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Live Longer with AI

You're reading from   Live Longer with AI How artificial intelligence is helping us extend our healthspan and live better too

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838646158
Length 602 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tina Woods Tina Woods
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Nature versus nurture

"What experts are telling us in terms of living a healthy life hasn't changed much in decades: it's about moving more and not being sedentary. We also need a diet that is rich in nutrients, with a wide variety of plants that help us to develop a healthy gut and a diverse microbiome.

Sleep is probably one area that we should also prioritize. We're sleeping worse and less than we need, and I don't think we're going to do away with the need for eight hours."

– Thomas Balkizas, EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead, Amazon Web Services

Historically, debates about human behavior, health, and biology have often focused on the difference between the contribution of nature, and the inherited characteristics with which we are born, and nurture, which is all those influences that enter our lives after we're born. However, most diseases involve many genes, engaging in complex interactions[13], in...

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