In this seventh episode, Nathan Price, Professor & Associate Director of the Institute for Systems Biology, explains the concept and aspiration of ‘scientific wellness’. He predicts that it will become the dominant paradigm of 21st century healthcare.

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He explains ‘personal, dense, dynamic data clouds’ will enable both peak wellness and disease avoidance. Possibilities that China may leapfrog the United States.

Topics we discussed in this episode

• What is systems biology


• What are ‘Personal, dense, dynamic data clouds’


• Quantification of health and wellness


• Quantification of disease states and transitions into disease states


• Types of data in a ‘data cloud’


• ‘Dense phenotyping’


• Only 10% of a person’s lifetime health can be attributed back to the healthcare system


• What is ‘scientific wellness’


• Focusing towards the elements that constitute 90% of a person’s lifetime health


• 20th century medicine vs 20th century medicine


• Early triggering and intervention on pre-disease states


• Societal level issues as cause of disease


• The Pioneer 100 Study


• Self empowerment thru knowledge to eliminate for oneself a disease trajectory


• The 100K Wellness Project


• The International Human Phenomics Organization


• China’s deep investment into quantified health and wellness, and early-disease prediction


• The limitations of the American ‘All of Us Program’


• Comparison with Verily’s Project Baseline


• iCarbonX and Human Longevity Incorporated


• China’s lower regulatory burden than the United States


• Large food manufactures must pivot towards quantified health and wellness


• Biological age calculation


• The human genome has been mis-sold to the public


• Democratization of wellness centric healthcare


• ‘Scientific wellness’ will be the dominant paradigm for 21st century medicine


• Healthcare has misaligned economic and health incentives


• Competition of innovation in the healthcare marketplace


• Innovation from outside the current healthcare industry

Show links

• Institute for Systems Biology Website


• Arivale Website


• Scientific Wellness will Drive The Future of Health YouTube Video


• Leroy Hood Wikipedia Entry


• P4 Medicine Landing Page


• A Wellness Study of 108 Individuals Using Personal, Dense, Dynamic Data Clouds Paper


• Institute for Systems Biology and Arivale “Pioneer 100 Study” Press Release


• 100K Wellness Project Wikipedia Entry


• “International Human Phenome Project (Phase I)” Launched in Shanghai Article


• Michael P. Snyder Wikipedia Entry


• Homeostatic Model Assessment WikiPedia Entry


• HOMA Calculator


• We Can Do Better — Improving the Health of the American People Article


• Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death Paper


• Joseph Antoun Guest Page


• Value-Based medicine: Concepts and Application Paper


• Hacking of the American Mind by Robert Lustig Book


• NIH The All of Us Research Program Website


• Project Baseline Website


• iCarbonX Website


• Human Longevity Inc. Health Nucleus Landing Page