Hello, my name is Beth Feynman. I am a nurse practitioner from the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and I'm also a clinical researcher there. I've been in myeloma for over 25 years, and I'm here at the International Myeloma Society meeting. I was chair of the seventh Nursing and Allied Health Conference that was held yesterday, today's Thursday. And we had such a jam-packed agenda. We had over 200 participants in this meeting, and it really focused on resilience and exercise and how one can really take hold of their own, their health by just being a little bit more healthy and active. And there was some controversy. Some people were saying, well, not everybody can exercise, but the theme was just little steps, little changes over day can really help. We had Dr. Irvi Shaw discuss the importance of the gut microbiome and nutrition that might help. Dr. Gordon Cook also spoke about the importance of fitness and frailty. And then also we had some researchers from the UK that had what's really interesting to me called a prehabilitation and a rehabilitation program. So they're training specific exercises, just little exercises, stretching and strengthening exercises to kind of build up your resilience. So I think in the era of all these new bi-specific therapies, CAR T-cell therapies, it's really important to keep one healthy. So just taking little steps per day, not running a marathon, and trying to include more plant-based foods in your diet, that was kind of the overall take-home thing. If you can and don't feel sad if you can't, you just do the best you can to live the best life you can as well. Thank you.
