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She’s Using AI to Reverse Aging—One Day at a Time | Ep 222 with Sally So Founder of Genomii.ai
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Sally
I am born with severe eczema. So everywhere I go, different country, different weather, different triggers I'll get different parts of bodies flare up, rashes cracking up, bleeding and it takes months to heal. And there's tons of tests that's got done on me on labs and whatnot but nothing had really great the indication of how this whole thing trigger. I'm always chasing it. I'm treating the syndom, I'm treating it when I don't feel comfortable. Right. And I thought that you know, in the massive world, even in the normal world it shouldn't be these cheesing your health, it should be you live it your life. And from all the knowledge that I built up from training.
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Daniel
Hey everyone, welcome back to Founder Story. If you've watched this before, you know I am very fascinated with how AI is going to impact health, but specifically around longevity. How are we going to look, feel and be younger as we age? Because why, why do we have to age with AI now advancing as it is? I'm sure there's many ways that we can turn back the clock and that's why we have Sally. So the CEO and founder of Genomi AI and Sally, what you're doing is incredible and we're going to get into all that. But first, what was the spark for entrepreneurship for you and why this industry?
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Sally
Hi everyone you know. Hi Daniel. Thank you for having me here. I'm Sally, founder of Janome AI. It inspired me from what my personal disease units or symptoms that drive me towards today's outcome. I am born with severe eczema. So everywhere I go, you know, different country, different weather, different triggers I'll get different parts of bodies flare up, rashes cracking up bleeding and it takes months to heal. So you know, after I moved to Canada with the public health care system, I've been bouncing around from like, you know, weight rooms, dermatologists and you know, white coats and, and whatnot. And that kind of triggered me because I'm a data girl. So I, and I'm trained in healthcare and biological science. So I were thinking why this system is not like, why am I always waiting like. And then the system is not following up. And there's tons of tests that step done on me on labs and whatnot, but nothing had really bred the indication of how this whole thing triggered in the first place. So you know, I, I'm always chasing it, I'm treating the syndom, I'm treating it when I don't feel comfortable, right. And I thought that, you know, in, in, in the medicine or in the medicine world, even in the, in the normal world, it shouldn't be you chasing your, your health, it should be you living your life. And so I start to think that is there a way that I can find out the root cause of what causing my problem? So I start to dig into the rabbit hole of like biologic, genetic, this epic genomics and environmental triggers and everything else. And at the end, you know what I found? Everything matters, right? So literally everything matters. And it's not because the doctor doesn't want to treat me or they don't have a way of telling you exactly who you are in genetic that I learned we're kind of like in 35% buckets each time we do something to ourselves. So in medicine world, um, I'm, I'm sure you know that every medicine you take, there's people that really react good to it. They have all the curations but less side effects. Some of them like half and half, some of them like really severe side effect and not so much in the helping side, right? So that's because our genetic is made that way and in that sense our biologic wire to the outcome of some medicine. But because the science is evolving and the medical medicine field is evolving, we've gradually learned that everything actually matters. And for doctors to find out what we fit in, they have to try one medicine and then follow the protocol, most likely 21 days to 28 days in a cycle. Then you come back, tell them the, the symptoms or how you react with the medicine, and then go back to trial again. So it's, it's, it's basically just a protocol of medicine world that how the system need to set up Some way to, to help us. Right. And from those episodes of my life, I figure that's not smart enough that, that, that need to be changed. And that triggers me like, okay, I need to go find my answer. I need to find an answer. And from all the knowledge that I built up from the trainings genome making it lent.
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Daniel
Yeah, it sounds like you could, you went down the rabbit hole and you really, I imagine that the deeper you go, the more you learn, the more you want to learn more. When you look at how AI is going to impact health overall, what excites you the most besides what you're working on now? Just overall, what, what excites you the most about how AI is going to impact health?
