The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

Your thyroid gland controls how much energy you have, so you're going to be tired all the time.

Be a low thyroid, maybe tired all the time, eat a lot of oxalates for a lot of years. Darkness at night and sunlight in the morning.

“It is critically important that you sleep in a blacked out room.”

That alone can shift the needle for longevity. Cold plunging, nicotine, ditching air pods, peptides, urine therapy, fixing circadian rhythm, what is useless, what actually works. Everything you just listed works if you do it right. Even urine therapy?

You know, I did it this morning, okay. Today I learned if you're struggling losing weight, you don't need more willpower. You just need butter in your coffee. To controversial takes on nicotine peptides in the whole supplement industry,

this episode is a full-blown interrogation of what actually works when it comes to biohacking and what's a total scam.

According to the man who has literally tried it all.

Dave Asprey is a longevity expert for time in New York Times best selling author and the founder of Danger Coffee, the bulletproof diet in the entire biohacking movement. After losing over 100 pounds in transforming his own health, he spent decades helping millions optimize their bodies and their brains. He's the host of the Human Upgrade podcast and lead some of the most cutting-edge ventures

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“And I believe that taking back our health is the key to not only winning,”

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You were pushing 300 pounds. Instead of extreme dieting or taking those embig, you kind of found this crazy hack with your coffee, which kick started your weight loss journey. Well, I did try all the crazy things.

I was a vegan, a shattered three teeth and gave myself allergies. And I tried the old, old keto diet that let's you lose half your weight and then you get plateaued. I tried everything. And it was only out of desperation that I really went in and did the research on mitochondria.

And came up with this idea for putting butter and MCT oil in coffee that created a whole movement of biohacking. Why butter in MCT oil? What even is MCT oil? In my 20s, I was so fat and sick, arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome

and a bunch of other stuff. So I started hanging out with people three times my age in Palalto at a longevity nonprofit group. So I'm learning from people three times my age. And we learned about MCT oil a decade before anyone heard about it.

And said, "Oh, look, this gives you extra energy in yourselves." So I filed that away. And then when nothing else worked to make me happy, I went to a remote part of Tibet to learn meditation from the masters. And I'm on the side of the world's Holies Mountain,

called Mount Kailash, and a little Tibetan woman gave me a bowl of yak butter tea. And I drank it. And you're supposed to feel like death at 18,000 feet elevation because you're kind of artying. And I just felt better than I had felt in years like, "What is in this?"

So I came back to Silicon Valley and I started buying butter and putting it in tea and it tasted gross and didn't work. So I figured I had to be grass-fed butter. And then I tried it in coffee. I realized that some coffee was crappy and gave you jitters and some didn't.

So I came up with this idea for mold-free coffee that didn't make you tweak. Today, danger coffee is my brand, danger because who knows what you might do. And then you can put butter and you can put MCT oil in it. And people lost millions of pounds on this.

And my book about this idea has sold more than million copies globally.

And it helped to kick off the biochem event. What is MCT oil?

“What is it about this butter concoction that helps people drop weight?”

I don't even get it. Well, we had a bunch of theories but it really worked. It was obvious that it worked and Adam has tried to as like, "Oh my God." So I fund his research at the University of Washington and both butter and this MCT oil. And I'll tell you about that in a sec.

They change the thickness of the viscosity of the water so your cells can use it directly. Now, who knew about this? The Tibetans. These people living at high altitude were there's no food.

They would never eat them separately. And these little guys have my size to have a little

bowl of barley with yak butter tea and then they could pick up more than me. And they're walking around in t-shirts and it's below freezing. Like they had superpowers. Well, they figured out that it was easier to mix the butter in the water than to do that inside the body, which is what we do when we eat butter and drink stuff.

So it was just a hack from ancient ancient cultures and I unpacked it. An MCT oil is about 5% of what you find in coconut oil. So if you think of coconut oil as a weak beer, MCT oil is ever clear. It's highly concentrated, and what MCT does though is it cannot be sort of fat and it must be burned as energy. And fat has more energy than carbohydrates.

So when people take this, it puts them in a mild form of katosis, which is when you're neurons in your brain are happy. So we didn't understand why at the time, but if you blend grass-fed butter, MCT oil, danger coffee, blend it for 20 seconds and you drink it, your brain starts sparkling, like you feel different and you just don't care about food. And you don't care about food because your cells have an affinity and because the fat shifts

something called leptin and growl. And these are things that make you hungry or make you feel full. And the benefit of all this is that your body still thinks you're fasting because it doesn't recognize energy from fat the way it does from carbs or protein. So it was a really cool hack and

I wrote the first major book on intermittent fasting and cyclical katosis. And it actually also

had a lot about cold exposure and red light therapy on it. And these are now the pillars of biohacking. You hear everyone talking about them, but I'm the OG for that. Okay, that's so cool.

“And that's why I wanted to have you on the show. So while you're doing the danger coffee hack,”

are you doing other things that's helping you drop the weight or was that really the primary thing? It's actually the primary thing. You do want to avoid inflammatory altered process foods. And in my big book on that, you go to davaspre.com/roadmap and there's one pager so you don't have to buy anything. It's free. But it just says like these are foods that don't cause inflammation and almost anyone. These are foods that might be a problem for you.

And these are foods that are problem for everyone. So you just eat the things that don't mess with you. And one of the categories that I've written a lot about is called leptins. And you might have heard a more recent books like the plant paradox about leptins. Well, leptins are one of the plant toxins that I identified in my work that for some people cause profound cravings and inflammation. I have a gene for that. So if I eat chili peppers, which are a member of the deadly

nightjade family, even though it's my favorite food, that's why I had arthritis when I was 14, I have the genetics. I, there's there's not compatible with me, but they might be great for you. How do you know if you have that gene? There's various tests out there now, but the easy thing to do is don't eat any of it for a while. And then eat a bunch of it. And if you wake up the next day for the like a truck at you, it's like that. So I literally had three knee surgeries.

One of my knees before I was 23. And I have no pain in my joints at all unless I eat that stuff. For me, it's kryptonite, but for you it might be good. So you've got to find out what are the things causing you to be tired and in pain and have brain fog and don't eat those anywhere. So before all of this, what did you think you knew about health that turned out to be wrong? I was a firm believer of the calories in calories out. If you just could work out more

and you could just eat less and less fat because of calories, then you'll just wait.

“Just just let's move, right? That's what Michelle Obama said. Let's move, but she's promoting”

subway. Let's move any ultra-processed food. And somehow, miraculously, why is everybody still fat? It's a crime against humanity at this point. I went to the gym 90 minutes a day, six days a week without fail for 18 months. I started at three inter-pounds at a 46 inch waste. I finished with a 46 inch waste. I still wait three inter-pounds. In the entire time, I had annoying hunger. I was eating low calories, low fat, low protein usually because that comes with

low calories. And I never felt worse. And yeah, I was stronger, but I was covered in fat.

