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This episode explores the concept of personalised medicine and its implications for health and disease management.

It’s the future of medicine but how does it work, what are its origins and how can we benefit from it? In this episode I look at the way medicine can be tailored to our health. The work of Leroy Hood and P4 Medicine paper:  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4204402/ The Human Genome Project:  https://wellcome.org/insights/articles/human-genome-project-new-era-scientific-progress NHS personalised medicine page:  https://www.england.nhs.uk/healthcare-science/personalisedmedicine/ ApoB as a biomarker:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05887-2 Gut-skin links (systems biology): https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01459/full Leukaemia mutations:  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6142505/ AI for healthcare:  https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/healthcare-ai/ Methylation (MTHFR gene):  https://www.healthline.com/health/mthfr-gene ApoE genes and Alzheimer’s risk:  https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/apoe4-and-apoe3-gene-variants-linked-to-at-least-7-in-10-alzheimers-cases-study-suggests/ Statins and their effect on inflammation:&nbsp…

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