Harvard geneticist Dr. David Sinclair discusses how continuous biometric tracking devices will shift medicine from reactive treatment to proactive prevention.
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“Eventually, everyone will have them. We'll know ahead of time if we have cancer, if we have heart disease, if we're going to have a heart attack next week, and stave off those things and prevent them from happening, and that is a revolution, separate from what I'm working on, that will extend lifespan, I believe, by another decade.”
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