Eric Topol
Cardiologist at Scripps Research, author of Super Agers
Eric Topol is a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, where he founded the Scripps Research Translational Institute. He writes about digital medicine, AI and the evidence behind health claims in books such as Deep Medicine and Super Agers, published in 2025, and in his Ground Truths newsletter and podcast.
Updated November 1, 2026 · 1 experiment
What Eric Topol has tried
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Continuous glucose monitoringDevices
Dates not stated · Does not recommend it to others
Wore a glucose sensor for a two-week Weizmann Institute diet study; the diet it produced favored foods he disliked and high-oxalate foods he must avoid after kidney stones.
“I had several glucose spikes as high as 160 milligrams per deciliter of blood”
The New York Times, The A.I. Diet, by Eric Topol (March 2019) · Status checked March 2, 2019 · Suggest a correction