
Episode 21: Inside the Future of Healthcare
Exponential Wisdom
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The Future of Life
We are finally at a point where we're able to understand the software that runs our body. We sequence your genome 30 times, it's a 30x sequencing because every time we sequence it there's little errors in the sequencing apparatus. You and I are a collection of 10 trillion human cells, kind of hard to think about that, 10 trillion individual cells that you call you or me. But we also have 100 trillion bacterial cells. And these bacteria actually modify the drugs you take, the foods you eat and some 10% of the chemicals in your bloodstream are bacterial metabolites. So if you can add 50 years on your life right now there's no reason it can't be indefinite in some fashion
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