What if it was possible to have a roadmap to optimize the health trajectory of your body? Wearables and AI can utilize set parameters based on personal genetic and historical data and help mitigate risk by suggesting preventative practices, decreasing the chance of suffering chronic illness. How much control will we have over our health in the future? To discover new scientific wellness techniques, Positive Psychology Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with Dr. Nathan Price about putting healthcare in our hands. Dr. Price is the Chief Science Officer of Thorne Health Tech and co-author of The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-rich, and in Your Hands. He shares information about the scientific research that has led to breakthroughs in preventative wellness for elongated health spans, and the part AI will play in the future of medicine.

Nathan Price — Healthcare in Our Hands:

• Nathan describes how science has changed medicine in the past and how it will change medicine in the future. [1:53]
• Technology has brought forth opportunities to collect data for a predictive approach to healthcare. [4:46]
• How to optimize personal health right now. [7:44]
• Nathan explains why health spans are more important than lifespans. [16:32]
• Nathan offers preventative tips for maintaining brain health, which is often neglected in our healthcare system. [18:10]
• Nathan described Thorne Health Tech’s involvement in President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot 2.0 project. [24:53]

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About Lisa’s guest:

Nathan Price, PhD, is the Chief Science Officer of Thorne Health Tech and a Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology. Selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine, he received the Grace A. Goldsmith Award for his work on scientific wellness and has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

“People who suffer from depression have a shrinkage in the hippocampus." - Lisa Cypers Kamen