THC 90: Dave Asprey | Biohacking, Optimizing, & The Upgraded Self

00:04 In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a nation through a series of radio broadcast known as the Fireside Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society would recover from its troubled times but we're far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of fire For a new era of worldly frustration We offer a fresh conversation! I'm Greg Carlwood These are The Hireside Chats How's it going Ironside Chatters? Wow! Episode 90, how is everybody doing? Hope you're doing well. Hope everybody has liked the guest lineup so far in 2014 I've gotten a few emails from people saying things like what does Duncan Trussell have to do with conspiracy or Stephen Greer is just a disinfo shill I can't believe you had him on and lost all credibility And I might get a little bit of that for this episode too but look

00:59 It's a blessing and curse to try to cast as wide net on THC. Some people want more of one thing, others less than another. But I'm just trying what I've always done which is help intelligent people make the case for fringe topic that is their forte in an attempt to get peoples mind go from no fucking way to maybe so. That's really the goal. It's not to tell you what to believe In fact, I'm most happy when at the end of a show You aren't sure what to believe because on one hand we made a pretty compelling case but on the other hand that's just too crazy That's a sweet spot right there The conspiracy g-spot really

01:37 And the journey should be fun and entertaining, but you shouldn't be afraid to say yeah I listened to a guy talk about the Boston bombings who thinks it was staged. What is wrong with that? Isn't it just as insane to believe anything that comes from government or media has been caught time and time again lying to you and fucking you? Why should you believe what they tell you. Yeah we've killed our own people before but not this time, we promise! Yeah we've been caught running drugs sorry yeah We held back the release of captured prisoners for political gain I mean people in power have gotten caught doing pretty much everything you can get caught doing why do we still accept their narrative doesn't the burden of proof or anything covered on mainstream news now

02:23 Lie with them? It shouldn't be taken as a given, it should be taken as a lie. But yet I'm the idiot! I'm the evil monster because I asked that question that the government and media might be adding one more lie to their list?! I'd say its disrespectful not see if there were crisis actors in Boston And by the way that doesn't mean a real bomb didn't go off and kill people in Boston That's where it gets really convoluted I think there very well could have been bombs on that day and real people hurt. But it seems that the patriotic archetypes and the on-screen scenes were faked, like scenes in a movie by a company called Strategic Operations. Look it up! See, I assume at this point that they're always lying so I search for alternatives sometimes there's a compelling case and sometimes not but if you don't spend time looking then you can't say shit

03:17 If you take the word of liars as truth until proven otherwise, then you're setting yourself up to be real disappointed one day. Man... Not something I normally do but i've been going on a few other shows lately in fact they made an appearances page where you can see all the past outside appearances that I've made but it's made me feel like I need to be a little more vocal about things once and while just to stay fresh just to stay ready I guess thats what that was Either way, it's the 90th episode. One money bomb has ended and another has begun And this one we got $380 in donations so I took that. I gave 190 to a listener His name is Patrick We're gonna talk to him for a minute He had a hot mic real hot mic

04:00 I shortened this up and cut it up as best i could. We're also going to skip the news this week but, once again, I know that this weeks guest is a controversial figure but when I hear the reasoning behind his advice its logical sense for me and just saying thats unconventional doesn't really do anything to sway my opinion we just went over how governments and their agencies and established institutions universities media companies these things that they elite fund controlled view of society? Why should we believe that's true. We are that healthy fats and meat are necessary to having our brain work well, and I think about religions not wanting people to eat meat for centuries! And something clicks... Wow that's convenient maybe powerful people have that information they just didn't have the technology to put fluoride in everybody's water yet but they could make them eat less meat. And i already know people getting ready email me to tell me

04:56 That it was really this reason or because it was of disease or whatever and you don't know that? You were told that by the same people who lie and manipulate everything. So why just repeat what you've heard, who knows anything? When did religious leaders start caring about health anyway I ain't seen it We see so many other areas where people in power want us to be sick and docile. Why wouldn't they get as confused about diet, not teach doctors about nutrition? I fucking wonder! Wow okay so let's just do this thing-I love you guys. I hope you love my dumb stoner self. We're gonna get through this people So please support the show buy a t-shirt from conspirites Click on our link to Amazon before you buy whatever your going to buy

05:41 Here's two minutes with the winner of this round of the money bomb, Patrick. And then right on the other side... The man of the hour Dave Asprey How's it going people? I'm here with Patrick from Indiana, donator of $5 and recipient of 190. We got 380 in donations this time around so...I gave half to this guy! Patrick how is it going? Oh man its going wonderful you know Im fairly new to this whole podcast thing. I've been listening to podcasts for about a year now and uh..I love your show man! Oh thanks thanks Do you mind telling the people what you do? Yeah, actually I work at a warehouse here in Indianapolis but also a college student in environmental science.

06:24 And I plan on moving out to Denver. I've got one class left and i'll be there in the summertime Right on, Denver my second favorite city! Oh yeah Well thanks so much for donating man that's very cool of you Do you have a favorite episode or favorite guest that we've had on? Well...I tell ya what I really like uh the guys that you have on that talk about life hacking Uh..you had Lennon What was it? Lennon On an Honor Oh yeah and Neil Cramer Yeah, yeah. Great guys and also of course the wonderful Duncan Trestle. Yeah! Duncan's awesome. Is there anybody you'd like to see on or have me try to get? You know I'll tell you what...I came up with a list and the first guy that came up was Edward Snowden but i don't think that's going to be possible. It might be tough but I love to talk to that guy

07:12 For sure. But there's a couple of the guys I like to listen to and i was curious, uh...I don't know what your connections are but there is an author named Robert Green who wrote the book Mastery. There also you know I wrote down a guy called Jesse Ventura Yeah Jesse Ventura! I'd like to get him some people think he's a bit of a bullshitter He definitely one of the biggest names in conspiracy so it wouldn't be right not try to get him on the show Exactly exactly I wrote down two other guys. One is a singer-songwriter, Michael Franti from the band Spearhead. Not familiar! I'll look them up He's from San Fran and he travels a lot so...I don't know but he's all about positivity Positive energy Oh yeah for sure And then there is also another author who does the podcast as well his name is Scott Sigler

08:02 Scott Sigler not familiar with him either. He's been he's been on a Joe Rogan podcast two times now Oh, really? Yeah for sure he does that sci-fi whore cool man Well, I'll definitely consider those people all look into them glad this worked out You know thanks for listening before let you go do you have any plans for the money and all oh you bet I do man I honestly I don't feel like I really deserved this win So what I plan on doing is stopping by obviously your shop and picking up a THC shirt. Really like the sheep suit, and also Shirt Design t-shirts

