What's more important? Lifespan or Health Span? - Michael Geer

<p>Michael Geer is co-founder and CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of Humanity Health, a London-based startup that's building an iPhone app and subscription service designed to help users slow or reverse their rate of aging. Geer's co-founder Pete Ward has described the app as like “Waze for maximizing health span," or years of healthy functioning. </p><p>The Humanity iPhone app, which is currently being beta-tested by users in the UK, is designed to track various types of health-related data for free, such as exercise levels. At various premium subscription levels users will be able to track biomarkers in their blood samples and even track the levels of methylation in their DNA. The app’s machine learning algorithms pull together all of this data to produce what the company calls an “H Score.” The big idea is to show well users are doing at slowing their aging—compared to others who have similar profiles or have taken similar actions—and to advise users on what else they could be doing to increase their H Score and their health span.</p><p>Harry interviews Geer about the startup's origin story, the app's features, Humanity Health's business model, and the argument for better integration of clinical and digital data into consumers' everyday health decisions.</p><p>You can find more details about this episode, as well as the entire run of MoneyBall Medicine's 50+ episodes, at <a href="https://glorikian.com/moneyball-medicine-podcast/">https://glorikian.com/moneyball-medicine-podcast/</a></p><p>Please rate and review MoneyBall Medicine on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:</p><p>• Launch the “Podcasts” app on your device. If you can’t find this app, swipe all the way to the left on your home screen until you’re on the Search page. Tap the search field at the top and type in “Podcasts.” Apple’s Podcasts app should show up in the search results.</p><p>• Tap the Podcasts app icon, and after it opens, tap the Search field at the top, or the little magnifying glass icon in the lower r