System for Maintaining or Improving Wellness

Abstract

A system for providing a assistance for maintaining or improving an individual's wellness, comprising the steps of measuring a presence and/or concentration of one or more biomarkers in a sample from the individual; predicting a wellness need for maintaining or improving the individual's wellness based on the measured presence and/or concentration of the one or more biomarkers, wherein the one or more biomarkers are indicators of the wellness need; and altering the living environment of the individual, providing a wellness product or service to the individual or providing information, guidance or advice to the individual for addressing the wellness need of the individual.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for providing assistance to an individual for maintaining or improving the individual's wellness, comprising:
 a measuring device for measuring passively, without involvement of an operator, and recurringly, a presence and/or concentration of one or more biomarkers in a plurality of samples taken from the individual;   a predictor for predicting a wellness need of the individual to maintain or improve the individual's current wellness based on the measured presence and/or concentration of the one or more biomarkers wherein the one or more biomarkers comprise a polypeptide and are indicators of a disease or health concern relating to the wellness need;   a controller for providing real-time assistance to the individual within about one hour after the samples have been taken from the individual by altering the living environment of the individual for addressing the wellness need of the individual; and   a database for storing correlations between biomarkers and diseases or health concerns and related wellness needs,   wherein the database, the predictor and the controller are connected through wire connection or wireless signals.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the measuring device is implanted in the individual in a location selected from a vascular system, a mouth, a urine passageway, a nasal cavity, and a gastrointestinal tract. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the predictor and the controller are part of an electronic device selected from smartphones, tablet computers, notebook computers, e-book readers, mobile internet devices, personal digital assistants, internet phones, holographic devices, holographic phones, cable internet devices, satellite internet devices, internet televisions, digital subscriber line (DSL) internet devices and remote controls. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising a supplementary measuring device for measuring at least one physiological parameter selected from body temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, hydration status, eye movement, electromuscular activity and combinations thereof. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , comprising apparatus for correlating measured presence and/or concentration of biomarkers with time at a location wherein said measurement is made. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 5 , wherein the predictor considers additional data from the location selected from temperature, altitude noise, altitude, wind, humidity, pollution, oxygen, sunshine, pollen, crowd density, concrete, grass, night, day, near highway and traffic density at that time, aircraft flying, cosmic radiation levels, radon exposure, clothing and combinations thereof that are correlated with one or more measurements taken in said measuring step. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the measuring device comprises one or more biosensors including a transducer selected from optical transducers, mass-based transducers, magnetic field based transducers, electrochemical transducers, and calorimetric transducers. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the measuring device comprises one or more biosensors including a structure selected from a giant magnetoresistance structure, a nanowire, a microfluidic circuit, a nanotube and a biochip. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the measuring device comprises one or more electrodes selected from potentiometric electrodes, amperometric electrodes and conductometric electrodes. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the controller further provides information, advice, or guidance to the individual for addressing the wellness need of the individual. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , further comprising apparatus for suggesting a local business and/or providing a map location of a local business in relation to the information, advice, or guidance, wherein the information, advice, or guidance involves suggesting a product or a service, and the local business provides the suggested product or service. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 10 , implemented using an electronic device selected from smartphones, tablet computers, notebook computers, e-book readers, mobile internet devices, personal digital assistants, internet phones, holographic devices, holographic phones, cable internet devices, satellite internet devices, internet televisions, digital subscriber line (DSL) internet devices and remote controls 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein the electronic device is configured for providing a map location of business in relation to the information, advice, or guidance, wherein the information, advice, or guidance is suggesting a product or a service, and the business provides the product or service. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein the electronic device is configured for obtaining feedback on a suggested product or a service, and the feedback is suitable for being used to rank the product or service, and wherein the information, advice, or guidance is suggesting the product or service. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the measuring device is configured to be located in a toilet and measure polypeptides in urine. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more biomarkers further comprise polynucleotides, metabolites, microbes, inorganic compounds, or ions. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 16 , wherein the measuring device is configured to measure the presence and/or concentration of the one or more biomarkers by using recognition molecules selected from antibodies, antigens, aptamers, natural receptors, synthetic receptors, ligands, enzymes, enzymatic substrates, and nuclei acid probes. 
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the measuring device is configured to measure the presence and/or concentration of one or more biomarkers by using an array of recognition molecules selected from antibodies, aptamers, oligonucleotides and combinations thereof. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to alter the living environment of the individual by one or more of the following, adjusting brightness and/or color of lighting, adjusting room temperature, adjusting humidity, rearranging furniture, playing music, adjusting a volume of music or audio, changing a TV channel, playing a recorded voice or sound, changing an appearance of a wall or screen, retracting a roof, opening or closing a window, adjusting oxygen concentration in air, adding or adjusting a scent in air, introducing one or more air-borne chemicals into air, and altering one or more of a display and web search results