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 digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

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

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.