08:41 Also, there's a through the Dallas the drunken Dallas podcast. There's a type of loan you can give to two people out there that You you get them this money and they tell you what they need the money for and then they you know Try to pay it back It's got through Kiva And so I think that would be a good place to put some of this money. Nice! And then, honestly, I'm going to reinvest it back into your show. Oh shit! This money is yours and it's really truly kind of you to share. It was a good deal man. Cool man well thanks again take care best of luck to ya. Alright thank you very much my friend

09:26 Alright people, as you know I like to tackle the topic of alternative health from time to time but historically those shows don't really tell us much we haven't heard before. They usually tell us to eat a raw plant-based food diet and folks, to me i just don't see that happening in my life but today's guest Dave Asprey has forged his own path to human optimization spending 15 years and $300,000 on a mission to biohack his own body and mind for maximum efficiency With this multi-pronged approach, Dave has lost 100 pounds raised his IQ by 20 points and lowered his biological age in the process of fine tuning his diet sleep schedule exercise and cognitive function. He's the founder of the growing trend called Bulletproof Coffee and many more products and ideas to help you check yourself before you wreck yourself The man with a plan, the bullet proof executive himself Dave Asprey how are ya? Greg great introduction man I'm good

10:15 Oh man, this is a real treat. Thanks for taking the time for THC I know you got it all on your plate. I also have to say thanks for being cool enough to send me some of the Bulletproof Coffee Beans and your upgraded MCT oil. I've never really been a coffee drinker and am always dragging in the morning. I usually go for soda or energy drinks pretty much the worst possible options but The past few weeks I've been making the Bulletproof concoction, and I'd say that I definitely feel like I have a more clear-headed leveled out energy. It definitely curbs my appetite which I didn't think could be done so you made me a believer in the formula for sure! Yeah, man. So to start us out give the people a bit of an overview of the whole upgraded bulletproof philosophy I mean what makes it different from the more conventional ideas of health and most other health gurus ideas that they're pushing

11:06 I don't really even talk about health very often. It's not a focus. The only people who care about health are people who are dying and that means they're young and sick like I was 15 years ago or they're old, and they see that the end is near and they start getting really interested in health. That's bad timing. I talk about performance. I talk about feeling good and health just comes along with it as a free benefit, the same thing as having abs. Even if you're not really trying to have abs when you eat for consciousness when you eat to turn your prefrontal cortex on all the way When you eat to reduce inflammation in your body, not because it's healthy and because its plant-based And then you didn't need anything with a face But you do that because You eat in the right way and actually that isn't the way to do it but you basically eat in The most perfect way of to make your brain on all the time. So you're in charge of yourself when you do that

12:05 Your ability to meditate goes through the roof. Your ability to pay attention to anything you want, whether it's paying attention to nothing and the Zen state stuff – I do a lot of work with meditation with my clients and stuff like that or whether it's paying attention to your job or your significant other. Whatever it is you want to be better at doing, you can pick a lifestyle for that but if you're focusing on health, it's almost like you're looking backwards and being kind of timid and fearful. That's not how I roll. I've been sick. I weighed 300 pounds, had Lyme disease and chronic toxic mold exposure, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis in my knees when I was 14, ADD, Asperger's. Like seriously, that was a total wreck. You hit 300 pounds in your early 20s, they'll teach you a few things about life especially when I walk around now and 41.

12:54 I look better than just about every other 40-year old that I know. Like, I'm pretty darn muscular. I haven't lifted anything heavy in four months. I've run some electricity across my body here and there but like I work out less, I sleep less, I eat more calories than almost all of my peers and I'm looking pretty damn good. I'm really pleased with life and it's amazing to be able to pay attention all day everyday more so than people 10 or 15 years younger than me. So I'm kicking ass and taking names. Right on, man. Yeah it sounds like a dream come true! Let's go through some of these different pieces of the pie for total optimization starting with food and diet I pretty much live in a fast-food diet life based on the amount of listener requests i get for 2x and 3x sizes of our T-shirts I think a lot of the audience might be in that same boat I've never really gained weight from it so I haven't been aggressive about changing it but now that I started looking into

13:48 I'm thinking it's going to cost me maybe two or three times as much financially to really do this right. A lot of people are broke, living on that drive-thru diet of $1 burgers." What are some of the changes in diet that would make the biggest difference? The best bang for the buck for people? All right, this is gonna come as a total non sequitur but it's three bucks for half a pound of grass-fed butter which has Fats in it that your body needs to make hormones needs to make cell membranes needs to make brains You want have your testosterone where it should be then? This is what you want to do

14:26 I don't know, I can easily eat a quarter pound of butter. Half of like a double-sized stick or one stick of butter in a day. In fact, I do that quite a lot because 70% of my calories come from fat but let me tell you if you have that Bulletproof coffee concoction you talked about which is coffee made with low toxin beans, grass fed butter and this extractive coconut oil, you'll spend oh about maybe $1. That's your breakfast. You will not be hungry for six hours or longer. When lunchtime comes, you can go to the fast food place but you don't live on a dollar burger. You buy two of the one-dollar burgers in order of fries and an extra large soda."

15:09 You're spending five or six bucks. In fact, if you look at the financial reports for McDonald's they'll tell you what the average spend in McDonalds is and it's not a dollar right? It's five to nine dollars is probably what people spend depending on what they order. Do you buy that? I haven't been to McDonald's in ten years but… Yeah, no. For me I am spending ten bucks sometimes at the drive-thru but when I go to grocery shopping if I really am getting things that are organic or grass fed meats then I feel like I'm definitely paying a premium. If you're going to the grocery store and buy non-organic, non-grass fed then you're paying less than McDonald's right? A bag of rice, a bag

15:51 bag of frozen chicken parts that are still more intact and better than the ones you paid for in those McNuggets. You're kind of winning already because you didn't eat all the margarine, trans fats and all the other MSG and MSG analogs that you're getting." And he could say well who cares? It's not affecting me I look good. The thing is it affects your blood sugar levels and it affects your cognition So, you want to be able to pay attention all day long. I guarantee that if you eat say a low inflammation thing like the Bulletproof Diet which isn't terribly expensive – I mean you can eat eggs which are just about dirt cheap. Organic is better but non-organic eggs are still pretty darn good on the overall scheme of things.

16:31 You can have a lot of eggs, a lot of butter, little bit of white rice and some vegetables. If you want to be cheap buy the frozen vegetables they're actually probably better for you than the fresh ones that have been sitting there for a week in transit anyway. Ditch the fruit ditch the dessert All of a sudden, you're like I ate a lot of calories today. I ate maybe less variety of food than I did before and I ate a sweet potato today which cost 35 cents and I put 20 cents worth of butter on it." We're not talking about spending a ton of money in grass-fed beef. It's 5 bucks a pound and eat half a pound of it that's 250.

