Quantified Health, Wellness & Aging

Quantified Health, Wellness & Aging


Precision Medicine vs Precision Health vs Hyper Wellbeing – EP05: Don Brown (LifeOmic)

October 12, 2018

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In this fifth episode, Don Brown, CEO LifeOmic, explains the nomenclature shift from precision medicine to precision health, details the firm footing his company has in precision health, how it’s now extending another foot forwards into hyper wellbeing. Lots of app, lifestyle medicine, lifespan, healthspan and biological age quantification chat.

Topics we discussed in this episode

Precision medicine vs precision health
Storage of panoramic health data/longitudinal datasets
Intermittent fasting
Institutional top-down and emerging bottom-up direct-to-consumer approaches to health
Precision health vs hyper wellbeing
Need to focus on aging itself as root cause of most diseases
Homeostasis
Healthspan vs lifespan
Lifestyles that accelerate aging
Lifestyles that decelerate aging
Biological age quantification
Using an app to decelerate aging, extend lifespan and increase healthspan
High insulin as age accelerator
Evolutionary medicine as age decelerator
Machines as overlords vs machines as health companions
Precision lifestyles guided by machines
Healthcare set for exponential changes ahead
Lack of nutritional training in medical school
Tendency of healthcare institutions to hoard data and doctors trained to limit data gathered
Hormesis
Our biological avatar models running in the cloud
Orthomolecular medicine and triage theory
In app integration of genomics, microbiome and other tests
In app gamification of "healthy living"
Mindfulness
Glucose ketone index
Tying lifestyle changes to rate of biological aging to change behavior
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and other supplements

Show links

LifeOmic Website
LifeOmic Fasting Tracker for iOS Download
LIFE: The Socially-Connected Intermittent Fasting App that Leverages Precision Medicine Blog Article
A Vision of LIFE Extend — A Powerful Precision Health Mobile App Blog Article
LIFE Extend - Pre-Registration Web Page
Epigenetic Clock Wikipedia Entry
DNA Methylation Age of Human Tissues and Cell Types Paper
DNA Methylation-Based Biomarkers and the Epigenetic Clock Theory of Ageing Paper
Hormesis Wikipedia Entry
Antagonistic Pleiotropy Hypothesis Wikipedia Entry
myDNAge Website
Life Length Website
Effects of Longevinex (Modified Resveratrol) on Cardioprotection and its Mechanisms of Action Paper
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer Book
Warburg Effect Wikipedia Entry
Hyper Wellbeing Episode #002 - L-Nutra’ Joseph Antoun on Fasting Mimicking Diets, Biological Aging and Longevity
Juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity Book
An Epigenetic Biomarker of Aging for Lifespan and Healthspan Paper
Methylation Aging Clock: An Update Blog Article
Steve Horvath Wikipedia Entry
Slowing Ageing by Design: the Rise of NAD+ and Sirtuin-Activating Compounds Paper
Sirtuin Wikipedia Entry
David Sinclair's Beginner's Guide to Anti-Ageing News Article
Triage Theory Paper
Orthomolecular Medicine Wikipedia Entry
What is Glucose Ketone Index Blog Article
Glucose Ketone Index (GKI) Calculator
What is Tokenomics and How it Can Make or Break your ICO
Elysium Health Website
Longevinex Website
Leonard P Guarente Wikipedia Entry