Jerry Johnson

“The lack of training in nutrition mirrors that in other important areas of human health, including exercise (more than half of the physicians trained in the United States received no formal education in physical activity), sleep (medical school students across several nations receive about three hours of education on healthy sleep), and stress (just 3 percent of visits to a primary care physician include any discussion on this topic).”
― Leroy Hood, The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands

“The measurements of wellness we should be collecting—the genome, phenome, and digital measures of health—are far more detailed and subtle than “how we feel.” Together, they capture information on hundreds of different biological systems. If we begin collecting these measures in a state of wellness, the resulting data can predict wellness-to-disease transitions that are imperceptible to our conscious minds.”
― Leroy Hood, The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands

“Healthcare today generally waits for visible symptoms to treat illness, allowing conditions that might otherwise be successfully treated early to grow to the point that treatment is either ineffective, terribly difficult, or prohibitively expensive. And it makes little attempt to educate patients about their own responsibilities when it comes to optimizing their well-being—something doctors are almost never trained to do.”
― Leroy Hood, The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands

“Can our current system be adapted to the new disease paradigm? That’s doubtful—and it probably won’t take you four trillion guesses to figure out why. Four trillion dollars a year is a lot of money. And although the way it’s being spent isn’t good for most peoples’ health, it has contributed to profitability for some medically oriented constituencies.”
― Leroy Hood, The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands