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Dave Asprey

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

I have not eaten seed oils in 15 years.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

I only eat butter, tallow and olive oil and avocados and things like that.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

So the difference in my blood work is pretty phenomenal.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

And your friend has a problem because seed oils take about two years to work their way out of the body, just half of them.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

So if you ate no more seed oils, you replace it with biologically compatible fats.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

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.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

So he screwed up because he broke his mitochondria and his cell membranes with bad oils.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

And he has a ton of oxalate and probably a ton of other flavorings and things like that that are affecting his neurochemistry.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

They just did an autopsy study of a bunch of people who died naturally in their 70s and 87 percent had oxalate crystals in their thyroid gland.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

Your thyroid gland controls how much energy you have.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

So you're going to be tired all the time.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

Be a low thyroid.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

You're going to be tired all the time.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

Eat a lot of oxalates for a lot of years.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

The problem is if you're in your 20s, like I'm going to go vegan.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

Same way I did.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

And I guess I was 30 when I did it.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

And maybe it's because you think it's healthy.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

It's not.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey

You think it's good for animals.