FUTURE HUMAN

Magic Pills, Machine-Learning Skincare, and the Future of Health

Eight new trends that are revolutionizing how we live

Alyssa Giacobbe
OneZero
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8 min readJul 12, 2018

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TTechnology has always promised a better future … eventually. Somehow the real breakthroughs have always seemed to be just around the corner. But somehow, when we weren’t quite paying attention, the future actually arrived. Thanks to forward-thinking researchers calling on advances in genomics, artificial intelligence, food science, and drug hacking, a more resilient, enlightened, and cognitively-, physically-, and sexually-enhanced human already walks among us. (And her skin is amazing.) Here, eight exciting new health technologies — and where they’re heading next.

Anti-aging in a pill

What it is: Self-described by its MIT creators as “the world’s first cellular health product informed by genomics,” Basis by Elysium Health is a mail-order daily supplement that’s been making waves in the rapidly emerging field of life-extension science. The claim is not immortality but simply the possibility of extending one’s vital years, by putting off of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and other afflictions of age.

Quackery? Hard to say: Though the supplement is some 25 years in the making, it’s been human-tested…

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Alyssa Giacobbe
Alyssa Giacobbe

Written by Alyssa Giacobbe

Writer: Architectural Digest, Entrepreneur, Women’s Health, the Boston Globe, among others. alyssagiacobbe.com

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