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The AI That Caught What Every Doctor Missed — Genome-Powered Medicine Is Here with Dr. Don Brown | E218

The AI That Caught What Every Doctor Missed — Genome-Powered Medicine Is Here with Dr. Don Brown | E21823 jun56 min

<p>🧠 Stay ahead with the latest in science, nutrition, and wellness by subscribing to Dr. Perlmutter’s newsletter at: www.drperlmutter.com. ✉️🌱</p><p>Thank you to our sponsors:</p><p><br></p><p>EVY -  https://www.optoceutics.com/perlmutter </p><p>and the code perlmutter26 will be auto-applied to your order to get $200 off &amp; free shipping (90 days risk-free).</p><p><br></p><p>3x4 Genetics - https://3x4genetics.com/DrPerlmutter</p><p>for a special offer when you sign up to decode your genetics and get personalized, science-backed health recommendations.</p><p><br></p><p>====</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Perlmutter’s groundbreaking new book, Brain Defenders, is now available for pre-order. Discover how to protect your brain and future health - reserve your copy today at <a href="https://www.braindefenders.com"><u>https://www.braindefenders.com</u></a>.</p><p><br></p><p>====</p><p><br></p><p>What if the future of medicine isn&#39;t a smarter doctor, but a thinking partner that can hold your entire biology in mind at once? In this episode, Dr. Don Brown joins me to make the case that AI in medicine isn&#39;t a replacement for the clinician. It&#39;s an ally capable of seeing patterns no human brain could hold together on its own.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Don Brown is a physician, computer scientist, and serial entrepreneur whose last software company sold for $1.4 billion in 2016. He returned to graduate school in his mid-50s to study biotechnology at Johns Hopkins, founded Lifeomic in 2017, and now leads Bioscope, a platform that uses AI to integrate a patient&#39;s entire biological picture into one dynamic view of health.</p><p><br></p><p>We dig into why fragmented medicine fails at prevention, how Bioscope ingests the whole genome, microbiome, epigenome, and medical records into a single synoptic view, the real case where AI flagged arsenic toxicity in a patient misdiagnosed with restless leg syndrome, and what it looks like when AI personas begin guiding patients through their own protocols in real time.</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 - Introduction </p><p>00:53 - A New Way to Think About Brain Health: Brain Defenders </p><p>03:18 - Welcoming Dr. Don Brown </p><p>06:46 - From Physics to MD to Software Entrepreneur </p><p>09:01 - Back to Grad School at Johns Hopkins </p><p>10:35 - The Lifeomic Years: Cancer Care in the Cloud </p><p>12:34 - The Spark Behind Bioscope </p><p>15:27 - Building the Ultra-Secure Health Data Repository </p><p>16:26 - 40 Hz Light Therapy and Cogn