How OpenAI Is Helping People Take Control of Their Health with Fidji Simo

Mark Hyman, MD

Dr. Mark Hyman is leading a health revolution—one focused on using food as medicine to support longevity, energy, mental clarity, happiness, and so much more. Mark Hyman, MD is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, Founder and Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, a fifteen-time New York Times best-selling author, and Board President for Clinical Affairs for The Institute for Functional Medicine. He is the founder and chairman of the Food Fix Campaign, dedicated to transforming our food and agriculture system through policy.

He is a co-founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Function Health. He is the host of one of the leading health podcasts, The Dr. Hyman Show with 150+ million downloads. Dr. Hyman is a regular medical contributor to several television shows and networks, including CBS This Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The View, Fox, and CNN.

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Dr. Mark Hyman
Most people know better how to operate their phone or their car than they know how to operate their body. Nine out of 10 people don't know how to navigate their own health information, and even most doctors probably don't. And so we have this moment in history where we're in there right now. It's gonna allow us to really unlock this. Fidji Simo is CEO of applications at OpenAI where she leads products like ChatGPT and oversees the company's global operations.

Big job. She's a veteran tech leader and a former CEO of Instacart, and she brings deep experience building and scaling some of the world's influential consumer platforms.

Fidji Simo
I was hospitalized. I developed an infection, and the nurse arrives and she's like, need to administer an antibiotic. I put the name of the antibiotic in child GPTD. And so it immediately told me, hey, This antibiotic is standard, but in your case, it might reactivate a really serious infection that I had had a couple years prior. So I said that to the resident.

The resident was actually totally relieved because she told me, I have five minutes to make the rounds. I cannot look at someone else records five years ago, and I'm really glad that you picked that up. One of the most important decisions of my life would have been kinda messed up if it wasn't for AI helping connect the dots. I had seen 20 doctors, but not a single one of them had looked at the whole picture and was able to analyze all of this data and give me patterns that you can only detect when you see that whole picture. That confronted me to the health care system in a big way and realized all of the shortcomings of being able to treat chronic illness.

Dr. Mark Hyman
There's a specialty for every part of your body, and there's literally a doctor for every inch of you. And I think what most doctors miss is the body is one network and networks are hard to understand. And now with AI and with Chateappity Health and with Function Health, we're able to start to gather our own data in ways we never could before. Welcome, Fiji, the podcast. It's so good to have you.

Fidji Simo
Great to be here. Thanks for having me, Mo.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Well, everybody who's listening is probably wondering why I'm having you on the podcast about health. But as it turns out, you've just taken on the role of CEO of applications at OpenAI, otherwise known as ChatGPT for most people. And you are launching as your first initiative the health focus of ChatGPT was ChatGPT Health. To me, that's so exciting because you could have done a million things, but you're focusing on this really revolutionary approach to helping people understand their own health. And most people know better how to operate their phone, their iPhone or their Android phone or their car than they know how to operate their body.

And we were just chitchatting a little before, we said nine out 10 people don't know how to navigate their own health information And even most doctors probably don't. You know, honestly, it's hard when you're sick to figure everything out. And so we have this moment in history where we're in right now, it's going to allow us to really unlock this. And your efforts are really accelerating this. And before we get into kind of what the potential is for AI and health and what the potential is for people to understand their health better to end suffering that's that we now have the answers to but they're not getting, I wanna kind of talk a little bit about your suffering and my suffering, because we both kind of have a similar history of having a condition that's poorly understood, that's poorly diagnosed, that's poorly treated, that causes a lot of pain and suffering that's not in our head, but is a real phenomenon that happens that we haven't been able to help.

You know, maybe you could start out by sharing a little bit about your health journey and how you got into all this and why this is so important to you because you've not just leading this from a from within AI but you also have another company that's helping to sort of unlock the mysteries of chronic illness, which I got so excited about when I saw.

Fidji Simo
Absolutely. So, yeah, to to share a little bit about my own health journey, I was very healthy until I got pregnant in 2015. I had a pretty rough pregnancy. And then after the pregnancy, I started having all kinds of weird symptoms. I started fainting a lot, being very shaky, exceptionally tired.

And as you can imagine, doctors at the time told me, you're just a tired mom. You're deconditioned. It's okay. Like, you know, nothing wrong with you. And I kind of miraculously recovered, you know, nine months later, after the pregnancy.

But, a couple years later, I had the surgery for endometriosis. And after that surgery, the same symptoms recurred. I started fainting a lot, started being very dizzy, my heart would go, like, super high as soon as I would stand, a constellation of, like, mystery symptoms. And that's when I was, diagnosed with, a neuroimmune condition called postural osteostatic tachycardia syndrome, which is a mouthful that then evolved into chronic fatigue syndrome. And, it's pretty debilitating.

Like, you know, I I am still dealing with the symptom, and that means that, you know, I can't stand for long periods of time, without fainting. I end up, you know, having, you know, fatigue much much faster than normal people. And so, you know, that that confronted me to the health care system in a big way and realized all of the shortcomings of being able to treat chronic illness.

Dr. Mark Hyman
That's very frustrating as a as someone who's got access to anything, anybody, anywhere on the planet and still not to be able to get answers because we're looking at things through the wrong lens. And you know, I think, you know, in reading some of the work you've done, I encourage everybody to read your your Substack article on Attachivity Health which really lays this whole problem out. And you talk about how you went to different doctors for different symptoms, but you're one body. And everything is connected and there are root causes and there are fundamental biological systems. And I also, when I was younger, first got into all this because ended up having chronic fatigue syndrome.

I went from riding my bike a 100 miles a day and, you know, being able to remember 30 patients charts without taking any notes all day, to not being able to walk up the stairs or know where I was at the end of a sentence. It turned out I had mercury poisoning from living in China and that's a whole long story, but my whole system just collapsed from one day to the next. I went to doctor after doctor, I went to Columbia, I went to Harvard, I'm sure as you did and no answers. Know, oh, you're stressed, oh, take some Xanax, oh, take some Prozac. You know, like, you know.

And knew I wasn't crazy. And I was highly motivated, highly engaged person, and all of a sudden I could barely function. And it took me a long time to dig out of that. And I think, you know, what I discovered was that the body is this incredibly complex network. As an individual doctor, it's very hard to understand that the massive complexity that's a human body.

