What does the term personalized medicine mean to you?
In this video, Vinod Khosla, technology entrepreneur, explains that personized medicine is tailored medicine, created specifically for an individual's specific system.
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It turns out your nitrous oxide in your blood, that's blood chemistry, goes up in your breath.
And so, you know you're going to have an asthma attack before you have it, not after you have it or after it's too late to do something about it.
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The most personalizing element is, of course, genomics, and the cost of doing a genome has declined so much it almost
doesn't matter anymore. The cost of processing in the data domain your genetics is still expensive,
but coming down rapidly. But every drug should be tailored. Your cancer treatment should be tailored
to the genomics of your cancer. If your proteins are metabolites in your body, the chemistry and science of your body is saying something.
We should listen to it and prescribe medicine or other prescriptions, like exercise, based on that.
Let me give you an example. You have this little company that's trying to invent a breath sensor. Now, of course, you can detect alcohol in the breath,
but it turns out you can also detect ketones. If you're diabetic, ketosis is a major problem
and ketones in your breath any time you want by just breathing in your wristband
for a few seconds. It's great, but if you're an asthmatic, it turns out your nitrous oxide in your blood,
that's blood chemistry, goes up in your breath. And so, you know you're going to have an asthma attack before you have it, not after you have it
or after it's too late to do something about it. So whether it's diabetics, or asthmatics,
or cardiology patients, or mental health patients, or dermatology patients with a ear infection for your kid,
or a skin cancer, they're all going to be subject to this. Now the world of medicine, these will
feel like point innovations till they're enough of them, and then they will combine into a wave and then a tsunami that
could completely obsolete medicine as we practice it. [AUDIO LOGO]
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