EPISODE #1069
What Happens in the Gut, Starts in the Mouth
Naveen Jain
Serial entrepreneur and conscious innovator, Naveen Jain, is out to make the world a healthier place through the use of AI-powered human data analytics. He chats about the critically important oral microbiome—and from a wider perspective—how and why the human body gets sick.

In this Episode of The Human Upgrade™...
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.
“Find something that you're willing to die for, and then live for it.”
NAVEEN JAIN
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
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