Dr. Alan Heldman

Interventional cardiologist; cell-therapy founder; learning & investing in digital health. Sprinter. Read more at

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OH MY GOSH!

JA'KOBE THARP BREAKS THE 110M HURDLES WORLD RECORD IN 12.75 🤯

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1️⃣ Big Biobanks Are Coming. Why You Should Own Yours. The most valuable asset you're giving away for free is your health data.
A thread:
I published a series of 10 articles called "Thinking About Your Own Health," then I got stuck on a math problem, a statistical power calculation. I went quiet to think, but now I think I'm progressing to a solution. 🧵

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1️⃣ Big Biobanks Are Coming. Why You Should Own Yours. The most valuable asset you're giving away for free is your health data.
A thread:
I published a series of 10 articles called "Thinking About Your Own Health," then I got stuck on a math problem, a statistical power calculation. I went quiet to think, but now I think I'm progressing to a solution. 🧵

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9️⃣ That's the idea I've spent those quiet months building. If you might want to retain the value in your own health data, the early list is in the first reply. If you'd want to help build it, get in touch. If you'd want to read more, the long form articles are here as well.👇

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Building it here: sign up for the early list at
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@Brady_H A really cool part of this phenomenon is that the geometry of the remodeling differs from one sport to another, possibly based on different muscle loading and different venous hemodynamics. https://t.co/eHv3MZkpiT

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It’s hard to figure what’s “good for you” and what’s “bad for you.” Here’s how we could find out, and keep the value in our personal health data.

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@SVRaoMD It’s good if you want to run a sub-2 marathon. Maybe the next @enhanced_games will include Mechanical Circulatory Support. https://t.co/LmADE2eOAX

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Florence Nightingale was born into an aristocratic, highly educated family. She defied expectations and became a nurse, a job with social standing far below a housemaid. Then she went to help the injured soldiers at Scutari, the British Army hospital for the Crimean War.

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"Averages again seduce us away from minute observation." — Florence Nightingale, 1859

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“Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army in the East,” by Florence Nightingale. The right panel is data from April 1854 to March 1855; the left panel is from April 1855 to March 1856. Blue wedges represent deaths from preventable diseases, red wedges represent deaths from wounds, and black wedges all other causes of death.