159: Dave Asprey - Block Junk Light From Your Life • Head Strong • The One Minute Cold Shower Challenge
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Dave Asprey is the creator of the widely popular Bulletproof Coffee, host of the #1 health podcast, Bulletproof Radio, and author of the New York Times bestselling books, The Bulletproof Diet and Head Strong.
In this episode, we discuss:
- When Dave was 26 he was scared his brain would never work again
- Mitochondria have ultimate power over us biologically
- Muffin top in the brain
- Stop eating fried foods... even foods fried in coconut oil
- The vast majority of the plant kingdom is toxic for us to eat
- Plant lectins can lead to chronic inflammation
- Choose white rice over brown
- The vast majority of plant proteins are not particularly compatible with us
- Air frying and barbecuing - should you cook using these methods?
- Fat is damaged by light, heat, and air
- Avoid liquid smoke and stick with smoked salts
- What are polyphenols?
- Salt is important for your health and performance
- Stressed, working hard? You need more salt
- Tea, coffee, and spices have the highest concentration of polyphenols per gram
- If you store water when you eat salt, you are lacking potassium and magnesium
- How to properly care for your quality spices
- Rejected coffee is being sent to the US
- Fats helps you absorb polyphenols
- Junk light is the same as junk food
- What's even better than blue blocking glasses?
- Is the light coming from a salt lamp legit?
- Junk light impacts your skin too
- The one minute cold shower challenge
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Related links:
Dave Asprey - Head Strong (book)
Dave Asprey's website (Bulletproof)
Bulletproof Radio (Dave's podcast)
Follow Dave Asprey on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen to Dave Asprey previously on TUHP (episode #61)
Dave Asprey - The Bulletproof Diet (book)
Dave Asprey - Bulletproof: The Cookbook (book)
Bulletproof Swiss Water Decaf Coffee
Tim Ferriss - The 4 Hour Body (book)
Rob Faigin - Natural Hormonal Enhancement (book)
TrueDark glasses: Twilight and Daywalker box set
Related episodes:
202: Dr. Steven Gundry – The Plant Paradox • What Are Lectins? • Fruit Might As Well Be Candy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 159. |
| 0:15.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:17.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:21.0 | This week we have a return guest on the show. It's been almost two years all the way back |
| 0:25.5 | episode number 61. Dave Asprey's back on the show. He's the founder of |
| 0:30.2 | Bulletproof, Creator the widely popular Bulletproof Coffee, |
| 0:34.0 | Host in the Number One Health Podcast Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | You guys are getting a feel he loves the word Bulletproof. |
| 0:40.0 | And author of the New York Times best-selling books, |
| 0:43.2 | the Bulletproof Diet and Head Strong. |
| 0:45.8 | He's lost 100 pounds without counting calories |
| 0:48.0 | or excessive exercise, |
| 0:49.6 | use techniques to upgrade his brain and lift his IQ by 20 points and lowered his biological |
| 0:54.9 | age while learning to sleep more efficiently and less time. This transformed Dave |
| 0:59.2 | into a better entrepreneur, a better husband, and a better father. |
| 1:03.0 | Since we last had Dave on the show, he wrote the book Head Strong, like I mentioned, |
| 1:07.0 | and this is just such a fantastic book. |
| 1:10.0 | We dive deep into it, and you guys are just going to get a ton out of this interview. |
| 1:14.5 | Since Dave is a man of many hacks, Jesse and I have found our own hack. |
| 1:18.2 | Before our episodes lately, we've been taking B-Lixer, which is from Bee-keeper's's Natural's and it's this little vial of goodness that just lights |
| 1:26.4 | our brains up. |
| 1:27.4 | So it's amazing to have that as an option before we are recording our amazing podcast. |
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