What Happens in the Gut, Starts in the Mouth – Naveen Jain : 1069

Today, a dear friend of the show and someone who's disrupted a huge part of the healthcare industry joins us for an informative chat on the critically important oral microbiome—and from a wider perspective—how and why the human body gets sick.

Naveen Jain, founder of Viome—a data company that’s changing the world of health and wellness—goes deep on the latest in anti-aging, what's going on in your mouth and how that affects everything else in your body, the perils of mouthwash, the future of AI-powered analytics, business building with the right priorities in mind, and a whole lot more.

And it all comes right back to the base definition, the core understanding, of what biohacking is—using the information and technology around us to live a longer and healthier life. Naveen’s company, Viome, is doing just that. You won’t want to miss this exclusive look into the future—for your own long-term health, or for that of society as a whole.

00:01:44 — What Is It About the Human Body That Causes Us To Be Sick?

• Fundamentally changing the way we look at the body

• Dave’s homemade mouthwash and why he stopped using it

• Power of individuality when it comes to health and longevity

• Different impacts of foods on identical twins (Research)

• What happens in the gut, starts in the mouth

• The signals chewing your food sends to your body

• Why a healthy oral microbiome means healthy sex

00:09:33 — Viome: Supercharging Human Data Analytics

• Reading out the transcript from your body

• Determining a diet-based source of bad breath

• Viome’s biomarkers and aging score

• Looking at RNA va. DNA

• Shop viome.com and use code DAVE10 to save 10%

• Pooling the data from 550,000 samples analyzed

• Custom-made diet recommendations for your genetics

• Affordability of Viome testing kits

• Predicting mouth and throat cancer at a 95% rate

• Personalized oral microbiome toothpaste gel

00:24:13 — Longevity & Lifespan: Our Health Is Our Wealth

• Increasing our healthspan—adding truly viable years

• Dave calls out the lifespan cowards

• Choosing how and when we die: the ultimate goal for society

• Naveen shares 5 ways to live a long and healthy life

• Nutrition, getting the right fuel for the car

• Stress management, escaping fight-or-flight mode

• 40 Years of Zen neurofeedback therapy

• Why you should quit your shitty stressful job

• Smarter Not Harder by Dave Asprey

• Prioritizing exercise, 30 minutes a day

• Getting proper sleep, quality vs. quantity

• Sleep with Dave: 14-day sleep challenge

00:37:35 — A Message for the World’s Wantrepreneurs

• Find a purpose and live 10 to 15 years longer

• Focus on helping people live better—not making more money

• Parasitic nature of modern commerce

• Amazon’s quality spiral and the race to the bottom

• Impacting the world in your uniquely powerful way

• Our success will never be defined by how much money we made

Resources

Instagram: @viome

Instagram: @naveenjainceo

Viome: viome.com (Code DAVE10 to save 10%)

Website: naveenjain.com

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