https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/naveen Naveen K. Jain is one of the most interesting guys I have ever met. Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world's biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. Moon Express is the only company to have permission from the US government to leave earth orbit and land on the moon. We are developing technologies to harvest planetary resources on the moon and developing infrastructure to make humanity a multi-planetary society. Naveen Jain a trustee of the board at the X PRIZE Foundation where he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in health, education, women empowerment, agriculture, and energy. He recently launched a million-dollar Women Safety XPRIZE to empower the women around the world. Naveen Jain is on the board of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university with the mission to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity's grand challenges through innovative technologies. Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year", "Albert Einstein Technology Medal"for pioneers in technology, "Humanitarian Innovation Award" at the United Nations, "Distinguished Global Thinker Award" by IILM, "Most inspiring Entrepreneur" by Andaaz TV, "Most admired Serial Entrepreneur" by Silicon India, "Top 20 Entrepreneurs" and "Lifetime Achievement Award" for the leadership in the technology industry and support of other entrepreneurs by Red Herring. Naveen's latest project is called "Viome", a cutting-edge gut and microbiome analysis company I first revealed in the must-see video "What Is Viome? How Gut Metatranscriptome & Microbiome Analysis Can Change Your Health.". Viome is focused on disrupting healthcare with the goal of "making illness elective". They have developed technologies to analyze the biochemistry and ecosystem of our body that consists of millions of metabolites and trillions of micro-organisms. Their plan is to identify biomarkers that are predictive of chronic diseases and prevent them through personalized diet & nutrition. During our discussion, you'll discover: -How Naveen got permission to land on the moon and built the largest moon rock collection...[10:15] -Naveen's unique system for learning new things...[12:20] -Why Naveen became so interested in the microbiome...[22:35] -How the "poop" from young creatures can make older creatures more sprightly and young...[31:50] -Why Naveen thinks most microbiome evaluations are complete snake oil...[39:40] -The reason you must test your gut fungus in addition to your gut bacteria...[44:20] -The fascinating way that a gut test can tell you how much you are actually working out...[45:55] -How Naveen licensed $21 million gut sequencing technology from Los Alamos laboratory...[49:20] -Whether you can create a customized probiotic strain specific to you...[52:50] -How glyphosate is killing your microbiome...[56:55] -Naveen's shocking prediction about the next big thing in health care...[61:15] -And much more... Resources from this episode: -The Facebook Live version of this podcast -Get moved to the front of the list if you use code "fitness" at Viome.com. -What Is Viome? How Gut Metatranscriptome & Microbiome Analysis Can Change Your Health. -Naveen's "Moonshots" book -The GMO Revealed Documentary -Ben's podcast about glyphosate and the Restore supplement his kids take every day -The book "Beyond Human" by Eve Herold -Eran Segal's Wiezmann institute lab in Israel -Modifying the Gut Microbiome Could Lead to Treatments of Chronic, Anxiety, and Stress-Related Disorders -Young guts make elderly fish sprightly -Obesity, metabolic syndrome and gastrointestinal disease are all influenced by our gut microbiome. -Our microbiome controls our immune system more than we realize. -What we eat alters our microbiome faster than expected. -Our microbiome is associated with both type II diabetes and the complications that come with it. -Our gut microbiome has been shown to influence depression, cognition, behavior, and neural development. -Gut microbiota have been linked to Parkinson's disease and its motor symptoms. -Certain bacteria have been linked to atherosclerosis, an all-too-common heart condition. -Microbes are involved in the development of Alzheimer's pathology. -Shifts in the makeup of our gut microbiome are associated with colorectal cancer. 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