The future of health: Early detection of all types of diseases will allow doctors to treat conditions before damage is done – The Wall Street Journal
Rapid scientific progress is directing healthcare towards earlier prediction and prevention of diseases within the next five to 10 years. Blood tests, artificial intelligence tools, and GLP-1 medications for early detection and prevention of Alzheimer’s and heart diseases are emerging. New therapies aim to regenerate damaged joints for arthritis and detect early recurrence of breast cancer using circulating tumor DNA. Soon, doctors may be able to predict the rate at which your individual organs are aging. “We are entering a new era of forecasting and prevention,” says Dr. Eric Topol, founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. “We are talking about every organ in your body, and we have new insights that we have never had before. There is the whole future – preventing major age-related diseases.”
Assets of the super-rich are causing huge damage to the climate (1% of the wealthiest, through their investments, control about a quarter of global annual emissions) – The Guardian
The super-rich people jet-setting around the world to their private planes and lounging on yachts are easily identified culprits when it comes to the climate crisis. But a new study claims that it’s not just their lavish lifestyle that is to blame, but also their bank accounts. Through their ownership of companies and private financial and physical assets, from oil producers to real estate development, the super-rich are responsible for a significant portion of the greenhouse gases heating up the planet. Greenpeace estimates that the wealthiest contribute to nearly $1 trillion in damages annually with ownership-based emissions.
The Agri-Tech and AI climate revolution is securing our health future – Newsweek
The health of the whole body depends largely on agriculture, which is suffering from extreme heat, severe weather events, and disease-resistant pests. The wellness industry needs to source all kinds of ingredients, including mushrooms and other medicinal plants, bioactive compounds, nutritional supplements, adaptogens, plant proteins, and essential oils. But medicinal plants are fragile and susceptible to climate change and diseases. Now AI is changing the way the wellness industry and farmers work together. “Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming agriculture from a traditional labor-intensive industry into a data-driven ecosystem that extends far beyond food crops into wellness, cosmetics, nutritional supplements, medicinal plants, biological ingredients, and sustainable supply chains,” said Dr. Sonia Goel, a senior scientist at oloBion.
Want to “optimize” your happiness? Here’s what the happiness expert says – Don’t (because the more we focus on being happy, the harder it is to be) – The New York Times
Today’s wellness influencers would have us believe that happiness can be achieved with a few mindset tricks and other hacks, but nothing can be further from the truth. The reason: the more we focus on being happy, the harder it is to be. There is no one better than Laurie Santos, a renowned cognitive scientist who teaches at Yale and hosts a podcast called The Happiness Lab to examine this issue in a meaningful way. She explains why we should not try to “optimize” our happiness. While we definitely think of happiness as “me, me, me,” a large part of science (and ancient wisdom) says otherwise. When scientists talk about happiness, they define it as a feeling: the ratio of positive to negative emotions, but as Santos says, happiness is not about getting rid of our negative emotions, which can turn into “toxic positivity.” What social scientists are interested in is the “eudaimonic” dimension: being content with our lives. The other dimension (hedonic: good food, good sex, good mood, etc.) is important, but what matters more is eudaimonia: a sense of meaning, of purpose. If we focus only on the hedonic dimension, pursuing happiness ultimately creates unhappiness. Judge for yourself by reading the summarized text version or listening to the full podcast.
Stunning statistics: People in the United Kingdom spend 1.5 hours a day involuntarily using their phones. This means an average of 4.7 years of their waking life they will spend on scrolling.
Source: Virgin Media O2 Study June 2026
The post you must read from the world of wellness (June 2026) first appeared on the Global Wellness Institute.