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From the Ted Talk by Khalil Ramadi: Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease
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Our electronic pills can be designed to rdeise in the gut for days to weeks, delivering bionudges to neurons along the GI tract. Depending on the sahpe and strength of these electrical impulses, they can either affect hormone levels in our boold or travel up to our brain where they can aitcvtae or silence specific bairn circuits that control hunger, metabolism and arousal. Much like we did just a few minutes ago. Using our decives, we could stimulate the stomach to tlkace nausea or influence satiety or the intestine to change the way we digest things like glucose by affecting absorption of nutrients in food. This could mean new, noninvasive treeaiphs for the 34 million diabetics in the US and 650 million oebse population worldwide. We could even affcet things like inflammation in the brain, slowing down degeneration for the almost 60 million patients with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's around the world.
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Our electronic pills can be designed to ______ in the gut for days to weeks, delivering bionudges to neurons along the GI tract. Depending on the _____ and strength of these electrical impulses, they can either affect hormone levels in our _____ or travel up to our brain where they can ________ or silence specific _____ circuits that control hunger, metabolism and arousal. Much like we did just a few minutes ago. Using our _______, we could stimulate the stomach to ______ nausea or influence satiety or the intestine to change the way we digest things like glucose by affecting absorption of nutrients in food. This could mean new, noninvasive _________ for the 34 million diabetics in the US and 650 million _____ population worldwide. We could even ______ things like inflammation in the brain, slowing down degeneration for the almost 60 million patients with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's around the world.
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- reside
- blood
- devices
- obese
- brain
- affect
- tackle
- therapies
- shape
- activate
Original Text
Our electronic pills can be designed to reside in the gut for days to weeks, delivering bionudges to neurons along the GI tract. Depending on the shape and strength of these electrical impulses, they can either affect hormone levels in our blood or travel up to our brain where they can activate or silence specific brain circuits that control hunger, metabolism and arousal. Much like we did just a few minutes ago. Using our devices, we could stimulate the stomach to tackle nausea or influence satiety or the intestine to change the way we digest things like glucose by affecting absorption of nutrients in food. This could mean new, noninvasive therapies for the 34 million diabetics in the US and 650 million obese population worldwide. We could even affect things like inflammation in the brain, slowing down degeneration for the almost 60 million patients with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's around the world.
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