Dr. Michael Snyder

I think most people like the idea of –

fibers again we like to do individual fibers because ultimately i want to understand the effect of every fiber make combinations that would be personalized for people but uh you know if you were to get apple fiber oatmeal is yes it's got a lot of uh metamucil and the arabic but it has other things in there too and it's probably true that the combinatorics are important uh the

and we'll get there at some point with the combinatorics.

I mean, I, I guess I'm a, you know, I am a big data guy.

I like the idea with 8 billion people on the planet.

If we even got 1% of those, uh, doing food logging with sugar monitors and things like that, we'd have a lot of combinatorics all figured out.

Yeah, we have studies running all the time.

Maybe for them, inulin will be the trick.

We're a little smaller now, but yeah, we're still a good bunch.

I'm just lucky to have amazing people in my lab.

I consider myself very fortunate.

Yeah, let me tell you a little how we got into this.

So we set up – it comes from my philosophy that I think medicine is broken.

We tend to do sick care rather than health care.

So we started when I moved to Stanford now 16 years ago, this idea maybe we should – first of all, you don't measure people very much when they're healthy.

You don't measure them very often.

So just – it started with me, but the goal was to do a bigger group, which we did –

profiling people, collecting as much data as possible while they're healthy.

So people would give blood, their microbiome, all urine, and we would take these and do what's called omics measurement.

We'd make as many measurements from their blood as possible on top of deep clinical measurements using all these new tools.