Tedmed

Last week's TEDMED conference brought together leaders in fields as varied as health and technology to poetry and art to reveal the possible future of state-of-the-art health care.

Our genes and nervous system are not fixed and can change, Deepak Chopra said. He added his own twist that psychological information is transformed into biological information.

The elderly have lost the vigor and mental agility they had as young adults and while it's nice that they have more experience and wisdom, they don't have the strength to do much with it.

David Agus said the National Cancer Institute is wrong. Cancer isn't a disease of the genes; it's a disease of the microenvironment.

Whenever we visit a physician we fill out questionnaires that refer only to our genetics and lifestyle, but we're never asked about environment. This is the missing link to our health.