We've got 40,000,000,000,000 cells, we've got you know billions of chemical reactions, billions of trillions of chemical reactions happening every second in the cell in the body. There's so much scientific literature and no one person can put that all together. There is an operating system that's we call network medicine or systems medicine that's preventive, proactive, predictive, participatory, you know, as you've written about. And it's so good at helping people understand these complex chronic illnesses, but traditional medicine is just so slow to change. Know, as a doctor, I know that, you know, it took fifty years from the time Semmelweis discovered we should wash our hands before surgery till doctors believed that we should wash our hands before surgery, right?

So it's kind of like that. And now with AI and with Chateapity Health and with Function Health, we're able to start to gather our own data. We're start to make sense of our own data in ways we never could before. So it's super exciting. And I think you struggled even as a person who's had access to figure this out, I feel bad because that's really what I get up every day.

Because I want to have people be empowered to end needless suffering and to get help whenever they can from the world's, you know, incredible scientific knowledge that we most of us don't have the ability to sort through, understand, and make sense of. But now we we start we're starting to be able to do that with AI and health, which is is pretty exciting.

Fidji Simo
And I'll tell you, I mean, your your what you're saying resonates so much. I saw 20 specialists, everyone looking at just, like, one particular symptom. And if you look at my disease, it's a mix of immune dysregulation, nervous system dysregulation, so that impacts the entire body. But meanwhile, you have the GI doctor that's just focused on your GI symptoms. And the cardiologist was just thinking that your heart rate is fast, but not really connecting that with the fact that it's a neurological symptom.

When I got diagnosed, it was interesting because I I had this very naive idea that there were, you know, plenty of doctors behind the scenes who are all working to make sure that these conditions would get cured. And I realized, oh, actually, there isn't that much happening that can actually advance scientific discovery. So I ended up hiring a teaching assistant at Stanford to teach me genetics and, like, basically the whole body system. But I'm like, that's crazy. Like, who has the resources and the time to do that?

And that's what made me so passionate about making sure that everyone can understand their own health, level the playing field with doctors because ultimately it's your life, and really desilose the health care system, which is not working, as is. And especially when you look at, like, the burden of chronic illness in the country right now, about, like, eighty five percent of health care costs is coming from, like, these complex chronic disorders. All of these multisystems, they are not focused on one organ. So you have an entire health system that's very organ focused. And meanwhile, sick people who are falling apart from head to toe and are struggling with figuring out, how to get out of that.

So, you know, I'm I'm really thinking about how AI can help, but also how we can, like, reform the health care system to adapt to what people are gonna need in the future.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Well, think that's exactly right. I mean, you know, it is it is two pronged, really. One is helping individuals understand their own health in a way that was never possible before from their lab data. Function allows people to do that from imaging, and Function allows you to do that through wearables, which integrate now into Function through any lab that you've ever had done. You can upload into HealthVault and get all that information.

And also, can access all the scientific literature in the world and all knowledge expert training and all the genetics and your microbiome and your metabolome and toxin levels and measuring things that we never could measure before. And now we're doing it at radically deflationary prices and at great scale. No individual doctor can make sense of that. But it's going to tell a story about what's going on with you that might otherwise think about. And the narrative you said was very important.

There's a specialty for every part of your body and there's literally a doctor for every inch of you. I mean, it's so sub specialized now. And I think what most doctors miss is the body is one network. And networks are hard to understand. They're complex.

I mean, you've got biology, you've got chemistry, you've got physics, you've got all of it together in the body and it's just impossibly reductionist about it. And that's what medicine's been. But now with with our ability to sort of source the whole world knowledge, sort of like the the like a gigantic library of Alexandria in a way, we we can suddenly actually have insights about things and learn things. So not just for individuals, but we also accelerate science and change the paradigm. And I think that's what's exciting to me.

So I think medicine is going to be shifted from the outside, you know, just like many other industries were shifted by, you know, like phones were disrupted by Apple or music by iTunes, you know, Spotify. These didn't come from within the industry. And I think this is what's so exciting to me because, you know, like you said, doctors try their best, the health care system does its best, but it's sort of stuck in this antiquated model. I really wanna hear how you use AI for yourself because you you you've tried to figure this out as an individual, like, what's wrong with me? Why do I feel like this?

What are the causes? What do I do? Like, what is my doctor telling me? How how have you used it for yourself?

Fidji Simo
The main thing is, exactly what you said. It's connecting all of the data about me in one place so that it can be analyzed. And, like, the first time it happened and I connected my health records, my Apple Health data, all of my, you know, past labs, my medical history, all in one place in ChildGPT and just ask ChildGPT like, hey. Are there patterns that you're detecting that would be interesting? I also uploaded my whole genome in there.

I was blown away because I had been you know, again, I had seen 20 doctors, but not a single one of them had looked at the whole picture and was able to analyze all of this data and give me patterns that you can only detect when you see that full picture. So that has been really helpful in, like, finding new avenues to explore, getting new ideas, not having to read all of the, you know, studies coming out because, like, was the time. Like, I get a summary every morning on, like, new studies on my condition. I get a summary from, like, new treatments that people on Reddit are trying out because we spend so much time when we're sick on forums trying to figure it out. Nacha GPT does that for me.

So that has simplified my life in a very big way. And in a even more concrete way to give you a real story, last year, I was having, a kidney stone. I was having surgery, and I was hospitalized. I developed an infection, and the nurse arrives and she's like, hey. I need to administer an antibiotic for, your your, urine test came back, you know, with an infection.

And I was like, hey. Like, I'm totally fine with that, but can you wait a minute? I just wanna check something. And I put the name of the antibiotic in child GPT. And Yeah.

Yeah. Already had all of my health records. Right? And so it immediately told me, hey. This antibiotic is standard for a UTI, but in your case, it might reactivate a really serious infection that I had had a couple years prior, C.

Diff, and it's, like, said, like, you really shouldn't use that one. There's a better one to use that will do the job but without risking, you know, messing up with your microbiome. And so I said that to the resident, and I was expecting pushback. And in fact, the resident was actually totally relieved because she told me she's like, I have five minutes to make the rounds. I cannot look at, like, someone else records five years ago.

And I'm really glad that you picked that up because I could have been really bad. So I'm glad that I can now give you the right antibiotic. And that made me realize, wow. Like, again, one of the most important decisions of my life, would have been kinda messed up if it wasn't for AI helping connect the dots fundamentally.