17:08 It's not as expensive as people make it out to be. If you're going to get fancy and buy the truffle butter from Normandy, stuff like that picked by one-armed monks – you don't need that to be healthy or high performance. For sure, man. I mean let's talk about the Bulletproof Diet because i love the little one sheet you have on the website. I think it's really well spelled out what's different about it than most conventional diets that people are talking about? for me i see you got oil and fats on there that you're getting five to nine servings of oils and fats, and then four to nine of proteins. A lot of people don't put that in their diets in this alternative health world so that's kind of interesting. Is that pretty much primarily for the cognitive function? Davey-Cognitive function, hormonal health ... This is going also fly on the face of what we've been taught but

17:59 If you have a race car, do you put low octane gas in it or do you have that special high-octane gas on that special truck that's 109 octane? Right. Of course! You need the good fuel. Octane is a measure of calories per ounce or calories per whatever volume right why do cars go faster when they have more calories per ounce of fuel It burns cleaner and it burns better. What we're talking about doing in the human body, this is going to be astounding when you eat a calorie it's not something that makes you fat. A calorie is something that fuels your body to move and think up to 25% of your calories are consumed by your brain.

18:43 When you eat more calories, you move more. When I say move more, you feel like going for a walk but also when you sit on the couch, you cross your legs one way or the other and you wiggle a little bit more and you scratch yourself. This is well established by science. You move more when you eat more. You move less when you eat less. When you eat more, you actually get warmer which is good for your metabolism. When you eat less, you're a little bit colder. Your body will automatically adjust the amount of calories it burns by providing energy with them. If you think you're going to lose weight by eating less calories and exercising more to burn them, what you're doing is you're telling your body there's a tiger chasing me because whatever brain is in charge of this body is making the exercise when I don't have enough food. So there's a famine and there's a tiger chasing me. I think it's panic time. When it's panic time…

19:34 These environmental signals, this is not your conscious brain. This is the cells in your body The systems there to keep all mammals and even reptiles alive they go into panic mode when they go into panic mode They change the expression of your genes through something called epigenetics mm-hmm you actually change to reflect the environment that you play back to yourself and You end up putting yourselves in something in my first book we call protection mode or survival mode What you really want to be in is in thriving mode, which is when you send your body the signal that the environment isn't too stressful and there's plenty of food and it's really high quality food. When you do that your genetic expression changes, your testosterone goes up, your cortisol goes down.

20:16 Your attention span goes up you feel really good and you have mental and physical abilities that you didn't have before because your body stopped getting ready to fight the tiger or To starve and survive during a famine and got ready to start growing Putting on muscle getting rid of excess fat and basically making you look and feel the way that you want to look and feel so who would have thought egg yolks butter and steak as I've tried vegetarian diets and everything else.

20:56 I ate a low calorie diet, about 1800 calories per day for a year and half. And I didn't lose a pound. I still weigh 300 pounds. I was strong but I was fat and now I'm strong. It sounds wild, man. I'm a vice president at a big company. I'm also gonna start this blog the Bulletproof executive It's now the number one ranked health podcast like a million people a month come to the site and it's like in the top 5,000 websites in the US

21:45 I'm amazingly grateful that people are so interested in this stuff about increasing human performance. But, I did that and ate 4,000 calories a day sometimes 4500. I slept 5 hours or less every single night and stopped all exercise for 2 years straight My original plan was to do it for like 60 days. I'm like, eh, I'll gain a pound and then I can write this blog post about how haha you know should have gained 18 pounds according to the math and only gained one pound. What I didn't expect is that I would grow six pack and I did and the only six pack I've ever posted on the internet is that one photo I took in like the bathroom mirror because honestly I'm not – I mean I'm a geek. I'm not into look at my abs so I'm like alright this is just evidence guys.

22:33 So, how did that happen? The bottom line is the number of calories you eat is not – those don't get burned off like a machine. At least 50% of your calorie use has nothing to do with moving and exercise. I was going to say, that's one of the things that really interests me about the Bulletproof way is there's not a lot of emphasis on long intense workout sessions. Tell us what to do there? How did that six-pack develop? Is it all just mainly... If it's not exercise, then it must be diet!

23:09 Oh, probably 90% of how you look is diet. Interesting! And the kind of exercise that is most effective in the least amount of time is not those stupid long cardio sessions I used to torture myself with. Those things raise your stress levels and they teach your heart to beat less efficiently and they're generally not very good for you. What you should do instead and what I do now sometimes although right now using only electricity which is a biohack in itself But you can actually work out for 15 minutes once a week and get more benefit than working out for an hour a day every day. That sounds crazy, I'm just quoting the work here of Doug McGuff who's a physician, a practicing physician in the emergency room and he is an exercise physiologist who wrote

23:57 called Body by Science. I've interviewed him on my show and he actually has the Bulletproof Diet on his fridge, that same infographic you were talking about. By the way it's free. I'm not selling anything but if you want to check it out bulletproofdietbook.com go there download the infographic at no cost and its professionally designed. It tells you the entire diet on one page that sticks to your fridge so Doug's work is, hey how do you get the most benefit in the least amount of time? What you do is 5 exercises at maximum weight and the total workout is 15 minutes. The problem is that at the end of a workout you should be dead. You lift things as heavy as humanly possible – it doesn't matter if your woman or man – and you get the maximum hormonal response in the least amount of time then you recover for the rest of the week

24:46 Maybe a week later you instead of going for a run You sprint for one minute or better yet do it for 400 meters and then you rest for a minute while walking And then you do it again, and you rest. Then you do it again rest and what will happen is you'll throw up? You can't do that for a second All right But you only do it three times and then usually like I can't do anymore my lungs are gonna burst Then, you rest for a week. What happens? Your body recovers. If you do that every day all your body does is get stressed and say oh my god something's probably trying to kill me I better get ready and You don't get the benefits so it's all about recovery It's not about the exercise its about the not exercise And its about fueling yourself during recovery So you eat this amazing high fat creamy diet where there are No vegetable exists for any reason but to absorb butter and other healthy fats

25:34 You eat a lot of vegetables, but they're always with fat and you eat a moderate amount of super high quality protein like eggs, grass fed steak, lamb, fish not farmed fish. When you do that, you don't spend much on the fat because this butter is affordable Coconut oil is good for you. The extract of coconut oil that I use, Brain Octane is 18 times stronger than coconut oil so if you put even a teaspoon or two in it and feel it in your brain and it lasts quite a long time. There's all these techniques to really You know really push what you're doing it don't cost a lot of money but you feel at first in your head and then you just need new pants is not convenient but you weren't trying there's no struggle there was no willpower screw will power you have so much of it don't waste on your food.