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Sally
So AI is a very powerful computation modules, right. So it can, when you have a issue, when you have a question, it can land, it can go through all the potential impossible and give you the best one and that's what it can do. However, it's still slightly missing from you know, AGI or like human, which is a step further that we remember the context and then we strategy and then we coach. Right. So there's like three steps, three buckets again in current AI, I think it's very, very powerful. And the, and because it can go through lots of computation at once in real time. So it will give, if it's structured the right way, you know, it will give you that AGI towards leading coaching guidance way of finding out what, what's going on with you. So that's the power of what the AI to the future health system. I'll say.
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Daniel
Well, it's very exciting. Yeah, we've, I've heard, you know, they could create a drug in a few weeks. What would have taken many, many years and thousands of people and, and the ability to, as the computers get faster, maybe we get quantum or maybe we're already there in some lab that we can figure things out. So when you looked at, you went down the rabbit hole, you saw all these things, you figure these things out, then you realize, okay, how do I take this and create an app that's going to solve these problems? And by the way, I also suffer from eczema, so I can, I can relate, you know, to your story.
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Sally
Okay. Okay. So in Janome particular, what I'm building is two very special infrastructure that combined with the current LLM model or the normal known AI that will create the AGI effect. Of course it will need a lot of computation more. But first infrastructure that I create is called Twins xm. It's a Memory infrastructure. So every time you went to a doctor, you feel a survey, you fill out forms to every single doctor or every single year you need to do the same thing in terms of the memory form in data we, we can do that and plus if we can, you know, nowadays you have cell phone every, everybody has cell phone. So you can trigger and remember all your lifestyle data as you go in a daily basis. You know how powerful Google Analytics is when you pile up volumes, pile up things around you to see the bi. The insights, right? So imagine when you power up all your lifestyle episodes with just a phone or a record of sound. It will then pile up and give you a visual trends of what's going on with you and the system. The twin exam, it's basically a digital twin version of yourself living in your phone that it caps up all the memories and put it into a data trending analytical. And then when it's needed, it could add in the AI part which is the LLM model to reason why and what happened with you. Then the last part is the contextual which is linkage. So currently what I'm seeing missing here, the missing link is we have a lot of lab tests, we have genetic, we have blood tests, we have all kinds of tests that we can do. Microbiome is a new and upcoming one, right? However, they're not contextually linked and explained it back to you holistically enough. So yes, we have developed more and more tools. However, things are still very fragmented in their department. They're very smart and AI in their department. However, they're not like your exercise should be connected to your food, to your rest, to your stress. Like it's not a single fragmented area that you should dig into. It should be all contextually linked. So the last part of what we're doing is to link them together and then guide you through as a coach using the linked data.
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Daniel
So do you see this, this digital twin, the ability where you can, you can understand how you will look or your age, how or how you will age and then you can determine, okay, in five years, if I continue down this certain path, this is how I will turn out, or if I tweak, this is how I will turn out. Is that how you, is that already happening or is this the future of the digital twin?
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Sally
In the iterate data that we're using, it's already happening. So basically let's say we already have a lot of research and science papers around topics like okay, if you meditate certain minutes a day for a certain, you know, time you your biological constraints, time, right? Or like say if you eat healthy in this and this diet, weight in, in time, you can relevant it back to like biological age shortening or even telomere extent and strengthening. Right? So in that same token, if we take all those computation back into the lifestyle that we're doing and record the right way that we're recording, I'm basically able to tell you, Daniel, yesterday, when you wake up, take a picture, you know me will tell you like Daniel, yesterday you did this and this and this and this and this. Now today, congratulation, you only aged 0.68 or you went crazy on party last night and you didn't sleep well. And you know What? You age 1.6 days, right? So that's, that's the information that we want to put in front of people and let them see how their age in a really relevant way to themselves rather than okay, biological age. What, what's that? What does that do to me? What next? Right, so this is what it's coming.
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Daniel
I mean, I'm almost scared because I don't sleep very much. That's my problem. I don't really party, but I don't sleep much. So I'll be scared that this morning I think I may have aged like three years from yesterday. So this is, I'm very, very fascinated with how the tracking and the ability to link like you said, linking all these things, all these markers, all the stuff that's happening in our daily lives together because why can't we see what's going on? And I'm sure you're familiar with Brian Johnson. He's making all this fame around the longevity and he always says, you know, with advanced technology, why do we have to die? That's his thing. But how, how do you see longevity and AI transforming now? And on top of that, it's such a hot topic. And I know there's billionaires dumping huge amounts of money in this because I think so many people want to live forever.
