life was saved after doctors who rewrote his DNA using a first of its kind personalized genetic fix that revolutionizes treatment for babies with rare genetic disorders. Futurist Kevin Cirilli joined Dan and discussed technological advancements in medicine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm bas Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, welcome back everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're done with our conversation about market Basket, but I
suspect as that story evolves, we will continue to stay
on top of it and appreciate everyone who called in.
Beginning with well, Noel kind of got us going after
Gene from Boston called and again, folks call early and
give you more time, simple simple as that. I think
(00:29):
you know the rules here. I'd like to try to hear.
I like to talk with people. That's what this show
is all about. And we have a very interesting person.
He was with us a couple of weeks ago. Actually
on May fifteenth, he was called a futurist. His name
is Kevin Sirelli. Kevin, welcome back to Nightside.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm doing well. I actually am in Washington, DC, and
I just less if anyone's familiar with Washington, DC. I
just left the Marine Barricks where a friend of mine
was honored tonight with a very nice record ignition, and
it was an honor to be in attendance to see
her receive this recognition. I do a lot of work
(01:07):
with Blue Star Families, which is the nation's largest nonprofit
serving military families, and I was really touched the chain
invited me tonight, Kathy Rotuk, their CEO, so a true honor.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Wells.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
That is great, And I know I talked with you
briefly this afternoon. You were heading to a leple of
meetings and you told me that you would make sure
you would be out of that. Just tell us real
quickly a little bit about the organization Blue Star Families.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Absolutely, thank you so much for asking me that question.
Blue Star Families is the nation's largest nonprofit serving military families. Now,
I did not serve in the military. My grandfathers did.
Only one percent of Americans serve in the military currently,
and I believe that we've got to be a bridge
for the ninety nine percent of us who don't serve,
(01:51):
to have the backs of the family members of those
who do serve. And so Blue Star Families helps to
serve the family unit of the service members, so their spouses,
their kids when they're relocating or when their parent is
serving or stationed overseas. And so we partner with iconic
American brands, but also just local communities and small businesses
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to really help have the backs of the military, and
Kathy is the CEO and co founder of the organization
and she's grown it since she started it sixteen years
ago into serving hundreds of thousands of military families. And
it is really just an incredible organization. So I would
(02:35):
encourage folks to go to Blue Star Families website at
blue starfam dot org and learn more about our big
slogan is do your part, So do your part to
support military families. This year, the military turns two hundred
and fifty years old. And I think sometimes, as Kathy
reminds us, we forget that there have been families serving
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alongside the service member all the way back the Revolutionary War.
Uh and so now more than ever, that the threat
is still real, that the challenges are different and in
many ways even greater. So it's an amazing organization. I
could talk about it for the whole hour, but I know,
I know we're going to talk about the future. But
the folks securing our future, the brave men and women
serving our country and their families.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Very much, much, very much involved in that. I'm very
much involved with a group called Hope for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But organization, yeah, buddy of mind.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Jack Marin who is a great NBA player for many
years is the is retired attorney and a pal of mine.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I knew when he played in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And uh and Jack is the chairman of that group
these days and uh uh they we get involved in
and I've Robin kellaher as the CEO if you if
you know the group. So there's a lot of great
military groups out there who are serving various and uh
and and different needs and uh uh, my hat's off
(03:58):
to you for what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
And I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Just a help honored to be affiliated.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm glad that when I would mention hope for the Warriors,
you would know what I'm talking about that it's a
it's a great organization as well. So we're going to
talk about the future, and this hour we want to
talk about the future of medicine. And there have been
some developments just in the last few weeks which frankly
(04:28):
boggle my mind. There's now, I guess, amongst other things,
a blood test for people who might be predisposed to
it ultimately if they were to live long enough contracting Alzheimer's.
Let's take a few of these, because I know you
know a lot more about them, uh and and I
(04:49):
want to just have you hit some of those. I
know that there was some work done on an infant recently,
all of which amazes me. Amazes me. Let's talk about
the Alzheimer's test. Where is that at this point? That's
something that people are more and more aware.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of, So, you know, I would take a step back
when I founded Meet the Future, and you can subscribe
to it on our subtac daily newsletters Sunday through Thursday,
one of the most read futuristic newsletters in the nation,
and our website MTF dot tv, which we're excited to
relaunch in the coming weeks. But I really took a
hard look at health because so much of the story
(05:32):
right now, as artificial intelligence is coming and it's gonna
take everyone's shops. I don't buy that for a second,
by the way, but I actually wanted to report out
what is the science doing and the technology doing, and
it's happening so quickly that a couple of years ago
this would be the lead story on the nightly news
(05:53):
or in the Boston Globe. And the fact of the
matter is everything that we're going to talk about tonight
happened in the span of the last month you mentioned Alzheimer's.
So it used to be really hard in order to
find out. It used to take months if you had
Alzheimer's or where Alzheimer's was. And everyone listening can know
(06:16):
someone who suffered from Alzheimer's or dementia, or Parkinson's or
Huntington's disease. We can all think of watching that horror
and it really is a horror.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And by the way, correct me if I'm wrong, Kevin,
I don't mean to interrupt, but I believe that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Twenty twenty five years ago, they couldn't even diagnose Alzheimer's
when the person was alive. It could only be diagnosed
definitively through an autopsy exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And so now we're living at a time to your
point where we no longer have to think is it
a crapshoot if we end up like that? And so
what science is did a couple of weeks ago and
the FDA just cleared it as they're able to detect
early Alzheimer's in a blood test. So why is that important?
(07:09):
Because now when you go to the doctor very soon
in the coming months, if you're above the age of
fifty five, you can get blood drawn and they'll be
able to look at your blood work and say, hey,
you are pretty disposed to this. Now, this question in
science fiction is not reality of why would you want
to know? Or if it's early on set, if there's
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no cure, well, folks, it doesn't work like an action movie. Okay. Really,
there are treatments that can help augment some of the effects,
and the science is moving so quickly that you might
want to know. You might want to be able to
plan for your family, your future, your loved ones, and
you might actually be even open to getting other different
(07:51):
types of treatments. So knowledge is power, and the fact
of the matter is if we can take Alzheimer's out
of it for a second, if they're able to figure
it out with a blood test for Alzheimer's, it's a
really good sign, based on my reporting from Meet the Future,
that other illnesses and diseases might soon be able to
be identified through a blood test as well.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
My guest is Kevin Sirelli. We're going to drill down
on this Alzheimer's story a little bit. We're also going
to talk about some of the other things that have
happened in the last just the last couple of months,
which it just seems as if the pace is moving
so quickly. We'll we'll open up phone lines. If you
(08:34):
want to ask a question, make a comment, feel free
six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six seven
nine three one ten thirty. Often with guests like Kevin,
people all wait until the end to ask their question
and we run out of time. So please don't let
that happen to you tonight. Feel free to join the conversation.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
UH.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We will have Kevin with us for the entire hour,
but the hour is already fifty minutes gone, so advice
to the wy style of early six one seven, two,
five four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty. My guess Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future. We
will get back to Kevin and to your phone calls
(09:14):
and a more conversation. Right after these messages.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I guess this is Kevin Sirelli. He is a futurist.
He writes on substack. He also has a website MTF
for Meetthefuture dot TV. We'll talk about that, uh, and
we'll give you all sorts of ways in which you
can get in touch with him and follow him. But
I want to go back to this Alzheimer's test. It
(09:46):
is a simple blood test which the FBA FDA has
now approved. How long had that been in the approval process?
