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Dave Asprey

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“I am at dave asprey.com, and that's where thousands of posts are. Bulletproof radio is more than 700 episodes, top 0.1% on iTunes. And I would love to see you there.”
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“And the surgeons, when he says, Well, do you know what? I want to know how I did it. He goes, No, no, there's nothing you could have done that would have made that happen. It's just random. That's ego right there. So notice the outliers be an outlier. That's the biggest goal.”
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“There are hucksters, and you have to be a little careful too. When a doctor says someone else is a quack. That is, that's code for I feel insecure about myself because that other person is doing something that I don't know about. And there's a basic scientific ego that comes into play here. And it's this kind of logic. That can't happen, therefore it didn't. So, if someone injects growth hormone before surgery and heals twice as fast as they're supposed to, the surgeon is going to say it was a miracle that you healed like that. And by the way, this happened with my father. I might have helped him get the growth hormone.”
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“So that you suffer less on a daily basis and you have more energy than you think is possible. And if you can get some percentage of what I just said, you'll probably give it a try. And if you like how you feel right now and you accept all of the limitations that you think are normal because that's just what people your age do, then you're allowed to go down that path. And I'm very happy for you. There are a good number of people who are going to say, you know what, I will rage against the dying of the light. Those are my people. And it's okay if you're not one of those. It's all right.”
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“And there are things you can do that will make you noticeably younger and stronger and the pain that you've accepted as a part of your life is not necessary. The weird voices in your head that you're just used to being in there criticizing you, they're not necessary. But before you felt like you had no control over that. And what's happening now is we have enough tech and enough knowledge and enough ability to go in there and actually change it.”
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“I did that people had put on their leotards. They go to these classes. People would never exercise and they do these horrible classes. I used to have to sit outside and ride my skateboard when my mom did And it's a thing where we are now at a point where you can watch Captain America at the beginning of the first Captain America movie. They take the scrawny kid and they throw him in this chamber and he comes out taller, stronger, faster, better, stronger, smarter, all that kind of stuff. That's real. We are actually doing that. So, of course, it's a superhero movie and they make up all kinds of crap. But if you watch the beginning of that movie and just ask yourself, what if 10% of what they just did in there actually could happen? Would I do it? And we're actually getting there.”
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“Well, no, this is years ago. That's when I had a baby. I'm not living in the same house. And it was just interesting the doubtfulness, the doubtfulness on behalf of medical doctors, who, by the way, are doing heroes work right now during coronavirus. But how do you get people thinking that way? I want to finish up. How do you get people thinking that this isn't, you know, because when you do CAC does see what this meditation is fasting in his weird beard, everyone goes, ah, like I can make fun of it. You know what I mean? I know, I do too. I do too. But you know what I'm saying? It gets this sort of not for everybody kind of thing.”
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“All right, one of the things, obviously, in the popular culture, it gets made fun of blood boys and things like that. It calls to mind that concept. How do you get regular people to think about these things? Parts of this people go, oh, that's a quackery. Like I can hear my brother in the back of my head right now. He's a doctor. Oh, sure. Like quackery, cracker, crackery. And I'm sort of, I'm always like, it was interesting years ago I had a thing where I found out I had very low white blood cells and they couldn't find out why. They just couldn't. They were like, they tested leukemia, AIDS, everything testing. And then finally the doctor said to me, you know, you have neutropenia. And I said, yes, that's like low white blood cells. That's a description, not a diagnosis. And he goes, well, that's what we're diagnosing you with. And I'm like, but that's not a diagnosis. It's a description. And I go, I speak English better than most people. So I'm telling you, you're not. And I said, can you just say I have no idea? And then I'll be fine.”
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“That's in this again It turns out stem cells start at $5,000 for a major joint. So if you're having like me, I've got three screws in my knee and they told me I'd be lucky if I could just be thankful I could walk and even if I couldn't play soccer anymore. And I would say that really should cost $1,000 and it should be going down and it should be covered by insurance. And when the regulatory side of things gets straightened out around stem cells where they're not a drug, they're mycells. Therefore, I should be allowed to use them and my physician should be allowed to use them. So there's gray zone in the US right now. Once we get past that, either people will do it here in the US or we'll go to Mexico or Thailand or wherever, and we're going to get it done. It's dirt cheap and it's better than joint replacement if you do it early enough.”
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“The next day, I felt pretty wrecked, as you'd expect. This is a major procedure. But over the course of the next six months, your energy goes up, the pain in your body goes down. You feel younger. And it's a supportive preventative thing. But even before I did that, Harriet had gone in and treated some longstanding shoulder problems and knee problems I've had. And they got very much better to the point I gave my parents stem cells for Christmas. And my mom says, I can quilt again. My finger doesn't hurt, you know?”
