David Fagenbaum
Appearances
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1088: Counterfeit Foods | Skeptical Sunday
I'll never forget the doctor walks in the room and says, David, your liver, your kidneys, your bone marrow, your heart and your lungs are all shutting down. That's it. Like we've tried everything. There's nothing more that we can do. I was terrified. I was like, had my last rights read to me. First, you know, no one thought that it was even possible that I could survive.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1088: Counterfeit Foods | Skeptical Sunday
You're dying from this horrible disease. Chemotherapy just gave you a little bit of a window, but it's probably going to come back. So, you know, what's your game plan to prevent this thing from killing you? Well, the only way to get back is to use the tools that you have within reach. I'm like, shit, I've got this horrible disease.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1088: Counterfeit Foods | Skeptical Sunday
And the only way that like I might be able to save myself is if I can find a drug that's already at the CVS. And so my mission then became, could I figure out what the hell is going wrong in my immune system? So then maybe I could find a drug that already exists that could treat it. I'm not supposed to be here. Like, my drug wasn't made for me. It saved my life. It was always there.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1088: Counterfeit Foods | Skeptical Sunday
I am completely on fire about this idea that there are drugs at your nearby CVS, your nearby Walgreens, that could help more diseases and more people, but the incentives aren't aligned for us to do that. So we created EveryCure a couple years ago because we believe that every drug should be utilized for every disease it possibly can, regardless of whether it's profitable or not.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1088: Counterfeit Foods | Skeptical Sunday
80% of our drugs that can help people today and tomorrow, no one's doing any research whatsoever to figure out more uses for them.