1) Have you ever considered using a mail-order genetic testing kit to find out, among other things, your ideal diet and genetic propensity to excel at athletics? These kits are fairly new to the market of “personalized medicine” (or least their sudden availability through both modern and conventional over-the-counter methods has made them seem new), but as one reader who tried over 5 concluded, they can sometimes be as confusing, overwhelming, and contradictory as healthcare management plans themselves seem to the average healthcare consumer. There’s a real opportunity to refine these tests based on what the consumer is looking to find out, so until then, I’ll just keep eating avocados and fish and hope for the best. Continue reading “Running and Reading: November 14 – 20, 2016”