So it doesn't work. It is just mean-spirited. And I love it when you get these 25-year-olds, people I have a PhD and whatever. And I'm going to bully you into calories and calories out. You can eat a Snickers bar in a Diet Coke and they can't see each other out. These people have never treated an obese person and they've never had to come back for it themselves. The techniques that I've taught to millions of people, you are never hungry.

It requires no willpower and you feel great the entire time. And the way just comes off,

“because that's how your body is supposed to do it. Why is it a red flag if you are somebody who”

is actively trying to lose weight to be always hungry? Because they think that's good. This is working. I need to be hungry. This is how the pounds are going to come off. That feeling of hunger is your body telling you, we got a problem. We don't have enough energy. And if there's not enough energy, when you get some energy, the body is going to try and store it because it thinks that you're in a famine state. In fact, the number of particularly women

I've worked with over the years who are not eating enough calories. And they cannot get rid of

to reduce cortisol. And magically, they sleep all night, their cycle regulates, they feel better, and now they're lean. How did America end up in this mess that we're in now when it comes to our health? America put the government in charge of what we should eat, which is probably the dumbest thing you could ever do. Because let's face it. The government's job is to maintain power at all costs. And to extract as much in taxes as they can from their population. That's the algorithm for staying

“in power. I don't care if you're a king, or a president, or a dictator, whatever. That's what”

governments do. So why would they ever have our best interests at heart? They don't. Our best

interests come second. And what do they like money? Who gives money to the government?

Big ag, and big farm-up, and the big chemical industry. You're a preaching, dude. And it gets a little bit darker, too. There's, there's some evil in the world. And I didn't use to believe that there was evil. I just thought there was people who just didn't know. I still believe in the inherent goodness of humanity, and there are evil actors. And one of the worst of all was Rockefeller. Way back in the day. Rockefeller established the American Medical

Association, because he realized if he could sell chemical drugs made out of the petroleum that he has, and he could cancel out natural medicine. He'd have another monopoly. So he put in place the education system that teaches us how to not think. He put in place many of the institutions

today that make people sick. And he was one of your original advocates of reducing the population.

So we don't have as many useless eaters, as he would call them. And then his head attorney was a guy named Gates. And his son Bill, it's almost like he wants to reduce the global population. At least I would think that to be likely given the pattern of behavior that we've seen from him. I can't say that I know that to be true, but if it cracks like a duck and tries to kill you all the time with chemicals, it probably is just saying. Do you think that America would be

“better off if we disbanded the FDA entirely? Or do you think we just need to revamp it?”

If you'd ask me three years ago, should we get rid of the FDA? I would have said hell yes. But I don't believe that anymore. Because of who we have in now? There is a core around food safety that's important. Like we do not want bacteria in our food. We also don't want paranoia and regulatory capture. And back in September, I got a text from Bobby Kennedy. Only text I've ever received in my life. I'm not implying with friends, but I'm like,

wow, he found my number. And I called him and talked to him for about 10 seconds. And he said, Dave, I want you to interview someone at a conference in DC. So I show up. And he wants you to interview the head of the FDA. Dr. Marty McRoyant. Like, what? They wouldn't have let me in a room with the FDA for the entire time I've been working in food and health. I love Dr. Marty. He is so smart and good-hearted. So my first question on stage. So Marty, when you're done here at the FDA,

which big farm a company are you going to go to work? And he just laughed. He's like, I'm a surgeon.

Like, I've never worked with those guys. And I took an oath that I want. And we talked about rapid

change to put things on the right track around restoring the rightful place of biological home and replacement therapy for women to reduce suffering and all cause mortality. And they just did it for men as well. So I do think the leadership at the FDA has some really powerful beneficial things we can do, especially around regulating chemicals and food. That's necessary. Because if you don't have that, you get what's going on at the EPA. Oh, yeah, glyphosate. Like,

let's put it in our shampoo. Like, that stuff is insane. What they're doing glyphosate. I don't want big companies to run rampant, but I don't want companies to run the FDA and use it to enforce monopolies.

“And that's what's been happening. What is your opinion on the executive order that came out on glyphosate”

and saying that we need glyphosate for national security? I know you cannot ask all conventional farmers to get off glyphosate in 24 hours, obviously. However, do you feel like we're taking enough steps to help farmers win off of it? I've been pounding the anti glyphosate drum forever. In fact, all the counties that spray the most glyphosate have higher cancer rates. It's very clear what it does to our collagen. It's just, it's bad news for humans and bad news

for the environment. It's aging us. I just saw that new study or whatever that came out about how it's taking the collagen out of us and it's taking us look old. The glyphosate is glycine. And so it sticks to our glycine, which is what collagen's made out of. So it's nasty stuff. And I actually support the executive order. Because there is a force. I'm probably trying to, but we don't really know that's been going around the US for the past four years,

bombing our egg, dairy, and meat production facilities. And you wonder, eggs are so expensive. It's because there's a group. And you can see where they're traveling from city to city. And there's these

in a small country, probably in Africa, somewhere where they outright banned glyphosate and other

“pesticides. And they had a famine. Because you can't transition from chemical agriculture with”

dead soil, which look like glyphosate crits to all natural all the time. And having built a regenerative farm and raised cows and sheep and pigs and chickens and blueberries and all the stuff for more than 10 years, I can tell you, when there's proper regenerative egg, it is more productive than chemical egg, but the transition takes time. So right now, the US cannot make glyphosate. It's all made in China. So if China cuts off glyphosate, we might have a famine here. And I actually support that

logic. And I would say, let's take some of the money that maybe the previous administration was sending to Ukraine or into the run pockets most likely. Let's take that money and let's put it

towards an aggressive regenerative egg program, where we pay farmers to stop using glyphosate

when they get their production as high. As a small farmer, I know that 90% of us don't make enough money to run a small farm. So most small farmers in the US have a day job. And I will tell you

“running even a 30 acre farm is backbreaking work. I could not be the CEO of multiple companies and”

have a small farm unless I could afford to hire someone to run the farm. We need to make money, we just take good food. Everyone is constipated. Everyone, you're walking around like I'm tired, I've brain fog, I feel bloated. I haven't had a thoughts since 2017. Well, yeah, because your body is dry. You are internally a desert. And it's not your fault because the water you're drinking, useless. We stripped everything out of it. The soil is depleted. That's growing your food.

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“Are you coming to our Supreme Court rally in April? Do you know about this for Bayer and Moncanto?”

