Ted Talks

The first ted talk I watched was about the world record holder for not breathing. David Blaine, a magician, was able to hold his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds on live television. In this ted talk, Blaine tells about his motivation and process in accomplishing his goal.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_for_17_min.html

Motivation: To do what others can do, be the best, disprove scientific data, beat others, do what he says he can do to everyone.
Process: Researching how the body works, talking to doctors, working way up from 3 minutes to 5 minutes (for 45 minutes) with minute long breathing breaks in between. He learned about how to purge (when you breath a certain way to release co2 from your body so its easier to breath). Also lost weight and ate healthier to make it easier. Held his breath live on Oprah against previous record holders. Couldn't move much and had to try to lower heart rate to conserve energy so that he could hold his breath longer.




The second ted talk I watched was about "A warm embrace." This product is a substitute for an incubator. It was created because hundreds of premature babies were dying because they couldn't stay warm and incubators weren't always sufficient enough and were also too expensive for most hospitals, people, and places to afford.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves_lives.html

The idea behind this product was the death of so many babies (usually premature). The product needed to be simple and affordable. Instead of the couple grand incubator, the new product is a warm embrace and it only costs 25 dollars. My concern when watching this actually was that it was increasing population, but Jane Chen addressed that in her closing saying how most people in other countries anticipated death at a young age and would have more children because of that. If they didn't assume that their child was going to die, they were less likely to take that precaution of having more children.





The third ted talk I watched was about what effects your health. Bill Davenhall talks about how geography effects your health.


http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_davenhall_your_health_depends_on_where_you_live.html

These things effect your health too:
-life places (like work, school, home, the location of your home, where you spend all your time)
-How much rest you get and where (home, away from home)

___% at home/community
___% away

And they never talk about them at the doctors office.

A lot of your health also depends on the amount of unclean air you breath in your life, plus when you're developing as a kid.

Doctors ask you a million questions about family history and your health history at the office. but they never ask about what kind of water you drink, food you consume, where you've lived.
Bill Davenhall had a heart attack because of where he's from (most likely). And that's not in any medical record.

Data for every community in the united states that gives you place history (can do it on iphone) should use that in doctors office as part of an assessment.

Should be mandatory to teach physicials about value of geographic information.these programs need to be supported. Future doctors need to know this.
Billions of dollars on electronic health record- should include geographic information.

If people know or had known about this type of impact geography has they could tell their boss not to locate them there- health risk to employees and it's bad for their business.
People may've made different decisions with more knowledge.

Jack Lord, md said this almost 10 years ago.

Geography matters.
Geography can keep you healthy if you do the right things and live in the right places.