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Why I’m Obsessed with Health Wearables (and You Should Be Too) | Michael Snyder | TED

Genome researcher Michael Snyder believes health wearables, such as smart watches and glucose monitors, can transform medicine, shifting from reactive to predictive. (In fact, he’s such a big fan of these devices that he wears eight of them every single day.) From spotting an illness days before symptoms appear to helping prevent the onset of…

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Genome researcher Michael Snyder believes health wearables, such as smart watches and glucose monitors, can transform medicine, shifting from reactive to predictive. (In fact, he’s such a big fan of these devices that he wears eight of them every single day.) From spotting an illness days before symptoms appear to helping prevent the onset of diabetes, learn why the future of health care may be on your wrist. (Recorded at TED2026 on April 15, 2026)

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31 Comments

  1. @havoc1zero

    July 10, 2026 at 12:20 pm

    Poor thing, the health anxiety this guy’s suffering leaves him oblivious to the irony that wearing so much health monitoring tech leaves him with elevated levels of pfas and constant exposure to rf.

    • @LookNook2020

      July 10, 2026 at 12:38 pm

      @havoc1zero that’s probably for his research.

    • @havoc1zero

      July 10, 2026 at 12:39 pm

      @LookNook2020😂

  2. @erickleinwolterink3524

    July 10, 2026 at 12:28 pm

    I’m unconvinced that I need more than regular checkups from professional medical professionals.

    • @Ninja9JKD

      July 10, 2026 at 1:37 pm

      Why would anyone trust those liars in white butcher coats? We all there through 2020 and that world wide COVID mRNA push, and now there is a plethora of evidence showing that the doctors lied and people died! Those covid shots are bad news, like the rest of pharmakeia, the only thing decent about medicine today is emergency medicine, health care is horrid, you’re better off consulting a witch doctor for health. Ironically enough, a doctors diagnosis is often more of a curse than finding a root cause. Don’t believe me? Look up top causes of death, you’ll medical malpractice up there. Doctors misdiagnose things all the time, then peddle the poor fools pharmakeia products that at best mask the problem, but usually they do way more than that, like cause a chain of other problems.

    • @JohnSmith-uy9dx

      July 10, 2026 at 3:40 pm

      ​@Ninja9JKDtinfoil hat time.

    • @maestrojon

      July 10, 2026 at 3:41 pm

      ​@Ninja9JKD daddy, chill

    • @Ninja9JKD

      July 10, 2026 at 4:04 pm

      @JohnSmith-uy9dx Oh, someone who never studied MK Ultra, someone ignorant of the fact that people conspire all the time? Ignorant of the fact that the government has engaged in conspiracy against it’s own people many times? Talk to me when you get beyond your grade school and university indoctrination,

    • @Ninja9JKD

      July 10, 2026 at 4:04 pm

      @maestrojon Oh, somebody can’t handle the truth!

  3. @khawajamazhar9188

    July 10, 2026 at 12:29 pm

    There should be only one device to monitor for all these markers IMHO.

  4. @Murph_82

    July 10, 2026 at 12:30 pm

    Because you’re a divvy??

  5. @rileymcneill5107

    July 10, 2026 at 12:45 pm

    no thanks 🙂 I’d rather my health data be protected by HIPPA

  6. @blueowlwill8754

    July 10, 2026 at 12:47 pm

    Sorry, no matter what, I will wear a real watch , not health watches

  7. @anitawebster9450

    July 10, 2026 at 12:55 pm

    I do wear a smart watch, but just to remind me to get up & move regularly. It helps my arthritis.

  8. @MilMike

    July 10, 2026 at 1:02 pm

    I dunno.. Not sure if I want to constantly monitor myself and go crazy about these numbers…

  9. @cracked229

    July 10, 2026 at 1:07 pm

    What a complete dork. I wear zero wearables and I’m perfectly healthy. My VO2 max is higher than his. I look better. I think faster. I make more money. What a complete dork.

  10. @robinl415

    July 10, 2026 at 1:10 pm

    first criticizes the sickness system, which is true. then all we ear is about diseases and malfunction and symptoms. It’s still medicine, so it’s still the study of disease even if it’s in advanced. i don’t see health here. unless if you look at the results of “pre symptomatic” studies as “oh it’s just proof that the body is already healing itself”

  11. @IamAlpharius0

    July 10, 2026 at 1:18 pm

    Pfft, he doesn’t even have a Digimon health tracker.

  12. @Ninja9JKD

    July 10, 2026 at 1:43 pm

    Hey TED, can you get someone on to talk about Wireless Body Area Networks, Medical Body Area Networks, the Internet of Bio Nano things, and the Bio Digital Convergence? We need some disclosure. The people running these transhumanist companies talk about this openly, the patents are there, the academic research is massive, yet most people don’t know about the sensors and the nano particles which can be used to track people. Are all these systems bidirectional?

  13. @Phuzz828

    July 10, 2026 at 1:46 pm

    this s a terrible way to live your life

  14. @bigredhawkrunninwolf5034

    July 10, 2026 at 2:04 pm

    Anyone buying this CIA plant trying to get you to wear 17 tracking devices on yourself, 24/7, so that they can see and hear every single thing you’re doing in an out of the bathroom and bedroom???

    “THEY” all think you’re to stupid to see right through this paid shill of a willfully ignorant speaker…..

    Wake up sheeple.

    Do ya’ll realize that every single electronic device you own is slowly poisoning your body with abnormal frequencies DESIGNED to keep your electric field out of wack and your body sick?
    DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

    Remember, “they” think you are too stupid to do so.

  15. @Lilibet_777

    July 10, 2026 at 3:29 pm

    Wekk, this is obviously sthg. I would talk with a shrink about it…

  16. @maestrojon

    July 10, 2026 at 3:42 pm

    Why I stopped watching Ted Talks (and you should too)

  17. @Shadoufang

    July 10, 2026 at 3:48 pm

    How about the effects of EMF, radiation…?

  18. @paul-11080

    July 10, 2026 at 4:04 pm

    I thought the title was gonna be meant as ironic…

  19. @AdityaMehendale

    July 10, 2026 at 4:17 pm

    Most people are not against monitoring and measurement.
    Most people are very wary of the non-transparent unscrupulous tech-corps mooching off the generated measurements, ALWAYS to the detriment of the test-subjects.
    During checkups, one has some degree of doctor-patient confidentiality.

  20. @Craul08

    July 10, 2026 at 4:36 pm

    So now you can diagnose a condition you can’t afford to treat.

  21. @lord_voldemort44

    July 10, 2026 at 6:53 pm

    how did TED go from some of the most insightful talks i ever heard to some cuckoo for coco puffs dude with 40 smart watches on shilling for big tech?

  22. @happykillmore349

    July 10, 2026 at 8:20 pm

    Remember to report and downvote spam

  23. @Redbox740

    July 10, 2026 at 8:50 pm

    I just lost a lot of respect for Ted as an organization

  24. @vortbio

    July 10, 2026 at 9:25 pm

    These devices false-flag all the time causing unnecessary stress. It will be great when they actually work by collecting data accurately and analyzing the data correctly to provide useful information, but they’re just not there yet.

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