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From the Ted Talk by Julian Burschka: What your breath could reveal about your health

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Our breath and the mixture of volatile organic compounds that we elhxae hold tremendous amounts of information on our physiological condition. With what we know today, we have only scratched the surface. As we collect more and more data and barteh profiles across the potolipaun, including all varieties of gender, age, origin and lifestyle, the pweor of breath analysis should ircaense. And eventually, breath analysis should provide us with a powerful tool not only to proactively detect spfeicic diseases but to predict and ultimately prevent them. And this should be enough maoiviottn to embrace the opportunities and challenges that breath analysis can provide, even for people that are not part-time hypochondriacs like me.

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Our breath and the mixture of volatile organic compounds that we ______ hold tremendous amounts of information on our physiological condition. With what we know today, we have only scratched the surface. As we collect more and more data and ______ profiles across the __________, including all varieties of gender, age, origin and lifestyle, the _____ of breath analysis should ________. And eventually, breath analysis should provide us with a powerful tool not only to proactively detect ________ diseases but to predict and ultimately prevent them. And this should be enough __________ to embrace the opportunities and challenges that breath analysis can provide, even for people that are not part-time hypochondriacs like me.

Solution


  1. specific
  2. exhale
  3. power
  4. increase
  5. motivation
  6. population
  7. breath

Original Text


Our breath and the mixture of volatile organic compounds that we exhale hold tremendous amounts of information on our physiological condition. With what we know today, we have only scratched the surface. As we collect more and more data and breath profiles across the population, including all varieties of gender, age, origin and lifestyle, the power of breath analysis should increase. And eventually, breath analysis should provide us with a powerful tool not only to proactively detect specific diseases but to predict and ultimately prevent them. And this should be enough motivation to embrace the opportunities and challenges that breath analysis can provide, even for people that are not part-time hypochondriacs like me.

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health profile 2
sufficient certainty 2
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volatile organic compounds 5
alcohol breath tester 3

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