I mean again, it's this is important to know that
this has just happened and there have been efforts made
on this. This is not something that someone an idea,
someone came up with yesterday.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now, it takes years to be blunt and from and
then as it goes to the FDA, that's.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
That's at least a year.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But when you look even for what it means for
when it will actually start trickling down, it's and the
way that they were able to get this through is
because of technology. And that's really what met the future
focuses in on. Are those those collisions between the science,
(10:36):
the technology, and the human experience. And to be able
to have American innovation be able to identify something of
this nature and for now, the everyday person in our country,
when they're older than the age of fifty five, to
be able to again go to their doctor draw blood
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and then be able to almost immediately look at their
blood results and you know, see if their lives or
their loved ones lives are going to change, you know,
on how what they want to do with that information
is really quite remarkable.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And and by the way, with this, as I understand
that we're not we're talking about a simple blood test,
no spinal tap, no scan or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No spinal tap exactly, I mean, or pet scan or
anything like that. And and I think that again, like
even the amount of time and effort and agony and
anxiety that that those type that that process and procedure,
which by the way, was another major medical advancement at
one time, but all of that goes away over the
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next few years. And so it really is a remarkable,
remarkable thing. And again one of the things is i've
been reporting this, the conversation that comes up is, well,
why would you want to know if But I I
call bluff on that. I think that knowledge is power
and information is key, and it's because science is moving
(12:04):
so rapidly. Things can change, you know, on the month,
and so if you're aware of what is happening to
your loved one's brain, and I'd love you know. I
did a piece on super agers, which scienceists are are
reporting on who are folks who are in their eighties
and nineties who have the brain cognitivity of someone in
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their thirties and forties, and they're mapping the brain using
artificial intelligence at Northwestern University. And because of that, if
you're able to really study your own brain more, you're
able to treat yourself better and your loved one's better.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And the other thing, which again I want to just
touch on quickly here, scientists in Britain have been able
to shrink a brain tumor diagnos time from eight weeks
to two hours using real time DNA sequencing and surgery.
(13:05):
So they shrunk the brain tumor or does it does
it take uh? Does it take less time to basically diagnosis?
I'm a little confused about what I'm.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Reading here, Yeah, brains, It's confusing. So essentially, this is
another major wind that just happened in the last few
months that we reported on Meet the Future, which is
previously there is a certain type of brain cancer that
if anyone who has had to suffer with this, and
it's it's a horrible, horrible illness. If any of anyone's
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folks have been impacted by this, and the diagnostic time
can sometimes take months, and so in this one particular case,
what they were able to do is to look at
the DNA sequencing and to be able to figure out
in the o R in two hours if an individual
has this type of cancer, and again to two hours
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versus two months. When you're diagnosing something of that as
deadly as cancer in the brain, that can be really,
really horrific. And so the science and the technology had
been able to dramatically speed up the time that it
takes in order to make these diagnose it. So, whether
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it's Alzheimer's, whether it's brain cancer, it's again the technology
has just come so so far.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Okay, let's get to some phone calls. Going to go.
Don't want people to have to wait. Let me go
to John in New York State.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
John, you're on with Kevin SURRILLI meet the Future and
we're talking about the future of medicine.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Go ahead, John, Yes, thank you, Dan to taking my call. Hi, Kevin,
Can I start out asking a question about myself that
I wonder what your vife would be, what I should do?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Sure you try. I give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
He's not a doctor, but let's see what you give
it a shot, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I had the situation at at times I don't remember
the names of people that I knew, and sometimes three
hours later and I come into my head, is there
something going on that I should have looked at?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Or what? How old are you? John? John? How old
are you?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I'm seventy.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't think that's abnormal for people of a certain age.
Is these people who you should recall their name? I mean,
I have a situation where I can meet someone and
then three months later you bump into them again, and
you know, you know the face, but you haven't connected
the name of the face. I think that's fairly normal.
But we'll see what Kevin has to say. Kevin, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
You know again, I just want to reiterate I am
not a doctor at all, but I do appreciate your question.
And I did a story for Meet the Future earlier
this week on what scientists are are calling super agers.
And super agers are folks who are aging into their eighties.
They're not nineties, even above one hundred, and they're studying
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but they have the same brain memory as folks in
their thirties and forties, and so scientists are studying these
super agers brains and their habits that they do every day,
and some of the trends are really quite remarkable. There's
a part of the brain when you get older, according
to these sciences, that typically shrinks or gets inflamed, and
(16:28):
that can sometimes have impacts on memory. But what I
found really powerful is that only thirty percent, according to
these sciences, of your brain is because of genetics, So
that means seventy percent of your brain you really can
help with help. So things like doing a daily ritual,
(16:51):
or getting some exercise, or drinking water, or reading a
book and finishing it and going on a walk and
talking to your friends, that actually can help to help
your brain stay fit. The same way that we go
to the gym to work on our muscles. The argument
is your brain is a muscle, and so to help
(17:13):
your brain to do all of those things can sometimes
improve your brain health.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You know, just a quick thing, though, Dan, there's a
gentleman by the name of Ricky C who used to
live in Franklin. He asked me to stay a low
to you because he knows who you are, but I
don't think you'd know him.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It's always good to meet old friends coming back to you.
Are the people who's who you're having difficulty recollecting their name?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
John? Are they people who you know? Well? Are they
people who you have met only once or twice?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I mean this, gentleman, I just told you about Ricky C.
I mean he works in the same building at General
Electric and Schenectady with me, and I mean I've dealt
with him many times. Yeah, and I'm asking him tonight
what his name is. And it's like I feel like
embarrassed and you know, guilty, like why the hell? And
you know that's that's an example of that. Of course,
(18:11):
I still remember what he told me, maybe just twenty
minutes ago. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What my experience has been that when you're in a
particularly let us say, when you're in some sort of
a party situation and I don't know, maybe you know,
I will have Kevin comment on my comment if you want, uh,
and you meet thirty people in thirty minutes, and it's
one of those high how.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Are you what's your name? For me? That oftentimes the
name blows.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Right by me unless someone I knew, and then you
might meet them in the hallway or in an elevator.
A month later and it's like, you know, you know
you've met the person, you remember that.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But Kevin, that's that's what my experience is.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
And I jumped in here and I'd say this, you know, listen,
I'm Catholic. I'm not a perfect Catholic. Who's you know,
And I'm not I'm not a preacher. But you know,
I remember growing up and one of my Sunday school
teachers said to me, I think it was I want
to say this lady, this poet maya Angelou and but
(19:19):
but don't hold me to it. That was the lady
that my Sunday school teacher was quoting que and she said,
people people don't remember what you said, they remember how
you made them feel. And so to your point, then,
I think, at the end of the day, it names
the name. But if you can remember what the individual,
(19:40):
if they're a good person, and how they made you feel, honestly,
isn't that more important?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mean I think you know, look, John, if you
have trouble remembering the name of your next door neighbor
who's lived next door to you for thirty years, uh,
that's that's something you should be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And talking with the doctor about.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But again, and the other thing which I find John,
and I don't know if this is helpful to you
when you meet people in what I would call out
of context situation.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So let's assume.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You know somebody fairly well and you're in I don't know,
you're just in a totally different someone who you know
at the gym. You go to the gym and you
know their names, okay, and hey, you know right, Joe High,
Pete and all of that, and then I don't know,
you're at a ballpark or you're at a supermarket, and
(20:30):
it's a totally different context. I think that at that
point you're going to say, I know this person, but
where do I That's sort of my experience, and so
you try to keep a little sharper. The other thing
what you can do is Jerry Lucas, the great basketball
player who played at Ohio State and then with the
Cincinnati Royals, his teammate of Oscar Robertson back in the
sixties and seventies. He wrote a book many years ago
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called The Memory Book. And I remember having Jerry Lucas
on the show, and he had the ability to walk
into a room, uh be introduced to like a hundred people.
And he then, would you know, walk out of the room,
walk back in the room ten minutes later, having memorized
the name of every person in the room. And he
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just had this tremendous instant recall which nobody else would have.
And he explained that he was able to associate some
physical feature with the person, either their height, or their
their hairdoo, or the shape of their ears, or their
you know, whether they wore glasses or not. And he
he would he this was almost like a stick that
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he had, and he made quite a good living at
it going around. It's called the Memory Book. If you
can get out of the library, you might be interested
in reading it.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Can I tell you my issue?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
My issue is I got a dog. My dog's name
is Steo. So I take my dog Steo to the
dog park. I don't know if anyone who's listening has
pets or has a dog. I know my neighbors dogs
names more than I know their names.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
And then and I'll be talking to people at the
dog parker and I'm thinking, I don't know who the
heck is person. I mean, I know that they're I
know that they're you know, Gemma's dog, dad or mom.
