Look twice, cut once – University of California News
Before Sonia Ramamoorthy, M.D., chief of colon and rectal surgery at UC San Diego Health, took a scalpel to Larry Smarr, she first took a virtual tour of his large intestine. It encompassed an entire room.This UC San Diego Professor Planned His Surgery In Virtual Reality – KPBS
UC San Diego's Larry Smarr is the kind of guy who wears a Fitbit, monitors his sleep and has had his DNA sequenced. But he takes the whole self-tracking thing farther than most. He has mapped his internal organs in three dimensions. He even has a 3-D printed model of part of his colon.
The Excrement Experiment – The New Yorker
But it was an inadvertent discovery in a stool analysis that led to Smarr's Crohn’s diagnosis and, eventually, to a new calling: as an evangelist for an impending medical revolution, “quantified health.”You are a Superorganism: Larry Smarr at TEDxYouth@SanDiego 2012
Smarr encourages us to resist advertising messages, think for ourselves and learn the truth about our bodies.