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What if there is no such universal thing? What if our DNAs, tRNAs, upbringing etc. generate a very wide set of health requirements that aren't in sync between all humans but instead compete with each other? Some people eat bacon and trans fat every day and live up to 100 years. Some people die in their 30s on the same diet etc.

Are we going to end up with an average that doesn't fit anyone?

A sort of gmail interface redesign problem, but people's lives are on the line.

Google has shown itself to be driven by metrics to almost the sole exclusion of anything else, metrics often dont tell you what you think they do.

I work in medical imaging and if there is something I've learnt over the last 20 years it's that we understand 'normal' less than any other disease state.

"I'm excited to know which diets, exercises and lifestyle define a healthy human"

The thrust of this approach (as mentioned in the article) is that they're searching for the magic of optimal biomolecular processes, not necessarily a universal regimen.

That's exactly what I'm hoping to find out. Optimal (and achievable) biomolecular processes should be the empirical drive behind any regimen.