But but it's it's crazy, so you gotta when you
go to the dog park, you gotta remember two names.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
So I struggle with it.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I think you're okay, John, but talk to you doctor
as well, like anything like that.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Okay, I had one other thing, you know, just you
probably don't remember you told me the last time. You
told me a couple of things last time I called,
and you said cal earlier because I'm always call in
the last five minutes, but you okay, go ahead. I
did also that, Uh, you probably don't remember what the
woman the new relationship I'm in, and I.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Do remember you mentioned me a lady from the Philippines,
and I was I'm a little worried about that, right right.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Right, right right.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Everything's so far, so good. But I'll update you and
I you know, I know more.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Have you met her yet, John, or no?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
No, she's she was at the embassy getting a Lisa
in a best place today.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, John, I wish you the best of luck on
that one.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
In the motion she's in the motion of getting ready
to come.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Okay, we just remember if she's looking for you to
buy the airplane ticket.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Be careful. Okay, that's all I'm saying, simple as that.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Hey, you know, some three people today told me that
I want to tell you something. I was a frequent
flyer for thirty years on the airlines I have I
have half a million air miles. So I'm gonna get
her a free ticket. What the heck? I'm okay, that's why.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Just don't give her your bank account. John, All, I'm
telling you your bank account.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
That's all would all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Good luck, keep us posted, send us pictures. Thanks, Okay,
good guy.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
This might be one of the longest, most long distance
night side marriages that have ever occurred. John has met
someone through a program who lives in the Philippines.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Belief Man.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I have anxiety. Yeah, I have anxiety.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
John.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
He seems like a nice guy, but you know, candidly,
he's wearing his heart on his sleeve. I got anxiety.
I hope he's careful. I hope he's real careful with that.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'm totally with you on that one. I've given him
his Miranda rights here. So anyway, you take a break,
take a break, it's the Ted thirty four. If you
want to talk to my guest, Kevin Cirelli, Meet the
Future with a couple of other medical breakthroughs we want
to make you aware of, just to give you a sense.
I mean, no one can keep up with everything that's
going on, but what is being done medically, it is
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just it's it's moving exponentially, folks, and it's going to
benefit future generations, maybe generations that are alive today, maybe
people who.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Are older today. So you just never know.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I know that I've done a couple of blood tests
which were recommended to me by my doctor, not because
he felt they had a problem, where they can screen
for cancer. I'm going to talk to Kevin about those.
I'm sure he knows a lot about those as well.
I got Brad and Milwaukee coming up, and we got
to take the news.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We'll be right back. I got some open lines, folks,
six four, ten thirty. Don't be shy.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Don't assume the question that is in your mind is
going to be asked by someone else.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
SIXE Back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WAZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
My guest Kevin Sir Ellie Kevin, I do have some
other issues. I want to talk about what happened with
this uh young infant in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I love this story. This is a great story.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I hit this one quickly and then we got a
bunch of calls. We want to get to this baby's
life is saved after doctors rewrote.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
His DNA, they edited the genetic decide. This is this
is an a miracle and and I love this story
because it happened at Philadelphia. Of course I grew up
outside of Philly, so I'm but and this story, by
the way, would have been should have gotten way more
coverage than it did. This was only a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I did see this one on the nightly news, but
it was just passed over very.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
Quickly, exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And yeah it got some pick up, but that I it.
So this kid, Connor had had a horrible I'm talking
this is a baby. It's not even an get horrible
rare genetic defect that you know, I really hate talking
like this about babies. But would have been a death sentence, okay,
and the the the doctors were able to go in
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and rewrite the DNA sequencing and fix the genetic defect
and the kid was able to live. Now, this not
only was the first time that this procedure has ever
been done in the United States of the America, but
this is the first time this procedure has been done
anywhere on the planet. Okay, this is huge and the
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implications are so so far reaching.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And so.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
This is just such a medical miracle. It's it's incredible
that it was done. And it just goes to show
you how fast this stuff is happening and the hope
that this gives for going forward for babies that are born.
I think it's an amazing, amazing medical What is.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
The prognosis or is it too early to provide a
prognosis for this infant?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You know, if it is too early, But the early
indicators is that this procedure worked. But obviously, I mean,
he's a baby, so or so we'll have to see,
you know, what will happen.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Wow, let's get righty in perspective. To put this story
in perspective. Do you remember when the conjoined twins were separated.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh yeah, that's about twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
That's that's the level of how amazing this person. That's
that's how incredible.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
This story is I can join twins and if I'm
not mistaken, wasn't Ben Carson involved in that procedure?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
You know? I I want to say yes, but that
I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I think it might have been involved in that. He
was one of the surgens involved. But my question is
obviously co co join twins, particularly conjoin conjoined quins twins
uh in the skull area? Which is that case I
believe that you're talking about. It's it was extraordinary and
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and that has to be literally one in a million
or one in five million. But whatever the that that's
still occasionally still happens. Are they able now? Is that
become more of as for and you know this more
than I. Has that become a standard procedure where could
co join twins can be separated? Or was that I
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don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I'm not gonna be yet. I'm not going to I guess.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Well, I would think that once that, once it is
done successfully, it can cur That's something that gets in
the medical journals. And okay, let's keep rolling here. Got
to go to Brad and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hey Brad, welcome,
You're next on Nightside. Thanks for checking in. I don't
think we've ever heard from you before, Brad.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
No, first time.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I got to give you a.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Round of applause as the first time caller here on Nightside.
Simple as that, go right ahead, you're on with my guest,
Kevin Sirelli.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Great show, Kevin. My question is if the research that's
being done on Alzheimer's currently, is there any relationship or
is there any help to the research with autism.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
That's a great question. That's a great, great question. I
didn't see based on my reporting, and again I'm not
a doctor. I didn't see based on my reporting, any
that would indicate that this test could be applicable the autism.
But I do think that's a great question that you asked,
But nothing from my reporting that I see that the
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Alzheimer's blood tests would somehow be utilized for autism.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And just as I fall off from that last point,
does this DNA rewriting and that effect if there's a
way to figure that THETIS has the autism gene or
can the DNA be written to correct that.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
So that's another great question, the DNA editing. And when
I was reporting this out, what essentially the comparison that
I'll make is DNA is sequencing. It's essentially a computer code,
for lack of a better analogy, and so what the
doctors in Philly were able to figure out was they
were able to identify the portion of the code that
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is the genetic defect disease, and they were able to
edit that in the sequencing in order to fix the problems.
I think of it truly as a computer code. And
so to your point, as research continues to evolve, what
researchers are going to be looking and into the genetic
sequencing are for irregularities. But again I want to be
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crystal clear here, nothing in my reporting it touched autism
in any way, shape or form based on the story
that I covered. But the broader part of the looking
into the genetic sequencing is something that is a topic
that scientists are looking into based on my reporting.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Bred if I could jump in, Brad, this is Dan Ray.
I worked for many years. I didn't do work on autism,
but I worked for many years with a group called
the New England Center for Children in Southborough, Massachusetts. Raised
a lot of money. They deal with kids with autism.
As you know, the the frequency of autism kids being
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diagnosed with autism is substantially greater. And for me, the
question always is is the is the prevalence of the
condition more now or is it simply being recognized as more.
The one thing that was always impressed upon me by
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the physicians and the professionals is that a lot of
the concerns I know dealt with inoculations and whether or
not that was, you know, contributing to the increase. And
most of the scientists and the doctors that I've talked
to say that is just not so. I believe, and
correct me if I'm wrong, Brad, you may know more
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about this than I do.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That The new h h and S Secretary of Health
and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Basically said he hopes to find the cause of autism
by this September. That seems to me to be fairly ambitious.
But I believe that's what I have heard Kennedy report.
Am I Kevin, does that ring a bell with you
or no?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Well, you know, he's definitely shaking things up, and I think,
you know, I whether it's in the fall or he
definitely is putting He's definitely talking about autism a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, But I thought he would.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I thought he's he's that he was saying that we
we should have a definitive cause by September, which I
think is way too ambitious.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
But I think I think, I think I did hear
that also, Dan, and I thought that was extremely aggressive.
But Kevin, I appreciate your answer. Dan, I appreciate you show.
You do a great job. Keep it up, Brett.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Have you listened to us before or is this like
you just happened to find us tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
No, I'm a talk show radio junkie. When I was
little in Milwaukee. He used to have a transistor radio
listens radio.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Sure it's Chicago.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, well I was a radio junkie as a kid,
and I worked in TV for thirty one years and
I've been doing radio now for eighteen.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
So same same here.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I hope you'll walk us in and all your devices
and become a regular.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
I am a regular.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
All right, I gotta take a quick break here. We're
thirteen minutes. I got three calls. We're going to get
to everybody, I promised my guest, Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future.
