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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

It's not.

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

It's higher deaths per calorie than just eating a cow.

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

And it's not good for the environment either because we need animal poop to have healthy soil.

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

So there's no argument for a vegan diet other than self-hatred.

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

So I did that.

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

And I was just wrong on my arguments.

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

And it screwed me up.

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

And one of the things it did is it messed up my thyroid.

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

Right?

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

So...

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

You don't want to have low thyroid function, but you can handle it for about two, three years as the oxalate levels build up.

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

How many influencers do we know go, I'm going to go vegan, I'm never doing this again, I got the glow.

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

The glow is your body panicking because you don't have any good food, right?

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

And then the glow starts to go away, but you know how good it is.

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

So you just keep doing it until you have dark circles and you're gaunt and you're tired and you have autoimmune conditions and all this stuff.

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

And then you have the tearful apology to your followers about how you're not vegan anymore.

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

It's like, it's predictable.

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

But if you're 20, you have abundant chi, this life force energy, and you can have this for decades or you could waste it on black beans and it's dumb.

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

Junk light is a term I've been using for a very long time.

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

And fluorescent lighting and LED lighting is junk light.