Dr. Mark Hyman
It's it's such an important story. And then you're right, doctors are relieved because like, you got five minutes, you got 40 patients, you're running around like crazy, you don't have time to research everything, you know, even with with AI, it's still hard. What what did you learn, Fiji, about your health that was novel or new that helped you when you started to put all your records into ChadGBT?

Fidji Simo
My whole genome was really interesting because, it's not that I had, like, genes that were, like, very clearly pathological, but because of certain I was able to, SharedGPT started telling me some potential drugs that doctors hadn't thought about that because of my genome could be interesting, and they ended up really helping. So that was really helpful. It also detected that, you know, I needed, like, B vitamins that were methylated and, like, things that doctors had hadn't dug into. And, you know, that was really interesting because years ago, there was this promise of genetics, like, changing the whole medical world. And the reality is that it doesn't happen.

Right? It does happen in cancer. But, like, for your day to day care for a regular chronic illness, your doctor is not analyzing your whole genome and telling you to change your nutrition based on your genome. Right? But all of this data is available and actionable and could help patients really improve.

And so to me, like, that combination really helped. And then combining that with Apple Health and really being able to see, like, oh, actually, your HRV is way better when you go to bed a little bit earlier, and, like, you have a better symptom day after you do that. Just correlating all of these data sources was really magical, and that's what we're hoping to do with, you know, ChildGPT Health and and making sure that you can have all of the right inputs so that your personalized health agent gets to know you better than anyone else and can really do true personalized advice, which was the promise of personalized medicine. But, again, we didn't get there.

Dr. Mark Hyman
I think you're right. You know, I think a couple important points here. One is according to some recent data, 93 of your health outcomes longevity are not determined by your genetics or determined by what we call your exposome, what your genes are exposed to and how they get expressed depending on that. And you you mentioned, you know, something quickly which which involves, you need a different form of B vitamins. We're not looking for mutations particularly in your genome, we're looking for variations in your genetics that affect how your body functions.

And you need a particular form of B vitamin that bypasses a step that's kind of sluggish. It's not a it's not like a pathology per se, but it's just a little bit of a quirk. And you know, for example, one third of our DNA codes for enzymes. Enzymes run all the chemical reactions in our body. Every enzyme needs a helper.

Each helper is a vitamin or mineral and so there's a huge variation in nutrient needs in a population never is looked at by doctors. They don't even even probably know about half of them know about this. I mean, of them might know about this gene MTHFR that I think you have. But, you know, it's not that hard. And and now we went from a billion dollar genome when it was first decoded to a $300 genome.

So it's really accessible for almost everybody. All you have to do it once in your life. And so now you're right, you can you can say, hey, what should what should I be thinking about that I didn't know and how could I be helped? And I wonder if there were any, other things that it suggested to you from a causal perspective or any kind of things that your doctors hadn't suggested besides, like, what vitamins to take or what drugs to take.

Fidji Simo
Yeah. I think it was it was mostly, like, the the the challenge with chronic illness, as you know, is that you rarely collect one diagnosis. When you have one, you start collecting a lot of problems, which also points to the fact that traditional medicines put labels on conditions but doesn't understand biology. And so what was helpful was actually I've had GPT tell me, like, hey. Yes.

You have, like, you know, five different diagnosis, but fundamentally, it's only one thing. You have, like, this dysregulation of the nervous system, and these are even some lifestyle, you know, changes you can make activating the vagus nerve and, like, things like that that could potentially calm your system down. And so, again, it's like finding pattern cross, like, a variety or constellation of symptoms and diagnostic, etcetera, trying to solve them one by one and trying to solve the underlying, problem, which has been just really helpful.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Well, it's amazing. I mean, without being a doctor or health care person, you're a tech person, you're a business person, you sort of stumbled upon what is the future of medicine, which is understanding the body as an entire ecosystem that's a network that has root causes, that there's fundamental systems that affect everything. You know, in my first book, know, over twenty years ago, had a chapter that was called, If You Know the Name of Your Disease, You Don't Know What's Wrong With You. Right? It's just the name of the disease, it doesn't tell you the why, it tells you the what.

And I think, you know, saying you have POTS is just the name of a syndrome. It's just a fancy medical word for saying when you stand up, you get dizzy and your heart rate goes up. That's what it means in English. But it's a fancy word, you know, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, blah blah blah. And I think, you know, we make all these fancy sounding things when we don't know what we're doing.

And the truth is there are root causes, there are reasons this is happening, there is a way to understand how to treat the system. And I think with the advent of AI applied to our personal health data set, which we've never really had the ability to do before, we're going to be able to really accelerate discovery in medicine, accelerate people leaving all kinds of chronic illnesses. You know, I was able to cure my chronic fatigue syndrome, which most people would say is incurable, just like people say POTS is incurable, but it's not. And I'll I'll help you if you want to figure it out. Right?

I I'm wondering why OpenAI and you, in particular, head of apps decided to start with health. Was it because of your health condition or was it because of the fact that two hundred and thirty million of p people a week ask ChatGPT about their health?

Fidji Simo
Definitely. The the leading, cause was we saw that this behavior was already happening. Like, you know, some of the best stories that I hear about ChatGPT are about, like, you know, helping people with their health. It's 230,000,000 weekly. It's 40,000,000 people daily.

It's billions of conversations, a week. It's 5% of total conversation. So that gives you a sense, like, of the scale that this is already operating at. So when we saw that, and and we hadn't really done anything, you know, super specific for health care on the product side. We had done a lot on the model side to answer, question in in the right, accurate factual way.

But on the product side, we realized, actually, there is a lot to do to build upon this use case. And if we could get people to connect to their health records in a much easier way, which right now is very hard, if we could get them to connect to Functional Health and pull in their data from their from Apple Health, Like, now the models are powerful enough that they can extract insights out of this data in a way that no one else can. And so, that was the impetus behind ShaggyPT Health, and my own experience certainly, influenced that because I was already really primed to think about how we remove silos and how, like, the defragmentation of information could lead to much better insights. The other thing that was interesting in my mind is, like, you know, as as you know better than anyone, health care is really sick care. It's like you go there when you're sick, whereas really what we need is preventative health.