Bonnie texted me, food babe, Bonnie. And said, can you come? So I'm working on my calendar right now. It's like, okay, good. Yeah, it's okay. So I'm going to be there. I'm trying to get the my entire audience needs to be there. I told them. I said, if you've been thinking about maybe taking a trip to DC, this is the time to do it. Also, the city is beautiful right now. They've really cleaned it up. It's very safe. It's safer than it's been in years. So I was like,

come, come to the rally that morning on April 27th, 9 a.m. Supreme Court steps and use your voice to speak out against big chemicals. It's going to be huge. You'll be so important for that. It's really funny because you know, Bayer, Moncanto. Do you know the history of Bayer? Tell us. So Bayer was part of AG Farben, which was a German chemical company. The company that made the gas used in the gas chambers will work too. Like great genetics. And after the war, they split into

five big companies and Bayer was one of them. So it's only natural that Bayer would want to own Moncanto because Moncanto is doing horrible things both from a chemical perspective, but also from a legal perspective. There's tens of thousands of farmers have committed suicide because the legal approach that's going on from Bayer. So Bayer is just an evil company and it's no wonder that Bayer would want Moncanto because they're both doing the same thing. And it was poetic justice that

right after the acquisition a $10 billion fine was that we spent being considered on a word ended up.

So bottom line is these companies are harming the planet, they're harming humans, and they're holding government's hostage to try and prevent what should be the breakup of the companies. Okay, so your health journey starts with the weight loss, but then you eventually become obsessed with with biohacking everything. Now to my audience, these are 25 to 35 on average, your old young women starting families. They don't, I don't really talk about biohacking.

No, we talk about aspects like I talk about red light therapy and you don't need older process food and these things, but that term is very new to them. So what is biohacking?

you and inside of you to have control of your state. That means if you're like me, you want to

“lose a hundred pounds, but maybe you want to get rid of the brain fog, then okay, that's your goal.”

So what do you do to change the world so it supports you? And what do you do inside? So your body will work the way you want or maybe your mind will work the way you want. And it's become a global

industry worth about $36 billion. It's a new word in the English language as of 2018. And there are

huge numbers of women who are biohacking at all ages. In fact, 58 percent of biohackers have been women since the start of the movement. So this is for all humans and it's like, hey, if you want this, what are the things to do to get it with the least possible work? And that includes getting a diet that works for you because it's not the same as for a man and it's not the same as for someone else because we have a lot of individual variation. And then what is the cheap way to

do it? And what is the really fast, more expensive way to do it? So red light therapy is one of things that I introduced very early in the movement when there were almost no companies who could make this stuff for consumers. So I started one of the first companies that did that called "true light" years ago. And so we're saying, okay, it helps with wrinkles. It also helps if you have an upset stomach. And we're biohacking is most applicable today for women in the age range you

just talked about. It's around fertility. So my mother, my children, my former wife, was infertile when we met. And we as biohacking to restore her fertility, she's a medical doctor too. And we had one child at 39 and one at 42 with no IVF just by doing biohacking. Change the environment around us, God or hormones working, made my own hormones work as well. And we will have two amazing kids. So what was her specific biohacking strategy? Like what was she doing? Well, she was too lean

and just couldn't gain weight. And we looked at what was going on. She was doing soy milk. She was doing ground flaxseed. These are highly estrogenic things that interfere with thyroid function. And when we switched out, these things that are not food unless you're starving. In a couple of months, she gained about 15 pounds of desperately needed fat. So it didn't hurt

when she sat down. And so she got curves that she'd always wanted but couldn't have. She

“started getting warm instead of being cold all the time. And we got her thyroid working, right?”

And we reversed PCOS. And my first book that most people haven't read is called the Better Baby Book. What did you before enduring pregnancy in order to have the healthiest smartest, happiest, non-autistic kids you can have? And that book is probably resulted in at least 10,000 babies who wouldn't have been born. And it's five years of work because I won't have kids too. That's unbelievable. Yeah, it's this important because when I was 30, I was like, I hope we don't

get pregnant. And if you're 30 now, I go like, I hope we can get pregnant. This is unprecedented. So we got to do something about that. You've tried basically everything at this point. What is the biggest waste of money in the supplement world? Green powders. So we have this idea that if you eat a whole bunch of different green things, somehow it's going to do something for you. The odds are it's going to trigger allergies or contain a lot of chemicals from plants.

Because it turns out no life on Earth likes it when you eat their babies. So plants don't want you to eat them. They might want you to eat their fruit. But all plants have some compounds that are bad for you. And you may be sensitive to one compound to someone else to another. So when you take 10 or 20 of these things, mix them up in a green powder, pay 100 bucks a month for it,

“and think it's going to be healthy. It's probably not. What is in your current supplement stack?”

I take 150 pills a day in my current supplement stack. I have a really necessary idea that seems excessive. Don't you get these nutrients from your food? Well, I'm planning to live to at least

a hundred and eight years old. And I spent two and a half million dollars on upgrading my biology.

So to me, I'm only spending $3,000 a month. It seems like a bargain because they work. Okay. But that's not going to be relatable to anyone in my audience. So here's the deal. I am absolutely testing the extreme. Right? And you'd be surprised. There are lots of people listening. You're going to wait a minute. I don't want to spend $3,000 a month. But I want to note, can I add 20 or 30 years to my life where I'm, I look good. I feel good. I'm happy my brain works.

Like, does that change your perspective on things? And it does. What's your biological age? I know you've tested it. Well, my calendar age is 53. And there's about 40 different ways to measure biological age. And most aging influencers pick the number that's lowest. And then yay. So my favorite one is it's based on the flexibility of my vasculature. And I'm 24 years old from a cardiovascular, perspective. Okay. I don't believe that number by the way. But so you can game the system.

Depending on which of the many different tests. I'm about 10 years and sometimes much more younger than my age. So I would say it's not an exact science. But you can tell. And right now, I rent something called unlimited.life, which is a concierge medical practice for high net worth

their life. And we go through lab work after lab work after lab work for people. And we can tell this is about how long you're going to live if you don't do anything. And then we can increase up by 10 years. It's totally doable. And my message to you if you're under 30, it's very cheap to have enough minerals to have vitamin day. And if you have these things, everything else works better. So delaying the decay is a really good strategy and it's cheap. Once you get old, if you try to

reverse it, it's expensive. So the deals don't get old. So my top two things would be take vitamin day, vitamin day.com has it and minerals 101. What is day? D.A.K.E. is a mix of the fat soluble vitamins. Those guide minerals to go into your bones and your ovaries into all the different

tissues where they belong. And we have this amazing idea that I should get all my nutrients from

“food. Well, then you should get all of your toxins from other nature too. So if you want to go live”

in the jungle somewhere where there's no EMF, no artificial light, and no chemicals, maybe you'll get all the nutrients you need from your food, but then you'll die of parasites by the time you're 40 on average. And so what do we do? Oh, let's eat a whole bunch of weird plants that no one ate except during a famine, things like kale. And then hope it's going to give us minerals. But most plants, especially whole grain, as opposed to polished rice or white flour,

they have chemicals in them that stick to the minerals like calcium and magnesium and zinc. They're supposed to go into your bones and you're about to contra, but the plants like you're

going to eat my babies. I'm going to take your minerals. We got to make sure that we remove the

toxins from our food and then we eat it and that we get enough minerals too. So a mineral supplement and a fat soluble vitamin supplement are the cheapest way you can make everything in your body

“work better. They're very affordable. Speaking of supplements, are you four or against dry scooping?”