26:26 Yeah, man. I mean let's talk a little bit more about clearing that mental fog. I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with it that usually comes with the lack of energy and poor diet. I know with all the weed and alcohol that i'm taking in i'm usually walking around operating at maybe C- level I'd usually say but for people who want to really improve their cognitive function sharpen their focus what have you found to be the best tools? For Sharpen and Cognitive Focus, I'm sorry to sound like a broken record here. Bulletproof coffee is my number one thing to go to. It's those three ingredients the upgraded coffee beans without the toxins like most coffee you drink it you feel good and then you crash i don't want the crash because that's what brings on the fog especially for me with my background of having lots of brain fog so

27:12 I'm kind of careful about the quality there. Then lots of fat, you blend that in a blender it has to be blended or it doesn't work and it needs to be grass-fed butter not margarine or something and this $3 for half a pound is not expensive. Kerrygold brand is available at almost every store. Then you do that and put in the brain octane oil and you feel good for hours and hours and the brain fog is gone. If that doesn't work what you want to do is go out there and really take a look at how you feel when you do that, and say okay I rocked it with natural ingredients. And it wasn't everything I expected. Then I don't have a problem with pharmaceuticals in the slightest. One of the areas where I've written a lot about something I've used almost every day for 15 years is smart drugs not just Ginkgo and things like that although I'm happy to use those and I have some on my site that I recommend but

28:10 I actually am talking about pharmaceuticals, things like paracetam and aniracetam. And I've been quoted in Rolling Stone and Men's Health talking about the pharmaceutical side of that. The big gun is something called modafinil or provigal. CNN interviewed me and ABC Nightline sent a camera crew to my house because I was like one of the only Silicon Valley executives willing to talk about this openly, and I have for 10 years. Yeah, I took ProVigil for eight years straight almost every day." And this is if you see lemon list the movie. Yeah I'm telling you the cameraman, the producer they all tried ProVigil like they never told me that i don't know them but i know because when you take ProVigil color saturation increases like Christmas lights are more intense on ProVigil oh yeah like there's a subtle change in just the hue of all colors everything is more intense you can pay attention to so much more wow

29:06 So I lived in that state for eight years and i can tell you what in the end, when the guy takes the drug like the colors change yep they tried to close thing we have to the limitless truck wow that's funny. So this is a prescription drug correct? Unless you have the internet well i've heard a couple people buying it through the internet of course and no problem doing that but i've heard that a lot of times people are getting there from unreputable sources they're. Getting their not just thinking they're not getting the real deal,

29:42 I don't know, but on your website you have some links to possible options for people? You know, I've bought it online and tested it. I tested by using it not by sending into a lab and I know the feeling of real modafinil very well — the sample that I tried just few years ago It was legit. It was from India manufacturing a lot of the stuff is no doubt there's some stuff out there that isn't the same thing and There's a risk from doing that The good thing is there's lots of discussions online including some on my site where people talk about I tried it And it worked, I tried it didn't work and so

30:18 So, there is a risk there. It's unlikely they're going to be putting rat poison in there because actually rat poison is more expensive than sugar. They'll send you sugar pills so you can also taste it once you've had a real provigil. It has a flavor and you could detect that with your tongue. So, it's not a super risky proposition but it is better to get a prescription if you go to Bulletproof Exec. I actually have a discussion there about what you need to tell your physician to explain that you have an insurable requirement for Provigil. There's a couple things, narcolepsy is what it was originally for if you have that but shift worker sleep disorder is a terrible problem. Your job requires you to take phone calls and travel to different time zones in the middle of the night all night then you're really tired and you're a zombie and you have all these symptoms that Wikipedia told

31:11 And more than a few people have a prescription that way. It's also used to treat ADD, it's an off-label use but it's very commonly used if you have ADD I think its far safer than Adderall given what I understand about the pharmacology of both of them That said, I am not on it right now About two years ago when I first went on The Joe Rogan Show I've been on national TV twice talking about it. A bunch of people are like, well you didn't disclose that you use it? I'm like what kind of disclosure other than national tv twice you're expecting but alright and my blog's about it but yes I use it so I went off of it just for a month to see and what I found was with the latest tweaks in the Bulletproof Diet as long as I'm using the Brain Octane oil and I've got my coffee, I'm good to go.

32:00 I travel with it, keep it with me. I might use if I'm going over 10 time zones or something and going to give a talk but its become something that is now like an optional Swiss Army kind of tool thing rather than daily practice for me Yeah, I'm really interested in trying that because I am pretty dense. Those kind of nootropics and supplements they don't do a whole lot for me usually but i definitely might check that out if I can figure out how to get a weed card I should be able to figure out how to get a prescription for ProVigil. I also hear you talk about EEG based neurofeedback. You want to talk about that a little bit?

32:37 Davey Sure. I've had my own EEG machine since 1997, circa? That could be plus or minus one year and you can play your brain waves back to yourself and you can consciously teach your brain to do tricks things that it doesn't naturally know how to do. There's two different flavors of this kind of feedback. One of them is that your brain is the most self-optimizing organ in the body Your brain's job is to figure out how stuff works and make it better. The problem is there are no nerves inside your brain, actually that's not true. There's one nerve that comes from your back molars called the fifth cranial nerve but its not a very useful nerve so if you cut your arm your body is like oh nerves told me I was hurt so let me fix that and then a repair process kicks off when the brain is hurt or when it just working ineffectively without any actual damage

33:36 Well, it doesn't know because all of the sensory things you have point outwards. None of them point inwards when you hook little electrodes up your head with a bit of goop and you play it through a computer and what comes out of computers is sound that's tied to the state of your brain and Your brain will automatically recognize that that sound is like a mirror And without you consciously needing to do anything You can influence the brain to become more effective and to pay attention better and let go of patterns that aren't helping you. That's pretty profound but the area where I've focused my time is something I bring some senior executives that I coach through, it's a program called 40 Years Of Zen. And this is

34:20 The single most impactful thing I've done out of $300,000 spent on upgrading myself. It's called 40 Years Was End because in seven very intense days – I don't know anyone who hasn't either cried or thrown up or both during those seven days – you basically have a lie detector hooked up to your head telling you when you're deceiving yourself about anything So all of your internal dialogues that are not serving you, it's like I'm lying there. And when you realize that you're lying and there is no way to squirm out of it because you've got a computer telling you have to face things and fix them

