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techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billiou, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of a billion dollar brand Quest

Nutrition on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Welcome to Health Theory, everybody.

Today's guest is Navine Jane, a self-made billionaire who has dedicated his entire life to addressing

the biggest issues in human health with his new company Viome.

In his own words, he wants to make illness a choice.

So my question to Venus, how on earth do we make illness a choice?

Well, most of our health, where you talk about, really comes from these chronic diseases.

And the chronic diseases are whether it's a Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or when you look

at depression, anxiety, or you look at OCD, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, cancer, or even all

the autoimmune diseases.

Every one of them is caused by one simple thing, which is a chronic inflammation.

And the chronic inflammation happens because your gut microbiome is out of balance.

As you know, the 70 percent of our immune system is along our gut lining.

What we eat is what feeds the microbiome and that actually trains our immune system.

And when your microbiome is out of balance, your immune system is out of balance.

And when your body is out of balance, it is not at ease, which is what we call disease.

All right.

So let's back up and give people a quick breakdown of exactly what the microbiome is.

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