AI will help make it possible “to take each individual and map out exactly how they should optimize their health and keep track of it,” says Leroy Hood, a life sciences leader known for his past role in developing automated methods for sequencing DNA. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong)Biomedicine pioneer Leroy Hood says that artificial intelligence will play a key role in the future of healthcare by accelerating the progress of “scientific wellness,” an approach that he has championed for many years. Hood, co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, delves into this approach in his new book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness,” which he wrote with co-author Nathan Price, an ISB professor and chief scientific officer of Thorne HealthTech.On this week’s GeekWire Podcast, we talk with Hood about the book, how AI is key to the future of medicine, and what people can do now to live a healthy life. “AI will be the core foundation for the diagnosis and delivery of actionable possibilities for the information that comes from data-driven health in the future,” he said. “It will be able to take each individual and map out exactly how they should optimize their health and keep track of it.”The book explores the notion that, at some point during life, every person makes a transition from wellness to nascent disease. It might not be something we see, feel, or can sense