Dave Asprey
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17,208 appearances
48 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Dave Asprey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you don't have that and are exercising the old-fashioned way and want real cardiovascular protection, you're probably looking at closer to an hour a day, and that number drops slightly if your baseline fitness is already high.
Individual times aside, remember, the government is not your health daddy, so stop treating the government exercise minimum as your goal, treat it as your floor, and build toward closer to sixty minutes a day, especially if heart disease runs in your family.
We'll finish with this one.
New research is finally clarifying something that's been controversial since the 1970s, when Linus Pauling claimed high-dose vitamin C helped cancer patients, and follow-up studies using oral vitamin C found nothing.
Turns out Pauling had the mechanism right and the delivery method wrong.
Oral vitamin C caps out around 200 micromoles per liter in your blood because your gut regulates how much gets absorbed.
IV vitamin C skips that limit entirely and can push plasma levels up to a hundred times higher.
At those concentrations, it starts generating hydrogen peroxide, and that peroxide turns out to be selectively toxic to cancer cells because they carry less catalase to break it down than healthy cells do.
A twenty twenty four University of Iowa study found IV vitamin C plus chemotherapy doubled overall survival in advanced pancreatic cancer patients.
This is one of the most satisfying vindications I've seen in a while.
I've talked about IV vitamin C on this show many, many times, and the mainstream response always dismissed pauling entirely instead of asking why oral and IV routes might behave so differently in the body.
People make that same mistake with a lot of supplements.
Assuming a nutrient works the same way no matter how you take it, when dose and delivery change everything.
This doesn't mean go find a wellness clinic and start doing forty gram infusions on your own.
But if you or someone you love is facing a cancer diagnosis, this is a conversation worth having with an integrative oncologist.
If IV vitamin C comes up during cancer treatment, don't write it off as fringe or woo-woo naturopathic and ask specifically whether your doctors are pairing it with chemotherapy, not swapping it in for chemotherapy.
If you only remember one thing from this episode, make it the vitamin C story.
It's not the flashiest data of the week, but it's proof of something I think people get wrong constantly.
We spent 50 years treating Linus Pauling as a punchline because one study used the wrong delivery method, and an entire avenue of cancer treatment got shelved as a result.
That should bother you.
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