"The goal of Made Visible is to help people living with invisible illnesses feel less alone as they strive to create a "normal" life. It also aims to create a new awareness of how friends, family, and others can be sensitive and supportive to people who live with invisible illnesses - especially when most people have no idea what's appropriate or helpful, and don't know where to turn for answers. "

THE WELL is your complete ecosystem for wellness. We bring together Western doctors and Eastern healers to collaborate, developing online content and personalized products and experiences that empower our community to take greater agency for their health. At THE WELL, your health is integrated, proactive and personalized, leading to a more balanced you. Mike: THURS - breakfast at integrative wellness gym/spa club called THE WELL opening in Midtown. Met COO and marketing officers.

The UnDx Consortium The UnDx Consortium™ is an initiative of precision medicine technology companies and scientists to explore how a multidisciplinary approach to precision medicine can provide information and answers for patients with undiagnosed diseases. is an initiative of precision medicine technology companies and scientists to explore how a multidisciplinary approach to precision medicine can provide information and answers for patients with undiagnosed diseases.

This is a San Diego based conference. Here is an archive of videos from the past few years. A quick scan will reveal synergy with Project Apollo.

"Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series: Special Event  End of Life Liberty: Empowering Dying Patients with Choices. An overview of the evolving changes in law and medicine governing patient autonomy at the end of life over the past 2 decades. What has been learned? What changes ought be considered? Can we move to normalize the practice of aid in dying within the practice of medicine? Do some states offer a model for practice governed by standard of care? Do psychedelic medicines offer a new palliative tool for patients with anxiety? What is the status of the research, and federal, state and local law governing psychedelic substances.

"Is it ethical to edit your child's DNA - or your own? Does the answer depend on whether you're perfectly healthy or have a condition like vision loss or are dying of a degenerative disease? And does it matter whether you've got a PhD or never set foot in a college classroom?"

Results Of the 74 studies identified, the majority were reviews of a single or a group of similar apps (n = 66, 89%), nearly half related to disease management (n = 34, 46%). A total of 80 safety concerns were identified, 67 related to the quality of information presented including incorrect or incomplete information, variation in content, and incorrect or inappropriate response to consumer needs. The remaining 13 related to app functionality including gaps in features, lack of validation for user input, delayed processing, failure to respond to health dangers, and faulty alarms. Of the 52 reports of actual or potential consequences, 5 had potential for patient harm. We also identified 66 reports about gaps in app development, including the lack of expert involvement, poor evidence base, and poor validation.

"Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). Virtual reality that speeds healing in rehab. Artificial intelligence that's better than medical experts at spotting lung tumors. These are just some of the innovations now transforming medicine at a remarkable pace."

"When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offers us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges. Official Website: https://fantasticfungi.com Showtimes & Tickets: https://fantasticfungi.com/screenings Take Action: https://fantasticfungi.com/action Help Spread the Word: https://fantasticfungi.com/participate Saw the film? Leave a Review: https://fantasticfungi.com/reviews"

"Nature's beauty can be fleeting -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day."

"David A. Broniatowski et al. "Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate", American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 10 (October 1, 2018): pp. 1378-1384. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567"

"ReCODE Health is here to support technologists, researchers, ethicists, regulators, institutions and participants involved in the digital health research process. Our value proposition is to increase awareness of ethical principles and practices from the earliest stages of technology design to the deployment of digital health research."

"Abstract The digital revolution is disrupting the ways in which health research is conducted, and subsequently, changing healthcare. Direct-to-consumer wellness products and mobile apps, pervasive sensor technologies and access to social network data offer exciting opportunities for researchers to passively observe and/or track patients 'in the wild' and 24/7. The volume of granular personal health data gathered using these technologies is unprecedented, and is increasingly leveraged to inform personalized health promotion and disease treatment interventions. The use of artificial intelligence in the health sector is also increasing. Although rich with potential, the digital health ecosystem presents new ethical challenges for those making decisions about the selection, testing, implementation and evaluation of technologies for use in healthcare. As the 'Wild West' of digital health research unfolds, it is important to recognize who is involved, and identify how each party can and should take responsibility to advance the ethical practices of this work. While not a comprehensive review, we describe the landscape, identify gaps to be addressed, and offer recommendations as to how stakeholders can and should take responsibility to advance socially responsible digital health research."

Importance The incidence of chronic disease is increasing along with health care-related costs. The functional medicine model of care provides a unique operating system to reverse illness, promote health, and optimize function. The association between this model of care and patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is unknown.

"ABSTRACT Background: Heart rate variability (HRV), or variation in beat-to-beat intervals of the heart, is a quantitative measure of autonomic regulation of the cardiovascular system. Low HRV derived from electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings is reported to be related to physical frailty in older adults. Recent advances in wearable technology offer opportunities to more easily integrate monitoring of HRV into regular clinical geriatric health assessments. However, signals obtained from ECG versus wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) devices are different, and a critical first step preceding their widespread use is to determine whether HRV metrics derived from PPG devices also relate to older adults' physical function."

"A Workshop for the Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity Initiative When: November 6, 2019 (1:00 PM ET) - November 8, 2019 (12:30 PM ET)" Join us via webcast for a 2-day public workshop that will examine the social, behavioral, and environmental enablers for healthy longevity. Workshop participants will discuss the challenges and opportunities, as well as potential solutions and disruptive approaches to enhance social structures that would enable healthier and socially fulfilled lives and ultimately create thriving societies around the world.

Recommended by Kabir. Free registration for the teleconference. The agenda speaks to the core values of Project Apollo.

"Computer scientist Larry Smarr and osteopathic physician Michael Kurisu present a vision for healthcare that combines the best of allopathic and osteopathic medicine by using a more personalized, hands-on, systems-based approach to treating patients. They demonstrate this proof of concept with details on how Smarr diagnosed his own Crohn's disease by using blood and stool tests to track changes in his body. And when the symptoms became too severe, Smarr collaborated with his surgeon, Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD, to plan the operation based on 3D images of his organs created at his research institute, Calit2 at UC San Diego. Kurisu then introduces Project Apollo, a group of patients inspired by Smarr who are collecting their own data to develop personalized treatments for their particular conditions. Series: "The UC Wellbeing Channel " [7/2018]"

Interview with Dr. Norman Doige, part of a series of interviews on Brain Plasticity, Healing and "The Brain That Changes Itself".

Dr. Michael Kurisu D.O. recommended Doidge's book, "The Brain That Changes Itself" to me several years ago. Reading the rich and detailed case studies in his book opened me to so many intriguing ideas. In particular, his explanations of how the placebo effect relates to neuroplasticity.