Michael Peres is joined by Dr. Momo Vuyisich, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Viome, where he leads the development of RNA-based tests that decode the gut microbiome and other biological systems to power precision nutrition. A molecular biologist with more than two decades of experience, Dr. Vuyisich has dedicated his career to understanding how chronic diseases really begin in the body – and how targeted “food as medicine” interventions can change a person’s health trajectory.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Why biology captivated him early on and why, even with modern science, we still don’t truly understand how the body and brain work
• How looking back at the Black Death reveals uncomfortable parallels with how we treat today’s chronic diseases and cancers as “bad luck”
• The gap between how we talk about diseases like Alzheimer’s, MS, and pancreatic cancer and what we actually know about their root causes
• How RNA-based testing and microbiome analysis can uncover early signals of dysfunction long before symptoms appear
• Viome’s vision for precision nutrition and using food as a targeted tool to help prevent and reverse chronic disease
• What it might look like to move from a reactive sick-care model to proactive, personalized health based on your own biology
