The Age of Scientific Wellness is an attempt to tell the same story as Peter Attia's Outlive. The authors co-founded Arivale, which failed after spending $50m in funding on 5000 members. The book explains the principles between scientific wellness, which is basically individualized medicine, personalized to your genome, and tuned to your lifestyle. One example is to use a continuous glucose monitor to track your blood sugar and tune how you eat. Another example is using genomic knowledge to know what diseases you're particularly susceptible to, and then either use supplements, lifestyle changes, or other modifications to avoid them.
The book's on the long winded side and more than a little self-promoting, which is a bit rich coming from someone who's start failed. On the one hand, I like the idea, and would love to participate (and I already have CPAP machines and smart watches collecting more data about myself than I know what to do with), and on the other hand, I wonder about the costs and effectiveness. It's quite clear to me that only a small percentage of people can live according to the regime such a wellness approach would recommend --- think about the number of people who will drive their kids 2 blocks to school, or who refuse to exercise no matter what their blood pressure is.
I like the ideas behind the book --- I'm just not convinced that the ideas can be implemented at a population scale.
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