I don't think it matters. I mean, if you drink some water afterwards, who cares? Explain to my audience what that is. The dry scooping is to take a scoop of whatever you're going to have just put in your mouth. Like cholesterol, or protein powder, or creatine, or whatever. Yeah, whatever is put in your mouth and we get probably one absorb as well as if you think they think it's you're getting, I don't know, more out of it by not mixing it with water. No, that's actually done. But

I mean, if it's convenient, I mean, I'm not opposed to taking some creatine, switching it around.

But that's only because I don't have time to put it in my coffee, which is where it should be. So out of all of the different trends out there for biohacking, cold plunging, nicotine, ditching air pods, peptides, urine therapy, fixing circadian rhythm. What is useless? What actually works? Everything you just listed works if you do it right. Even urine therapy? You know, I did it this

“morning. I'm kidding. You're in therapy. And now the new name for is called biolane therapy BiolA1.”

No matter what you call it. I ain't doing it. Well, here's why it's interesting. This is a technique that is actually taught by doctors and it's called urine injection therapy. When people have really severe allergies, the antibodies are released in urine. So doctor collects sterile urine and then put in some lighter cane, runs it through a filter and injects it into your muscle. And what it does is it causes your body to make antibodies against your severe allergies. And it can take someone who's

anaphylactic to something like cats and make it so they have no allergies whatsoever. So I'm not saying that I'm going to be gargling urine any day soon. And there are people who do that. But I am saying that don't throw out the baby with the toilet water. Let's talk about nicotine. So about 15 years ago, I read a paper from 1986 from Vanderbilt University that said, hey, pharmaceutical nicotine, not smoking, just nicotine, that it prevents Alzheimer's and probably Parkinson's. So I called

the guy up who did the research and had him on the show. I called him doctor nicotine as he was Andrew Newhall. And kind of blew my mind. Oh my god, nicotine is a performance enhancing mitochondrial enhancing smart drug. And there's a reason humans have used it forever. And smoking things is bad for you and vaping is even worse. So since that time, I've used anywhere from one to 15 milligrams a day of nicotine as part of my longevity strategy. I recommend that every one over

age 40, especially do one to five milligrams a day, which is a very low dose of cigarettes about 12 to 20 milligrams. And don't smoke, but just a little bit of nicotine. And the reason you do this is the protective effects on your neurons in your brain. You're very unlikely to get neurodegeneration if you do this. So low dose nicotine, yes, you're sticking five zins in each side, probably not a good idea. Hydos nicotine can lead to thinning of hair and erectile dysfunction in some people but not all.

Are you provaping then? No, vaping is evil. It's supposed to worse than smoking. So it's got to be pharmaceutical nicotine, which means it's going to be a lozenge or like a little packet or about a patch. Oh, yeah, there it is. Yeah. Yeah, they're patch. And we're going to patch right now.

Smoking cigarettes from cigarette companies is terribly addictive because they had a bunch of stuff that's more addictive than tobacco alone. And studies show that at this low dose of five or 10 milligrams a day, the washout period of addiction is the same as coffee. It's a three days. But if you're using more than that five milligrams on a regular basis, it starts to become physiologically addictive. So if you go cold turkey, you get like muscle tension and brain fog and

“that's why they make patches to have you taper off. So I would say if you're young and you're vaping,”

dude, you're going to die stop it straight up. Okay. In fact, I would tell you start smoking instead of vaping to lower your risk of dying. But smoking is a terrible idea. So maybe you could go to pharmaceutical nicotine and there is an argument for it and people do too much of it. So what's the lowest dose that people should do in a patch or a pouch? Well, patches and pouches are different dosing, but one milligram a day, I do that for five years without any addiction whatsoever. Okay.

So one would be the lowest dose you're going to feel. Would you let your child use nicotine? If they're over 21, I think that there's a case for it. It also depends one of my kids has genetics that mean they're much more likely to be nicotine addicted. So I'd say don't do a tear 40. But as we age, I think there's a good case for it. And in terms of what I want them to use nicotine, not vaping, but just nicotine like a lozenge or drink, do throw away the alcohol and use the

nicotine. nicotine has benefits. Alcohol doesn't. I knew a guy who said, I don't need to go to the doctor. I feel fine. That was his entire medical philosophy. I feel fine. Meanwhile, you looked like a candle that had been left in a hot car. But in his mind, peak performance. This is what most people in America are doing. You don't actually know what's going on in your body. You're just waiting until something breaks and then

“you get shocked when you get this crazy medical bill. That's why Jevity is so interesting in such”

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“And honestly, fair, but here's the thing. We're adults now. Also, nobody gave answers to that.”

Like this was a national phenomenon. It was so scary. And like, they just pretended it didn't happen. I'm still traumatized by that. But you know what? We don't need to live in fear anymore. Except when you walk into CVS and look into deodorant, because that is where the real horror lives. You pick one up and it's like aluminum parabens, synthetic fragrance, things that you can't

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I guess this is fine to rub onto my body every day, go and ride into my bloodstream." No. This is why zebra exists. There deodorant is actually clean. No aluminum, no parabens, no fake fragrance, but it still works in real life. I'm talking errands, stress, summer heat, freaky time, sports, even freaky sports. It goes on clear. Does it ruin your clothes? And they even have a baking soda and non-baking soda version, depending on your skin.

And while you're upgrading your life, their floss and toothpaste tablets are also clean, simple and actually makes sense. No chemicals, just normal stuff. Go to YeziBird.com, use code Alex for 10% off. That's YeziBird.com. YeziBird.com, code Alex for 10% off. If somebody feels tired every day, what is the first thing you'd fix? I would make them turn off the lights at night before they go to bed for an hour or two.

