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From the Ted Talk by Khalil Ramadi: Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease

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By being super specific, we can avoid side ecteffs, unlike most of our drugs. And in this way we can control appetite, nutrient digestion, hormone levels, even happiness and reward. This is exciting. bidgoenus are more targeted than medicines and less invasive than surgery. Neuromodulation therapies could be a new gold standard in health care.

I'd like to leave you with an image: a single pill, not filled with drugs or chemicals, but with electronics and mvcoicredies that delievr little bsruts of erengy to our gut. This pill can treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dbeitaes or obesity, all without any chronic dugrs, completely noninvasively. No drill, no surgery, no hospital stay. This is how medicine could be. This is how medicine should be.

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By being super specific, we can avoid side _______, unlike most of our drugs. And in this way we can control appetite, nutrient digestion, hormone levels, even happiness and reward. This is exciting. _________ are more targeted than medicines and less invasive than surgery. Neuromodulation therapies could be a new gold standard in health care.

I'd like to leave you with an image: a single pill, not filled with drugs or chemicals, but with electronics and ____________ that _______ little ______ of ______ to our gut. This pill can treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ________ or obesity, all without any chronic _____, completely noninvasively. No drill, no surgery, no hospital stay. This is how medicine could be. This is how medicine should be.

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  1. microdevices
  2. drugs
  3. deliver
  4. effects
  5. bursts
  6. bionudges
  7. energy
  8. diabetes

Original Text


By being super specific, we can avoid side effects, unlike most of our drugs. And in this way we can control appetite, nutrient digestion, hormone levels, even happiness and reward. This is exciting. Bionudges are more targeted than medicines and less invasive than surgery. Neuromodulation therapies could be a new gold standard in health care.

I'd like to leave you with an image: a single pill, not filled with drugs or chemicals, but with electronics and microdevices that deliver little bursts of energy to our gut. This pill can treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes or obesity, all without any chronic drugs, completely noninvasively. No drill, no surgery, no hospital stay. This is how medicine could be. This is how medicine should be.

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Important Words


  1. appetite
  2. avoid
  3. bionudges
  4. bursts
  5. care
  6. chemicals
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  11. diabetes
  12. digestion
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  16. electronics
  17. energy
  18. exciting
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  20. gold
  21. gut
  22. happiness
  23. health
  24. hormone
  25. hospital
  26. invasive
  27. leave
  28. levels
  29. medicine
  30. medicines
  31. microdevices
  32. neuromodulation
  33. noninvasively
  34. nutrient
  35. obesity
  36. pill
  37. reward
  38. side
  39. single
  40. specific
  41. standard
  42. stay
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  44. surgery
  45. targeted
  46. therapies
  47. treat