Predictive Health

Predictive Health focuses on health, not disease, an approach that contrasts with many efforts similarly named. The emerging science of health proposes a model of ‘many diseases, few causes’ in which fundamental processes associated with immune function, inflammation, oxidative stress, and regenerative potential underlie health at the cellular level. Research documenting biomarkers of these processes will permit anticipating the course of an individual’s health status, signaling un-health long before the onset of disease.

Educating individuals on their own health status and how their behavior contributes to modulations in these systems is at the cutting edge of putting health into health care and transferring the responsibility for health upkeep from medicine to the individual. Dr. Lampl is introducing thousands of college students to a vision and culture of health that they will carry with them throughout their careers.