The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The Michael Shermer Show # 360
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.
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Telomerase prevents the telomeres (“the natural end of a eukaryotic chromosome composed of a usually repetitive DNA sequence and serving to stabilize the chromosome,” per my Merriam-Webster) from shortening. Red sea urchins and some bats don’t experience shortening of telomeres, and every cell in a lobster produces lots of telomerase so that if it didn’t have to keep growing - having to shed its shell and grow a new one, which takes a lot of energy and makes them attractive to predators - it could theoretically be immortal. Is research in telomerase production being done?
ETA: What’s the name of that 15-minute 3-stretch stretching routine, Nathan?
I think Elizabeth Holmes looks like Pennywise the Clown - same smile.
To me it's significant that the popular "life-extension" obsessives are still dying at ordinary ages, like FM-2030, Dr. Roy Walford, David Kekich, and as of last month, Saul Kent. Wouldn't surprise me if that happens to guys like Aubrey de Grey, Ray Kurzweil, Serge Faguet and Bryan Johnson as well. BTW, is anyone else put off by Johnson's appearance lately? To me he falls into the Uncanny Valley.
I stopped listening at 40.00 ...."we are going to have to find drugs for all these diseases" This isn't a podcast about wellness
Good point. That wasn't what I was expecting. Wellness isn't achieved through medication
@JimiBegbaaji I'm happy they can figure all this out.. Most can achieve good health with good food, sunshine, movement & grounding and watching your proper blood markers respond to your changes is valuable motivation #thanks4sharing #carnivorewisdom
DR. David Martin would be a great guest I want to know if he's lying about the covid vaccine but the subject is too complex I want to see Michael question him tosee if he's right.
So, how much money did Elizabeth Holmes steal? Good interview.
Great show. It is a gigantic and tragic failure that cost and speed of getting new drugs tested and distributed has not been following the speed of technology in general. Partly it is an awful political failure.
I from 🇸🇴, I really like how you compare the books and their authors.
AI medical diagnosis,90% effective. MD medical diagnosis, 70% effective. You too can be replaced.
First!
Shermer really needs to get Edward Dutton on his show to discuss the most likely reason for the stagnation in general technological progress, and not just in healthcare: The decline in IQ since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Basically Dutton argues that it was eugenic when infant and child mortality was in the 50 percent range, because that weeded out the kids with the high mutation loads (HML's) which lower IQ. Their deaths freed up resources which parents could then invest into bringing up their surviving, genetically healthier children.
As I understand it, Dutton advocates a form of the System Integrity Thesis to explain human intelligence: A healthy, competent brain is a function of a body which is functioning well because it has genes for overall hardiness. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, however, now the weak, defective Tiny Tims in people's families can survive to adulthood and procreate, so that they are passing their HML's onto future generations and making the species dumber - and probably sicker as well.
I think Dutton is way too based for Mr. Shermer 😆
Trade-off from technological advancement, natural retardation.
And more expensive. Healthcare is more expensive because it costs millions of dollars to keep a child born without a skull cap alive for seven years of misery.. since 99.9999% of them never live past 10.
Who decides what the future will be like?
Don’t participate in one’s own enslavement