Wearable Tech + Covid w/Prof. Michael Snyder

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Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Wearables can do so much more than count your steps. They can also be used for detecting abnormalities caused by Covid up to 10 days before symptoms arise. In this episode, Dr. Michael Snyder explores the many uses of wearable health monitoring technology Michael Snyder is a genomicist, systems biologist, and entrepreneur. He is the Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Years ago he started using himself as a guinea pig to test the limits of how modern science can improve health. He used genetic testing, multiple wearables, sensors of every kind to collect all possible data. In the course of that, he detected and prevented his own diabetes and turned his health around. He even discovered he had lyme disease before any symptoms appeared. Now he's developing ways of using AI to sort through the metrics collected by wearables to prevent disease rather than treat symptoms. His new study is essentially a way that anyone with wearable tech can get an alarm when they have a virus before they show symptoms. Immediately after this conversation I bought a Fitbit Versa and joined his study. You can play a part and join the study through this link! https://innovations.stanford.edu/wearables Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year, first episode of 2021.
0:05.0	Thank you for all of the support in 2020, all of your encouragement,
0:10.0	all of the reviews and comments and even by the way I just read a I just read like a
0:16.9	constructive criticism comment on on YouTube that was just about blabbing about myself a little too much in a given
0:30.3	episode and individual differences apply and everything else but I was like so
0:36.8	grateful for it it was like what a I I think constructive criticism is such a kindness, you know, when obviously just criticizing
0:50.1	someone trying to cut someone down is a totally different thing.
0:53.0	But someone that cares about the show,
0:55.0	likes about the show, offering like tips and suggestions
0:59.0	from a listener's perspective, that's amazing and and the overwhelming
1:06.2	positive feedback that I get from people all the time
1:10.6	Really really helped keep me going in 2020 not just keep me going with this
1:16.8	podcast but helped me keep improving on the the word out there about this show and you know it was quite a ride I knocked a lot of things out of the park be
1:41.8	outside of having all my income vanish and not being able to do what I normally do for
1:49.2	a living, for a career, for my passion.
1:52.3	I also had a lot of time to work on myself and got really into wellness and the things that I don't normally that I believe in that I like doing when I have the chance
2:04.8	and are just so difficult when I'm on the road like three cities a week or whatever which I often
2:11.6	uh... am and so feeling good about this year guys we got exciting vaccine
2:18.2	news happening and I've just been I am such I'm so grateful for this show science gives me hope
2:29.4	Especially after seeing all of the all of the science denial and conspiracy zealots and
2:36.8	everything in 2020 all of that stuff just raging to the surface to be able to talk with actual researchers doing real
2:49.1	work to make the world a better place in innovating is I'm so lucky that I get to do this I'm so
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