King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

And what was the thinking there? And then how do you go about building this? And particularly, what are you choosing here? And how are you doing that science-backed and all of that side of things? Like in a world of IM8, where does longevity stand and be different?

great question i think first of all um i am not an over subscriber to this whole supplement culture right so i was not somebody that was taking too much of anything i don't advocate that to patients um i came from a place of you know do your blood test check what you're deficient in and replace accordingly right what's necessary and then I got into, so obviously I was doing my surgical training at King's College Hospital at St. Thomas's.

I was working across trauma surgery and cardiac surgery.

And it got to a point where I was seeing so many cancer patients come in at really young ages, so 23 to 25 almost, with colorectal cancer diagnoses.

For Adrian, the cause is particularly close to home.

His eldest granddaughter developed epilepsy as a result of a brain tumour, which was successfully removed by surgeons at King's College Hospital.

His granddaughter has recently completed three years of study at Norland College and has now started her first job as a nanny.

She has been fortunate to benefit from successful treatment and the dedication of medical professionals.

In The Myth of Normal, Maté examines a wealth of scientific studies which reveal the danger of adopting a maladaptive relationship to our emotions.

For example, a study at King's College Hospital in London found that women with cancerous breast lumps characteristically exhibited extreme suppression of anger and of other feelings in a significantly higher proportion than the control group, which was made up of women admitted for biopsy at the same time but found to have benign breast tumors.

Studies on rheumatoid arthritis have discovered that rheumatoid arthritis prone individuals display an array of self-abnegating traits, a compulsive and self-sacrificing doing for others, suppression of anger, and excessive concern about social acceptability.

Trauma is another factor that influences the development of chronic disease.

I mean, they were-- These were retired surgeons, head of department.

Were in fact, the person who followed her, who followed her in the ambulance from Lagos to Ibadan there, was the head of Department of Surgery in King's College Hospital.

He was his friend in Saudi Arabia.

He sat in the ambulance with her.

W- they had a, an advanced car driver on their van.

Uh, so he jumped out, took the wheel of the man's car, we took the lead, and we blue lit them all the way to King's College Hospital, uh, where the baby was safely delivered into the world.

And, and-

I was ex- I was expecting some kind of John Sutherland heroic deed where he delivered the baby single-handedly.

I'm Nikki Kolk.

I'm a consultant addiction psychiatrist, and I work in King's College Hospital, leading the addiction care team there.

And I'm David Nutt.

I'm a failed government drugs advisor [laughing] and currently professor of neuropsychopharmacology and a psychiatrist at Imperial College.

Yeah.

And so, um, what I was delighted about was seeing, uh, that King's College Hospital in London has just opened the first, uh, open air rooftop ICU, um, in the UK.

That was a few months ago.

So there's a really beautiful article about it online on BBC and a few different, um, uh, and places I shared on my LinkedIn as well.