35:04 And what you get in those seven days is the same brain waves as someone who's done 20 to 40 years of daily Zen practice, an advanced Zen meditator. It takes many years to get there and you can measure their brain! It's a definable pattern where alpha starts in a part of the brain and these two hemispheres are synchronized and you can do it in seven days. The side effects of this? I'm not kidding about this. There's a study 12 IQ points and a 50% increase in creativity. What? Wow, that's pretty crazy man! Seven days so elaborate a little bit you're hooked up to a computer how does it work exactly well what we've done is we've measured the brainwaves of advanced meditators you know Zen masters yeah like hmm what do they all have in common that other people don't have when they're in this state of meditation

35:55 It's a mathematical signature, like a 3D picture of which parts of the brain light up in which ways at what time. We put eight electrodes on your head in carefully measured spots and those electrodes are getting the electricity that comes out of the brain like they actually capture the signal. They run it through an amplifier that sends into a computer. The computer analyzes the signal and then takes that signal, and if you're doing it right it plays a musical tone. And if you're not doing it... You hear nothing! So you sit there and it's quiet, and then you get frustrated. You go damn it! Why do I hear nothing? I'm a failure. I can't even do my Zen thing which in of itself is funny because that's the opposite what a Zen meditator would do right but then after a little while you realize wait something made it make noise what did I do and I'll do more of that and you just go down that process And after a day or two you realize that visualizing nice imagery and breathing all the things you can do to raise your alpha waves

36:57 They only get you so far. There's a number you can look at, is the number getting bigger every time? Is it falling and you realize you're stuck and that's when you basically are going to have a really bad day because the light detector stuff kicks in and what you realize is there are all sorts of reasons why you shouldn't be there. This is your internal self-defense systems trying to get you out of there because they don't want you to pay attention to what you're doing at the very lowest levels inside your body. You sit there and basically overcome your own objections, and you realize the things that are doing that aren't serving you or other people. At the end of the day, you spend the following several days recognizing grudges that you hold and practicing forgiveness.

37:43 Which is totally hippie talk right forgiveness, whatever but for you this isn't about telling someone you're sorry which is what most people believe it is because You know your mom made you say you were sorry when you hit your friend What we're talking about here is stop carrying other people's baggage. So if someone did something mean to you, whether your boss fired you or your spouse left you whatever it is, you're pissed off about it and probably pissed off about 10 thousand things that you don't even remember and when you are sitting there with the lie detector you can remember them and repattern those unconscious responses that you have so I'm 6-4, I am big guy

38:23 If a big guy who looked kind of like me beat you up when you were seven, I guarantee when i walk into the room your nervous system without your permission and before you have a chance to recognize that it's me. It will prepare you to run away or kill me and waste your energy waste your time and its actually waste your life You might say, yeah that's BS. I don't feel anything and if you don't feel anything that's okay it's because you know how to feel it but we can measure it We can put sensors on your skin And you'll have like very subtle changes in the electrical resistance of your skin because a fine sheen of sweat formed Your pupils dilate your blink rate changes your respiration rate changes you start taking in more oxygen to get ready to run or fight and

39:11 Literally, we can see all this even your brainwaves change. So if you're doing that and you don't know it, you're a chump You need to know it. Sorry, yeah like you are a modern human being in the modern world and there are no tigers to eat you You're not gonna die and your nervous system thinks you're gonna die 100 times a day because it's running old patterns And what we're really doing with this kind of stuff is we're sitting down and we're fixing those patterns We're making you aware of them and then repatterning them and when you're done you walk out they're going Wow I just drove home and I didn't flip anyone off. I didn't cut any one off That's an achievement in and of itself

39:47 Yeah, man. That is a fascinating program! You know that now you're talking about this involves electricity? You're working out with electricity? Do you think that being around all a lot of electronics and Wi-Fi routers and cell phones we hear from some people that's damaging do you think that's true or is it just some new age bullshit? Oh, it's absolutely true I've talked to some of the experts out there. I have electrical filters in my house that reduce chaotic resonance in the electrical fields of the house and funny, the clients I work with on high performance stuff their sleep improves when they put filters in their house not everyone but a lot of them. I don't have Wi-Fi in my home office. I have this old school thing called Ethernet it's amazing like

40:31 The internet comes on a wire, who would have thought? That's not to say I don't have wireless devices. I have two iPhones and an Android device and a couple iPads and a laptop that can use Wi-Fi. I just don't expose myself to it all the time. There is at this point incontrovertible evidence that these are bad for us. I also have a collection of biohacking devices that use electrical magnetic fields to improve your health, to make you heal faster and make more stem cells. use EMFs to improve health or to reduce health. So what I'm working to do now is bring awareness that they can be harmful so we can start engineering our networking equipment to improve our health rather than reduce it. It may sound like a big claim, remember? I'm a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Some of the companies that created cloud computing, not just there but in the room when we were sketching it out. So I know a lot about the networking industry

41:36 And have worked for a variety of big networking companies from 3Com on up. So when I talk about re-engineering networking, it's not idle musings of a crazy person It's you know A guy who was the vice president at multiple networking companies in his career That's interesting man like i've heard people talk about a certain mat I assume that's one of the devices You're talking about how does that work exactly? It's supposed to Counteract the or the charge or something a grounding man. I think is what it's called yeah they call an earthing Matt and I have found improvements in sleep, especially deep sleep from being electrically grounded. Especially for jet lag. Here's the problem though...

42:14 a lot of the mats plug into the wall. And so you're sharing a ground with the rest of the house and you get a benefit from it, it improves your sleep but I've found after a lot of time using one of the mats and recommending to a lot people that if you can spend a few minutes barefoot outdoors, it seems to work better and I don't exactly know why? One of the preeminent experts in electrical fields and their impacts on human health The inventor of one of the electrical filters you can put in your house has done some research. Starting in 1992, the US allowed electrical utilities to return their electricity through the earth instead of through wires. In Europe, we call it two wires but the idea is one wire brings electricity and then another one brings out after you've used it.

