Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.
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I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
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I usually start my day when my kids wake up.
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Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.
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I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.
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The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.
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I have deep respect for Rep. Jackie Speier and all that she has done to open doors for women everywhere.
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I guess I'm just fiercely independent.
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You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.
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The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
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23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.
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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
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You should know how to take care of yourself. That's one of the things that I got from my mother most - she always said that if you don't take care of yourself, no one will.
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For people who want to be proactive about their health, there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to have children, I think you have a responsibility to know if you are carrying anything. A lot of people tend to do the testing once they are pregnant.
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There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.
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One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
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Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.
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I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
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If I know I'm at genetically high risk of Alzheimer's, maybe I don't plan to retire at 80, and maybe I'm more proactive about where I'm going to live and who's going to take care of me.
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Once a week, I might stay late at work. It's sometimes very efficient to work until 7 P.M. - and then come home to kids who are clean and ready for bed. Those days are good.
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If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.