#311 - Can Your Blood Predict Your Future Health? | Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray & Mike Haney

<p>From a single blood sample, new proteomic tools can now measure thousands of proteins at once. Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray’s lab is using that flood of data, together with machine learning, to build a much higher-resolution picture of what’s happening throughout the body and where someone’s health may be headed.</p><p><br></p><p>The early signals are striking. In one analysis of people who appeared healthy by conventional measures, every additional 4.1 years of estimated heart age was associated with nearly <strong>2.5 times the risk of heart failure over the following 15 years</strong>. Wyss-Coray sees this kind of measurement eventually becoming a “health compass”: something that could show which parts of the body are changing fastest, then help track whether an intervention is actually moving them in the right direction.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Free course: Improve your metabolic health</strong></p><p>Get our free email course on how glucose, nutrition, exercise, sleep, and measurement can help you build habits that support better energy and long-term health: <a href="https://www.levels.com/partner/multimedia?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=link&utm_content=nextlevel&partner=wyss-coray" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://levels.link/wnl⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>What We Cover:</strong></p><ul><li>How a drop of blood can now reveal information from thousands of proteins</li><li>Why aging appears to happen in waves rather than at a steady rate</li><li>Why one part of the body may age faster than the rest</li><li>What young-blood experiments in mice taught Wyss-Coray about proteins and brain aging</li><li>How the work is moving from whole organs down to individual cell types</li><li>Why the field’s biggest constraint may now be data collection rather than better AI</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>🎙️ About the Guest:</strong></p><p>Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray is the D.H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University and director of the Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>📍What Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray &amp; Mike Haney discussed:</strong></p><ul><li>04:03 Proteins 101: the building blocks hiding information about your health</li><li>05:09 How one blood sample can measure thousands of proteins</li><li>09:07 Using machine learning to find patterns in the proteome</li><li>12:17 Can blood reveal what’s happening inside the brain?</li><li>13:11 What happened whe