Get red light bulbs, black out curtains, and learn how to sleep. That'll probably fix it. You think we don't know how to sleep? Not at all. What do you mean? Well, isn't that inherent? I fall only. It's like saying, we know how to eat, but we're eating Twinkies all day. So you can get junk sleep and a lot of people do that. So high quality sleep is completely different. And I know this because I was the guy who got five minutes of deep sleep every night and five minutes

of REM sleep in eight hours. So I was asleep. I was not conscious, but nothing good was going on.

really good deep sleep. And I've taught 100,000 people how to do it. It's free. Go to sleepwithdave.com.

“Which is the best URL of my entire marketing life because it's funny. But you go there and this is”

all the stuff that works. But number one, the part of your brain that tells your body whether to go into sleep mode is called the SCN. And the number one thing that controls it is the color and the brightness of light. So we have these LED lights in the bathroom in the kitchen and it takes two seconds of exposure to tell some parts of your brain, "Oh, bright light,

that's never existed in two billion years at night. It must be daytime and it confuses your

system." So if you were to visit my house at night, it looks like a submarine. There is red light. Right? The neighbors thing I'm a vampire, it doesn't matter. Okay, so you and Paul Saladino are doing that? Because top Paul Saladino do that. So, Paul, if you go if he invites you over for dinner, there's not a regular light on in his house. I'm a sailor. Yeah. I have dimmer switches on everything and condescent bulbs only.

And, you know, I've even used to sell red light bulbs. Well, here's what Paul's doing. And I know this for facts. Sorry, Paul. I'm going to air this out. Paul invites this girl that I know over for a dinner date. Two is place. And she shows up. She's like, "Why don't know where it is?" I can say, "Oh, sorry. There's no lights on." She shows up like first time ever being there. It's all dark and just red lights real creepy. I'm like, "Paul, you have to give

like a semblance of normalcy at first." I don't think those words go together. Paul and

sub ones have normalcy. I don't know. I don't know. He practices what he prejudes so to you. You guys really do walk the walk, which some people think this is too crazy too extreme,

“but that's what I think makes you interesting. There's also an easier way to do it.”

And I started the first modern circadian glasses company. It's called TrueDark. TrueDark.com. And I make glasses that have a special color of red. And you know what, we published in a medical journal that wearing those glasses for 15 minutes changes your brainwaves in a way similar to meditation. It's like noise cancelsing headphones for you guys. I get jet lag nowhere on the planet. And if I'm in a hotel, I just wear my true dark glasses. I don't have to have dimmer switches and

red lights. I just put them on an hour before bed and you will completely pass out. And what's

more interesting, you'll need less sleep if you get high quality sleep. Because a lot of people

think, oh, I need eight hours of sleep. No, you don't. The people who live the longest get six and a half hours of sleep. Because healthy people need less sleep. So get healthy and learn how to get good sleep. And you get an hour and a half a day back. Our people who are currently not using peptides, going to be at a disadvantage in the next 10 years. Of course, people who don't use neutropics, people who don't use longevity medicine, people don't use performance enhancers,

in general, and peptides and supplements. And a good diet. Yeah, they'll slow down. They'll get old. They won't look good. Their brains won't work. And they'll spend more medical bills. So yeah, they're at a disadvantage. It would suck to be like that. What are oxalates? And how do you know

“if you are oxalate sensitive and you should completely eliminate them from your diet? Oxalates are”

one of the five plant toxins that I've been putting at the center of nutrition for biohacking for the last decade or so. Oxalates are compounds found in many plants. Most nuts, spinach, kale, raspberries, sweet potatoes, the outer lining of beans and lentils. But not all plants, but just most. And they go in and they find calcium somewhere in your body and they form razor sharp microscopic calcium crystals. 70% of kidney stones are from eating oxalate,

much as a big source of it. Chocolate's a big source of it. Coffee is almost not. Whole wheat flour has a lot of oxalate, white flour has almost none. So we think, well, how much could this matter? Well, you're like, oh, beats have it. Okay, pineapple has it. And you realize most of the superfoods are high in oxalate. And when you start eating these things, whether I was a vegan than a rodvings, I've had more oxalate than I should have. Like, oh, I'm totally fine. And then

you start seeing, oh, my skin is stuff in my skin. And then, oh, my joints hurt a little bit. And for women in particular, you get a lot of urinary tract infections. And you think, oh, it's a bacterial imbalance. No, you have razor sharp calcium crystals scratching your urethro. That's where the bacteria get in. So you back off on the raspberry juice and the kale juice and the spinach juice and all that stuff. And magically, you don't get UTIs anymore. So we don't have to

completely eliminate oxalates. But we want to go down to under 200 milligrams a day. And one green smoothie can have five times the amount your body can process. And there's at least one case report of a guy who died after 10 days of green smoothie. Because he was pounding giant spinach smoothies and he gave himself kidney stones in systemic oxalosis. We knew everything about this before 1950. There's hundreds of papers about oxalate poisoning from plants in humans. But we just

forgot about it at some point. So I've seen this resolve issues over and over and over. The issue is, you know, just ramp down. You don't just go cold turkey because if you go cold turkey, your body is like, yeah, I can let go of oxalates. Let's go of them all. And then you get

why that causes stiles? I used to get those all the time as a kid. Yeah, if you want more stiles,

you don't go into almond butter and watch what happens. So if somebody ends up in the ER with kidney stones, was it 100% preventable? Yes, unless it's a weird genetic condition. 70% of the time, it's because they were having too much oxalate. The other 30% of the time, it's from urecastid. Okay, list common oxalates again. Okay, raspberries, whole grains, nuts, peanuts, sweet potatoes, regular potato skin, but not the whites. And spinach, kale, pineapples, relatively high,

almonds, almonds are excessively high, cashews are excessively high. Any nuts, legumes, black beans are terribly high in it. So you can go to any AI and be like, how much oxalates in this. And it'll just tell you your goals 200 milligrams a day. I want to talk about black beans. You're anti black bean. And you know what this reminded me of? I've got this coworker. He only eats

chipotle. Dave, I'm not exaggerating. Every day, he skips breakfast. He has lunch and dinner chipotle

every single day. He has nothing in his fridge at home. This is all he eats. He made out of

“seed oils or what? So his blood work is trash, testosterone trash. So what's your response?”

Is it the black beans? Is it just chipotle overall? Like, what's going on with somebody like that? He's getting a lot of seed oils. I have not eaten seed oils in 15 years. I only eat butter, tallo, and olive oil, and avocado, and things like that. So the difference in my blood work is it's pretty phenomenal. And your friend has a problem because seed oils take about two years to work the ways out of the body, just half of them. So if you ate no more seed oils,

you replaced it with biological compatible fats. Well, it's going to take about four years to be 75% free of the seed oils that got built into the very makeup of your energy production inside your cells. So he screwed up because he broke his mitochondrial and his cell membranes with bad oils, and he has a ton of oxalate and probably a ton of other flavorings and things like that that are affecting his neurochemistry. They just did an autopsy study of a bunch of people

who died naturally in their 70s and 87% had oxalate crystals in their thyroid gland.