43:08 That's more expensive than this new thing that has happened since 92 where 70% of the electricity rather than taking it back through a wire, you just dump it into the earth. And there are some serious legitimate scientific questions around is earthing using one of these mats you can buy really a good idea? Walking around barefoot helps Earthing seems to help on a lot of things, but a lot of the experiments on earthing were done before 1992. And since that time the amount of electricity we dump into the earth without any idea what it's doing in the US at least has gone up a lot. I live on an island in Canada. The ground here is pretty well grounded given that I'm 10 minutes from the beach and you

43:53 isolated from the mainland and all. I don't worry about it too much here, but I do wonder whether there's a very big difference in how you feel and how you perform if you're sleeping plugged into the earth somewhere near a power station or high-tension power lines? All I can say is that data is out like there are expert cardiovascular people who are doing this One of my good friends and the coach for nine years, one of the preeminent cycling teams in the Tour de France. The guy who did the magical health hacking in the background has literally for years used earthing as one of the ways to make pro athletes at the highest levels recover faster

44:38 The question is you're doing that on the tour de France or are you doing that somewhere in in the US? We don't even know but we do know that it makes a difference. We just don't know all the variables yet Yeah, that stuff's kind of interesting to me because I'm around a lot of electrical equipment I've got a Wi-Fi router in my bedroom sleeping with an iPhone next to my head How old are you 28 so You're not gonna like yourself in another seven years. Seven years? I don't know if I like myself that much today. Give yourself to your about 35 and, like, I wish I hadn't held a cell phone up to my head as much as I did. There are changes in cognitive function that we can measure from that. There's an increased risk of neuroglioma, if I remember the exact form of tumor specifically on the right-hand side where people hold their cell phone more often so

45:29 You owe it to yourself to put your phone in airplane mode and turn off your Wi-Fi router when you sleep. Believe it or not, I've had lots of clients do just that and their sleep quality improves on a sleep monitoring system so if you sleep deeper, you need less sleep and get more free time since you weren't using your Wi-Fi due to your sleep, you just don't need it. I mean, let's talk about sleep a little bit because my sleep is awful. No wonder! Yeah it's pretty terrible You eat like crap and you live in a bunch of EMFs cool yeah i mean you're telling me no- I know these things and I do want to make some changes but there has just been no education in my life for so long about any of this kind of stuff

46:11 So, it's all kind of foreign to me and now that I'm getting older. I do want to start making some of these changes but I've been hearing that vitamin D in sunlight is super important to sleep. I mean, I know you talk a little bit about that on your website what's the deal there? I'm a huge vitamin D supporter and I read a lot about improving sleep And one of the things you do to sleep better Get more sunlight during the day and get adequate vitamin d levels in the morning in midday If you take vitamin D at night, it'll hurt your sleep if you take it in the morning It'll help your sleep. So you gotta time your vitamin D and You know, I'm not in the sunlight right now I live in Canada where like the Sun is only here half the time mm-hmm and

46:48 Above where I'm recording right now, there's a thousand watts of halogen light shining on me. I'm doing that because I want my body to know it's daytime so when nighttime comes and I turn on the dimmer switch and have you know much less light and less blue light which is what turns off melatonin, i'll go to sleep effortlessly My average time to go to sleep for the past three years is three minutes. I close my eyes, I'm out Yeah, I definitely don't do that. I'm usually streaming something from Netflix for a couple of hours waking up three or four times through the night and then dragging myself out of bed depressed and angry. Dave This is because you're eating foods that do that particularly gluten. Gluten will change your personality for worse like you've got to nail that. It's not hard to eat white rice instead of bread it's not particularly more less expensive either its just a choice to make.

47:38 When you get rid of gluten and get rid of MSG, get rid of hydrogenated fat and probably corn syrup your sleep is just thousands of times better. If you turn off the Wi-Fi at all, you wake up and don't feel like a zombie. You kind of feel ready to kick some ass. I went from feeling like a zombie all the time Really, to the point that I bought insurance because I was afraid I wouldn't even be able to work for too long. I mean, I was getting into the day and like, I don't really know what I did today. I don't feel like I was productive. I do remember half my meetings and I'm just too tired to do anything. I'm barely going to make it home. I used to drive by Braille. I'm kind of ashamed to admit it but my brain was so just thwacked from eating the wrong stuff and not understanding all this.

48:25 As soon as I was on the commute home, I wasn't asleep but I wasn't exactly very conscious. You kind of get tunnel vision and you're sort of not sleeping but not really paying attention. I can't believe I never ran into anyone and that state is so opposite to the way I live my life today. I despise it and I won't allow it and I have all these crazy tools at my disposal at my disposal to make sure that it doesn't happen. But when you eat clean, the way I'm talking about just avoiding the common things that cause inflammation in your brain, it doesn't take any effort. You just feel good. You can pay attention to something that's boring or not boring train the brain and not flop around all the time and like... It's amazing what you can do and how you can feel

49:10 Yeah, I mean let's let me ask you about things to boost the immune system because i don't really get sick a lot but i do have really bad sinuses so it's kind of like i'm barely sick all the time and uh... i've just sort of learned to live with that or accept that as like allergies. You know people talk about having allergies and that almost makes it seem like something you can fix but um... Do think this kinda stuff could be from something like, of course bad diet but toxins or mold and poor quality foods? Davey DeWitt Depending on your genetics you can have really strong autoimmune reactions to mold or it could just make a little bit sick. I had chronic sinus problems for 15 years. Dr. Justin Marchegiani Yeah that's me. Davey DeWitt I mean I was strep throat, had my tonsils out when I was 16 then I had sinusitis– Dr. Justin Marchegiani Nice! Davey DeWitt –I was on antibiotics every month–

49:59 Davey So yeah, you're probably eating a food you're allergic to. If I had to guess, I'd say gluten if it's not gluten it's probably dairy protein and that's not it either soy or eggs. It's predictable. You could also like get a blood test for 300 bucks and figure out or you could download a free application that I put out there called Food Sense and you check your heart rate in the morning just put your thumb on the back of your flash on your iPhone and Oh yeah, it's cool. And then you do it before and after each meal and they'll tell you if you ate a food that was kryptonite for you in that meal just based on what your heart rate does. That's really cool! It's free okay? I'm not trying to sell anything here... This is amazing research from like 35 years ago Dr Broda

50:47 I'm forgetting exactly whether it's a C or D in their name. Anyway, this test is well known. The problem is that there was just not sensors to let people do this so now it's all on an app and you can tell the app, you know, I ate meat, I eat gluten, whatever, and pretty soon you'll get a pattern that's like when I eat this my heart rate goes up enough to tell me I just ate something that was kryptonite And if you avoid those things, your sinuses clear up. Your brain clears up. Your skin clears up. Your sleep improves and you're like funny I didn't realize that one thing was jacking my entire day and my entire night because I was eating it without knowing. I mean God I just wish I had known that gluten gave me road rage and kind of made me a jerk all the time in Brain Fog 2 right?

51:33 I've bread and meat i mean basically burgers burgers and fried foods is almost my whole diet it's you're making me feel like i'm dying here well you are and you know you not uncommon no i know most people until they hit 30 Just completely grind themselves into a pulp. Yeah, and they do that because like hey I feel pretty good And I'm unfortunate that you know, I didn't last until I was 30 and I started having really severe problems in my early 20s but Then you have to dig out of a hole and you probably don't really feel it until about 33, 35. You're like man I can't really drink like I used to. It takes me a couple days to recover and then I got an extra 20 pounds. I never gained weight till I hit 32. And you know this but your testosterone level started to decline. Your growth hormone levels started to decline. Your insulin resistance finally hits you. God!

