You are What You Digest with Naveen Jain

DISEASE AND INFLAMMATION

• People have chronic symptoms that get classified as diseases: depression, anxiety
• Research shows many of these diseases have been associated with chronic inflammation that comes from the gut
• Important to learn which foods that are right for you: food can be healthy for one person but a toxin for someone else
• When people reduce inflammation‚ symptoms go away—energy increases, no brain fog, skin clears up
• The things we call diseases are the body showing us it is not at ease

VIOME TEST

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• Ignorance is pain: when you don’t know what’s harming you
• Integrated app—takes away decision fatigue because you can have a list on your phone
• Able to do more things for others when you’re feeling better
• Learning what foods are best for you takes the confusion out of all the conflicting nutrition advice out there
• Naveen’s vision: in the next 3-5 years we can make illness optional and create a world where chronic diseases are a matter of choice

SCIENCE BEHIND VIOME

• Immunotherapy working for cancer depends on your gut microbiome
• Research is consistently showing gut microbiome connected to many diseases: Parkinsons, depression
• 99% of what makes us human is our gut microbiome, we have 40 trillion other organisms working with us in a symbiotic relationship
• When we don’t take care of those microorganisms they will get us sick
• Everyone focused on what organisms are there: not what they were actually doing
• Question is not is the organism good or bad, it’s about is this ecosystem good or bad?
• Instead of DNA testing (what the organism are), Viome has been using RNA sequencing to find out if they are producing toxins (what the organisms are doing)
• Knowledge is not power, it’s only potential power: take the test and try applying the knowledge
• Learn more about Naveen’s company Viome and assess your own microbiome