Why Someone Else’s Healthy Diet Might Be Wrong for You with Dr. Momo Vuyisich
He grew up in Yugoslavia. Twenty years of communism, crushing poverty, and hunger every single day. He left at 20 with nothing, landed in El Paso, Texas, got a PhD, spent twelve years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and then co-founded a company that has tested over 500,000 people in 100 countries. He should have been in a wheelchair by now. He cured himself instead. Jon Bier sits down with Dr. Momo Vuyisich, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Viome, for one of the most genuinely mind-expanding conversations this show has produced. Momo spent six years developing proprietary RNA-based technology that measures tens of thousands of biomarkers in a single test, giving people the kind of precision map of their own biology that has never existed before. No other company in the world has it. Not a university. Not a government lab. Not a competing startup. Just Viome. This isn’t a wellness conversation. It’s a conversation about how medicine actually works, why it is designed the way it is, and what it would look like to actually fix it. In this episode: - Why every chronic disease you have been told is genetic or incurable is almost certainly neither, and what the incentive structure of academic medicine and Big Pharma has to do with that - How Momo cured his own autoimmune condition by removing mammalian foods from his diet, and the molecular mechanism behind it that doctors still won’t acknowledge - Why analyzing RNA is a quantum leap beyond every other microbiome or blood test on the market, and what the airplane analogy reveals about how shallow the competition actually is Find Momo & Viome: - Viome: https://www.viome.com - Viome on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/viome/
