The Evolution of Precision Health Medicine

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In 1970, as a young assistant professor at Caltech, I started thinking about where I wanted my scientific career to go in the future. He developed six instruments that basically allowed one to read and write DNA - they served as the foundation of modern biology. And certainly they give us the ability to get big data from individual humans. In 2014 we created the first precision health medicine population with big data,. We generated from the blood, from the gut microbiome from digital health measurements, and the like. That would lead to two important results. One, an unequivocal proof of enormous increase in the quality of health care. Two, a demonstration that the science of wellness and the science of prevention would lead

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.