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“So, this is something I wrote about in Superhuman. Most people aren't going to go to that. This is, you know, I could have bought a Tesla, but I decided that investing in my body was more important. I'm fine with my eight-year-old car”
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“I did something called the whole body six hands stem cell makeover in Utah at Docera Clinics. And what they did is I was unconscious for four hours. They pulled a half a liter of my bone marrow out, pulled cells out of my fat. And while I was unconscious, they injected with, so three doctors are doing this. One of them is a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon. And they put my stem cells in my cerebral spinal fluid all along the inside of my spinal cord, every joint in the body, every vertebrae, knees, elbows, fingers. And the reason I did that is that, oh, I also did my hair, my face, and my reproductive organs. I would like to feel really good when I'm 100, and preventive maintenance is easier.”
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“To the coronavirus. It's the people whose bodies can't make enough energy to fight it off. And everyone over age forty has mitochondrials dysfunction is considered normal and aging. And my whole underlying idea behind biohacking is what can I do to make my mitochondria more powerful and younger? And it gives you more of everything. And that's why I think those are the most important area of hacking. At the same time, resetting the biological clock, the telomerase, there's the Hayflick limit and there's a Horvath clock. We're actually learning how to take cells and move them back. And a lot of that bumps right into stem cells, which are being held back in the US by regulatory rules that make no sense in the doctors who are preventing people from needing major joint replacement surgery using a relatively simple and safe procedure. They're going to target it.”
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“So, this is human nature. We don't want to go and we don't want to feel like crap either. And because I experienced that in my 30s of having most of the stuff that happens to you when you're old, I've been there. I'm not going back. And what that means for us in terms of just the promising areas, the most important area is one of the seven pillars. It's around mitochondrial function. Full disclosure, I have a bias towards that because I wrote a book that hit the science bestseller list on mitochondria in the brain. And I understand them so well. But because they make hormones, because they make various chemicals in the body and they're the power plants of your cells and the neurons in your brain and your heart and the muscle cells in your heart are studded with extra mitochondria because they're needed so much are the hackable area. So we're now figuring out 48% of people under age 40 have early onset mitochondrial dysfunction. By the way, you want to predict which people are more susceptible.”
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“Health span is an unsexy word that no one's ever really going to go for except for cognitively. No one's ever woke up in the morning and said, gee, today I'd like to have a good health span. So it's a garbage marketing word. It's just better than anti-aging, which everyone thinks means plastic surgery. Right. I don't know a better word, but here's the thing. When we're old, we want to kick ass like we did when we were young. And that's really what this is about. And all of a sudden, at that point, oh, in that case, yeah, of course I want to be old. There's a very few 90 year olds, if you ask them, hey, do you want to die today or you want another year? They go, you know, I think I'd like another year.”
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“So, the idea of being healthier among the different pillars, what would you say, I know they're individual and they are systemic, presumably they affect each other, but what do you think is the most promising? Is it this idea of health span or diagnostics early so if you get your, you know you're going to get cancer, you can prevent it in some fashion?”
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“Yeah, diagnostics and also just our treatments are better. And so we're continuously learning on these things and we're now taking all that stuff that we didn't know mattered. We're putting it into machine learning systems and looking for what we call big data back in the day, looking for these event correlations. It's like, wait a minute, is there a scientific reason for this event correlation? And what we're finding is, yeah, there is validity here. So it's unlocking all kinds of pathways for us to become not necessarily older. That's a side effect of just being healthier.”
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“You're talking about venture investors saying this is crazy. Look at a company called Samu And this company has a $15.1 billion valuation, and they've actually tackled five of the seven pillars of aging using small molecules and using peptides, using some other proprietary stuff. And they're in phase three clinical trials for most of these things. So they're going out there and doing it. How'd they get that valuation? Because this is world-changing stuff. And it's just one company. We're to the point now where you can go and you can do a whole body MRI using a different set of math filters than you had before that can spot early cancer way before it was before. And people don't know this, even though the incidence of cancer is up a little bit. You have a 50% better chance of surviving now than you did five years ago.”
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“So, when you're done, you're done. And if it's not worth it because I'm suffering too much or I don't want to do the work it's going to take to recover if it's even possible, then all right. You decide that it's your time and you go on to whatever's next and there's great debate about whatever's next. You don't have to know, but you can just be when I'm done, I'm done. So I want to be able to put that off until I feel like I'm really done. And I feel like there's a lot of fun stuff to work on and that the longer I'm here, the more wisdom I'll accumulate. And at one point, I'll be in the position of the 90-year-olds who have taught me so much of what I know to be 90.”
