The Biohacker’s Guide To Sleep, Nicotine, & Weight Loss | Dave Asprey
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What are the first steps to take if someone feels tired every day?
If somebody feels tired every day, what is the first thing you'd fix?
Your thyroid gland controls how much energy you have. So you're going to be tired all the time, be a low thyroid. You're going to be 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. I'm kidding.
Today I learned if you're struggling losing weight, you don't need more willpower, you just need butter in your coffee.
How does sleep quality impact longevity?
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, four-time New York Times bestselling author, and the founder of Danger Coffee, the bulletproof diet in the entire biohacking movement. After losing over 100 pounds and 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 leads some of the most cutting-edge ventures in health and performance. Watch today's episode on YouTube by subscribing to Real Alex Clark or on
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Please welcome legendary biohacker, founder, and author Dave Asprey to Culture Apothecary. You were pushing 300 pounds.
What is the relationship between diet and weight loss according to Dave Asprey?
Instead of extreme dieting or taking Ozempic, you kind of found this crazy hack with your coffee, which kickstarted your weight loss journey.
Well, I did try all the crazy things. I was a vegan. I shattered three teeth and gave myself allergies. And I tried the old, old keto diet that lets 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 and 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 Palo Alto 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 your cells. 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 holiest 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 kind of are dying.
And I just felt better than I'd 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 out how to be grass-fed butter. And then I tried it in coffee.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What are the first steps to take if someone feels tired every day?
0:00–1:02
2
How does sleep quality impact longevity?
1:02–2:34
3
What is the relationship between diet and weight loss according to Dave Asprey?
2:34–4:19
4
What role does nicotine play in health and longevity?
4:19–5:07
5
How can someone identify foods that cause inflammation?
5:07–8:06
6
What are the dangers of high oxalate foods?
8:06–9:36
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What is the significance of the vagus nerve in health?
9:36–11:00
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How can people improve their overall health and longevity today?
11:00–1:06:21
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