MTF dot tv is your website if I'm not. I'm
correct on that.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
That is correct. You're a hint of the future of
what we're building for it.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, no, I get it. I got it.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I got it. And it's not e du that's for sure,
but it's dot TV. We'll be back at nights Side
with my guest Kevin Sirelli. He is a futurist. We're
talking about the future of medicine back on Nightside right
after this.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Night Side, Dan Ray on see Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
All right, let me go to Joe and Lynn. Joe,
you are on Welcome with Kevin Surrell. Meet the Future
right ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Thank you, Kevin, thanks for taking my call. Kevin, what
about prostate cancer? I know some people that have it, well.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I think you know, you know it's a it's another
great question. The study that they found for Alzheimer's and
in particular, the hope is that that this will be
able to that this will be able to cut back
on the time for the diagnosis. I have not done
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any reporting, and I'm just I'm a straight shooter. I'm
not a BS artist and I saw I just want
to level with you. I have not done any reporting
on prostate cancer or the technology around it. But now
that you've asked me the question, if you go to
my substack meetthfuture dot substack dot com, I can you
have my words, sir. Over the next couple of weeks,
I'll look into that for you and I'll i'll try
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to report and see.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I am not too good on the computer, but that's okay.
I asked because the Amish don't have much problems with disease,
and I've heard it stem cell research would help this,
so that's why I mentioned it. Prostate cancer, Well.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
You know, Joe, I've this, Dan, I've never heard that.
There are lots of theories out there. Obviously, the belief
I believe in terms of prostate cancer is that if
adult men live long enough vers everyone would get prostate cancer.
And in some cases that's why they were not testing
(36:39):
either PSA or the physical test on prostate cancer.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Which may have I think. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
President former President Biden was tested after the age of
seventy because there was a theory. And Kevin can jump
in here. He knows more about this than I do.
That after a certain point, if you did were not
diagnosed with state cancer, you were thought that it would
that you would live.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And die of a different of a different ailment.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Obviously, I think that that sort of judgments are being
re evaluated in view of what.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Apparently has happened to form a president Biden.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Kevin and I did do a story this week on
the scientists who were looking at the parts of the
world where there's the highest concentration of humans who are
above the age of one hundred and healthy. And it
is interesting you mentioned the Amish, but there's a there's
a place in Japan that's number one that is the
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highest concentration of people who are living above the age
of one hundred. It's called a blue zone. That's what
the scientists dubbed these places. Number two is Italy, and
number three and I'm sorry, the only blue zone in
America is in Low Melinda, California. And so I mentioned
this because you mentioned Amish. But you know a lot
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of Native Americans and and other folks who rely on
more who have a healthier lifestyle quite honestly than some
of our modern way of life, can learn a lot
food exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
You're right, You're right, less less processed food, which it
goes is something that coming back to HHN S Secretary
Kennedy has has talked about getting a lot of the
process stuff, a lot of the uh the color additives
now out of you know.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Candies and and and food.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Absolutely, thanks Joe, got to keep it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Let me go next to Robert in Wellesley. Robert getting
a little tight on time. Want to get you in
a couple more.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
In goright ahead, Robert. You Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future
mtf TV.
Speaker 9 (38:49):
Good evening to you and your guests. Mister Kevin Sorelli.
Interesting topic, Thank you for having. It's like, I don't
want to be persumptuous, but you know, but I'd like
to say that in some ways we can meet the
future now or the future is now. That's another expression
you're familiar with that that is we have existing research
(39:10):
that that goes unutilized. And one example is the is
baby sign language which became which has become popular and
better known, but actually it was a It was rediscovered
by a psychologist who also happened to be a sign
language and interpreter. And another side of that you may
be familiar with is that this research that uh that
(39:35):
sign that sign language study and practice can can prevent
delay or mitigate mental confusion, including UH including dementia. The
UH and one this may be related to something else
you may be familiar with that hearing loss is the
(39:58):
has been said to be the single most controllable factor
and in dementia, in dementia prevention. Do you want me
to stop there?
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah, you've just thrown a lot at us late in
the show here, Robert, I'm not sure what Kevin Kevin
I would say.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Is learning the language, whether it's sign language or or
whether it's other Learning language is a great way to
exercise your brain. And one of the things that the
scientists have found for superagers is that they're constantly learning
new skills. So definitely something to consider in an era
where some of our devices and technology are increasingly becoming translators.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
Yes, thank you. That's that's another factor to the fact
that it is language study, and that's also in general
that's been found to be beneficial. Thank you for considering
my topic. I wish I had time to elaborate on it.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yes, thank you, Thanks Robert. Absolutely talk soon. Let me
go to Ron and Newton. Rony're next on Night Side
with Kevin Sirelli.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
Meet the Future, Go right ahead, n I and hi Kevin,
thanks for being on the show. Just two quick questions.
Quite a while ago, there was a move towards using
more pharnaco genomics, that is, the understanding of single nucleartide
polymorphisms and and how that impacts disease than where we
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could take advantage of that using therapeutics. For example, we
could we could identify who would do better with on
methotrexity treating colon cancer. Some people have greater side effects
and some have less.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
And the other thing that's along the same lines is
this the new biologics have made great progress in terms
of treating inflammatory disease, for example in military artsritis. What
are your thoughts on on those two areas.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
I got nothing for you. You gave me a lot to
report on. I'm not going to be as you were
saying words I was, I was. I gotta do my
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I know
what you're talking about. I have not reported on that.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
So Ron is a medical professional and and I am not.
That's okay, that's okay, that's he's taken some notes, f Ron.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Those are good questions.
Speaker 8 (42:17):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Like lady.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Let me let me shoot real quickly. I'm going to
try for two. I don't know if I can.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Jony and Pennsylvania. Jony next on, Nice, I go ahead.
Speaker 8 (42:30):
I would like to know do you think you'll be
a blood test for sugar mental mental illnesses and.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
Will be a cure for mental illness.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
I think that's a great question, and I would I would,
I would be optimistic.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I definitely think that the more research that we have,
especially as we understand the brain, that that that will
be a huge huge factor in treating mental illness. Whether
or not there's a blood test for it, I think,
I think that there will be increasingly more and more
treatments for mental illness. But whether or not there's a
blood test, I don't know. But the treatment for it
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is such a huge factor. And I can tell you this, Joni.
And I don't know what part of PA you're in
because I grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. So I'm
a huge Pennsylvania person and a huge fan of Pennsylvania.
But I will tell you this. Thank you for your question,
because there should be no stigma around mental health, Okay,
and I appreciate that question, because the more we talk
about it, then the more we can we have more
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of a chance to talk in about treatment for it
that everyone can have access for it. It's a crisis
in this country and we in order to have a
better future for our country, we got to talk. We
gotta address it head on. And let me tell you something.
We can't just let big Pharma dictate the terms of
the agreement. We all have to step up and talk
about it to address it.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Well, great points, Jonny.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
By the way, just you know, two nights ago, I
was in Montreal at a big event concerned with mental illness.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
You know. So it's across all borders.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
And I'm pretty confident, Joni, because a lot of people
are able to deal with mental illness now, uh if
they stick with the medications, and I think that eventually
we'll we'll have some breakthrough. So thanks for the question.
It was a really good one, Joni. Thank you, Thank you,
You're welcome. Kevin has always thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Kevin. Folks can get.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
In touch with you at the website is MTF for
Meet the Future MTF dot tv.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yes, and go to my substack subscribe. Thank you everybody, Dan,
thank you as always, It's such an honor, and you're
you got such a great program, and your listeners are incredible.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I have some smarts. I have smart listeners. Don't.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Yes, I'm listening. I've done many many shows I've been on.
You know this about me?
Speaker 2 (44:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
And your listeners are Those are some of the smartest
questions and I deeply, deeply respect this. You got to
know your stuff when you're coming on your show.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Well, the other thing, too, is try doing it four
hours at night. Five it's a week. I got to
keep up with some of these people. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
I love my heart Radio, my friend.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
So thanks Kevin.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
We'll talk soon. Thanks so much. I really enjoyed it tonight.
Well we get back. We got the twentieth hour, and
I got a question. My question at the twentieth hour
is going to be would you want to know? Kevin
mentioned it earlier, if there was something, would you want
to know in advance what you were going to deal with, five, ten, fifteen,
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twenty years down the line.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Back on Night's side. After this
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm bas Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, welcome back everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're done with our conversation about market Basket, but I
suspect as that story evolves, we will continue to stay
on top of it and appreciate everyone who called in.