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“Have zero interest if aging looks like most people think it does today. And when you say really old age, let's see, wheelchairs, diapers, tubes. And not knowing your own name or being fully reliant on others. That's the picture that most people have. If that's the picture, I'm out. Our fundamental goal should be anyway, to die at a time and by a method of our own choosing.”
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“Crazy, keeping someone, and then, you know, the term, and I'm not going to say woo-woo, but I'm not a woo person, but the idea of a health span is actually a really smart one in terms of, you know, right in the middle of this crisis, getting rid of things, things underlying conditions is two words we never thought we'd use so much. Three, ventilators, underlying conditions, and social distancing. These are three words we'd never thought we used. But this idea of underlying conditions that you could, once you rid yourselves of those or try to assuage them, you know, as not part of accepting that part of life, it's an interesting idea. And it's interesting how many people dismiss in it. At the same time, there are big issues to living to 140 on this planet or unless you're healthy, I guess, and productive is the other attractive seniors.”
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“I don't want to get into philosophical things yet, but when you do this, the key parts are being digging into a lot of venture capitalists are investing in this area. There's some really interesting stuff going on. And it's not, you know, when I mention it to people, they're like, that's crazy. And I'm like, well, why are you hospitalized the last 10 years of your life? Why is that not as...”
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“Different pillars of aging that we now know are causing it. And the reason we always got it wrong before is we say we're looking for the one super pill. There isn't a super pill because it's seven things that all interplay with each other. But if you support the seven foundations and there are teams of hundreds of people with hundreds of millions of dollars hacking each one of these things, when you do those mostly right, what you're going to find is that you're 140 years old, you feel like you're 50 and you look like you're 50, but you've seen everything. You've seen the cycle.”
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“And it's not here as a dream. It's happening in dozens of research labs all over the world. And I've been blessed 20 years of learning from my elders running an anti-aging nonprofit group in Palo Alto that was founded by one of the guys who invented Ethernet, believe it or not. Look, having watched this evolution for 20 years, you would never see a Harvard scientist working at the university step up and say we can turn back the biological clock on ourselves. I'm talking about David Sinclair. I just talked to him yesterday, interviewed him again. And you don't see people putting their academic reputation on the line unless they're really damn sure that this is happening. And he's not the only one. There are dozens of things in phase three clinical trials that are going to reverse the root causes of aging. In superhuman, the book I wrote, I outlined the seven.”
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“The biggest trend coming is that anti aging is real and it's not about having your face resurface to look young. It's about actually being young. It's about having the hormones of a young person, having the energy of a young person, having the wisdom of an old person and the cognitive capacity of a young person.”
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“What do I do every day? I stand on a vibration plate. Yeah, I do manufacture the one I use, but there are many others. And I'll do that and I'll do some stretching exercises on it. And a couple times a week, I will do something. I've got all the equipment from Upgrade Labs. I have experimental electrical stimulation, and I've got blood flow restriction. So I will do something like that maybe once a week. But I exercise less than most people you know. I'm 10.1% body fat, and I do not restrict my food and that I'm not hungry, I eat incredibly well and I grow most of my own food. And like, I don't know, I'm almost 50.”
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“Have an AI driven bike downstairs that you use for seven minutes a day and a university researcher, they did not pay has validated that you get better cardiovascular results from that seven minute zero sweat required workout. There's only about 40 seconds of hard work in the seven minutes. You get better results than a 45 minute continuous endurance spin And kind of like that.”
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“If soul cycle and peloton make you feel really good, you can certainly do them. The evidence, though, around endurance exercise and coronavirus is not really compelling. What endurance exercise does is it teaches the heart to beat faster, to make more energy, and it moves a very small amount of blood. What power exercise does is it teaches the body to, in a single heartbeat, to move a huge amount of blood. a more efficient system can move more blood in less work. So training and those high-end cardia ranges doesn't actually work very well. And I've had a few guests on the show who have actually crushed their own records by training way less for endurance events. So this idea of going out for a 10 mile run every day or a spin class every single day, I don't think it's borne out in science, but if it makes you feel really good, I'm not going to argue against it.”
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“Up rocks, which is the same way we've always exercised for the last 5,000 years. So you can hack muscle building that way, which is pretty interesting.”