But preventative health, when doctors only have fifteen minutes for you, is not gonna happen that way. Whereas with CHADGPT, you can have literally a health coach, like, in, you know, in relationship with you every day telling you, like, okay. This is how you slept yesterday based on the data on your. Today, you should do this kind of exercise. You should eat this kind of food.

And then tomorrow, we'll reassess again. And, like, having that kind of assistance, to really help you with your health every day, not just when you're sick, not just when you're seeing the doctor, that's really what gives me hope that we could get to the root of chronic illness because so much of it is lifestyle related.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Yeah. And I think I think you're hitting on something super important is that most of medicine is focused on disease and on treating disease. And yes, there is prevention which is, you know, mammograms and colonoscopies and checking your cholesterol and PSA and getting a bone density and that's all important. That's all important. That's how we typically think of prevention in medicine.

You know, take your statin, take your aspirin, and that's okay. But but that's that's not true prevention. That may be be early detection. And and also, it's not about creating health. And so what I think for the first time we're really beginning to understand is what is health?

I mean, I never got a class in medical school that said, here's how to create health. Creating health one zero one for doctors, like didn't exist. You know, no clue. If you go to your doctor and say, doc, you know, I'm okay. I don't have a disease, but I wanna be, like, really healthy.

Like, what do I do? They go, well, eat better, exercise, get enough sleep, don't be too stressed. Like, it's very platitudinous and not very specific, and it's not personalized. But now we're we're having, you know, precision health, precision nutrition, precision medicine in a way we've never had before. And and it really allows us through depersonalization, which can only be done through something like AI, and through understanding the science of health.

Not just what is the science of disease, but what is the science of health? What is a healthy human? Even defining that, we haven't never defined that. It's crazy. You know, like like you put your car into the computer at the at the at the auto shop and it reads a thousand different metrics and tells you what's a little bit off of here.

I mean, if your HRV goes down by 10 points one night, it's not a disease, but it's giving you a clue that you're not exactly where you should be. Right? So so that's what's so exciting to me is we're gonna be able to help people understand not just to to treat disease or prevent disease, but how do we actually create health? And that's where this becomes really, really exciting for me. I'm wondering like how you how you see ChatuchPee Health working along partners like Function and and collaborating and integrating with them.

Fidji Simo
Well, I think partners are absolutely critical because the whole point, as I was saying, was, like, having one place where all of these different parts of your house can be connected into so that we can see the full picture. And right now, you know, we, like, rely on partners to be able to do that because everyone has kind of a different lens. Like, you go to Apple Health and you're gonna get a lot of the, you know, lifestyle data. You go to function and you're gonna get a lot of, like, the biomarkers. Health records are gonna tell you a different story.

So to me, it's really about, like, how can we partner with as many players as possible so that the end user has a full picture of their health across many different sensors, many different biomarkers. And that way, we can do the best job possible at helping them personalize everything for, you know, their lifestyle. So that's that's super important for us. And then there's also a type of partner that's more about being able to take action. You know, we're in partnership with Instacart, and I was the CEO of Instacart before coming to OpenAI.

And that's a good example of, like, you know, nutrition is at so much at the heart of health. You know, it's funny that I'm telling you that you're you're the you're the utmost expert at it, but it's really hard for people to take action on on nutrition advice. Usually, even if you go to a nutritionist, which very few people have the the the resources to do, you end up with, like, a piece of paper and you put it in the drawer, you never look at it again. And what we want is, like, can we make it actionable? So with a partner like Instacart, you can go from, okay, this is what you should be eating to, like, in one tap, order that, and it's at your door in an hour.

And, like, that's a magical closing of the loop where you really start with, to your point, what is health and how do we help you get there, and then all the way to actions that you can take, in, like, as easy a way as possible to to be able to stick to this new routine.

Dr. Mark Hyman
I think that's so important, you know, like, you're right. I mean, in getting people all the way down the pathway, not just understanding what's going on, not just having an assessment of what their disturbances are in their health or simple things they can do. But how do you take it into action and how do you kind of close the loop? And, you know, I know Instacart is working on medically tailored meals, for example, and, you know, food is medicine initiatives, which is amazing, right? But it's most people wouldn't know how to do that.

I mean, we can tell through function health, have diabetes, but then it would say, you know, we want you to eat a diet that's low glycemic, higher in good quality fats, lots of fiber, good quality protein. And then then what? Like, then they will turn that into a menu plan for a week and then go to Instacart and go shopping for me and deliver it to my door and, like, show me the recipes on how to make them by video. And, like, all that's coming really soon or if it's not already possible.

Fidji Simo
The Instacart app in chat GPT already allows you to do that. It's really magical. Like, you can literally just say, I have a family of three. This is our health condition. Develop a menu plan for us, and then buy all the ingredients in one tap.

And to me, like, that was always my dream of removing friction as much as possible so that being healthy isn't also overwhelming. It just feels easy. And and I think we finally have the tools to get there.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Yeah. It's pretty exciting. I'm, like, thrilled about it. And I think that that the food is medicine part is important. You know, you grew up in a little village in France.

You said you need a passport to get to the next village because it was so remote and isolated. And it's this little fishing village in the South Of France. And and food is such a part of French culture. And, the freshness of it, the realness of it, the deliciousness of it. It's not just a convenience, it's also centered around connection and family and friends and social connections and all the things we've lost in America.

And I just see all this shifting as people start to understand the relationships between their health and food. Mean, when you go to the doctor, they don't tell you to do anything about nutrition. I've been trying to work on changing medical education by getting nutrition exams, questions that have a nutrition focus that's based on chronic disease. And and yeah. So doctors are really challenged, and and this makes it easy.

Fidji Simo
Less than twenty hours of medical school spent on nutrition, which is crazy when you realize that, like, I think something like eighty percent of chronic illness as a diet component. It's like it it was crazy. So, yeah, I totally agree. And and, yes, growing up in France, you know, food was sacred. Like, it was at the center of everything.

And and here, I think it's more considered like sustenance. Right? And, and I think reestablishing the relationship that people have with food is really important.

Dr. Mark Hyman
You know, function week, we kinda help you sort through the mass amounts of data. I think the Function app within that's integrated into ChatGPT will help people understand their their data in a broad level and help guide them on action plans. I've been playing with it. It's it's pretty amazing. And and integrating that with, like, all the tools to be able to kind of execute on the recommendations, whether it's what supplement to buy, what food to eat, or what what things gonna help you, what drug could help you.

