Are we genetically literate enough for global precision health?

In The Age of Scientific Wellness Leroy Hood and Nathan Price argue with passion, excellence, and personal experience for a proactive approach to achieving the real potential of precision health, developed around prospective data-based preventive system health. This approach integrates various indicators from genomics, phenomics, blood multiomics precision measurements, environmental big data clues, and computer science, including artificial intelligence, to achieve what they describe as “Scientific Wellness”—ie, a cutting-edge form of personalised precision preventive care, aimed at beating any occurrence of disease or even reversing it in some cases. Hood and Price set out the anticipated application of this approach to complex diseases, such as diabetes and cancers, and to chronic debilitating degenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease. The authors’ thinking is revolutionary; their book offers a sorely needed and virtuous vision. But are we ready for such futuristic precision health care?