319: BioHacking In Midlife: Smarter Not Harder with Dave Asprey

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Order Smarter Not Harder - The Biohackers Guide To Getting The Body And Mind You Want!

This special episode is with my good friend Dave Asprey, famously known as the 'Father of Biohacking." If you don't know what that is yet, no worries, we'll go into it in more detail. Dave has a long list of achievements, from being a New York Times bestselling author to creating some amazing products like Bulletproof Coffee. But today's focus is on his latest book, "Smarter, Not Harder." Trust me, it's a great read that we all need in our lives right now. I'm so excited to chat with Dave about it and learn the game-changing mindset that we can still succeed in our health (and life in general) without working too hard.

In this episode, you will learn:

What is biohacking
How to hack your mind and body to feel amazing and age gracefully
The best exercises to lose weight
What is the human upgrade center
Optimizing the body's operating system
Enhancing your metabolism and energy levels

Dave Asprey is the founder of Upgrade Labs & known as the 'Father of Biohacking.' He Is a four-time New York Times bestselling science author, host of the Webby award-winning podcast The Human Upgrade, and has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, Dr. Oz, and more.

Over the last two decades, Dave has worked with world-renowned doctors, researchers, scientists, and global mavericks to uncover the latest, most innovative methods, techniques, and products for enhancing mental and physical performance. Dave has personally spent over $2 million taking control of his own biology – pushing the bounds of human possibility all in the name of science evolution, and revolution.

The creator of the Bulletproof Diet, and innovator of Bulletproof Coffee, Collagen Protein supplements, and many more advances in commercial wellness products, Dave's mission is to empower the entire globe with information and knowledge that unlocks the Super Human in everyone at any age. These advancements prove better sleep, energy, and expanded capacity for all.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie Jill and I help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand,
0:07.3	and laugh with aging. Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best,
0:13.9	taking complicated information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down
0:19.5	simply with actionable steps you can implement
0:22.0	to level up your life. I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living
0:27.5	their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about our shifting hormones, weight
0:33.0	struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our relationships, career changes, beauty,
0:39.0	and more. If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen from episode one when this
0:44.0	podcast was previously called Listen Up for the full transformative experience.
0:59.9	Today on Midlife Conversations, I've got my friend Dave Asprey here.
1:02.9	Now, he is known as the father of biohacking.
1:06.0	And if you don't know what that means, you're going to learn soon because we're going to go deep here.
1:45.0	And he is, I could go on and on about his whole resume of New York Times bestselling books, everything that he has introduced to us from like bulletproof coffee to amazing products. But his latest book, Smarter or Not Harder, is something we all need to be reading. We all need this book ASAP. I couldn't wait to dive into this topic with him. He's got a lot to share. Thank you so much for being here today, Dave. Natalie, I love getting a chance to come on your show. Thank you. You're welcome. So let's start with. There's a lot of people listening that they haven't even heard of the term biohacking, which I know you breathe, sleep and eat this, but can you explain from your mind like why you even got into that, why you created that? you really coined that term. So can you help us understand what that means to you?
1:48.8	Biohacking is a movement with millions of people doing it that started 11 years ago. And the definition,
1:54.7	by the way, it's now in Miriam Webster's Dictionary is a new word in our language and my name is
1:58.6	in the dictionary. Definition is the art and science
2:01.6	of changing the environment around you so that you have full control of your own biology.
2:06.6	It's basically making your body do what you want instead of what it wants to do.
2:11.6	And I've been setting that for a very long time and I've written a New York Times best-selling book on stopping aging called
2:19.9	let's see that one was called Superhuman. And my newest book is called Smarter, Not Harder, which
2:26.2	is about, well, getting the results without wasting all of your time. And I'm 50, if you believe in
2:33.8	calendar years. I'm 39 if you believe my lab tests. And I'm 50, if you believe in calendar years.
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