By Ana Hur
Key Takeaways
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The 23andMe Health Summary is now available to customers participating in the Beta Testing Program*. 23andMe’s Health Summary uses AI to connect your genetics, blood labs, and lifestyle data to give you a clear, real-time picture of your health. Powered by 23andMe’s scientifically-backed AI model, it actively connects your genetic findings with your real-time lab results, surfacing the signals most worth paying attention to and discussing with your doctor. The result is a set of personalized, evidence-based recommendations giving you what you need to move from reactive to truly personalized preventative healthcare.
Why “Average” AI Falls Short
The potential of AI in healthcare is staggering, offering a future where disease is predicted rather than just treated. But to get there, we must answer this fundamental question: How can an AI truly “know” your health, if it doesn’t know your biology? Most health recommendations today still rely on “average” standards and protocols. But “average” increasingly doesn’t cut it in healthcare.
At 23andMe, we believe the next era of medicine isn’t just about tracking your steps or one-off blood tests — it’s about closing the loop between your labs, lifestyle, and your genetics. Health data without genetic context is just numbers.
The 23andMe perspective on Health AI
Today’s AI health tools are trained on everyone. They know what’s true for most people. But your genetics determine how much of that actually applies to you, and that gap is where 23andMe lives. Our approach is different. 23andMe benchmarks your health against your genetic peers — not just people with shared age and gender, but also ancestry and genetic risks.
Dumping your data into a chatbot might tell you that walking 10,000 steps today is great. But if it is lacking your genetic data and the research insights for how to combine genetics and other kinds of data, those 10,000 steps might not be enough to move the needle on your specific risk.
23andMe’s AI takes into account both your current biomarker signals and unique genetic tendencies to tell you where you are on your journey relative to the instructions your body was born with.
Cut through the “data overload”
The Health Summary doesn’t just show your data, it tells you what levers to pull now to improve your health, given all of your data points combined. We focus on systems that greatly impact longevity and healthspan including heart health, metabolic health, and brain health.
Science-backed innovation
We know that accuracy and credibility are paramount in healthcare. That’s why our Health Summary is grounded in a proprietary framework developed by our scientific and clinical experts. This framework guides our AI in considering relevant sets of genetic results, lab values, and lifestyle data and interpreting them together appropriately. Based on this holistic picture, our AI will help you understand what areas warrant attention and how to stay on top of them. We’ve also developed specific safeguards to monitor that our AI stays true to the framework and is basing your Health Summary on established evidence.
Join our Beta Program
This is just the beginning. We will continue layering more health insights, and real-world context into your Health Summary, and will get more targeted with our insights (imagine a world where we define the exact lab value ranges you should target based on your genetics rather than relying on generic lab “normals”). Looking ahead, we see our Health Summary visualizing your health potential, showing you how much power you have to decrease your risk. We don’t just want to tell you you’re at risk, we tell you how much power you have to change that risk.
The future of health isn’t just a chatbot where you dump information in and hope for new ideas. It’s a sophisticated synthesis of your unique biological code and real-world data, guided by experts. Your genes gave you the map, we’re here to help you lead the way.
Join the 23andMe Beta program today to test the Health Summary. By sharing your feedback, you are helping us co-create a future where your health data becomes more understood, personalized, and actionable.
*Unfortunately this feature is not yet available on Android devices — we are working on it!
About the Author
Ana Hur — Sr. Product Manager
Ana Hur is the lead product manager for Health and AI at 23andMe, focused on health products that combine genetics, biomarkers, and AI-driven insights to help people take a more proactive approach to prevention and healthspan. Backed by a track record of building consumer tech products, Ana holds a BS from UC Berkeley, MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and MS from the McCormick School of Engineering.