Beginning with well, Noel kind of got us going after
Gene from Boston called and again, folks call early and
give you more time, simple simple as that. I think
(00:29):
you know the rules here. I'd like to try to hear.
I like to talk with people. That's what this show
is all about. And we have a very interesting person.
He was with us a couple of weeks ago. Actually
on May fifteenth, he was called a futurist. His name
is Kevin Sirelli. Kevin, welcome back to Nightside.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm doing well. I actually am in Washington, DC, and
I just less if anyone's familiar with Washington, DC. I
just left the Marine Barricks where a friend of mine
was honored tonight with a very nice record ignition, and
it was an honor to be in attendance to see
her receive this recognition. I do a lot of work
(01:07):
with Blue Star Families, which is the nation's largest nonprofit
serving military families, and I was really touched the chain
invited me tonight, Kathy Rotuk, their CEO, so a true honor.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Wells.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
That is great, And I know I talked with you
briefly this afternoon. You were heading to a leple of
meetings and you told me that you would make sure
you would be out of that. Just tell us real
quickly a little bit about the organization Blue Star Families.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Absolutely, thank you so much for asking me that question.
Blue Star Families is the nation's largest nonprofit serving military families. Now,
I did not serve in the military. My grandfathers did.
Only one percent of Americans serve in the military currently,
and I believe that we've got to be a bridge
for the ninety nine percent of us who don't serve,
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to have the backs of the family members of those
who do serve. And so Blue Star Families helps to
serve the family unit of the service members, so their spouses,
their kids when they're relocating or when their parent is
serving or stationed overseas. And so we partner with iconic
American brands, but also just local communities and small businesses
(02:14):
to really help have the backs of the military, and
Kathy is the CEO and co founder of the organization
and she's grown it since she started it sixteen years
ago into serving hundreds of thousands of military families. And
it is really just an incredible organization. So I would
(02:35):
encourage folks to go to Blue Star Families website at
blue starfam dot org and learn more about our big
slogan is do your part, So do your part to
support military families. This year, the military turns two hundred
and fifty years old. And I think sometimes, as Kathy
reminds us, we forget that there have been families serving
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alongside the service member all the way back the Revolutionary War.
Uh and so now more than ever, that the threat
is still real, that the challenges are different and in
many ways even greater. So it's an amazing organization. I
could talk about it for the whole hour, but I know,
I know we're going to talk about the future. But
the folks securing our future, the brave men and women
serving our country and their families.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Very much, much, very much involved in that. I'm very
much involved with a group called Hope for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But organization, yeah, buddy of mind.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Jack Marin who is a great NBA player for many
years is the is retired attorney and a pal of mine.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I knew when he played in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And uh and Jack is the chairman of that group
these days and uh uh they we get involved in
and I've Robin kellaher as the CEO if you if
you know the group. So there's a lot of great
military groups out there who are serving various and uh
and and different needs and uh uh, my hat's off
(03:58):
to you for what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
And I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Just a help honored to be affiliated.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm glad that when I would mention hope for the Warriors,
you would know what I'm talking about that it's a
it's a great organization as well. So we're going to
talk about the future, and this hour we want to
talk about the future of medicine. And there have been
some developments just in the last few weeks which frankly
(04:28):
boggle my mind. There's now, I guess, amongst other things,
a blood test for people who might be predisposed to
it ultimately if they were to live long enough contracting Alzheimer's.
Let's take a few of these, because I know you
know a lot more about them, uh and and I
(04:49):
want to just have you hit some of those. I
know that there was some work done on an infant recently,
all of which amazes me. Amazes me. Let's talk about
the Alzheimer's test. Where is that at this point? That's
something that people are more and more aware.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of, So, you know, I would take a step back
when I founded Meet the Future, and you can subscribe
to it on our subtac daily newsletters Sunday through Thursday,
one of the most read futuristic newsletters in the nation,
and our website MTF dot tv, which we're excited to
relaunch in the coming weeks. But I really took a
hard look at health because so much of the story
(05:32):
right now, as artificial intelligence is coming and it's gonna
take everyone's shops. I don't buy that for a second,
by the way, but I actually wanted to report out
what is the science doing and the technology doing, and
it's happening so quickly that a couple of years ago
this would be the lead story on the nightly news
(05:53):
or in the Boston Globe. And the fact of the
matter is everything that we're going to talk about tonight
happened in the span of the last month you mentioned Alzheimer's.
So it used to be really hard in order to
find out. It used to take months if you had
Alzheimer's or where Alzheimer's was. And everyone listening can know
(06:16):
someone who suffered from Alzheimer's or dementia, or Parkinson's or
Huntington's disease. We can all think of watching that horror
and it really is a horror.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And by the way, correct me if I'm wrong, Kevin,
I don't mean to interrupt, but I believe that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Twenty twenty five years ago, they couldn't even diagnose Alzheimer's
when the person was alive. It could only be diagnosed
definitively through an autopsy exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And so now we're living at a time to your
point where we no longer have to think is it
a crapshoot if we end up like that? And so
what science is did a couple of weeks ago and
the FDA just cleared it as they're able to detect
early Alzheimer's in a blood test. So why is that important?
(07:09):
Because now when you go to the doctor very soon
in the coming months, if you're above the age of
fifty five, you can get blood drawn and they'll be
able to look at your blood work and say, hey,
you are pretty disposed to this. Now, this question in
science fiction is not reality of why would you want
to know? Or if it's early on set, if there's
(07:29):
no cure, well, folks, it doesn't work like an action movie. Okay. Really,
there are treatments that can help augment some of the effects,
and the science is moving so quickly that you might
want to know. You might want to be able to
plan for your family, your future, your loved ones, and
you might actually be even open to getting other different
(07:51):
types of treatments. So knowledge is power, and the fact
of the matter is if we can take Alzheimer's out
of it for a second, if they're able to figure
it out with a blood test for Alzheimer's, it's a
really good sign, based on my reporting from Meet the Future,
that other illnesses and diseases might soon be able to
be identified through a blood test as well.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
My guest is Kevin Sirelli. We're going to drill down
on this Alzheimer's story a little bit. We're also going
to talk about some of the other things that have
happened in the last just the last couple of months,
which it just seems as if the pace is moving
so quickly. We'll we'll open up phone lines. If you
(08:34):
want to ask a question, make a comment, feel free
six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six seven
nine three one ten thirty. Often with guests like Kevin,
people all wait until the end to ask their question
and we run out of time. So please don't let
that happen to you tonight. Feel free to join the conversation.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
UH.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We will have Kevin with us for the entire hour,
but the hour is already fifty minutes gone, so advice
to the wy style of early six one seven, two,
five four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty. My guess Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future. We
will get back to Kevin and to your phone calls
(09:14):
and a more conversation. Right after these messages.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I guess this is Kevin Sirelli. He is a futurist.
He writes on substack. He also has a website MTF
for Meetthefuture dot TV. We'll talk about that, uh, and
we'll give you all sorts of ways in which you
can get in touch with him and follow him. But
I want to go back to this Alzheimer's test. It
(09:46):
is a simple blood test which the FBA FDA has
now approved. How long had that been in the approval process?
I mean again, it's this is important to know that
this has just happened and there have been efforts made
on this. This is not something that someone an idea,
someone came up with yesterday.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now, it takes years to be blunt and from and
then as it goes to the FDA, that's.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
That's at least a year.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But when you look even for what it means for
when it will actually start trickling down, it's and the
way that they were able to get this through is
because of technology. And that's really what met the future
focuses in on. Are those those collisions between the science,
(10:36):
the technology, and the human experience. And to be able
to have American innovation be able to identify something of
this nature and for now, the everyday person in our country,
when they're older than the age of fifty five, to
be able to again go to their doctor draw blood
(10:57):
and then be able to almost immediately look at their
blood results and you know, see if their lives or
their loved ones lives are going to change, you know,
on how what they want to do with that information
is really quite remarkable.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And and by the way, with this, as I understand
that we're not we're talking about a simple blood test,
no spinal tap, no scan or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No spinal tap exactly, I mean, or pet scan or
anything like that. And and I think that again, like
even the amount of time and effort and agony and
anxiety that that those type that that process and procedure,
which by the way, was another major medical advancement at
one time, but all of that goes away over the
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next few years. And so it really is a remarkable,
remarkable thing. And again one of the things is i've
been reporting this, the conversation that comes up is, well,
why would you want to know if But I I
call bluff on that. I think that knowledge is power
and information is key, and it's because science is moving
(12:04):
so rapidly. Things can change, you know, on the month,
and so if you're aware of what is happening to
your loved one's brain, and I'd love you know. I
did a piece on super agers, which scienceists are are
reporting on who are folks who are in their eighties
and nineties who have the brain cognitivity of someone in
(12:27):
their thirties and forties, and they're mapping the brain using
artificial intelligence at Northwestern University. And because of that, if
you're able to really study your own brain more, you're
able to treat yourself better and your loved one's better.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And the other thing, which again I want to just
touch on quickly here, scientists in Britain have been able
to shrink a brain tumor diagnos time from eight weeks
to two hours using real time DNA sequencing and surgery.
