Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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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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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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My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
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Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.
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One of the big drivers for me is that health care is a very elitist system. As much as we try to make it free and democratic for all, the reality is that it's expensive and not all therapies are accessible to all people. So I have been very focused on making sure that we democratize genetic information so it's available to everyone.
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Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.
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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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Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges.
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I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
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It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.
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I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
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A lot of genetic testing hasn't been integrated into healthcare because it has been expensive. I want to make people realise that they have the ability to be in charge of their own health.
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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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Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
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As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.
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I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.
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I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.
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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 consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy.
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I guess I'm just fiercely independent.
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One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
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I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.