Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: How to Minimize Blood Volumes

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In light of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, how are you able to do this? Yeah, excellent question. I was pretty much obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes' story. So there's two different paths you can take. One path is that you can try to get conventional clinical lab tests done on large volumes of blood. That's what Theranos tried to do. And they failed, of course, and in fact, were fraudulent all along the way.

We are on the cusp of a major transformation in healthcare. Using information gleaned from our blood and genes and tapping into the data revolution made possible by AI, doctors can catch the onset of disease years before symptoms arise, revolutionizing prevention. At top hospitals and a few innovative health-tech startups, scientists are working closely with patients to dramatically extend their “healthspan”―the number of healthy years before disease sets in. In The Age of Scientific Wellness, two visionary leaders of this revolution in health take us on a thrilling journey to this new frontier of medicine.

Hood, Price, and Shermer discuss: why we age and die • sickcare vs. healthcare • the 10 most popular drugs in the U.S. work for only about 10% of treated people • chronological age ≠ biological age • life expectancy, life span, longevity, and healthspan • why eliminating all cancers would only increase average life span by 3 years • genome vs. phenome • gut biome • optimizing brain function • brain plasticity • sleep, nutrition, exercise • Alzheimer’s • AI and quantum computing for better health.