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Sally
Yes. In fact, glad that you mentioned him. He is one of, I think it's, he's one of crazy dude. But I, I love him. Like to be honest, he's intact. He's tracking data around himself. He's a little bit older than normal people. What we will do, however, he's really inspiring and confirming that data really can do a lot. And thank you for his inspiration of doing all the crazy thing in front of the camera. In terms of the education part, people start to aware and understand. So I think that's very Important that we understand that to some extent we are able to control how we want to age or how we age and transforming AI. I'll say with current technology, with current devices that we have, I do believe there's a lot of missing data should have been tracing all along. These times when you see them put together, you'll be surprised how much information it can tell you in a daily basis. And that's really, you know, personalized and individualized that related you to you and just to you. By the way, not sleeping too much, it might not causing you losing your age. It's depending on how you are biologically wired. So ease on that. You might not age three years.
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Daniel
Hey, there's, there's hope for me, Sally. There's hope. I appreciate that we had, we had a recent discussion with, with another guest about biological age and studies that they were doing. And what they told us is they found that stress played a major marker in what was aging people, among other things.
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Unknown Speaker
But are you finding the impacts of.
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Daniel
Stress or is there something else that you're also finding that is moving people along in the biological age mark?
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Sally
So of course, you know, sleep and stress is two huge biomarker in terms of aging. How does people have stress? That's another behavior driven thing. So like you know, people worry. People worry about they're not sleeping. People worry about they sleep too much. People worry everything. That's what human is. I'm sure you, you hear, you know, funny quotes like, you know, women, they Caucasian women, they want to tan up, they put on you know, 10 sunscreen, right? Asian women, we want to whiten up, we want blocks of sunscreen. So every person in the world is finding stress for themselves. I don't think stress itself, it's a bad thing. It's actually triggering some of the hormone to help you live younger. The right trigger of the right stress at the right time. It's the key. However extreme stress for nothing. That's the one that causing aging because worriness type of stress is the one that really causes aging. Just like in business when, when you have competition, there's always good outcome. But when you have too much competition, that kills all your economics balance. That's when you get out of business, right? So it's the same token in Janome what, what we are seeing that that's one of the very biomarker that we measure in a, in a daily basis. So because the device of your phone we let you talk to your genie, your digital twins. So when you feel stressed, you, you need A window out. You need an outlet. People often don't find that or don't have that outlet. Plus you know, if you tell your husband, tell your teacher, tell your partner, sometimes they, they're not the same individual. They, they, they won't understand you and they won't, they won't live in your mind of how this stress or this little things that particular it's bothering you in what way they, they might not understand. It's, it's not like every person is different, right? Especially how our mind is wired. So Genomi has another function. It's because we memorize so we can be the channel. That's why the digital twin is forming. We're mapping your, your data graph. We're mapping you why you are stressed on certain things. Is it child, is it parents, is it original family, Is it really relation related or like you know, work related, financial stress related? So we can try to find the cord and, and base of it and try to solve it that way. And so yes, stress is a major biomarker. But letting people out, it's the best way of tracking and measuring it. So when it's well measured and displayed in front of you, you most likely you can make some changes. We don't force you, we can't force you. We're just a analytic showing in front of you. But I'm sure with all the data in front of you that proven that distress is nonsense. Don't worry about it. People will know solar with it.
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Daniel
I hope that my digital twin can help me financially and take care of me financially in the future so I don't have to work.
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Sally
That's the I. I hope that too.
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Daniel
Then I won't be stressed. I won't be stressed, I won't age and I can talk to my digital twin. I think about how our relationship with AI will be transforming our relationship with other humans. Because I don't think we're at a place, you know, technology moves, moves so fast that I don't know if our brain can really catch up to technology. So it's like if we're interacting with let's say AI, I don't know if we can say oh this is AI or this is human. I don't know if we could do that yet. And I wonder how, how we will transform our thought of a relationship as AI advances so much with you have the voice, you have the video, you know you can go online. You don't even know if a video is even real anymore. If it's Steve fake. We don't know these things. So I I think about this as to how will this transform relationships. Whether it's friendships, romantic relationships. Because if we're talking to AI or a bot and we don't know if it's human or not, but it's saying everything that we want to hear. It's saying all the right things back to us.
