403. Update Your Brain with Dave Asprey

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Ever wish you could update your brain for better performance? In this episode Dave Asprey, “The Father of Biohacking,” shares how to work smarter, not harder, to achieve better results — and feel better while doing it.

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In this episode we cover:
0:07:26 – The MeatOS
0:10:05 – Biohacking
0:12:30 – The Laziness Principle
0:24:15 – The Five Big Buckets
0:33:15 – Upgrading the MeatOS
0:51:04 – Upgrade Labs
1:00:55 – Breathwork
1:12:41 – Adversity Mimetics
1:40:18 – The Quantified Self
1:44:49 – Objective and Subjective Measures
1:46:50 – Focus and Equanimity

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today on the show, I welcome Dave Asprey,
0:14.5	aka the father of biohacking. And given his extensive list of accomplishments in the biohacking field,
0:23.6	this title is more than warranted. And Dave is the founder of Upgrade Labs. He is the
0:30.1	innovator behind Bulletproof Coffee and more recently Danger Coffee. He is a four-time New
0:35.1	York Times best-selling science author and the host of the annual biohacking conference.
0:41.0	I actually hosted the commune podcast at his biohacking conference last fall.
0:46.9	In his latest book, Smarter Not Harder, the Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and the Mind You Want,
0:56.8	Dave reveals something patently non-instinctual, how to maximize your well-being with minimal effort by taking control of your
1:06.0	body's operating system. After endless hours in the gym and trying virtually every crash diet with no
1:13.2	results, Dave took the same approach he used to hack his computer iOS and applied them to his
1:19.8	human anatomy, or what he calls his meat OS. This led him to work smarter and not harder to achieve better than ever results in less time.
1:32.1	In this episode, Dave reviews the five big buckets, the areas that most people want to improve
1:39.2	in their life. He explains the laziness principle, that we are biologically designed to be efficient at expending energy,
1:48.0	and that our cells fundamentally love to save and how we can work with this process rather than against it.
1:57.0	He shares some of the methods he developed to upgrade his meat OS, including removing things
2:02.9	we might already be consuming that slow us down, what to replace them with, and other techniques
2:08.7	we can leverage to put us in control of the meat OS and not the other way around. Now, my conversation
2:16.5	with Dave was not only fascinating,
2:19.3	but dappled with his customary humor. And before we dive in, here's a brief reminder
2:25.7	about our commune course platform. If you're interested in longevity and integrative medicine-based
2:32.2	programs with doctors like Mark Hyman, Sarah Godfried,
2:35.2	Kara Fitzgerald, and Roger Schwellt on topics such as gut health, sleep, immunity,
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