dr. david agus. (applause) hello, sir. good to see you. thank you so much for being here. book is called the end of illness. dr. agus, before we talk, is this conversation that we are having right now, does that count as me going out of network? is that. >> you have to pay your deductible up front but we're going to collect it. >> i appreciate that. >> great. this is a phenomenal, i am a jew, i'm jewish. so i think a lot about illness. but typically not the end of it. i'm usually thinking pore about the beginnings of it. a fascinating way to look at it. summarize for me sort of your thesis statement about the way we have viewed illness incorrectly in this country. >> we lack at it down deep, one little factor. so to me you have cancer. you have heart disease. well, to me those diseases are verbs. you are can serg, you are heart diseasing. and i want to take you from a cancer state the other direction. and i want to prevent illness. i'm a guy who sees people dying of cancer every day. i don't want-- rz are you oncologist. >> i'm a cancer doctor. i want to prevent disease. we

dr. david agus, his book is called the end of illness. >> to me cancer say verb, not a known. are you can serg. i want to change you from cancering to healthing. from heart diseases to health. we've been so reductionist in how we treat diseases, we try to basically shrink the cancer and we forget about the system. >> rose: dr. small on new developments in understanding alzheimer, henry kissinger understanding vladimir putin and david agus on the end of illness when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: major new developments in alzheimer research could have a significant impact on our understanding and treatment of the disease. for the last 25 years researchers have been confounded by this central question, does alzheimer start independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times or does it begin in one region and then spread to connected areas. two new independent studies at colombia and harvard now provide an answer. they indica

dr. david agus, the author of "the end of illness". you spent your career as an oncology. you worked with steve jobs and senator kennedy. what has your experience about weather the disease of cancer told you about health? >> i have seen patients and have to say drugs aren't going to work. it has pushed me to prevention. one of the big aspects of the book is how to prevent the disease. >> tell me about that. what is the most important thing that we need to know in terms of prevention? diet and exercise i want to say. >> you want to know yourself. one of the key things of the book is know your own metrics, get your own lab. go into your doctor with all your information. when you go to your doctor he or she will check your blood pressure when you are there. what about at night when you go to bed? i want all of your data. and then there are things like stattens. it is important. if you have a normal cholesterol and you go in on a statten you reduce the incidents of cancer by 30 or 40%. i want people to focus on things people can prevent. >> we talked about taking aspirin every

dr. david agus, the author of the "new york times" best-selling book "the end of illness."ood to see you again. you spent your career as an oncologist. you worked with steve jobs and senator kennedy. what has your experience with the disease of cancer taught you about your health if >> i have seen patients and have to say drugs aren't going to work. it has pushed me to prevention. one of the big aspects of the book is how to prevent the disease. it's easier to prevent heart or disease or brain disease or cancer than to treat it. >> tell me about that. what is the most important thing that we need to know in terms of prevention? i mean, diet and exercise, i want to say. >> diet and exercise, but first of all know yourself. one of the key things of the book is know your own metrics, get your own lab. get what's going on. there's a four-page questionnaire go into your doctor with all your information. when you go to your doctor he or she will check your blood pressure when you are there. who checked it in the morning or at night when you go to bed? i want all of your data. and