Dave Asprey: Biohacking for High Performing Entrepreneurs | Mental Health | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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What were Dave Asprey's early health struggles?
Hey, Yap fam. I hope you enjoyed my interview with the father of biohacking Dave Asprey earlier this week. Dave had some great tips on how to get smarter about your workout and self-care routine and how you can save time while getting even better results. So be sure to listen to that episode if you haven't already. But why stop there? If you want more biohacking strategies from the master himself, then stay right where you are because in this Yap Classic episode, we are revisiting Dave Asprey's first time on the show back in 2022 in episode 149. In this conversation, Dave told me how he became one of the world's most famous biohackers and how he went from hacking the internet to hacking his body.
How did Dave Asprey transition from tech pioneer to biohacker?
He also shared some great diet and energy biohacks, as well as his thoughts on spontaneous meal skipping, why women and men fast differently, and why he thinks humans will start to live well into their hundreds in the future. Dave also turned up to the interview with a blue tongue. And of course, it turned out there was a pretty good reason for that too. All right, folks, it's time once again to push the limits of human capability with Dave Asprey.
We like to start off with backgrounds and childhoods and things like that. So in your own words, you were a fat kid growing up. At one point, you were almost 300 pounds. And it turns out you were sick and you didn't even know it. So talk to us about your health journey and how you ended up starting this path on biohacking.
What is the philosophy behind biohacking?
When I was a kid, I had all the behavioral problems that are common in entrepreneurs, what we would now call ADHD. But I also had Asperger's syndrome, which is a neurological condition, and it's on the autism spectrum. I don't present as someone with Asperger's anymore, and I, in fact, don't likely have it because it is a curable condition. It's related to autoimmunity. I was also overweight. I had chronic fatigue syndrome, which was diagnosed by a couple of people, fibromyalgia, thyroid problems, lower testosterone than my mom in my 20s in labs, high risk of stroke and heart attack before I was 30, arthritis when I was 14. So I think I was pretty much, you could say biologically a shit show as a kid. I don't know if I can say that on here.
You can beat me out or something, but not in a good place. That said, I did, let's see, I was at the top of my class in high school, but I was such a jerk that they wouldn't let me be valedictorian.
Oh my God.
That's not to say that I was doing that well in high school. I was just at a school that wasn't that competitive.
Well, that's really cool. I mean, everybody knows you as Bulletproof, Dave Asprey. That's what we know you as. But it turns out you had a whole super successful career before all of this. You made $6 million by the time you were 26. You had a very successful career. And I actually did a bunch of research and found out that you were the first person to ever sell anything on the internet. So talk to us about your whole background before being the father of biohacking.
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, it seems to make people mad when I talk about that. In the early days of the Internet, I mean, early days before web browsers were created, it was entirely possible to know everything on the Internet because it was something called Usenet was where most people communicated and you could follow all of the groups. And these were kind of like Reddit forums today. But imagine if Reddit only had 100 forums. OK, you could follow all those if you wanted to spend a good amount of time doing it. So I did go out there. I had a, let's just say it was a nine times increase in my tuition at the university of California. Uh, when I was on Joe Rogan show, I said it was 15 times. I had made a math error. That was the only error that I had on that show.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What were Dave Asprey's early health struggles?
0:25–1:11
2
How did Dave Asprey transition from tech pioneer to biohacker?
1:11–2:05
3
What is the philosophy behind biohacking?
2:05–7:30
4
How can we prevent and reverse Alzheimer's?
7:30–8:03
5
What are the science-backed strategies for longevity?
8:03–8:22
6
How does biological age differ from calendar age?
8:22–9:40
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What fasting methods can enhance health?
9:40
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What innovations is Dave Asprey working on today?
7:46–1:04:19
Speakers
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