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“You go to weights. If you do weights every day, you'll be like a lot of the tech CEOs that I've coached, you know, I'm going to run an Ironman this year. And I'm working out six days a week. I'm flying all over the planet, but I never miss a workout. And I'm running my company. And then I say, let me look at your labs and their testosterone is through the floor. And then I say, let me guess, you don't sleep very well. Do you? Like, how did you know? And so you don't have any libido either, do you? You're overtrained and overstressed and underrecovered. And so this is the problem with exercise. The solution to that is two times a week, maybe three times if you're paying a lot of attention to it, you do high intensity interval training with weights. In other words, you lift really heavy things to failure, ideally with a trainer. You can do it with electrical stimulation. You can do it with blood flow restriction, which all of these are ways to get more exercise and less time. At upgrade labs, we have a piece of tech that removes gravity and uses a computerized winch to fight against you. And that'll put muscle on three times faster than picking.”
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“So that means going for a walk. You don't have to breathe heavy. You don't have to carry weights. You don't have to do anything weird. No spin class is required. It's literally a walk moving around. It's at least 20 minutes. More moving is good, but 10,000 steps a day. There was no science behind that whatsoever. That was a marketing campaign from the 1950s and from a company out of Japan. Then you look at what happens when”
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“I went from being a long distance cyclist where I used to have a Canandale and ride my 20 miles a day when I was fat. And I never lost the weight doing that. I was a mountain biker for a long time. I tried being a runner, but having arthritis and knee surgeries and weighing 300 pounds running when you weigh 300 pounds is not a way to lose weight. It's a way to get injured, which did happen. So I went from that and from the everyday workout, which is what most people want to do because daily habits are easy. Turns out the science is very clear. And I've gone into the details of it in a couple of the books I've written. In one set of studies, 20 minutes of movement a day causes those mitochondria in your body to remain healthy.”
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“The sound files, the apps that are available for meditation today, they're so important because having a meditation teacher is great, but there aren't that many meditation teachers who can sit there with you and say, oh, okay, I can sense that you're doing well and give you a good signal. Like that's what you would do in a monastery somewhere that doesn't scale. So you can get 50% better, 70% better just with an app that scales to millions of people easily, which is fantastic. And then you can do breathing exercise with a teacher. You needed to straighten up your shoulders. And there's all sorts of nuances depending on which practice you want to do. But perfection is not required. Like use an app, take some deep breaths, read a book about it, go to YouTube. Any of those is going to do better than not meditating. So it is free at this point or very low cost. And it is a low-hanging fruit, just like you're saying. And everyone ought to be doing it. And if you don't do it every day, it's okay. When you need it.”
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“So meditation is something I think everybody should do, I think, from kids in terms of anxiety and everything else. It seems something easy is an easy lift. It also, it's just taking a moment. And if you can focus it, that's really the point is the ability to focus your energy at tension.”
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“Patterns that are designed to be invisible to them. And if you can bring those into your awareness and you have enough energy in the body at the same time, you can usually change them. And rather than consciously changing them, which takes energy, you actually reprogram them so you don't have the urges anymore. It's the difference between using willpower to ignore the cookie and not having a voice that says eat the cookie in the first place. You can also turn off the voice that says, you know, shy away from that. Don't do that. That might be scary in all the other weird voices in our head. I had maybe more than my fair share of those and the vast majority of them are gone.”
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“And I find myself in yoga classes just doing everything. And finally, I got to the point where all the stuff that was supposed to work didn't work. I was pretty darn miserable, bad relationships, all that kind of stuff. I went to Tibet and I learned meditation from the masters. I did all kinds of very out there personal development work to figure out what was going on because I'd exhausted the Western science perspective. And I learned a lot and I started talking about meditation as part of biohacking. And I wanted to bring that in. And it culminated in. I started a neuroscience company that can do decades of meditation in five days of very intense work with custom gear on your head. And I've spent four months of my life with electrodes glued to my head doing these advanced states of meditation, which has allowed me to do a lot of the stuff I do because I shut up the voice in my head. Most people, whether they're successful or not, have a pretty cranky, angry voice in their head and all sorts of unconscious.”
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“I want You go back 15, 20 years in Silicon Valley, if you said you meditated, you were probably not to be taken seriously. I mean, there were some Steve Jobs types, but amongst the engineering coder friends, network engineering guys like me. If you meditate, you're probably pretty weird. And that wasn't something that I'm just going to say a real entrepreneur or a real man would do.”
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“I mean, I'm an old data center cloud computing guy. If you can squeeze 20% more capacity out of your existing system, you do that before you replace it.”
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“Like biohacking because it's a little bit more accessible. Body hacking ignores the mind, even the spirit, the emotional aspect that is a big part of this. And I've been a huge fan of transhumanism for a long time. The problem with transhumanism is that it includes the I want a robot arm, a laser replacement for my eye, and I'm going to upload my brain to the internet. Actually, I'm totally good with all of those concepts. I only want those when I've fully exploited my existing hardware.”