(13:05):
So they shrunk the brain tumor or does it does
it take uh? Does it take less time to basically diagnosis?
I'm a little confused about what I'm.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Reading here, Yeah, brains, It's confusing. So essentially, this is
another major wind that just happened in the last few
months that we reported on Meet the Future, which is
previously there is a certain type of brain cancer that
if anyone who has had to suffer with this, and
it's it's a horrible, horrible illness. If any of anyone's
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folks have been impacted by this, and the diagnostic time
can sometimes take months, and so in this one particular case,
what they were able to do is to look at
the DNA sequencing and to be able to figure out
in the o R in two hours if an individual
has this type of cancer, and again to two hours
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versus two months. When you're diagnosing something of that as
deadly as cancer in the brain, that can be really,
really horrific. And so the science and the technology had
been able to dramatically speed up the time that it
takes in order to make these diagnose it. So, whether
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it's Alzheimer's, whether it's brain cancer, it's again the technology
has just come so so far.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Okay, let's get to some phone calls. Going to go.
Don't want people to have to wait. Let me go
to John in New York State.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
John, you're on with Kevin SURRILLI meet the Future and
we're talking about the future of medicine.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Go ahead, John, Yes, thank you, Dan to taking my call. Hi, Kevin,
Can I start out asking a question about myself that
I wonder what your vife would be, what I should do?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Sure you try. I give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
He's not a doctor, but let's see what you give
it a shot, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I had the situation at at times I don't remember
the names of people that I knew, and sometimes three
hours later and I come into my head, is there
something going on that I should have looked at?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Or what? How old are you? John? John? How old
are you?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I'm seventy.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't think that's abnormal for people of a certain age.
Is these people who you should recall their name? I mean,
I have a situation where I can meet someone and
then three months later you bump into them again, and
you know, you know the face, but you haven't connected
the name of the face. I think that's fairly normal.
But we'll see what Kevin has to say. Kevin, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
You know again, I just want to reiterate I am
not a doctor at all, but I do appreciate your question.
And I did a story for Meet the Future earlier
this week on what scientists are are calling super agers.
And super agers are folks who are aging into their eighties.
They're not nineties, even above one hundred, and they're studying
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but they have the same brain memory as folks in
their thirties and forties, and so scientists are studying these
super agers brains and their habits that they do every day,
and some of the trends are really quite remarkable. There's
a part of the brain when you get older, according
to these sciences, that typically shrinks or gets inflamed, and
(16:28):
that can sometimes have impacts on memory. But what I
found really powerful is that only thirty percent, according to
these sciences, of your brain is because of genetics, So
that means seventy percent of your brain you really can
help with help. So things like doing a daily ritual,
(16:51):
or getting some exercise, or drinking water, or reading a
book and finishing it and going on a walk and
talking to your friends, that actually can help to help
your brain stay fit. The same way that we go
to the gym to work on our muscles. The argument
is your brain is a muscle, and so to help
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your brain to do all of those things can sometimes
improve your brain health.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You know, just a quick thing, though, Dan, there's a
gentleman by the name of Ricky C who used to
live in Franklin. He asked me to stay a low
to you because he knows who you are, but I
don't think you'd know him.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It's always good to meet old friends coming back to you.
Are the people who's who you're having difficulty recollecting their name?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
John? Are they people who you know? Well? Are they
people who you have met only once or twice?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I mean this, gentleman, I just told you about Ricky C.
I mean he works in the same building at General
Electric and Schenectady with me, and I mean I've dealt
with him many times. Yeah, and I'm asking him tonight
what his name is. And it's like I feel like
embarrassed and you know, guilty, like why the hell? And
you know that's that's an example of that. Of course,
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I still remember what he told me, maybe just twenty
minutes ago. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What my experience has been that when you're in a
particularly let us say, when you're in some sort of
a party situation and I don't know, maybe you know,
I will have Kevin comment on my comment if you want, uh,
and you meet thirty people in thirty minutes, and it's
one of those high how.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Are you what's your name? For me? That oftentimes the
name blows.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Right by me unless someone I knew, and then you
might meet them in the hallway or in an elevator.
A month later and it's like, you know, you know
you've met the person, you remember that.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But Kevin, that's that's what my experience is.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
And I jumped in here and I'd say this, you know, listen,
I'm Catholic. I'm not a perfect Catholic. Who's you know,
And I'm not I'm not a preacher. But you know,
I remember growing up and one of my Sunday school
teachers said to me, I think it was I want
to say this lady, this poet maya Angelou and but
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but don't hold me to it. That was the lady
that my Sunday school teacher was quoting que and she said,
people people don't remember what you said, they remember how
you made them feel. And so to your point, then,
I think, at the end of the day, it names
the name. But if you can remember what the individual,
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if they're a good person, and how they made you feel, honestly,
isn't that more important?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mean I think you know, look, John, if you
have trouble remembering the name of your next door neighbor
who's lived next door to you for thirty years, uh,
that's that's something you should be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And talking with the doctor about.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But again, and the other thing which I find John,
and I don't know if this is helpful to you
when you meet people in what I would call out
of context situation.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So let's assume.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You know somebody fairly well and you're in I don't know,
you're just in a totally different someone who you know
at the gym. You go to the gym and you
know their names, okay, and hey, you know right, Joe High,
Pete and all of that, and then I don't know,
you're at a ballpark or you're at a supermarket, and
(20:30):
it's a totally different context. I think that at that
point you're going to say, I know this person, but
where do I That's sort of my experience, and so
you try to keep a little sharper. The other thing
what you can do is Jerry Lucas, the great basketball
player who played at Ohio State and then with the
Cincinnati Royals, his teammate of Oscar Robertson back in the
sixties and seventies. He wrote a book many years ago
(20:52):
called The Memory Book. And I remember having Jerry Lucas
on the show, and he had the ability to walk
into a room, uh be introduced to like a hundred people.
And he then, would you know, walk out of the room,
walk back in the room ten minutes later, having memorized
the name of every person in the room. And he
(21:15):
just had this tremendous instant recall which nobody else would have.
And he explained that he was able to associate some
physical feature with the person, either their height, or their
their hairdoo, or the shape of their ears, or their
you know, whether they wore glasses or not. And he
he would he this was almost like a stick that
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he had, and he made quite a good living at
it going around. It's called the Memory Book. If you
can get out of the library, you might be interested
in reading it.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Can I tell you my issue?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
My issue is I got a dog. My dog's name
is Steo. So I take my dog Steo to the
dog park. I don't know if anyone who's listening has
pets or has a dog. I know my neighbors dogs
names more than I know their names.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
And then and I'll be talking to people at the
dog parker and I'm thinking, I don't know who the
heck is person. I mean, I know that they're I
know that they're you know, Gemma's dog, dad or mom.