“You're thyroid gland controls how much energy you have. So you're going to be tired all the time,”

be a low thyroid, maybe tired all the time, eat a lot of oxalates for a lot of years.

The problem is if you're in your 20s, I'm going to go vegan the same way I did in my because I was

30 when I did it. And maybe it's because you think it's healthy, it's not, you think it's good for animals, it's not, it's higher deaths per calorie than just eating a cow. And it's not good for the environment, either because if we need animal poop to have healthy soil. So there's no argument for a vegan diet other than self-hatred. So I did that and I was just wrong in my arguments and it screwed me up and one of the things that did is it messed up my thyroid. So you don't want to have a low thyroid

function, but you can handle it for about two, three years as the oxalate levels build up. How many influencers do we now go? Oh, I'm going to go vegan. I'm never doing this kind. I got the glow. The glow is your body panicking because you don't have any good food. And then the glow starts to go away, but you know how good it is. You just keep doing it until you have dark circles in your gond, in your tired, and you have out of me in conditions and all this stuff,

and then you have the tearful apology to your followers about how you're not vegan anymore. It's like it's predictable. But if you're 20, you have abundant cheese, this light force energy, and you can have this for decades or you could waste it on black beans and it's dumb. We know to avoid junk food. What about junk light? junk light is a term I've been using for a very long time and fluorescent lighting and

LED lighting is junk light. And there's multiple reasons. Natural light from outdoors. It has infrared, which you can't see, but it makes you warm. That's a signal for your body to turn on healing and so is red light. So some light has blue light in it, but it's got the infrared and the red. And that tells your body, okay, you take in a hit and you're recovering from it. When you go indoors, you're under these LED lights that have no warmth whatsoever because the

infrared is gone. And that means you're only getting the blue light and it stresses your brain, stresses your mitochondria. And even worse, most people can't see it, but these lights are flickering. Put your phone on slow motion and look at these things and they're blinking. Like like you're at some kind of dance club. So this is incredibly biological stressful. And if you want to destroy human fertility, make people tire, docile, programmable, you'd want them to be under

“blinking lights all the time. And that's what drunk light is. It's missing important spectrums.”

My house, all in condescent, dimmer switches, and red lights at night. And I feel great. This is a dumb question I know, but every time I talk about this, this is the question that I get my DM. So you know what? I'm just the voice of the people. Where do you buy in condescent bulbs? Well, I've got this guy. Like he's, I haven't in my, in my WhatsApp right next to my, you know, my dealer. And he brings me the bulbs. And I just like, hey, man, you've got any 60

watts. I told him, I said, I literally went to like ace hardware. And some 17-year-old kid took me

in condescent. Yes, it was very easy. Yeah, it's sometimes it says in condescent equivalent.

“Don't trust those. Don't trust those. They do make them now for a period of time. I think it was”

Biden or maybe before him. No, it wasn't Trump. It was in Biden. Trump loves incandescent bulbs. He told it does. He hates LED. I just don't know if he was Obama or Biden. Someone put in a plan to make it illegal. And it was $400 per bulb as a penalty for companies to sold them. So right

before the ban, I bought $2,000 in condescent bulbs. I have a trailer for all of them. So I will never

be without them because I don't live a long time. How do you choose a high quality olive oil? Despite the expensive one. Okay. That's not real, except it kind of is. So you can look at whether it has something called a COA on it. And there's a proven problem with fake olive oil. And this is because the Sicilian mafia, where olive oil is from, is involved in counterfood olive oil. So the good news is if you're buying your olive oil from a place like Costco or Whole Foods,

they have incredibly aggressive testing and enforcement. And I know this because I built a 750 million dollar lifetime revenue food company in my career. That was bulletproof. Back when I was involved with bulletproof. By the way, guys, danger coffee, not bulletproof coffee. I have nothing to do with bulletproof. But so I went and I talked to the buyers. And I tell you, those guys at Walmart, they're hardcore. So they want all the testing. So if you're buying it from a big box store,

there's a pretty good chance that it's been tested. But you just don't know. And you want it to be organic, single origin. Organic, single origin, lab tested. Also in glass, there's a lot of olive oil in plastic bottles. And also cans don't work either, but at least cans block light, but they're lined in plastic. So here's a deal. If you have a lot of money, you want amber, glass, or green glass, high-end, single estate, organic, extra virgin, all the stuff like that.

“But let's face it. That's really expensive. So would I do olive oil in a big can?”

Yes. Because it's way better than soybean oil. And I would want to buy a no-name knockoff brand. I'd want to buy it from a brand that's known and likely to get sued if they're lying about it. Or you can go online and you can find these single estate things. And those are the ultra premium you're buying direct from farmers and things like that. But a lot of people don't want to spend $30 on a bottle of olive oil. I don't want to be there, but I do because I like olive oil.

Let's talk about breakfast in America, which is essentially dessert marketed to children. You wake up, you pour a bowl of something that's been engineered and allowed by a man named Gray, who hasn't seen sunlights since 2004. And you're like, "This is a great way to start the day." Meanwhile, it's loaded with pesticides, refined sugar, artificial dyes. Basically, a chemistry set with a cartoon bird on the front. So you don't ask questions. And even the healthy cereals.

Oh, don't even get me started. It's like, "Now with ancient grains." Okay, great. Still poison. You walk into the store. You're like, "I'm not buying junk cereal. I'm getting Cheerios. I'm a good

person." Let's talk about Cheerios. You're eating 729 parts per billion of glyphosate. Oh,

“and if you really want to treat yourself, how about honeymet Cheerios over 800 parts per billion?”

This is why love bird exists. Love bird is a cereal brand that was invented by a dad who worked in big food. And he was like, "I'm not feeding this garbage to my kid anymore," which is the most radical thing you could do in this country. Care. Love bird took out all the fake stuff, no synthetic pesticides, no refined sugar, no weird-lavin ingredients, and replaced it with actual food. We're talking organic cassava, prebiotic fiber, lightly sweetened with honey,

things your body recognizes instead of rejects. And now they've gone even further with their new protein cereal. 11 grams of protein made with grass fed way, sweetened with organic coconut sugar, gluten-free, non-gia-mode, third-party tested, and it tastes phenomenal, which is rare because most healthy protein cereals taste disgusting. I'm not going to lie to you. I love the cinnamon one. And if you're trying to get your kids off, ultra-processed junk, this is the move. You swap

in something familiar, right? You're not totally changing their life. They're used to cereal in the morning. But now, you're going to start with something non-toxic. Also, love bird donates, 20% of profits to fight childhood cancer. They're family owned, independent, and they even have a program to swap junk cereal in schools for real food at the same price. So you can email them, find their info on their website, and tell them about your kid's school and they'll send

cereal for free, which is insane, because they're basically losing money just to fix the system.

