From Mark Bowden’s excellent profile of Larry Smarr, a researcher at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology who has quantified his own health to a huge degree:
“And at that point,” says Larry, in a typically bold pronouncement that would startle generations of white-coated researchers, “you now have, for the first time in history, a scientific basis for medicine.”
Fascinating story and look at both the incredible opportunity that tracking our health presents.