Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 23 segments
Can your smartwatch detect subtle changes before you feel them? Might a continuous glucose monitor pick up on things you didn’t know about yourself? Could a drop of blood map your future health? Why…
Michael SnyderGuest
David EaglemanHost
How do you understand your current state of health? Probably you get some tests maybe once a year at the doctor's office.
But is there a different way to think about healthcare and sick care? Could your smartwatch detect subtle changes in your body before you feel it? Might a continuous glucose monitor pick up on something you didn't know about yourself? Could a drop of blood contain a map of your future health? Why does your personal baseline matter more than a population average? Could AI decode the massive signaling networks in your body? And does seeing your own data change your behavior? Today, we sit down with Michael Snyder, Stanford professor of genetics and a pioneer in massive personal data to understand what happens when healthcare goes from being a snapshot of your body to a movie and what it means in modern times to know thyself.
I'm a neuroscientist at Stanford, and in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.
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How do you understand your current state of health? Probably you get some tests maybe once a year at the doctor's office.
But is there a different way to think about healthcare and sick care? Could your smartwatch detect subtle changes in your body before you feel it? Might a continuous glucose monitor pick up on something you didn't know about yourself? Could a drop of blood contain a map of your future health? Why does your personal baseline matter more than a population average? Could AI decode the massive signaling networks in your body? And does seeing your own data change your behavior? Today, we sit down with Michael Snyder, Stanford professor of genetics and a pioneer in massive personal data to understand what happens when healthcare goes from being a snapshot of your body to a movie and what it means in modern times to know thyself.
I'm a neuroscientist at Stanford, and in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.
This is an iHeart Podcast.
Guaranteed human.