Gut and Oral Health Innovations

This chapter explores the influence of dietary choices on the gut and oral microbiomes, emphasizing personalized approaches to health. It introduces advanced oral health technologies, including a novel cancer detection test and customized dental products, while sharing a personal success story of enhanced oral care.

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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