Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.