52:32 I got a little gut now, but that's all right. Wouldn't it just be easier if you didn't let it happen in the first place? Not because you're afraid of getting old and all that but just cuz even though you're 22 or 28 Or however old you are You just want to feel good all the time and kick ass And you won't have a really good job, and when you don't the job. You wanna You know go out with with your friends Are you wanting to school and learn something more or do you wanna travel on hike whatever is that that you know makes you happy If you're too tired

53:11 and foggy to do that, and you wake up in the morning and can barely move? What's it all about?" I just realized that no one ever told me that when I was 16. If I'd known half of what I know now my life would have been a lot more comfortable and very different and I probably be much more successful than I am today. And I'm grateful that I'm pretty damn successful. I thought maybe write that down and give it away for free. That's my blog, right? It has grown dramatically in this last three years because like that level of knowledge what I learned from spending $300,000 in 15 years of studying all these things and trying them interviewing experts. I run anti-aging research group called Silicon Valley Health Institute for 20 years every month we bring in expert to talk about aging how the body works how to improve performance

54:03 The videos are all online for free, svhi.com. This is the way you give back but it's also the way I learn so all these guys taught me stuff and now I write about it and it helps others. Yeah, man. I'm really enjoying it for sure Let me ask you about marijuana usage of course there's a lot of smokers out in the audience I probably do it too much. I could definitely cut that back a little bit But how do you feel like that? Affects health all that much. I mean because I feel like it helps me a lot creatively. I just enjoy It as part of a just a daily ritual is there anything I should be doing to counteract any negative effects of it or supplement with something else

54:40 How do you take it? I smoke it. That's probably the worst way. It's not the pot, but the burning crap going into your lungs. It doesn't matter if its tobacco or pot or sage or garbage. Smoke is bad for your body and increases carbon monoxide and oxidative stress. If you're gonna do it, you can vape it. You can eat it which is probably how I would prefer. I guess it depends on what you put it on. It's one of those things, even just using a water bong is going to take some of that crap out so it's not the pot, it's the mechanism of action there and I think … Pots are double-edged sword right? THC is going to raise your alpha brain waves by the way that's what I do in 40 Years

55:36 The thing is you're reliant on the drug to raise them. You get the creative state, but then you want to go back and use more of the drug. If a drug isn't causing aging and cancer the way any other burning substance in your lungs does then okay who that cares? People drink coffee or they drink alcohol so now that's okay but pot's not completely makes no sense. In fact if I had my say… If I had to pick, I would say make alcohol legal and make pot legal because it would absolutely help society in so many different ways. That said, I don't really think either of them should be legal but I don't drink because why would I? I have lots more fun things to do. I'm not a straight edge like people who drink are bad. When I drink, I just feel good and if I get tired or not feeling good – I did enough with that when I was young – so when I drink its Bulletproof Coffee.

56:26 Give me two shots of espresso and I'll party, but why two shots of vodka? I don't know. Yeah, I definitely don't drink all that much anymore it...I think that's way worse than the marijuana at least for my chemistry its...it jacks me up a whole lot But I've been trying to make better choices in the beverage department because it's an easy one. And, uh...I'm trying to choose things that aren't soda and energy drinks. And i've been hearing a lot of people advocating kombucha as a good probiotic beverage choice but its pretty low on your bulletproof diet is that not a great option in your opinion? It depends on what's in the kombucha. And there are five different kinds of antibiotics we don't really know about, they haven't even been researched so you look at this stuff it does have some good bacteria in it. It also can have depending on who made it and what is it can have brewers or bakers yeast Saccharomyces cervicae that's called that's not good for you if its saccharomyces boiardi it may be good for you depending on your allergies So what I'd say

57:23 I use it on occasion from vendors. I used to grow it myself too and a lot of home fermented foods are just not safe because we've changed the fungal biome of the planet We've done this by spraying pesticides around that cause like X-Men level mutation in soil microbes. For 30 years, every 20 minutes there's another generation of these things and they make 500 or 1,000 times more toxins now than they used to and some of them make toxins they never used to make. You just don't know what's growing in that bottle of kombucha and if it's not laboratory controlled and tested I wouldn't drink it if it's made from a reputable vendor with really good quality control and it agrees with you. You measure on food sense or you look at, can meditate after doing that? Do I really feel good? Am I itchy? Am I puffy? Do I have more muffin top the next day? And you check it out and this stuff agrees with me and I'm good with it. I don't have a problem but most of the stuff out there

58:21 It's hit or miss for every single person. It's very individual, so I'm not opposed to it. I just consider it a high-risk food. Nothing on the Bulletproof Diet is bad. These are the ones that are probably going to cause problems and these are the ones that very rarely do. Moving more to the left on the infographic you'll probably feel better and have less inflammation for sure But you know if you look if you love the cheesecake dude, I'm a cheesecake. You're still on the bulletproof diet You just ate an inflammatory food And now you want to whack it how do you whack it? Whack it with some of this coconut charcoal and increase your liver output like it's all hackable You just have to decide you know first what is the cost of eating a food that causes inflammation How does it change how I feel has it changed my experience of the world once you get that you're good shape

59:03 Lewis I really just don't think that I've done a good enough job of breaking down how I feel versus what I'm eating. In the broad sense, yes but I like the way you break it down by food item. The Bulletproof Diet infographic is pretty sweet and it's like a ladder of this is better than this or this is better than this and I think that's helpful because I know I won't choose the best option all the time But something you mentioned earlier, like that I never really thought about is...I can't really meditate and I never really equated that to diet. I've just kind of thought oh well you know unless i'm really going to take hours and hours to sit aside I'm not gonna get it but yeah maybe it has to do with diet and just mental function altogether

59:46 It does and it also has to do with your language and one of the things that you become really hyper aware of when You've trained your brain like me is words have meaning And your body is too stupid to sort out what you meant to say versus what you actually said So you said I can't meditate, and I'll call bullshit on that. You can meditate you just haven't learned and they're doing wrong right but you can Yeah, so because I haven't learned how to do it yet or I suck at it and I'll give you those But you can. So once you do that that changes your capability set In fact there's studies good studies That show that you can raise your intelligence only if you believe it's possible raising your intelligence

1:00:24 If you take kids and you tell them, can I get smarter? They cannot get smarter. If you tell them they can get smarter and give exactly the same training as other ones, they'd get smarter. What he's saying there is when you try to meditate it hasn't worked for you. Alright, I get it because your brain is really having a hard time biochemically focusing. And if you want to meditate and haven't addressed underlying biomechanics of it like you have wrong fuel or not enough or things like MSG getting in the way Of course it's going to be hard to meditate. So the reason that I do the Bulletproof Diet, really? Is because when you turn off inflammation and you fuel your brain right everyone can meditate better You can be more conscious of your actions and when you do that you're less of a dick to everyone around you so if we're all less dicky to each other Because our brains work better because we ate good food then the world is more fun to live in and that's cool Yeah