But but it's it's crazy, so you gotta when you
go to the dog park, you gotta remember two names.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
So I struggle with it.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I think you're okay, John, but talk to you doctor
as well, like anything like that.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Okay, I had one other thing, you know, just you
probably don't remember you told me the last time. You
told me a couple of things last time I called,
and you said cal earlier because I'm always call in
the last five minutes, but you okay, go ahead. I
did also that, Uh, you probably don't remember what the
woman the new relationship I'm in, and I.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Do remember you mentioned me a lady from the Philippines,
and I was I'm a little worried about that, right right.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Right, right right.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Everything's so far, so good. But I'll update you and
I you know, I know more.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Have you met her yet, John, or no?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
No, she's she was at the embassy getting a Lisa
in a best place today.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, John, I wish you the best of luck on
that one.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
In the motion she's in the motion of getting ready
to come.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Okay, we just remember if she's looking for you to
buy the airplane ticket.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Be careful. Okay, that's all I'm saying, simple as that.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Hey, you know, some three people today told me that
I want to tell you something. I was a frequent
flyer for thirty years on the airlines I have I
have half a million air miles. So I'm gonna get
her a free ticket. What the heck? I'm okay, that's why.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Just don't give her your bank account. John, All, I'm
telling you your bank account.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
That's all would all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Good luck, keep us posted, send us pictures. Thanks, Okay,
good guy.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
This might be one of the longest, most long distance
night side marriages that have ever occurred. John has met
someone through a program who lives in the Philippines.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Belief Man.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I have anxiety. Yeah, I have anxiety.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
John.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
He seems like a nice guy, but you know, candidly,
he's wearing his heart on his sleeve. I got anxiety.
I hope he's careful. I hope he's real careful with that.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'm totally with you on that one. I've given him
his Miranda rights here. So anyway, you take a break,
take a break, it's the Ted thirty four. If you
want to talk to my guest, Kevin Cirelli, Meet the
Future with a couple of other medical breakthroughs we want
to make you aware of, just to give you a sense.
I mean, no one can keep up with everything that's
going on, but what is being done medically, it is
(24:38):
just it's it's moving exponentially, folks, and it's going to
benefit future generations, maybe generations that are alive today, maybe
people who.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Are older today. So you just never know.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I know that I've done a couple of blood tests
which were recommended to me by my doctor, not because
he felt they had a problem, where they can screen
for cancer. I'm going to talk to Kevin about those.
I'm sure he knows a lot about those as well.
I got Brad and Milwaukee coming up, and we got
to take the news.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We'll be right back. I got some open lines, folks,
six four, ten thirty. Don't be shy.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Don't assume the question that is in your mind is
going to be asked by someone else.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
SIXE Back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WAZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
My guest Kevin Sir Ellie Kevin, I do have some
other issues. I want to talk about what happened with
this uh young infant in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I love this story. This is a great story.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I hit this one quickly and then we got a
bunch of calls. We want to get to this baby's
life is saved after doctors rewrote.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
His DNA, they edited the genetic decide. This is this
is an a miracle and and I love this story
because it happened at Philadelphia. Of course I grew up
outside of Philly, so I'm but and this story, by
the way, would have been should have gotten way more
coverage than it did. This was only a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I did see this one on the nightly news, but
it was just passed over very.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
Quickly, exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And yeah it got some pick up, but that I it.
So this kid, Connor had had a horrible I'm talking
this is a baby. It's not even an get horrible
rare genetic defect that you know, I really hate talking
like this about babies. But would have been a death sentence, okay,
and the the the doctors were able to go in
(26:44):
and rewrite the DNA sequencing and fix the genetic defect
and the kid was able to live. Now, this not
only was the first time that this procedure has ever
been done in the United States of the America, but
this is the first time this procedure has been done
anywhere on the planet. Okay, this is huge and the
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implications are so so far reaching.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And so.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
This is just such a medical miracle. It's it's incredible
that it was done. And it just goes to show
you how fast this stuff is happening and the hope
that this gives for going forward for babies that are born.
I think it's an amazing, amazing medical What is.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
The prognosis or is it too early to provide a
prognosis for this infant?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You know, if it is too early, But the early
indicators is that this procedure worked. But obviously, I mean,
he's a baby, so or so we'll have to see,
you know, what will happen.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Wow, let's get righty in perspective. To put this story
in perspective. Do you remember when the conjoined twins were separated.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh yeah, that's about twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
That's that's the level of how amazing this person. That's
that's how incredible.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
This story is I can join twins and if I'm
not mistaken, wasn't Ben Carson involved in that procedure?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
You know? I I want to say yes, but that
I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I think it might have been involved in that. He
was one of the surgens involved. But my question is
obviously co co join twins, particularly conjoin conjoined quins twins
uh in the skull area? Which is that case I
believe that you're talking about. It's it was extraordinary and
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and that has to be literally one in a million
or one in five million. But whatever the that that's
still occasionally still happens. Are they able now? Is that
become more of as for and you know this more
than I. Has that become a standard procedure where could
co join twins can be separated? Or was that I
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don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I'm not gonna be yet. I'm not going to I guess.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Well, I would think that once that, once it is
done successfully, it can cur That's something that gets in
the medical journals. And okay, let's keep rolling here. Got
to go to Brad and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hey Brad, welcome,
You're next on Nightside. Thanks for checking in. I don't
think we've ever heard from you before, Brad.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
No, first time.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I got to give you a.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Round of applause as the first time caller here on Nightside.
Simple as that, go right ahead, you're on with my guest,
Kevin Sirelli.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Great show, Kevin. My question is if the research that's
being done on Alzheimer's currently, is there any relationship or
is there any help to the research with autism.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
That's a great question. That's a great, great question. I
didn't see based on my reporting, and again I'm not
a doctor. I didn't see based on my reporting, any
that would indicate that this test could be applicable the autism.
But I do think that's a great question that you asked,
But nothing from my reporting that I see that the
(30:11):
Alzheimer's blood tests would somehow be utilized for autism.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And just as I fall off from that last point,
does this DNA rewriting and that effect if there's a
way to figure that THETIS has the autism gene or
can the DNA be written to correct that.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
So that's another great question, the DNA editing. And when
I was reporting this out, what essentially the comparison that
I'll make is DNA is sequencing. It's essentially a computer code,
for lack of a better analogy, and so what the
doctors in Philly were able to figure out was they
were able to identify the portion of the code that
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is the genetic defect disease, and they were able to
edit that in the sequencing in order to fix the problems.
I think of it truly as a computer code. And
so to your point, as research continues to evolve, what
researchers are going to be looking and into the genetic
sequencing are for irregularities. But again I want to be
(31:20):
crystal clear here, nothing in my reporting it touched autism
in any way, shape or form based on the story
that I covered. But the broader part of the looking
into the genetic sequencing is something that is a topic
that scientists are looking into based on my reporting.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Bred if I could jump in, Brad, this is Dan Ray.
I worked for many years. I didn't do work on autism,
but I worked for many years with a group called
the New England Center for Children in Southborough, Massachusetts. Raised
a lot of money. They deal with kids with autism.
As you know, the the frequency of autism kids being
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diagnosed with autism is substantially greater. And for me, the
question always is is the is the prevalence of the
condition more now or is it simply being recognized as more.
The one thing that was always impressed upon me by
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the physicians and the professionals is that a lot of
the concerns I know dealt with inoculations and whether or
not that was, you know, contributing to the increase. And
most of the scientists and the doctors that I've talked
to say that is just not so. I believe, and
correct me if I'm wrong, Brad, you may know more
(32:47):
about this than I do.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That The new h h and S Secretary of Health
and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Basically said he hopes to find the cause of autism
by this September. That seems to me to be fairly ambitious.
But I believe that's what I have heard Kennedy report.
Am I Kevin, does that ring a bell with you
or no?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Well, you know, he's definitely shaking things up, and I think,
you know, I whether it's in the fall or he
definitely is putting He's definitely talking about autism a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, But I thought he would.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I thought he's he's that he was saying that we
we should have a definitive cause by September, which I
think is way too ambitious.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
But I think I think, I think I did hear
that also, Dan, and I thought that was extremely aggressive.
But Kevin, I appreciate your answer. Dan, I appreciate you show.
You do a great job. Keep it up, Brett.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Have you listened to us before or is this like
you just happened to find us tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
No, I'm a talk show radio junkie. When I was
little in Milwaukee. He used to have a transistor radio
listens radio.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Sure it's Chicago.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, well I was a radio junkie as a kid,
and I worked in TV for thirty one years and
I've been doing radio now for eighteen.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
So same same here.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I hope you'll walk us in and all your devices
and become a regular.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
I am a regular.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
All right, I gotta take a quick break here. We're
thirteen minutes. I got three calls. We're going to get
to everybody, I promised my guest, Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future.