It's it's gonna be pretty profound. It's a really important event, and it hadn't existed before. And I'm really glad to see you started there because it it is like you said something people are using every day. I mean, people are I don't Google a billion searches on health every day and and and now ChatGPT in some ways is is replacing Google. I don't I don't know if I last time I used Google, honestly.

So I hate to admit that because my friend is one of the founders of that. But, it's it's it's a it's a really exciting moment. I'm very curious to hear your vision of, if you had a crystal ball, where you see, you know, this movement between AI and health intersection going in like one year, three years, five years. Because even in the couple of years that we've had ChatGPT and AI that's accessible as a consumer facing product, which I learned was not even meant to really succeed at all. It just took off, you know, as an accident.

It was kind of like a side thing. Where do you see, you know, this going? Because it it it's just even in the few years that it's been happening, it's it's accelerated so fast. And I and I wonder from the perspective of, health care, from individual self care, from research, like, what are the areas that you see us us being able to really accelerate human evolution?

Fidji Simo
We've talked a lot about, like, what's gonna happen on the consumer side, and I think ultimately, it's really about empowerment. We're gonna empower people with health information. They're gonna be able to make better decisions about their health, and and just have a lot more data to optimize their health. So I think this is gonna be reflected directly into health outcomes. We haven't talked as much about the provider side, but we're also really invested here.

We just launched OpenAI for Healthcare, with a ton of great institutions like UCSF, Boston Children, Central Children, HCA, where these institutions are deploying child GPT wall to wall, for their doctors to be able to assist them in, clinical decision making to be able to reduce load. And so we're really thinking of it as, like, equipping both sides so that doctors can be more informed because to your point, they cannot read the thousands of studies that come out every week. They can be more informed. They can make better decisions because they can look at the full picture of the patient. And then once they meet with the patients, the patient is also better informed about their health, that creates a much better dialogue between, doctor and patient.

So that's really the end state. And then beyond that, I think the thing that gets me very excited is that I think we're finally getting at a level of intelligence of our models that can really find novel insights and novel science. So when I look at, you know, all of the diseases that have not yet been cured, I hate calling them incurable, because I believe that it's just a matter of time, I I really think that, the models are getting smart enough that the time frame from kind of identifying a condition all the way to having a drug ready for it. All of these steps are gonna be reduced by AI. We're gonna identify drug targets way faster.

We're gonna develop these drugs way faster. We're gonna get them through regulatory approval, which, as you know, takes forever right now, much faster, and by using AI at every level. And so that that's why, you know, I think when a couple of years ago, we were talking about curing all diseases in our lifetimes, that sounded a little bit like science fiction. I actually think that we're closer than ever, as long as we can, you know, update all of our, pretty outdated, processes and regulatory framework to this new world that would allow us to massively accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery happens.

Dr. Mark Hyman
I I think you're so right about that. I think it's gonna accelerate the development of of of drugs and of discovery in so many ways. But I also think it's going do something else. And I don't know if you've thought about this, but I'm hoping you have because your company Chronicle Bio, is really to help people solve these incurable diseases like chronic fatigue and POTS syndrome and many, many other conditions that are chronic and often intractable. I think what's going happen is it's going to be an acceleration of medical understanding, not just about how to develop better drugs, but about root causes, about mechanisms, about novel therapeutics that involve food as medicine, that involve other therapies that are kind of outside traditional medicine that could accelerate healing, are being applied across different things like novel therapies, for example, like plasmapheresis is being used for autoimmunity, that's being used for long COVID, that's, you know, that is still sort of on the margins as part of traditional medicine but hasn't been used for that.

So there's a lot of things that I think are going to happen that are both accelerating the way we do medicine already faster and better, which is important, but but also to kind of emerge a new paradigm of medicine where we can actually understand the body's a network. Where you where, you know, even if you get better at at each specialty, the body still isn't organized like a bunch of parts. It's a it's a system. And that that's what's so exciting to me about about the use of this technology and AI to help understand these massive data sets, look at patterns, discover things they never were seen before, understand this. And I know this doing this for thirty years, like I collect massive data sets on people compared to the average doctor.

I mean, I look at everything you possibly think of looking at and I sort that through my my own little, you know, brain here, which can only hold so much. But I know I've seen patterns in the data that nobody has ever described before. For example, I know when someone comes in, have a heavy metal toxicity. First of all, most doctors don't look for it, but when they do, I see they have methylation problems, they have low glutathione, they have low zinc, they have lots of oxidative stress, they have low amino acids, they have a whole series of patterns that I've never seen written up in a book or a paper before. And I'm like, oh, this is interesting.

Know, and I see this with autistic kids too. There's all these genetic variables and all these different metabolic changes and they're not being described widely because doctors aren't looking for them. There's a joke I often tell when I'm giving lectures about this guy who drops his keys on the street. His friend comes by and he sees him looking under this lamp post and he's like, what are you doing? He says, I'm looking for my keys.

He said, well, where did you lose them? He said, well, I lost them down the street. He said, why are looking over here? He says, well, the light's better over here. So we we tend to look where we can find things easily, but now we're gonna say the problem is.

And I think the root cause approach to medicine, the systems approach, people like Leroy Hood who's doing the Phenome Health Project, they're thinking like this. They're thinking about this new paradigm. And I think that's where where there's gonna be a whole acceleration because, yes, we want to do all things to get to better drugs and better discovery and and so forth. But I think the biggest flip is going to be real really changing the actual medicine we're doing and helping people create health and dealing with these chronic conditions that are incurable. In fact, it's funny you said that because I I'm launching a new feature on my podcast called the incurables.

And it's through people like you who've been through the health care system, who've tried everything, who've done everything, and who who were told there's nothing to do except take this drug and maybe it'll help your symptoms, but you're gonna have to live with it forever. And the truth is you don't. If you understand how to solve the puzzle, you can actually help people get better. And that's that's that's the beauty of this.

Fidji Simo
I think the problem we have, right, is that because we don't have the data, we are not able to subsegment, like, the people with these conditions so that we can find the exact thing that works for them. You you mentioned my company, Chronicle Bio, like, that was the impetus behind it. We realized we're not gonna find cures for long COVID overall because long COVID is 20. These probably 20 biological processes under that or a cure for heart. And so what we decided to do was actually create a company that partners with clinics to get biological data from patients and, analyze everything on those samples, genetics, multiomics, proteome, metabolome, etcetera, so that we can actually subsegment those population.

