ABOUT
EMILY GOLD MEARS
Emily Gold Mears is a citizen scientist, research analyst, biohacker, and author. A former attorney, Gold Mears shifted her advocacy efforts to seek information on optimizing one’s health through extensive research analysis in science and medicine.
Her research focuses on the intersection of functional and allopathic medicine, and the critical requirements for individuals to become their own health advocates. She is actively involved in several health-related research nonprofit organizations as a speaker and collaborator who is dedicated to simplifying language and educating people to live healthier and longer lives.
SEEN & HEARD
Emily Gold Mears and Optimizing Your Health has been featured on numerous podcasts, blogs, and convenings. Click on the images to get access to the episodes, articles, and available recordings.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Optimizing Your Health, Emily Gold Mears shares years of research and knowledge to help others understand how they can become their own health advocate, modify their lifestyle to reduce their risk of chronic disease, and take a proactive role in their own healthcare.
Through a process of discerning hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific research, Gold Mears features real-life stories, clinical studies, and the latest discoveries, to demonstrate what is hurting us and what can help us in our pursuit of a long, healthy life.
This book curates a vast amount of health and wellness information and focuses on the most salient aspects. Optimizing Your Health is essential reading for those who are committed to reducing their risk of chronic disease, aging well, and feeling their best.
SEEN & HEARD
Emily Gold Mears and Optimizing Your Health has been featured on numerous podcasts, blogs, and convenings. Click on the images to get access to the episodes, articles, and available recordings.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Emily Gold Mears has written a truly approachable guide that seeks to make sense out of the torrent of sometime contradictory novel information that is emerging around age-old topics like diet, exercise, and sleep while exploring cutting-edge research and its health implications in areas like the genome and the microbiome. Throughout, she brings a distinctive voice filled with curiosity and humility, leavened by personal stories that humanize the science she is summarizing and that illuminate the fundamental human desire to help us all live longer, healthier, and happier lives.
Robert C. Green, M.D., M.P.H
Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Director, Genomes2People Research Program/Preventive Genomics Clinic/Population Precision Health at Ariadne Labs, Mass General Brigham, Broad Institute, Ariadne Labs, Harvard Medical School
In this lucidly written book, Emily Gold Mears provides a roadmap for individuals to understand their own bodies and enact different behaviors and regimens to achieve good health and wellness. She does not use jargon or patronize the reader but rather explains concepts clearly and succinctly while pointing to additional resources, including clinical trials and reputable research studies. The penultimate chapter on using to evidence to understand science and medicine is especially helpful in elucidating the potential as well as limitations of different types of clinical investigation. If only all people were as proactive, data-driven, rigorous, and scientifically curious as Gold Mears! With this book, she gives readers an opportunity to be so and to work (it definitely takes work, as she shows!) toward greater health.
Aaron F. Mertz Ph.D.
Director, Aspen Institute Science & Society Program
Emily Gold Mears offers the public an extraordinary gift. The current pandemic has reminded us all in graphic and compelling ways that we have ultimate responsibility for our own health. For best outcomes with our medical professional partners, we must nonetheless navigate enormous amounts of information from seemingly infinite origins, often contradictory and confusing. As a citizen scientist and unbiased advocate for responsible, effective, evidenced-based healthcare, Ms. Gold Mears provides a framework for us to make the most well-informed medical decisions. She translates primary source cutting-edge clinical research into clear protocols for action. As a psychiatrist focusing on epigenetics and brain health, I hope every patient with whom I consult will utilize this excellent comprehensive resource. They would be able to engage in more meaningful dialogue and ask better questions to the desired end of truly optimizing their health and well-being. I further hope the public more generally will do the same, ultimately elevating the common good.
Ronnie S. Stangler, MD.
Clinical Professor Emerita, University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Founder, Genome Advisory
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