World Health Organization says: ‘Health is not only just about avoiding disease. It is also about physical, mental and social well-being.’
Genetics
We all have different starting conditions. We achieve certain goals with hardly any efforts, but other tasks take a lot of work. We get our genes from parents, mixed like a deck of cards.
I’m not going to discuss genetic modification at the moment (although it’s definitely a future of medicine).
There is another factor in health – the way we live. This means, literally, what we do with our bodies. Our everyday routine influence our health. It’s as important as genetics. Leading causes of death can be prevented by changing lifestyle habits.
Motivation is king
Now, when we know what to change, we need just to develop a good plan. What to eat and when to do yoga or run. Following this routine will keep us healthy.
Scientists have enough data to develop lifestyle recommendations, both general and personal, to improve health and make people live longer without diseases. Such recommendations even exist. But, it's so difficult to follow them. The reason for this is a lack of motivation which most people experience when trying to correct their lifestyle. We are not rational creatures, but emotional.
Habits rule our lives. It's very difficult to change habits giving you direct dopamine to something promising happiness in the long distant future. Can we fix it?
One of the good methods is doing something in a group of like-minded people, motivating each other. It is difficult to miss yoga class when your mates are there and they chat about their progress.
Another approach, to shift benefits from distant future to now. If keeping healthy lifestyle lets you get financial benefits right now, the brain starts to produce more dopamine even when you just think about raw broccoli. This allows a good habit to form.
AI for health and well-being
The secret of health by blockchain ICO Days.exchange is genetics plus lifestyle
Application giving personalized advice about lifestyle, motivating users to follow these recommendations will make people much healthier and will save many lives due to the prophylactics.
Such app should consider personal genetics as well diseases that already were developed. It should personalize lifestyle, motivate, follow your progress, connect with other wearable devices to collect vital health data, communicate with doctors. Also, it's important, for such AI-based smart app to be contextual, it means to understand everyday human language. We should be able to communicate with it like with another person.
At the moment such apps are in development. For instance, mobile solutions of health linking with wealth will offer blockchain insurance and health app DAYS.Exchange is about to present app «Doctor I Am». This smart software is going to unite all the benefits described above.
We live in the era of smart machines and without any doubts, they will transform the way we see health and healthcare.
According to Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization says: “Market analysts predict that intelligent machines, programmed to think and reason like the human mind, will revolutionize health care in the very near future.”