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Unknown Speaker
Will I even want to have a.
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Daniel
Human friend who's complicated, who might do things to get, you know. And this has nothing to do with your ad that you're making. This is just something I'm thinking about just in terms of how will relationships change as AI continues to advance, my.
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Sally
Take on that will be this is happening. I one of the reason that Janome only goes down in wellness path is because this is really hard to control. Like to act as a digital twins and a a friend, a relationship, a a buddy and you know, bestie position. If we go too far, it will overtake human position, which is what we don't want to do. But I I I do believe it's.
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Sally
Because sometimes machined with knowledge gives you a lot more context than human trying to oppose you and being bad to you. Especially attitude wise. However, I myself I'm an extrovert so I like to be involved with human like real human. As long as the education puzzle goes deep enough to tell people that although a machine besides you can be a coach, a buddy, but it cannot replace relationship because without you know in biological age back back into health in biological age relationship it's one of a big spectrum that whether you will age or not. So I'm, I'm, I'm sure you know in the our last generation, my father's generation, a lot of uncles when they start to retire they start to see the end goes towards that spectrum. It's because less people to talk to, less people to interact to, less less place to expose themselves when when you're in front of a machine, although you're talking to it, you know, pouring your emotion, whatever to it but you are not in a circle like you're not in a human circle that you human we want, we live our life, we want to experience, we want to share our emotion, we want to share to other people and I think that still it's very true inside our biological wired. So I think if AI take over that part I think it's going to be harmful for biological age in terms that's just my take because with all the research and scientific back it is very important to have true friends around you.
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Daniel
That gives me hope.
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Daniel
That gives me a lot of hope. And then for the people that are very introverted or don't know how to have a human relationship, I know a few people, maybe the AI will help them. Maybe it comes out of their shell so they can have more human interaction. So I'm very, I'm very, very excited about how AI is transforming health. On top of that, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to get a lot of fine lines and wrinkles. I don't want to look older. I don't want to feel older. I want my biological age to reverse. So I need an app like Janome AI. But if you want to get in touch with you, Sally, how can they do so?
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Sally
Oh sure, just go onto my website, Janome AI as easy as that. Sign up. We're launching next month. So try experience it yourself and try to de age yourself. Oh, by the way, it's a gamified also component. It leads on people with sort of like a collection and price type of gamify, like duolango. So while you doing your right lifestyle, correct lifestyle, you get some prize that you can show to others that you can share with others.
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Daniel
Will you ever have a leaderboard like I like this, I want to compete against other people on how they're doing. I, I know that that inspires me to do that. I really like the gamified. It's like customization is the future, right? With AI now that we can customize. So I can see where you have the customization. It's gamified. You have this experience at the same time, it's doing good. You are, you are have. This is a future unicorn at, at minimum, I don't, I forgot what 10 million is, but whatever that is, I'm sorry, 10 billion. This is either unicorn or over a 10 billion company. This, this is going to be massive for you. Where do you hope this company goes in terms of the success for yourself? Do you see this as like a big exit? Is this something you want to do for a hundred years? Where do you see the future of this impacting entrepreneurship for you?
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Sally
I would do it a hundred years as I know I can live a hundred years with it, first of all. Second of all, it doesn't stop me from exiting as that IPO and let everybody invest and see the future and invest in it. So I do believe this app, it's not just a health app, it's actually the digital twins component. The system, the operation system that we're building to help everybody keep their digital twins with them so they have right guidance when it comes to wellness. All the choices how to avoid things that would get interrupt that with your goal.
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Daniel
Amazing Sally Janome AI the future unicorn, the future enabler of us to stay young. I appreciate you joining us today on Founders Story.
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Sally
Thank you Danu thank you everyone. Bye.
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