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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

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

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Nutrition, Wellness, Lifestyle, Brain, Biohacking, Education, Fitness, Fasting, Science, Meditation, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Hacking, Diet, Fat

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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

The Human Upgrade is produced by Crate Media.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Two billion years ago, mitochondria took up residents in your cells, and now they're

0:06.2

the guys who decide how you feel.

0:08.1

They sense the environment around you and they do whatever they think will help your

0:11.5

body survive.

0:13.4

Your environment tells them what energy to create and that energy drives your willpower,

0:17.7

your thoughts, your feelings, every breath you take.

0:20.8

Unfortunately, just about every one over 40 has mitochondrial insufficiency, except maybe

0:27.1

some of us biohackers.

0:29.0

We call that aging.

0:30.5

The good news is that system is totally hackable.

0:33.0

All you have to do is improve the signals that you send to your mitochondria, which then

0:37.0

improves how your cells make energy.

0:39.7

That way you can do a better job of turning air and food into electricity to power yourself.

0:44.8

One of my favorite mitochondrial hacks is infrared sauna, and you can use a blanket from

0:50.4

bond charge to do it in a small amount of space.

0:53.1

The infrared heat gets deep in your tissues to increase mitochondrial function so they

0:57.4

become more efficient.

0:58.7

It also helps to detoxify heavy metals that get in the way of your mitochondria working.

1:03.5

So if you're looking to add infrared to your biohacking stack, try the bond charge infrared

1:08.5

sauna blanket.

1:09.9

Go to bondtarge.com-dave-usecode-dave and I'll give you 15% off because you're a listener.

1:15.4

And thank you.

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