Dr. Sepideh Moayed has over 25 years of experience in the medical field and believes in and implements patient-focused and holistic methods. From her practice in the Bay Area, Dr. Sepideh Moayed provides personalized medicine where she utilizes her patients’ health, their signature genetics, personalized review of their diagnostic work ups & imaging to synthesize solution-oriented techniques so as to optimize their health. For younger patients the algorithm is typically a preventative model where they can use behavioral and lifestyle methods to prevent osteopenia, sarcopenia, stress induced disorders, cardiometabolic syndromes and cognitive decline-decades before these processes manifest. For older patients who are diagnosed with numerous chronic conditions, she helps personalize their health rather than follow statistical norms and globalized and generalized recommendations. As newer practices are born by advancements in genetic research, a clear distinction between personalized medicine and precision medicine is necessary. Personalized medicine focuses on the individual’s genetic data (10% of the equation) and the environmentally driven exposome (90% and highly correlated with lifestyle behaviors). The exposome and outward translation of genetics is far more powerful. The environmental exposome includes a patient’s biopsychosocial contributors, their stress response resiliency and the environment they thrive in. Simply stated, personalized medicine deals with the intersection between genes and a patient’s environment that contribute toward health or disease development. Practitioners of personalized medicine may be more likely to take a deeper dive into an individual patient’s condition. Personalized medicine practitioners may suggest or deploy techniques such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, more patient empowerment and more commitment from the patients. Precision medicine, on the other hand, takes a slightly broader approach, grouping data offered by patients with similar genetic traits to tailor the care of an individual but may include some or all of the aforementioned techniques. Precision medicine has significant backing from voluntary data-collecting efforts like the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative, which seeks to advance diagnostic, prediction, and treatment efficacy across population groups.