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Have diminished in terms of impact. >> why does this happen? >> this is a good question. i mean, as a brain guy myself i was really surprised by this. initially i thought, look, people get upper respiratory symptoms, nasal congestion, sinus con jekz. that's what's causing it. it's may more. interesting and scary about this virus. images, but basically the virus will go and attack some of the supporting cells that are responsible for your smell. responsible for the nerve that allows you to smell. and what happens is, those particular cells, they're supposed to regenerate every few months, but a...

Can be indication of a nerve degenerative people. you want to understanden the way people are smelling but there is a way to retrain your sense of smell. sound this fascinating and simple as well. go to someone like dr. patel or a small specialist. these four smells, rose, lemon, eucalyptus, clove, different smells that represent different areas of your what's called your epithelium. thain yourself. smell yourself over and over. over time a significant percentage of people may start to actually have objective improvement in smell. >> amazing. a bummer people have to go through this. you know? ...

One is that we are better identifying the genetics of the cancers so we know the mutations causing this and can target those but also this avenue of therapies known as immunotherapy which actually teaches your immune system or allows it to fight the cancer. i always give the example of jimmy carter. he had meta static melanoma to his brain. a clear death sentence a decade ago. he got one of these immuno therapies and as far as i know he is still building houses with habitat for humanity in his mid 90s now. >> still here doing the work. i want to ask you about your podcast. i know it is excitin...

Also your podcast, new season of "chasing life" in the first episode you introduce us to a german word -- let's listen to the clip here. >> it means the per accept shl environment. so mine includes the spectrum ranging from red to violent. a bee's goes from green to ultra violent. birds have a dimension of color they can perceive and we can't. my umwelt doesn't include a magnetic field. each creature has its own sights and sounds and textures it can perceive than unique to it. >> i love this stuff. that's ed young, you may remember him, he wrote this book called "an immense world" the

Reduction in cancer rate since 1991 that's significant. if you fast forward another 25 years, it's possible. i think there's a couple things. first of all the big areas they made progress, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostrate cancer and breast cancer. they identified mutations, been able to target those mutations. but a big thing in president biden's cancer moonshot is investing more in those therapies and also recognizing that probably half of cancers, including the ones i just mentioned are brought on by preventable causes so identifying those things, smoking being one of them, diet being an...