And I think that's really the promise of big data plus AI that's gonna allow us to find those subsegments of population and be able to do better by them. I'll tell you a a story. Like, we at some point, you're throughout my journey of of trying to fix the problem, I I opened up a clinic for these conditions, and we were running clinical trials. And, we were running a a particular drug, for long COVID, and we had people that went from completely bedridden to completely functional. And, but the clinical trial failed in absolute.

And the reason is there wasn't enough, like, segmentation of the patients to realize, okay. On those, it's gonna be miraculous. And on all of those, it's not gonna work. And so they killed the program. And now we had patients in tears saying, like, this drug would save my life, and it's not available.

And to me, that's the greatest strategy. So if we can have the right data so we identify the right population of patients, the right treatments for them, and then that can accelerate clinical trial approvals for these subconditions. I think that's the holy grail, and that's where AI is gonna really shine.

Dr. Mark Hyman
A 100%. That's why I I said earlier about in my first book where I said, you know, just because you know the name of your disease, it doesn't mean you know what's wrong with you. It's it's just a label, and that label could represent 10 or 15 different problems. And, you know, autism isn't one thing. Alzheimer's isn't one thing.

You know, POTS isn't one thing. Chronic fatigue isn't one thing. It could be caused by Lyme disease or by mold toxicity or by mercury or by some type of microbiome issue or by some other weird infection that you don't know of or long COVID. All these things that you have to be able to just figure that out. And given our current way of seeing things and thinking about things, we have a thinking problem in medicine and that's really where we're going to be able to think differently with the use of these tools in a way that we never did before.

And it's not going to come I don't think it's going to come from inside health care. I think it's going to come from outside health care And and basically, companies like OpenAI are going to be driving change from the outside in. Companies like Function are going be driving change from the outside in. Where we're I mean, think about it, like, where where could you get massive datasets on your human biology before without spending a fortune, without having to go through your insurance company? Like function has unlocked that.

There's this people are desperate because they're not getting the answers from the healthcare system. I'm very excited about this for individual empowerment. We say, you know, our goal is to help you be the CEO of your own health, right? We we also say, you know, we want people to help people live a 100 healthy years. I would also add to that we want people to feel a 100%.

Know, living a 100 healthy years is great, but if you feel crappy now, like, you know, we want people to get there faster.

Fidji Simo
And also, like, I I just think this is, a moment in time where access is gonna change dramatically. I mean, you function is a way to give access at a low price point to things that were resolved for the elite before Charge GPT does something similar of giving you access to great medical information. And one thing that was striking for me is that seven out of 10 of the queries health queries in Charge GPT are actually happening after hours. And so that that tells you, you know, like, there is demand to, answers about your health at times where the health care system isn't even available to you at all. We are also seeing a lot of demand in rural areas where, you know, the hospital, in, like, many miles out.

And so there is, this, you know, direct access to to health information that I think is gonna really democratize, just, you know, health knowledge in general.

Dr. Mark Hyman
I think you're right. I think, you know, as we understand the science of creating health, you know, we're going to be able to help people even without health care. Because most of health doesn't happen in the doctor's office. And so we will guide people in ways where we we we can make it much more accessible, affordable. And I'm thinking about function in a way that is going to help people all around the world by the things that it learns in if you're in Syria alone somewhere and you have some condition, you're going to benefit from all the insights so that somebody who maybe can't get a lab test, we can infer what's going on from the patterns and the data that they're sharing.

And it's kind of an exciting thing because all of a sudden it's going to democratize healthcare, decentralized healthcare, make it really affordable or often free for people. You know, and I think there's a free version of ChatGPT, right?

Fidji Simo
Absolutely. Is there?

Dr. Mark Hyman
Yeah. Okay. So that's what I'm imagining like there are people who will be able to query their data and learn from the world's sort of best best knowledge, sources and insights from the best doctors.

Fidji Simo
And Shared GPT Health, which we've been talking about, is available in the free tier. So the goal is really to make it as accessible to everyone as possible.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Oh, that's amazing. I I wanna ask you how I get off the wait list. No. I will get you on

Fidji Simo
the email. I'll get you.

Dr. Mark Hyman
I I I click. I wanna get on the wait list. I wanna try it more. But, I I I tried the integration with Function, which is very cool. And I was like, well, this is amazing.

And it gives you a lot of deep insights. And I wanna ask you a little bit more about Chronicle Bio because this is a passion project. It's not like, you know, you're not busy. You're at OpenAI. You You know, CEO of Instacart.

You're on the you know, chairman of the board of Instacart. You were at Facebook for a decade. You you know, had another nonprofit or something company. Have you know, now you started another company, like, I don't know what you do, how you do if you sleep. I know you have a daughter and a family.

What what I know why you started it. Tell us more about how you're thinking about it And and, you mentioned a little bit about the datasets you're collecting, but who's guiding you? How are you under thinking about these conditions? And and what are you hoping to kind of discover?

Fidji Simo
I think for me, it was really seeing this moment in time where some models were becoming so much more powerful, but the datasets weren't fully there yet. Right? Like, on on these conditions like long COVID, MECFS, but which are still considered somewhat mysterious. If you look at what has been done, a lot of studies are, like, with a 100 patients and maybe just looking at genetics, another 60 patients somewhere else looking at, you know, maybe gut microbiome. But no one was creating what I call almost the infrastructure of the disease, which is really, like, like, looking at tens of thousands of and really having the full data set on all of them.

And that's, you know, that's because that requires some funding, and that requires infrastructure, partnering with all the clinics, making sure they collect data consistently. I mean, it's a it's a real engine that we're building. But I once we have that, we're gonna be able to get to cure so much faster. Because when I got sick, I went and I talked to a lot of my biotech and pharma CEO friends because I was telling them, like, it's not as if these conditions that I have are rare. Like, we're talking hundreds of millions of patients all combined.

And so I was like, it's a huge market. Why are you not developing, like, cures for these conditions? And, I mean, we don't even have any cures in the pipeline. Like, you know, they're not being, like, really prioritized. And the answer was simple.

It's like the CEOs were saying, like, we don't understand these diseases. We don't understand the different subtypes. We don't understand, like, biologically how they function. So it's still too risky for us to invest in these conditions until someone has really established what are the subgroups? How do diseases work?

