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