These are the types of companies that I sponsor on my show. Okay, so now do you understand? I am so picky. I want the game changers. I want the real parents making a difference. You can grab love bird at a grocery store near you. But if you want 20% off, go to lovebirdfoods.com. Use code Alex 20. That's code Alex 20 for 20% off at lovebirdfoods.com. Code Alex 20 at lovebirdfoods.com. Do you remember this Flintstone vitamins that we used to take? Like, take a step back and process this.

We were given neon colored artificially flavored cartoon shaped chalk and told it was health. Your five years old, chewing on a glowing orange dinosaur that tastes like chemicals in your parents, you're like, this is great for your development honey. Meanwhile, it's loaded with food

seeing colors that don't exist, and everyone's like, "Oh, must be normal childhood energy."

No, it was Fred Flintstone and read 40 teaming up against your nervous system. So now as an adult, I'm extremely suspicious of anything labeled vitamin because I've seen what they did to us.

“All right, I survived that. That's why I use Etsy. It's the complete opposite of that chaos.”

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Multivitamin or immune support. If you had to buy a non-dairy milk, what are you choosing? There's really only two non-dairy milks that are worth touching. One is coconut milk, and the other is macadamium milk. The rest of them are expensive trash that is just not good for you. You don't need milk. And if you're worried about it, you could get a blender and put two macadamia nuts in there

“and blend it up there, macadamia milk. It's not that hard. Where do you stay on the fiber debate?”

There's two kinds of fiber. One of them is insoluble fiber, and this is a roughage. And it's probably not good for you. And maybe it's good for you. But I would say probably not, because it damages the lining of your gut. Then there's soluble fiber, which is also known as a prebiotic fiber. And there's a lot of really good research that shows that people who live a long time have more diverse gut bacteria and more quantity of gut bacteria. So as I was

writing my big longevity book, I was just called Superhuman. I added a bunch of different prebiotic fibers to my diet, and I measured, and I quadrupled the amount of bacteria and the types of bacteria in three months. So there's an argument for prebiotic fiber. There's also an argument that says, if you don't eat any prebiotic fiber, it'll shift your gut bacteria so they make less toxins. That's kind of a friend argument. It makes sense, and I've seen it work for some people,

but my recommendation now is you want 20 to 40 grams of soluble fiber unless you have

“bacterial overgrowth in your gut. So if somebody's digestion isn't improving on a high fiber diet,”

what's actually going wrong? Oh, a high fiber diet is always going to wreck you

because they're giving you met a muscle and basically grind up sticks into eggs and saw dust. And of course, you're going to be farting all the time. Studies show like 17 times more of vegans fart than people eat normal food. So sorry about that vegans. But okay, so high fiber diet is going to make you feel bloated. It's going to make you feel uncomfortable. It's going to have less energy in it, and it's going to suck minerals and fats from your body. Don't do that. High soluble fiber,

you can do that, and it's going to make more beneficial fatty acids in your gut. So never do a high fiber diet with grape nuts and all that kind of stuff. It's just a bad idea. So you don't need whole wheat. If it's not working, you probably need digestive enzymes. So as we age and as we don't have enough salt, we make less stomach acid. And stomach acid's job is to sterilize the food and break it down, and then we need enzymes to absorb it fully. So if you're farting

all the time, especially if it smells like death, you're not digesting well. So get some digestive enzymes that have the tane HCl on them. And magically, you take those when you eat and then your body can absorb all the nutrients from the food instead of letting it rot and then making it won't leave the room. Nobody has come on the show and talked about the vagus nerve. And I know you know a lot about this. Can you enlighten us? So like the vagus nerve is where you go

for gambling. Oh, no. The vagus. The vagus nerve is so cool. It is the largest nerve in the body.

And it basically controls everything. It's like the central control system. So there's little

branches of it that go into your fingers. And it's mostly available on the left ear and on the right ear. And it controls your sympathetic response. So is your body ready to fight and be stressed and perform? Or is it ready to recover and digest? So if you can't go to sleep at night, there's probably a sympathetic activation. If you have a trauma anxiety response, you've got the vagus nerve involved. So there's a company called Zenbud. And they make a

it's a few hundred bucks. A little ultrasound thing looks like a headphone. You put in your ear for five minutes. And it turns on parasympathetic. So you're feeling stressed. You're not feeling stressed. People go to sleep. They get better. Heart rate variability. And breath work helps. Cold plunges but not too many of them can help. And most of the things that make us feel calm

and you either one of you is anxious all the time, put the Zenbud in and then chill out and then

have the difficult conversation and you'll probably not yell at your partner nearly as much. So it's surprising, almost everything like meditation, breath work, deep sleep. It all improves

“the function of your vagus nerve. What is your opinion on oatmeal for breakfast?”

oatmeal is the biggest scam on earth. It is peasant food. So back in the day when we had kings and dukes and people, they would have peasants. And you feed the peasants the cheapest human kibble. You can get because you don't care if they die. There's need to have some babies and make sure that they raise the cows that you're going to eat. So oatmeal raises your blood sugar more than eating white sugar more than Ben and Jerry's. And it doesn't have any protein in it. And

it has the kind of fiber that sucks minerals out of your body and it's usually contaminated with glyphosate. To have some donuts. Seriously, if you're going to screw up your thing, at least make it tastes good. Omeals not tasty. So what if it's organic and sprouted? Okay. It's still going to raise your blood sugar through the roof. So what a small cup of oatmeal. I'm an oatmeal stand. Okay. What about a small cup of oatmeal if you're making sure that you're also having it with a lot of protein?