1:01:13 No, you're right. That language thing is kind of in line with the placebo effect. The power of thought is incredibly powerful I should use that knowledge to a benefit of mine...I don't but I should You also have a section on the upgraded exec website, the bulletproof exec website A sex section and of course sex should be a staple of any well-rounded healthy life What can you tell us about upgraded sex? Are we talking about tantric sex or monks who have these 10-hour sustained orgasms, is this a road you've traveled down?" There's a great talk, the Huffington Post wrote it up. I direct people to the website to check it out but the short version of it is I tested the tantric equations for guys that looks at your age and says there's an equation for your age and all that details are on the site and it tells you how frequently a guy should ejaculate

1:02:08 And if you ejaculate more frequently than that, then you age more quickly and your weak. If you ejaculate that number like that infrequently or even wait longer then you'll live longer and have more energy." I'm like sounds like BS to me but I'll give it a shot so for about a year I ran a series of tests my numbers eight so as a 41-year old I should have any ejaculation once every eight days. That's not saying sex every day is you can have sex all you want you just don't finish Yeah, so I tracked my satisfaction with life on a daily basis and frequency of sex frequency of orgasm and Funny enough. There's a very clear orgasm hangover for guys

1:02:48 You ejaculate, the next day you're not as happy with life. Your boss is a jerk. Your girlfriend or wife or whatever is just not that interesting and like your kind of blah." And we've known this forever. Napoleon Hill writes about it. Monks write about it. Tantric sex writes about it. It's something that guys just don't talk about anymore and we have this hyper-sexualized... We all look at porn and mess with our dopamine sensitivity But the bottom line is, if you don't have as many orgasms as you're having now, you'll have a lot more energy and you'll have a lot more sex. When you do an orgasm, the next day you're like dude let's get it on. Whereas if you just have orgasms all over the place, you lose your edge so I found that the tantric equation held very nicely and if I had sex as much as I wanted but only had ejaculation every eight days, I kicked a lot more ass

1:03:44 I like my life better i like my family better like my coworkers better at my company does better i don't need much sleep i have more energy and more focus it's kind of a big thing so i buy with the monk said yeah that's interesting there is a big temptation to finish But i guess just resist that here's your the temptation comes from you have this operating system for your meet. The same thing that makes you eat everything like junk food and whatever cycle you might start it something a dog does look spoiled whatever in the trash can let me just eat that, like that disgusting but you have the same process like my starfish you should be

1:04:22 So same thing on sex reproduction survival of the species. So the reptile like must procreate is in there and right when you're about ready to ejaculate it steps up and pretends like it's you, it's like hey there's a really good reason have you thought of all the reasons you should ejaculate right now? And it does it! And your'e like shit I really wasn't going to do that Dave Well, once you're in charge of your operating system which you should be if you eat the right stuff. If you've trained your brain it's your choice and the other thing they warn is don't have an orgasm that lasts more than half an hour this is for men not women all this advice women need to have orgasms frequently sorry well I think it's painful to have an orgasm for a half of an hour

1:05:05 In fact, anything over like seven or eight minutes it's like your abs hurt. You can't breathe and it's just not that pleasant but as possible and wow! So it was an unlikely experiment and I just kind of try to talk openly about it without being too crude. And yeah, I've had countless entrepreneurs and even some really successful guys come into me like Dave, I read that. I thought it was crazy. It works. You want more energy? You want 20% boost in everything, maybe save it for Saturday night.

1:05:40 Lay off the orgasms. Stop flinging it around willy-nilly I'm not saying you can't, you know look at porn although that messes with your dopamine levels If you do it too much and not say don't have sex I'm saying have sex all the time just Don't finish to often and good to go And for the women women when they have frequent orgasms It doesn't make them weak it makes them happy and gives them oxytocin so in a relationship this works out really nicely because you have more sex the woman is He tends to enjoy it a lot and the guy enjoys it a lot too. Then once a week, you really enjoy it and then you pass out and then you're kind of grumpy the next day."

1:06:16 Interesting. Wow, man! Well that pretty much brings us to the end of the show I wanted to make sure we hit all the aspects of a well-rounded biohacked upgraded person and i think we did that. I'd urge anybody who's interested to look at bulletproofexec.com you'll find multiple categories and tons of info on podcasts on each one all for free Dave, you want to take a second to tell them more about keeping up with you and your stuff? DAVE Sure. If you want to get a copy of the Bulletproof Diet – again this is one of those things that's free because I like to give stuff away that helped me a lot – go to bulletproofdietbook.com and you can download it. The Bulletproof blog is at

1:06:54 Bulletproofexec.com, like bullet proof executive and check out Bullet Proof Coffee if you just do that once made with the right beans, the brain octane oil and the right kind of butter, you'll experience a level performance that you probably haven't felt in a long time. It's a big claim but there are hundreds or thousands people who have We've tried it and written about it. There's all these testimonials, there are world class athletes – the LA Lakers just said they drink it before games. One of my friends who is a lead drummer at a band that has sold 12 million albums he just sent me an email today and said we just got out of the recording studio, we just finished wrapping up our new album and we were like mainlining Bulletproof Coffee like we drank it every time before we did our recording session so super talented people use to increase their performance

1:07:43 World poker champions, all that kind of stuff. Just try it once and you don't have to do it and I'm not going to make a fortune or not off this but man, I just want you to feel really good once and realize that's what I want every day to be like when you do that, you're on the path. That's cool. Yeah man! I'm with you. I definitely felt the effects. I've tried several new tropics that are supposed to increase energy and brain function and I didn't really feel a noticeable effect. Is this working? Is it not? With the Bulletproof Coffee, I felt like it was definitely noticeable And a lot of that stuff doesn't affect me. I'm pretty dense, so I thought that was pretty telling. I thought that was a good sign. Well this has been great man! Thanks again much appreciated. I know thinking about health for me in terms of hacks and upgrades has made it a lot more interesting and easier to keep in mind before making shitty choices Hopefully the people will find that as well So thanks again Dave Keep doing what you do

1:08:35 You got it. I really appreciate it, Greg Have a great evening Alright man take care Alright take care bye What makes a man? Is the power in his hand? Isn't his quest for glory Give it all you've got to To fight to the top So we can know your story Now you're a man A man and a man-man-man You are now a man! You're a man! Now you're a man Live it live it What makes a man

1:09:33 woman in his arms just cuz she has big titties or is it the way he bites every day? no, it's probably the tea.