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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

#116 Spartan Up! with Joe De Sena

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Nutrition, Wellness, Lifestyle, Brain, Biohacking, Education, Fitness, Fasting, Science, Meditation, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Hacking, Diet, Fat

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

From cleaning pools for mob bosses to saving the world through extreme endurance and Spartan Racing, Joe De Sena is the CEO and co-founder of the Spartan Race, a series of high endurance and terrifying obstacle courses. On this episode of Bulletproof Radio, entrepreneur and author, Joe De Sena talks about his journey to creating the Spartan Race and: the benefits of pushing yourself to dangerous limits, how to use thermogenesis for recovery, and the effects of ego on performance.  Joe also passes along some very useful running tips! Joe is an impressive guy with quite a few incredible stories. Enjoy!     Joe De Sena is what you might call an extreme endurance racer and radical limit crusher. An entrepreneur from 8 years old Joe has had a passion for life that moves the ball forward against all odds. Born in Queens NY to a yoga teaching, meditation practicing mother and an Italian father that was an uber-entrepreneur the author learned simple techniques for forging ahead no matter the odds. Find out how a young kid breaks out, builds multiple businesses, changes lives, and eventually partners with military SpecOps. Pre-order his new book, Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

If you read my anti-aging book, you know that there are seven things that cause aging in your body,

0:04.7

and one of the biggest ones you could call zombie cells. Those are cells in your body that are

0:09.6

done living, but they don't really die. They sit around, they take up resources, and they make

0:13.6

free radicals and inflammation. As you age, you get more and more zombie cells. They also cause

0:19.0

aging symptoms like less energy and longer recovery times. I've been working with my friends at

0:23.6

Neurohacker on a formula that would cause your body to eliminate those zombie cells. It's called

0:30.0

Qualia Cinelletics. It's a new kind of supplement. It's got the most powerful, herbal, and natural

0:35.4

synolytics, and it's so powerful you only take it for two days per month to turn on this cleanup

0:41.4

of your zombie cells. You don't take it every day because you don't want your body to get rid of

0:45.6

those cells every day because that would get in the way of your body's normal functioning. In

0:50.0

other words, you need to do a once a month cleaning cycle. When you check it out, you'll feel the

0:53.9

difference. Go to Neurohacker.com slash Dave, use code Asprey15, they'll give you 15% off.

1:00.0

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1:04.0

Bulletproof Radio. A state of high performance.

1:18.5

You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

1:22.9

I'm planning to live to at least 180 and that means that I take care of my body and my brain.

1:29.4

In order to stay dangerous as I age, I focus on neurogenesis, which is when your body grows

1:35.6

new neurons. Neurogenesis helps you with brain fog, memory, even rewiring bad habits more quickly.

1:41.6

One of my all-time favorite ingredients that has clinical studies backing that it boosts neurogenesis

1:47.3

is lion's main mushroom. I have tri-lion's main in a lot of different forms, but none of them come

1:53.2

close to collagenius by by optimizers and utopia. That's because collagenius supports neurogenesis

1:59.2

with four different, extremely hyper-concentrated mushroom extracts. Lion's main,

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