For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.