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in this issue:
Good news & bad news
Bad news first...this generation
will be the first in history to make
less than the one before it.
For instance, if you were the average person in 500 B.C. (the time of Buddha,
Pythagoras, Confucius, etc) you made more than the generation before. And if
you lived in 1950 you made more than the generation before.
But the average person now will make less than the average person before.
living to 100
In several areas around the
globe, people are living to be
100+ years old disability free.
Find out the 50 things they all
have in common.
Choose yourself
Improve yourself physically,
emotionally, mentally &
spiritually via networking
The key is to make products or services that are cheap and convenient. That is a
trend that will never go away.
questions?:
For instance, lets say I want to make a business: UberNurse (making this up so
this may or may not be a good idea). Nurses sign up and on my phone using the
UberNurse app I can see where all the nurses are.
Lets say Im sick. I find the closest nurse, see that she costs $100, click on her
image, he or she comes over and diagnoses me and writes a prescription. BAM!
Healthcare made cheap and convenient. No fancy insurance needed now that
insurance has become so complicated.
He said, $600.
So, with no technical knowledge, no business knowledge, no real knowledge of the watch (since it just came
out) but an understanding of what problems might be
solvable by the watch one can start an entire business
with the latest cutting edge technologies for $600.
HERES AN IDEA:
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This is because it costs almost $2 billion for a pharmaceutical company to get a drug through the FDA in the
US. Its not that much better in other countries.
diagnostics
But I want to add: this is not an investing newsletter.
Im not giving the latest hot pick. I think 95% of those
are scams. I dont say 100% because maybe there are
ones I dont know about. Whenever anyone has a 100%
opinion theres 100% chance they are wrong.
The key word here is Surgery. Surgery is when someone cuts your flesh open with a knife, digs their hands
into the soupy mess of blood, tissue, muscle, bone inside of you, uses some sort of clamp to take tissue out,
and then sews you up.
Fun!
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But men, of course, can transmit it. Just like women can.
Now Trovagene has a test. The size of that market is
big. Who knows how big. Theres never been a test
before.
But the real win is in cancer.
The CEO, Tony Schuh, was the CEO of another cancer diagnostics company, Sequenom, and decided to
leave that company for Trovagene and he brought
his team with him.
One of the cancers that Trovagene diagnoses is pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal cancers. If you get
pancreatic cancer the odds are something like 5% you
live.
They have patents on prenatal diagnostics for diseases like Downs Syndrome. You know that other
test, the one with the needle? Safer to use urine.
Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer. At first it was possibly treatable. So he decided to try holistic methods.
About nine months later in another biopsy, he discovered the cancer had advanced and now he had to take
extreme measures to treat it. He eventually died from it.
All of these are still in the testing stage. But you can
from the recent press release above on lung cancer, the
various studies theyve done on HPV and pancreatic
cancer (to be found on their website at trovagene.com)
that they are going to quickly move beyond that to
revenues.
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First instance:
the CEO and his entire management team come
from Sequenom. They know biotech. They know how
to build a big company.
Another successful fund that I follow is invested in Trovagene - Bridger Management. They started in 2000 and
have done well in the up and down markets since then.
Currently they have $2.5 billion under management
after starting with $80 million. They own 9% of Trovagene. I like funds that have grown during a period where
we had a recession and a mini-depression plus two boom
periods. So they can handle any economic environment
and they proved it.
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living to 100
Ok, enough of that. I used to run a hedge fund. Then
a fund of hedge funds. And I wrote for many investing
websites. And built and sold my own investing website
that had millions of users. But when I write I normally
dont like to write about stocks because of all the BS I
see on every financial site out there. I dont like to be put
into that category.
Recently I interviewed Dan Buettner, who wrote the recent book, The Blue Zone Solution which came out less
than a month ago. I had a chance to read his books, talk
to him, exchange emails with him about my questions,
and Ive learned quite a bit.
Dan found several places around the world where there
was an unusually high number of people who lived to
100, disability free. His goal was to find out, in a very
scientific fashion, what they all had in common.
So if I live that long, I want to be as disability-free as possible. Im not a nutritionist or any kind of expert on the
subject.
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So, as you can tell from the March and April newsletters
plus my reading list (if you are in my book club) plus
the emails I send every day or so, my focus is on how
to improve the quality of these experiences so that life
becomes more enjoyable.
The 50 Items That Seem To Be Common Factors of People Living in Blue Zones
(or otherwise equally fit and healthy people):
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week.
simple furniture
Vitamin D
you just by the way you look at them. Use the force
for this And dont worry it gets easier the older
you get
anything.
to each other, playing games and drinking Women seem to take better to socializing, gossiping and
talking about their problems.
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46. Use mostly olive oil for your mostly salad foods
with butter or coconut oil of good quality (grass
47. Fry
fed, organic) but do not consume large amounts of
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