MTF dot tv is your website if I'm not. I'm
correct on that.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
That is correct. You're a hint of the future of
what we're building for it.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, no, I get it. I got it.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I got it. And it's not e du that's for sure,
but it's dot TV. We'll be back at nights Side
with my guest Kevin Sirelli. He is a futurist. We're
talking about the future of medicine back on Nightside right
after this.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Night Side, Dan Ray on see Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
All right, let me go to Joe and Lynn. Joe,
you are on Welcome with Kevin Surrell. Meet the Future
right ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Thank you, Kevin, thanks for taking my call. Kevin, what
about prostate cancer? I know some people that have it, well.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I think you know, you know it's a it's another
great question. The study that they found for Alzheimer's and
in particular, the hope is that that this will be
able to that this will be able to cut back
on the time for the diagnosis. I have not done
(35:39):
any reporting, and I'm just I'm a straight shooter. I'm
not a BS artist and I saw I just want
to level with you. I have not done any reporting
on prostate cancer or the technology around it. But now
that you've asked me the question, if you go to
my substack meetthfuture dot substack dot com, I can you
have my words, sir. Over the next couple of weeks,
I'll look into that for you and I'll i'll try
(36:00):
to report and see.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I am not too good on the computer, but that's okay.
I asked because the Amish don't have much problems with disease,
and I've heard it stem cell research would help this,
so that's why I mentioned it. Prostate cancer, Well.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
You know, Joe, I've this, Dan, I've never heard that.
There are lots of theories out there. Obviously, the belief
I believe in terms of prostate cancer is that if
adult men live long enough vers everyone would get prostate cancer.
And in some cases that's why they were not testing
(36:39):
either PSA or the physical test on prostate cancer.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Which may have I think. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
President former President Biden was tested after the age of
seventy because there was a theory. And Kevin can jump
in here. He knows more about this than I do.
That after a certain point, if you did were not
diagnosed with state cancer, you were thought that it would
that you would live.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And die of a different of a different ailment.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Obviously, I think that that sort of judgments are being
re evaluated in view of what.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Apparently has happened to form a president Biden.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Kevin and I did do a story this week on
the scientists who were looking at the parts of the
world where there's the highest concentration of humans who are
above the age of one hundred and healthy. And it
is interesting you mentioned the Amish, but there's a there's
a place in Japan that's number one that is the
(37:42):
highest concentration of people who are living above the age
of one hundred. It's called a blue zone. That's what
the scientists dubbed these places. Number two is Italy, and
number three and I'm sorry, the only blue zone in
America is in Low Melinda, California. And so I mentioned
this because you mentioned Amish. But you know a lot
(38:02):
of Native Americans and and other folks who rely on
more who have a healthier lifestyle quite honestly than some
of our modern way of life, can learn a lot
food exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
You're right, You're right, less less processed food, which it
goes is something that coming back to HHN S Secretary
Kennedy has has talked about getting a lot of the
process stuff, a lot of the uh the color additives
now out of you know.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Candies and and and food.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Absolutely, thanks Joe, got to keep it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Let me go next to Robert in Wellesley. Robert getting
a little tight on time. Want to get you in
a couple more.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
In goright ahead, Robert. You Kevin Sorelli, Meet the Future
mtf TV.
Speaker 9 (38:49):
Good evening to you and your guests. Mister Kevin Sorelli.
Interesting topic, Thank you for having. It's like, I don't
want to be persumptuous, but you know, but I'd like
to say that in some ways we can meet the
future now or the future is now. That's another expression
you're familiar with that that is we have existing research
(39:10):
that that goes unutilized. And one example is the is
baby sign language which became which has become popular and
better known, but actually it was a It was rediscovered
by a psychologist who also happened to be a sign
language and interpreter. And another side of that you may
be familiar with is that this research that uh that
(39:35):
sign that sign language study and practice can can prevent
delay or mitigate mental confusion, including UH including dementia. The
UH and one this may be related to something else
you may be familiar with that hearing loss is the
(39:58):
has been said to be the single most controllable factor
and in dementia, in dementia prevention. Do you want me
to stop there?
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah, you've just thrown a lot at us late in
the show here, Robert, I'm not sure what Kevin Kevin
I would say.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Is learning the language, whether it's sign language or or
whether it's other Learning language is a great way to
exercise your brain. And one of the things that the
scientists have found for superagers is that they're constantly learning
new skills. So definitely something to consider in an era
where some of our devices and technology are increasingly becoming translators.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
Yes, thank you. That's that's another factor to the fact
that it is language study, and that's also in general
that's been found to be beneficial. Thank you for considering
my topic. I wish I had time to elaborate on it.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yes, thank you, Thanks Robert. Absolutely talk soon. Let me
go to Ron and Newton. Rony're next on Night Side
with Kevin Sirelli.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
Meet the Future, Go right ahead, n I and hi Kevin,
thanks for being on the show. Just two quick questions.
Quite a while ago, there was a move towards using
more pharnaco genomics, that is, the understanding of single nucleartide
polymorphisms and and how that impacts disease than where we
(41:20):
could take advantage of that using therapeutics. For example, we
could we could identify who would do better with on
methotrexity treating colon cancer. Some people have greater side effects
and some have less.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
And the other thing that's along the same lines is
this the new biologics have made great progress in terms
of treating inflammatory disease, for example in military artsritis. What
are your thoughts on on those two areas.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
I got nothing for you. You gave me a lot to
report on. I'm not going to be as you were
saying words I was, I was. I gotta do my
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I know
what you're talking about. I have not reported on that.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
So Ron is a medical professional and and I am not.
That's okay, that's okay, that's he's taken some notes, f Ron.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Those are good questions.
Speaker 8 (42:17):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Like lady.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Let me let me shoot real quickly. I'm going to
try for two. I don't know if I can.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Jony and Pennsylvania. Jony next on, Nice, I go ahead.
Speaker 8 (42:30):
I would like to know do you think you'll be
a blood test for sugar mental mental illnesses and.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
Will be a cure for mental illness.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
I think that's a great question, and I would I would,
I would be optimistic.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I definitely think that the more research that we have,
especially as we understand the brain, that that that will
be a huge huge factor in treating mental illness. Whether
or not there's a blood test for it, I think,
I think that there will be increasingly more and more
treatments for mental illness. But whether or not there's a
blood test, I don't know. But the treatment for it
(43:07):
is such a huge factor. And I can tell you this, Joni.
And I don't know what part of PA you're in
because I grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. So I'm
a huge Pennsylvania person and a huge fan of Pennsylvania.
But I will tell you this. Thank you for your question,
because there should be no stigma around mental health, Okay,
and I appreciate that question, because the more we talk
about it, then the more we can we have more
(43:29):
of a chance to talk in about treatment for it
that everyone can have access for it. It's a crisis
in this country and we in order to have a
better future for our country, we got to talk. We
gotta address it head on. And let me tell you something.
We can't just let big Pharma dictate the terms of
the agreement. We all have to step up and talk
about it to address it.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Well, great points, Jonny.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
By the way, just you know, two nights ago, I
was in Montreal at a big event concerned with mental illness.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
You know. So it's across all borders.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
And I'm pretty confident, Joni, because a lot of people
are able to deal with mental illness now, uh if
they stick with the medications, and I think that eventually
we'll we'll have some breakthrough. So thanks for the question.
It was a really good one, Joni. Thank you, Thank you,
You're welcome. Kevin has always thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Kevin. Folks can get.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
In touch with you at the website is MTF for
Meet the Future MTF dot tv.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yes, and go to my substack subscribe. Thank you everybody, Dan,
thank you as always, It's such an honor, and you're
you got such a great program, and your listeners are incredible.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I have some smarts. I have smart listeners. Don't.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Yes, I'm listening. I've done many many shows I've been on.
You know this about me?
Speaker 2 (44:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
And your listeners are Those are some of the smartest
questions and I deeply, deeply respect this. You got to
know your stuff when you're coming on your show.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Well, the other thing, too, is try doing it four
hours at night. Five it's a week. I got to
keep up with some of these people. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
I love my heart Radio, my friend.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
So thanks Kevin.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
We'll talk soon. Thanks so much. I really enjoyed it tonight.
Well we get back. We got the twentieth hour, and
I got a question. My question at the twentieth hour
is going to be would you want to know? Kevin
mentioned it earlier, if there was something, would you want
to know in advance what you were going to deal with, five, ten, fifteen,
(45:29):
twenty years down the line.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Back on Night's side. After this
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