Mick Unplugged
Dave Asprey: The Art of Biohacking, Sleep Mastery, and Lasting Leadership
26 May 2025
Dave Asprey is widely known as “the OG of biohacking”—a visionary entrepreneur, best-selling author, and pioneer who sparked a global movement focused on upgrading human potential. From transforming coffee into a performance-enhancing tool to turning aging into a choice, Asprey has dedicated his life to uncovering the systems and protocols that optimize health, performance, and longevity. Once a successful Silicon Valley computer hacker with a personal health crisis, Dave used his relentless curiosity—and scientific rigor—to create a revolution now valued at $63 billion worldwide. His latest book, Heavily Meditated, delivers a blueprint for mastering mental and emotional resilience to unlock true human potential. Takeaways: You Cannot Hack What You Can't Track: Dave emphasizes the importance of measuring your recovery and performance—using tools like sleep trackers—so you can make meaningful improvements to your health and productivity. Darkness is a Powerful Bio-hack: Simply sleeping in complete darkness—with blackout curtains and no light leaks—can significantly improve sleep quality, boost cognitive function, and reduce risk of depression and aging-related decline. Energetic Peace is Key for Leaders: True leadership and personal growth come from “choosing peace, no matter what.” When you master your emotional state and triggers, you lead your team and yourself with more clarity, resilience, and authentic power. Sound Bites: “Now, you can hack it because you can track it. You cannot hack what you can't track.” “One of the cheapest biohacks of all that improves leadership and performance and longevity in aging is darkness.” “If anything on earth can trigger me, it’s in charge, not me—and that is a very high standard for living.” Quote by Mick: “I feel like sometimes our soul needs to know that we are worthy of the praise that we're getting. And so I want you to know, man, like, you are worthy of all of this praise, brother.” Connect & Discover Dave: Website: https://daveasprey.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Daveaspreyofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.asprey/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daveaspreyofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DaveAspreyBPR LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asprey/ Podcast: The Human Upgrade Book: Heavily Meditated FOLLOW MICK ON:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mickunplugged/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mickunplugged/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mickunplugged LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickhunt/Website: https://www.mickhuntofficial.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mick-unplugged/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Now you can hack it because you can track it. You cannot hack what you can't track. And that's one thing. And if you're saying, I don't want to do that, that's too much work. One of the cheapest biohacks of all that improves leadership and performance and longevity and aging is darkness.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today I just told him offline, this is probably the highlight of my 2025. He didn't just spark a movement. He built a blueprint for human potential. He turned aging into a choice Coffee into a Weapon and Biohacking into a Global Revolution.
Best-selling author, relentless entrepreneur, the original mind behind the upgrade. I call him the OG of biohacking. Ladies and gentlemen, this is David Asprey. Dave, how you doing today, brother?
I'm doing really well. Wow, what an intro. I've never thought of weaponizing coffee, but I like your words.
Hey, you did. You did. I love it, man. Dave, you know, I have so many questions I want to ask you from my soul. I told you, you know, Gary Brecka, Damon John, all been telling me a lot about you towards the end of last year. And I really started diving deep into you and all the things that you're doing, man.
And so I wanted to tell you face to face, even though we're virtual, but face to face, I just respect and appreciate the heck out of you, man. Like, the lives you're changing, the insights you're giving. I know you don't get enough credit for it. I know you also don't seek credit for a lot, knowing the soul that you are, but I just wanted to tell you, bro, freaking appreciate you.
Thank you, Mick.
Just freaking appreciate you, dude. And I know this, you've spent a lot of your life building systems and protocols to upgrade the human body. But I want to go a little bit deeper. I'm interested in the man, the person that needed it. Like who was Dave Asprey before the hacks, before the tools, before the protocols and what broke Dave, man?
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