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In the 1966 sci-fi movie “Fantastic Voyage,” a team of scientists is reduced to microscopic size and sent in a microminiature vessel into the body of a diplomat to repair a blood clot in his brain. Fifty years ago, the premise was pure science fiction. But as Suzanne Somers reports in her new book, teams of medical researchers are now developing real-world “nanobots” that may soon allow doctors to explore, diagnose, and treat disease inside the human body using blood-cell-sized robots. Ray Kurzweil — the famed futurist Somers calls “the smartest man on the planet” — has identified nearly two dozen scientific projects around the world that are attempting to design and produce tiny machines that can travel inside the body to combat disease. In an interview with Somers in her book — “Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging” (Crown Archetype, $26) — he predicts the use of nanobots in clinical medicine is “only about 15 years away.” “He gave me the incentive to write the book,” said Somers, in an exclusive interview with Newsmax Health. “He said in the next 13 to 15 years the diseases that are killing us today will not be an issue. They’re going to inject … nanobots — little blood-cell-sized robots — which will roam through our body like little detectives. “If it sees arterial plaque it’ll turn it off. If it sees the islet cells turned on and you have diabetes, it’ll turn them off. If it sees your cancer-protective genetic switches turned off … it will turn them back on so you’re protected against cancer.” It may sound incredible, but it’s one of many new techniques medical scientists say will revolutionize medicine, and significant progress has already been made. Last month, for instance, a team of scientists partly funded by the National Science Foundation reported progress on a tiny prototype robot that would function like a living creature to pinpoint diseases within the human body. Called “Cyberplasm,” the robot is being designed to integrate components that respond to light and chemicals in the same way as biological systems. In Somers’ book, Kurzweil said such devices could have a range of uses and applications. “They might be inserted to destroy the ultimate source of cancer, or to turn off a gene that promotes Alzheimer’s,” he said. “These profound diseases like Alzheimer’s are caused by an information flaw in the software. There’s some genetic switch that gets thrown. and the answer to it can be fairly simple.” Although Kurzweil predicts the use of nanobots in patients is about 15 years away, some micro machines are already in limited use in some countries outside the United States. Somers points out, however, that to be able to take advantage of such medical technology one day, there is “a catch” — maintaining good health in the interim, until such advances are available for use. “If you can just make the right choices for the next 15 years, the rewards are going to be so great,” she told Newsmax Health. “But if you get there and you’ve already had a catastrophic event, or you already have brain loss from Alzheimer’s, or you already have heart disease, or cancer or autoimmune diseases or you’re already in a nursing home, it‘s really too late.” Nanobots are just one of many cutting-edge health and anti-aging techniques the Three’s Company star details in her book, released May 8. Among the others: new genetic therapies that can lengthen longevity, using supplements to boost health, hormone-replacement therapies that can increase vitality, and her own experiences as a “human guinea pig” for a ground-breaking new stem-cell procedure to essentially rebuild the breast she lost to cancer using her own body’s tissues.