Joe Biden turned 80 recently and destroying all rumors of ill health, memory issues, and slow reaction times, showed himself bicycling and has been placing the 70-year-old Putin and the mighty Russian army on the run with a carefully orchestrated proxy war that is said to be a complex operation of logistics, intelligence, restraint, and military strategy.
When the US President turned an octogenarian, there was a flurry of articles in US media that showed several octogenarians and even nonagenarians working perfectly fine, that too in tough jobs like flying around or doing high-value sales like in real estate. The concept of retirement has all but vanished from developed nations, and countries like India and China are all set to follow suit soon.
This may seem like human potential at its best, but it is not, as it is still based on Health 4.0-based technologies like advanced diagnostics, breakthrough medicines, robotic surgeries, and generic lifestyle modifications, that kick in after the diseases have progressed much much damage has been sustained. What if these diseases can be preempted or prevented from developing at all?
This is what Health 5.0 is all about with its focus on personalisation, precision and prevention. Sajeev Nair, Founder of Vieroots Wellness Solutions introduced EPLIMO, the first such solution in India said, “Personalisation is possible today thanks to genetic testing and metabolic assessment that help each person understand whether they run geno-metabolic risks for developing any among hundreds of lifestyle diseases.”
But what is the use in merely knowing these risks, when it is obvious that generic lifestyle modifications can’t prevent it? “This is where the real power of personalised lifestyle modifications lie,” said Sajeev Nair. “When lifestyle modifications like in diet and exercise are fine-tuned according to each person’s genetic and metabolic makeup, their effectiveness increases dramatically. Also, when multiple such personalised modifications like in diet, exercise, sleep, yoga, ayurveda, meditation, breathing exercises, alternative therapies etc are combined, these lifestyle changes turn epigenetic or capable of overriding even the genetic risks for developing such diseases,” said Sajeev, who is also a pioneering biohacker and bestselling author of ‘The Making of a Superhuman’.
This technology is readily available in India too, and the reality is that people can age more gracefully than even Joe Biden and even go swimming in their 90s by adopting epigenetic personal wellness. What is more, technologies like EPLIMO have recently been deployed on a blockchain too, to create Limoverse, the world’s first health and wellness ecosystem and metaverse, that even rewards users with cryptos when they go walking, jogging or running.