The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Life-style – TimmermanReport.com

After 25 years working to develop medicines that deal with illness, I discover myself more and more preoccupied with a unique query: what wouldn’t it truly take for a health/way of life platform to meaningfully maintain well being, and what function (if any) is AI more likely to play on this?

As I clarify in my newest Timmerman Report piece, I do see a job for AI, however not by delivering trenchant insights about exercise optimization based mostly on the often-dubious knowledge and questionable metrics wearables are likely to generate. Instead, the extra substantive alternative I see is that as AI engages you in conversations, and will get to know you over time, it could possibly learn the way greatest to encourage and assist you particularly, enabling it to evolve into what I’d name an “engine for agency.” That, to me, is the almost definitely, and almost definitely state of affairs for the way platforms like WHOOP, Peloton Interactive, and their friends may lastly make good on their often-heralded, long-awaited promise to rework our well being.

My piece additionally covers why way of life, regardless of its outstanding demonstrated affect, nonetheless would not get the medical respect it deserves, and what the Diabetes Prevention Program — which minimize kind 2 diabetes incidence by 58% by intensive individualized teaching — can train us about what real conduct change truly requires.

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