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“And The true dark glasses are a part of that same company. But the anti inflammatory nature of these lights, it's pretty amazing. One of the things that people will report is they'll put it on their head when they're getting a headache and it doesn't happen or they'll put it on their stomach or their kid's stomachs. I use mine on my kids' stomachs all the time if they have a stomach ache, which isn't that often. But when it happens, you put the light on there. And usually five, ten minutes later, you just feel better. And even for wound healing, there are studies of certain frequencies of light. So what we're finding is that light is a signal to our cells and to our brain and our timing system. And you can use light to sleep better. You can use light to speed healing. And that now, it's hard to argue with the science on those.”
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“In Superhuman, my anti-aging book you mentioned earlier, in every one of the hacks there, I say this is what the crazy billionaires do. And I went out and I did it. I had stem cells everywhere in my body. Like I experimented on myself and wrote the story. This is moderately expensive. Here's a supplement that does the same thing as the injection, basically. And then here's the free version or the nearly free version that you can do to activate the same pathways that we're talking about. And for red light, it's hard to do that. You can go out into full spectrum sunlight, which has some of those benefits, but it also has the UV and all. You can get home units that will expose you to red light, infrared light, or even amber light. And one of the companies, my glasses company, actually makes those, but many other companies do. And I talk about the other companies on my show as well. And the idea there is you can have home light treatment that now is in the range of 300 bucks.”
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“I was looking at how do I improve my sleep by getting a tan in the morning and a newsflash it works, but it's probably not good for you. So, what I found out though with red lights is red and infrared can be profoundly biologically effective. And for you since about the late 90s, I've been using infrared lights on the brain with just really good effects. And now there's actually companies that make light stimulation for the brain. They're doing studies on Alzheimer's, as well as electrical simulation on the brain, which is more in the meditation side of where we'll go.”
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“We have a specific piece of red light technology that you lay on that has infrared bulbs and red lights in it. What that does is it adds electrons to your system directly red light can do that. And it also reduces inflammation and causes your skin to be more supple and actually to grow more collagen.”
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“One minute, yeah, that you do that. And some people have plunged themselves into pools or things for people who can't afford going to your thing, which is not inexpensive. Yeah. It's that. And then the infrared at the same time, or this is a thing you go into a sauna that is a sauna, but has red lights, correct?”
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“Not as well. And for the first three days, you will feel like you'll say, Dave Aspury's a bad man every time you do this because it does not feel good to have that cold water on your face. The fourth day, though, you'll say, actually, I feel really amazing what just happened. What just happened is the level of cardiolipin in your mitochondrial membrane just shifted. So your cells are now more effective throughout your body than they were before.”
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“They'll be replaced with young ones. And when you first did that, you felt probably really good afterwards because you get a wave of endorphins. So, when people do the poor man's version of this, which is in the morning aim a cold shower at your head and specifically at your chest where your most temperature receptors are, your body just says, oh, I need to be ready to go so I can turn on heat quickly. Any cell that can turn on heat quickly can also turn on electricity quickly. Basically, you've upgraded the battery in your body when you do that.”
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“And I collected all those. I put them underneath where I'm recording right now. And eventually I said, I need to share this with the world because the ROI on exercise or recovery like this is much higher than it is from taking a nap. So how do we get more out of our day? This is part of it. What you did when you did cryotherapy is you used that really cold temperature to tell the mitochondria, we call in the ancient power plants, but the really environmental sensors and factories in the body that also make energy. We told them, hey, if you can't turn on a lot of heat really quickly, then you're inadequate to make the whole body survive in this new environment that may include cold. Therefore, could all of the weak mitochondria please step forward and die?”
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“What I did is I identified a set of technologies that get more system signal input to the human body than it's used to so that it will respond more than it's supposed to. This is literally hacking the signals of Mother Nature.”
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“You can have one piece of fruit for dessert at night. It helps sleep, but not a lot of fruit. It's just too sugary. And in summer, it's bright outside. If you live in a pea torch, eat a lot of peaches. That's fine. But just don't have fruit all winter. That's going to ruin your metabolism.”
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“A plate covered in plants, the ones that work for you, a large amount of high quality fats and animal-based protein, but it has to be grass-fed animal protein or don't eat it. So industrial animals are out. So it's from that perspective, from a health perspective and environmental perspective and an animal perspective. It's more in alignment with a vegan diet than you might think. But we do not thrive as a species without enough saturated fat. So eat your butter, eat your egg yolks, and eat some steak every now and then, but not too much. And as long as the cow is treated well and fed well, we all are in alignment even with our soil.”
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