The Next Revolution In Medicine: Scientific Wellness, AI And Disease Reversal with Nathan Price & Lee Hood

Sep 20, 2023

Nathan Price, Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech and author of "The Age of Scientific Wellness," teams up with Lee Hood, a pioneer in systems biology and CEO of Phenome Health. They dive into the groundbreaking concept of scientific wellness, emphasizing personalized healthcare through advanced genomic data and AI. Topics include leveraging big data for proactive health management, understanding the interplay of genes and environment, and the importance of shifting from symptom management to root cause analysis, ultimately aiming to redefine healthcare for better outcomes.

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Systems Biology: A Paradigm Shift

Systems biology represents a paradigm shift in medical thinking, comparable to the impact of quantum physics on Newtonian physics.
It emphasizes the interconnectedness of biological systems rather than focusing on isolated parts.

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Scientific Wellness: A Data-Driven Approach

Scientific wellness integrates big data, systems biology, and AI to understand human complexity.
Blood analysis offers insights into the health of various organs by examining secreted molecules.

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Scientific Wellness: Health Optimization

Scientific wellness aims to shift healthcare's focus from disease treatment to health optimization.
It uses precise, data-driven methods to extend health span and reverse early disease transitions.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Kettle & Fire, LMNT, and Cozy Earth.

Recent technological advances are completely changing the way we understand the body. Revolutions are happening on multiple levels–the “omics” revolution, the digitization of data, and the systems biology medicine movement.

Today, I’m excited to talk to Drs. Leroy Hood and Nathan Price about the future of personalized healthcare through scientific wellness.

Dr. Leroy Hood is the CEO and founder of Phenome Health, a non-profit organization developing a project called Human Phenome Initiative (HPI), based on the science of wellness, which will sequence the genes and generate the longitudinal phenomes of one million people over 10 years. He has co-founded 17 biotech companies. His many national and international awards include the Lasker Prize, the Kyoto Prize, and the National Medal of Science. He is also the Chief Strategy Officer/Professor at the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle.

Dr. Nathan Price is the Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech and author of The Age of Scientific Wellness. In 2019, he was named one of the 10 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine, and in 2021 he was appointed to the Board on Life Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington in Bioengineering and Computer Science and Engineering.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Systems biology and scientific wellness (5:41 / 4:25)
Three components of the human phenome (20:07 / 18:30)
How big-data analytics and AI can be used to optimize health (24:30 / 22:30)
The majority of health and wellness happens outside the doctor’s office (41:28 / 37:47)
Educating the public about the future of medicine (43:23 / 39:21)
Training AI machine learning models (52:47 / 49:11)
Drs. Hood and Price’s daily health routines (1:13:49 / 1:10:12)

Get a copy of The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands.