Naveen Jain and Dave Asprey discuss how personalized nutrition and stress management are the primary drivers of health and longevity. They use evolutionary biology to explain how these factors affect your body's systems and overall optimization.
Just like the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the number one thing that impacts your health and longevity is nutrition. So if you don't provide your body the right nutrition, it's like not providing the right fuel for your expensive car. So if you're driving a Ferrari and you're going to put some type of a cheap fuel in that, it's just not going to drive out. It doesn't matter how well your body is built, unless you give it a right fuel, nothing matters. And again, there is no such thing as right fuel for everyone. It is different for everyone. So this is where you need to learn. Just like the thing I love about biohackers community is they realize their body is not same as their neighbor. Their body is not same as their parents or their son or daughter or their spouse. They are very different. And each person has to learn about that. And I think that's where you come in. That's where Wyoming comes in. We analyze your body to tell you exactly what's happening and what to do about it. So that's the number one thing. Number two is stress. Your stress changes your oral microbiome. You stretch in your gut microbiome, your stress changing your mitochondria. Stress actually also causes inflammation. It changes your immune system. And here is why the stress. If there was no stress in the body, we couldn't have actually survived. Stress is essential for human survival. So think about when we were living in the savannas of Africa, when we saw a tiger, we got very stressed. And that what happens when you get stressed, Your body goes into fight or flight response. And fight or flight response does a couple of things. It starts to pump the endorphins in your body and it starts to shut down all the non essential system. What it considers non essential shuts down your digestive system. It says, don't you worry about digesting your lunch because you're going to be lunch for someone very soon, right? It shuts down your immune system. Don't worry about it right now, you don't need it. You're going to run away. And if you survive, your stress went away, everything was fine. Or you got eaten and your stress completely went away and you were fine, right? There were only two outcomes, but stress never lasted.