What are the real drug targets? And so I think we're really at the moment where if, thanks to Chronicle Bio, we get all of this data combined with all of the great models coming out of OpenAI and and labs like that, we're gonna be able to, all of a sudden, find totally novel insights. And and we're already seeing it. You know, we had, some publications around findings, like, tens of genes that correlate with your likelihood of developing these conditions, which in the past you couldn't really do. You could do just kind of, one gene directly responsible, but gene combinations were still very complicated to establish.

Now we can figure that out. We are planning on overlaying that with, like, why viruses are a big trigger for these conditions. What happens to your immune system during these moments that lead to you not recovering? Also, why are these conditions affecting eighty percent, like eighty percent of patients are women and only twenty percent are men? We should have an answer to that.

That seems pretty extreme. Like, we should know why women are more affected. And and the reality is that we don't have answers to this question because, again, the health care system has looked at the symptoms and putting Band Aid on the symptoms instead of the root biology. And I think the only way is to do the hard work of collecting that data, that true biological data, and then using AI to to find novel insights on top of it.

Dr. Mark Hyman
I think you're right. And I think, you know, that's that's gonna accelerate discovery, not just around those things, but even things like autoimmune diseases and even chronic diseases in general. Because they're all sort of the same and, you know, there aren't that many causes for disease. There's many diseases and each disease may have multiple causes and need multiple treatments. And I think, you know, the the promise of network medicine is understanding the multi causal nature of disease and the need for multi modal treatments, meaning it's not just one thing.

It's not like a single drug for a single disease, you know, like we learned with Louis Pasteur, the bacteria that cause the pneumonia that treat with penicillin. We followed that paradigm for the last hundred plus years and it's great for infectious disease sometimes, not always. So it's not just the bacteria or the virus, it's the host that matters too. And and and actually it was Claude Bernard, another Frenchman who, who had an argument with Pasteur saying it's the biological terrain that matters, not the bacteria, not the pathogen. And Pasteur on his deathbed goes, yeah, think kind of right.

You know? So I think the biological brain matters a lot. And I think when I said what is what is health, it's really about understanding how to create a healthy soil. The traditional medicines like industrial agriculture report chemicals on the plants and the soil to try to make it do stuff, which is like using pharma, which can be helpful. But it's it's it's rather than asking how do we create a healthy soil where disease can't grow.

And and how do you create health? And when you do that, disease often goes away as a side effect. When you remove the impediments to health and you add in the ingredients for health, the body often knows what to do to repair. And that's that's a lot of I think where the solutions are going to be coming from that you're looking for. It's not just one thing or one drug or one pathway, but really understand the complexity, which only can be done through big data and AI and understanding things through this new lens.

And, you know, if I were to say to you like what are the laws of biology, You know, you might say, well, maybe evolution. But there wouldn't be a set of laws that you could say, here's the laws of human biology and human disease. We don't have that. We have that for physics. You could say, I know the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and gravity, and this and that and the other thing.

I mean, I learned that in, you know, college, I forget a lot, but I know they exist. But biology, we haven't actually described them. It doesn't mean they're not there. You know, what's the nature of nature? That's really the question we're asking.

And and we're going to unlock that now with AI and in in systems network, functional medicine, whatever you want to call it, that's what we've done is really try to understand what are the fundamental systems in the body that can explain everything. And you know, we talked about the microbiome, the immune system, the mitochondria energy system, the detoxification system, your circulatory transport system, your communication system, which is hormones, neurotransmitters, peptides, cytokines, everything. And your structural system and how those are influenced by external factors, know, and toxins and allergens and microbes and microbiome and stress and diet. And then all the things you need to thrive, know, the right food and nutrients, like you said, need special forms of nutrients for you, Fiji that somebody else doesn't necessarily need, what's the right amount of exercise and sleep and light and clean water and connection and love and meaning and purpose. These are all the ingredients for health.

So when we understand this paradigm, we have the equations, so to speak, the laws of nature on how to solve this. I mean, the French actually were pretty good, like Pierre Laplace, another French guy. He he also said the same thing. He said, know, we can explain an enormous number of observable phenomena by a small number of general laws. And have a 155,000 diseases in our ICD 10 classification disease system that we have in medicine.

It's crazy. Like, we don't have a 155,000 diseases. We have a few simple laws that explain all of them, right? And inflammation is a big thing, the microbiome is a big thing, you know, the role of toxins is a big thing, the role of microbes is a big thing. So we can start to understand things through a new set of lenses and see different things.

Like when you when you you know, like, I was at this party this weekend in South Africa at a wedding, and they had astronomers, and they had this incredible telescope that looked at the Orion Nebula, and it was like taking these pictures every like four seconds or something. And I was like, you get to see stuff where I could see Jupiter and the rings on Jupiter and the moon. So all of a sudden, you you know, you look with a certain set of lenses, you can only see certain things. You look with another set of lenses, you can see something else. So what's happening now with technology and AI and what you're doing with chat GPD Health and function is is actually gonna put on different set of lenses and see what we need to see.

And Chronicle Bio, I I'd love to offline talk to you more about this because I I have a lot of thoughts about it. And I think, you know, it could be it could be really interesting to have a conversation at some point.

Fidji Simo
And, you know, I I can so relate to what you're saying. For example, in my case, I have both endometriosis, which is considered a reproductive health problem and

Dr. Mark Hyman
It's also autoimmune.

Fidji Simo
Neurological, but apparently, you're seven times more likely to develop endometriosis when you have POTS and vice versa. And so in the medical current medical language, these are two totally different diseases. You look at the statistics, it's like, clearly, there's a correlation. That's probably inflammation. That's probably immune related.

But we haven't gotten to this level of understanding. So that's the thing that I think is gonna be really magical in the next few years. It's it's getting to those root causes.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Yeah. That that's what I spend my whole life doing. So as we sort of think about what's important to get right and as we're thinking about, you know, the intersection of health and technology and how people live their lives going forward, like, what what is what what keeps you up at night? What are what are the things we have to get right as we go forward in this in this new era of health and technology?

Fidji Simo
First off, you touched on it, but trust is really important. Like, if if users, develop trust in the technology and know that the technology has their back and is helping them lead a better life, I think that's already a big part of the problem. And that's why we, focus so much on, you know, privacy, encryption, all of the things that we put in place. Because if you don't have that at the start and users don't trust that technology is gonna do what's the right thing for them, you can't do anything else. So I think it's, like, step number one.