Like, let's say you have a little steak. So well, if you had steak and eggs in oatmeal, you have eight ounces of steak, not a little steak, and two eggs, and a little bit of oatmeal. Okay, fine. White rice meal at healthier, because there's less toxins, but okay, fine. I don't have a problem with that unless you're sensitive to gluten because most oatmeal has gluten in it. But most Americans are having a huge bowl of oatmeal brown sugar in for it. Yeah, I literally

would give my kids high quality ice cream made with milk and sugar and eggs before I would give them oatmeal for breakfast because it's better for them. At least I have some new trance and it'll raise their blood sugar less than oatmeal. So if you oatmeal expect to be hungry in like 20 minutes after you eat it, unless you put a stick of butter in there and eat a steak with it, in which case, why are you eating the oatmeal? What are some off-label uses you've heard of for iver

Macdon and do you think that iver Macdon should be available over the counter? iver Macdon is an incredibly interesting drug and because I was a sheep farmer at my farm in Canada, we actually had iver Macdon on hand and used it all the time. So iver Macdon probably the coolest off-label use is they're finding a reversal of Alzheimer's in recent studies. They find that iver Macdon cream works very well on rosacea and iver Macdon seems to help with a bunch of different

viral conditions of nothing to do with parasites and of course there's a iver Macdon as a part of treatment for cancer along with two other antiparicetics. So iver Macdon has a lot of different incredibly useful things in it and as for whether it should be available over the counter, since when do you need a permission slip to take care of yourself? It is unethical for the trade

“lobby for physicians to tell you that you have to take a half a day off work, get an appointment,”

go see nurse, crash it behind bulletproof glass in the waiting room, in order to go in and have three minutes of the doctor to beg for permission to buy iver Macdon or anything else. It's wrong. I just buy my drugs from and yet it's way cheaper and easier. How concerned are you about hem trails? Do we really need to be worrying about them very much? You know I like to be concerned about things I have control over and since I don't have an anti-aircraft missile system available

to myself today, I don't spend a lot of time worrying about them. It's very clear if you have eyes that someone is spraying weird stuff in the sky. The airplanes are unmarked. There's patterns

and like like written documentation that there are evil forces doing this. The problem is that

where's our government transparency? So we know that there's stuff happening like that. There's a lot of toxins in the world. Whether they come from your kale, they come from the stuff that they put in gasoline instead of lead, which is about a thousand times worse than lead, called valium, or comes from the plastics in the rug in your house or the deodorant you're using or from chemtrails build a body that is highly resilient, upregulate your toxin systems so that you can

get rid of toxins faster than they come in and then find the people responsible for chemtrails and then choke them. But politely in court is what I'm saying. Politely in court of absolutely. Give us three simple longevity steps somebody can implement today. Darkness at night

“and sunlight in the morning. It is critically important that you sleep in a blacked out room.”

That alone can shift the needle for longevity. Plus you'll just like your life better anyway. So it's not that difficult. It's just darkness. Like our bodies need darkness as much of a need

light. The second one would be figure out the foods that cause inflammation. I just have

to stress pimples, things like that and stop eating them. They're not compatible with your body. You wouldn't put the wrong gas in your car. So why are you doing that for your body? Just do that and along the way one gram of animal protein per pound of ideal body weight. If you do those things you'll be so far ahead of time and by the way steady just came out this week showing that

called APOE three or four. Oh, eating a high meat diet completely gets rid of that risk

“for a quarter of the population. So more meat but don't eat processed meat because that gives you”

dementia. So pepperoni and slim gyms are not the same as ground beef and just understanding that. That'll massively change things. As I said this recently I walked around Disneyland and I was talking about like what in Disneyland is Moja? What is it? You know if you're somebody that's health conscious and you're going to the park and I talked about those huge turkey legs internet was so pissed off at me because I said look out of all the things in the park it's probably not the worst.

However they're filled with nitrites and yes and so you're eating this if you are somebody that is constantly eating fast food you're eating ultra-process meat lunch bowls and pepperoni pieces frozen pizzas all this and you are having that it's you're just you're adding on to your your talks and

load towards cancer that's just what it is. If you never ever eat ultra-process food or ultra-process

meat like I don't ever going to Disneyland once a year or once every couple years and having a turkey leg is fun but let me tell you something I tried a bite of it was disgusting I spit it out immediately it didn't even taste like regular food it was gross so people were mad though that I pointed that out but exactly what you're saying you want to avoid the ultra-process meat yeah MSG which isn't pretty much everything at Disneyland as far as I could tell MSG causes your neurons to start firing

and not soft firing and this is why you get misbehaved kids people are getting migraines that having all sorts of weird things they feel like crap at Disneyland it's because the food is all poisoned how does being healthy equate to more freedom and being uncontrollable I like this you're tying in with danger coffee because who knows what you might do I named it that because during the pandemic you had these smart me overweight bureaucrats saying we're doing this for your

on safety I'm like no I choose danger like literally all of the things in life worth doing have some risk and your job is to have so much energy and so much power that you can overcome whatever life brings you this this day and when you do that you have an inherent feeling of safety and that feeling of safety lets you think about things and choose action if you don't have enough energy you will not think you will react and you are programmable and this is why I started the bio-acquim event

when people have working mitochondria that can make a ton of energy we won't do stupid things because we have enough energy to think and we're very hard to program so it comes down to having

enough energy first and then second learning your reactive patterns and then turning them off

and my company 40 years of Zen it's a very high-end brain retraining program with neuro-scientists people going spend five days to replace 40 years of meditation and I will tell you I celebrities, athletes, CEOs, the top performers in the world they come through and they all have the same patterns something happened when they were a little kid and it maybe wasn't even a big deal to an adult but it was at the time and we're all still running the programs of childhood the time the teacher was

mean to your little brother was mean to you know your mom yelled at your daddy all that stuff it's still in there and you can take it all out so make massive amounts of power and remove reactive patterns whether it's meditation or breath work or psychedelics whatever when you do that the government or a big company or a bully can do whatever the heck they want and you're like

“isn't that cute that's what we want to be that's how we want to be where can people hear you speak in”

person come to the biohacking conference may 27 through 29th here in Austin and go to biohackingcommerce.com it's called Beyond Biohacking Now Steve Aoki is headlining and we've got Arthur Brooks and Jay Shetty

and I'll be on stage multiple times about 5,000 people and it is an incredible time and hundreds of

vendors who make the stuff that changes how you feel things like air filters talk to the founders talk to the creators know what's real and get amazing prices on things to biohackingcommerce.com and what's the name of your podcast in your Instagram go to the human upgrade which is the podcast and if you go to Dave dot aspirin instagram i'm million something followers if you could offer one remedy to heal a sick culture physically emotionally or spiritually what would it be it would be

building community that's that's what's missing when you have community you can form culture and shared culture and a culture of values and that creates kindness and peace and safety and if we don't have those things everyone feels like they're isolated it's very hard to make change like that

“and that's why i've done this event for 13 years it's why i do a fan can to support and build”

community because if you're alone you're mitochondria hate it and your vagus nerve hates it and you don't sleep well so all you need is one or two trusted friends who you can really be real with and that's where it starts i'm so glad i got to have you on i've been we've been trying to coordinate

see you in in dc fingers crossed at the at the at the bear march at the month and tomorrow so um yeah

“everyone should join us out there thank you Dave for coming on culture papakiri my pleasure thank you”

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