And then from there, it's like, how do you add utility? And I think, the advantage of a tool like ChatGPT that's so, general is that it helps you with every part of your life, so you naturally reach for it when you have a health question. A lot of people don't think of it as a health tool. They just think of it as an assistant, and then they ask the health question and they realize, oh, wow. That's, like, really helpful.

I'm gonna put a lot of my health information there so that I can get more out of it. And so really, like, demonstrating utility both for patients and for doctors is gonna be really important. And then I also think, you know, there is a, like, general, perception which we need to address. I think, I think AI is gonna be incredibly helpful for doctors, and you see some doctors really embracing AI in a big way. You also see some resistance and some tension being like, oof, is that gonna, like, get in the way of the doctor patient relationship, etcetera?

And so if we can really show, like, the health care system what they have to gain from being ahead on embracing technology and having that as a big differentiator to improve patient care and also to improve burnout for doctors because we shouldn't forget that there's a massive burnout epidemic of doctors. And if, like, we can give them the tools so they can give even better patient care with less burnout, less administrative burden, we're gonna lift the entire system up. So my hope is actually that, like, you know, people on all sides embrace technology as an ally and that the responsibilities on us, technology builder, to build it in a way that is responsible to really address our needs.

Dr. Mark Hyman
It's going to solve a lot of problems. The the the physician burnout thing is real. I mean, know I do a different kind of medicine and it takes me two or three hours to properly prepare the data from a medical history, from their previous results, from their lab data, and organize it so that I can be ready to look at it to make a decision about it. And then I can think about it and I can use my license and my forty years of medical training and expert experience to actually think as opposed to be just organizing like a paper pusher. And it's it's kind of it's made my life so much easier as a practicing physician, which which which is it's just so easy.

And I think it it allows it's gonna allow better patient care, better connection, more stream like efficiency. But more importantly, I think it's going to shift the paradigm to where we're really going to, you know, unlock a lot of understanding of human biology and so much suffering for people like you and for people like me. Had to deal with stuff that didn't have answers. You know? I've I've had so many things.

I even had C. Diff like you, which was no fun. No. Yeah. Had a she knows no fun.

So let look. Going forward a year from now, where where do you hope, Chatuchipity Health will be?

Fidji Simo
I think, we will likely be even more of a connector between all of the different aspects of your health and be able to help you, take action on your health even, in a more easy way. I'm very excited to have ChatGPT house also become proactive. So, like, right now, you go to ChatGPT. You have to be the one kind of typing a question and getting an answer. I think once we have all of this knowledge about you, we can proactively tell you every morning, like, hey.

This is what you should do to optimize your health. And that level of, productivity, I think, will really enlighten a lot of people who want to, like, do more for their health but don't know where to start. So having that as a proactive agent that has your back, that knows everything about all of the aspects of your house and helps you take action in the real world will be very helpful. And then if the same happened on the on the kind of health care side, you can imagine these tools really coming together and, like, the future appointment between a patient and a doctor being both more efficient but also much more focused on the right issues because everyone will have been briefed ahead of time, have the right data, and the conversation can really focus on how to make that person better instead of a doctor staring at the screen typing away administrative stuff for the, you know, fourteen out of fifteen minutes that's with the patient. So we really hope that, it can it can really help improve that relationship as well.

Dr. Mark Hyman
So it sounds like three big areas. You know? Let's say health consumer or patient empowerment around their own health information data, helping streamline health care itself and how health care providers interact with people, and accelerating research. And I think I I think there's there's one area I think that it's worth doubling down on, which is individual empowerment and how that requires your own personal health data set. You know, I've had the rare privilege of working in environments where I could collect large data sets on everybody.

I can do their whole genome sequence, I can do their microbiome, I can do their toxin levels, I can do all the hormones, nutrition, all the stuff I said, and spend three hours with them and talk about it all and understand it all. That's still, it's sort of rare for people. But now with with function, we're able to to begin to help you collect your own dataset because the the the output of, Chachapi Health only gonna be as good as the data it has on you as an individual. Like, you you, Fiji, put in all your stuff from everywhere into Chachapi Tea. Right?

Yeah. But but it was hard to get all that information. And the health care system, you know, isn't so great at helping you figure these things out. Like, why do you want to do this test? Like, you know, like, why do you want to do that test?

Or all of the insurance isn't going to pay for this. Or but imagine if if the individual now can can bypass that, collect their own datasets from everywhere, from their wearables, from omics, from their microbiome, from lab data, from imaging, from their medical records, and all that goes into the system, then it becomes so much more valuable. And that's why I love the integration with Function Health and Chatuche BD Health because it's it's it's unlocking something that was never before possible in human history.

Fidji Simo
Yeah. I totally agree. And and I agree with, like, the better the sources of information, the better the advice we're gonna be able to give. I I totally agree with your point on tests. Like, one of the recommendations from ChildGPT was actually looking at my health records and saying, hey.

You're still missing these two or three tests that would paint a complete picture. And I asked my doctor, and she was like, oh, yeah. Actually, we we should all know that. And so, I think having that complete picture is gonna be super important, and any companies that can help us, you know, aggregate that will be very, helpful.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Well, I'm excited, excited for this and excited for our integration and working together and thinking about how to really end all the suffering that people are struggling with it. And honestly, given our knowledge that we have in the world now around how to create health, most people don't have to suffer from that. And that that's kind of my mission in life is end needless suffering for billions of people.

Fidji Simo
I shelve the hope.

Dr. Mark Hyman
Yeah, think you do. Obviously, with Chronicle Bio, it's clearly something you're you're not just talking about, you're doing addition to the work you're doing at at OpenEye. Just hope you take care of yourself and, and and and make sure you stay in good health because we we need to.

Fidji Simo
Thanks, Mark. I will. Thank you so much for having me. This was great.

Dr. Mark Hyman
My pleasure. Maybe one day we have octopus pie in your town on a set day in France.

Fidji Simo
That I I can tell you if everyone was eating everything from my hometown, health outcomes would be fantastic.

Dr. Mark Hyman
That's true. That's true. Well, thank you so much, and thanks for your work you do, and we'll see you soon.

Fidji Simo
Thank you for having me. Bye.

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