557: Forgiveness: The Ultimate Biohack with Dave Asprey
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to health and wellness, technological shortcuts and gadgets only take us so far. Dave Asprey, the "father of biohacking," CEO of Upgrade Labs and the author of "Heavily Meditated", explains how forgiveness may be the best "biohack" of all.
Today, Dave focuses on ancient traditions like forgiveness, meditation, and spiritual and emotional growth for wellbeing. He goes over techniques for getting the most out of meditation and specific tips for how to "reset" the body, spirit, and mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Forgiveness is the biggest biohack of all. |
| 0:02.0 | And all it means is you stop letting your body be reactive to things that don't serve you. |
| 0:09.0 | Holding a grudge is neurologically and biologically expensive and it harms you. |
| 0:14.0 | And I actually believe it harms the other person too, but not nearly as much as it harms you. |
| 0:18.0 | Right. |
| 0:19.0 | And so why would you waste your precious life doing that? |
| 0:21.5 | The reason you know, because you know how to stop holding a grudge. Yeah. And you try to think your way out of a grudge. Well, it doesn't make any sense to hold a grudge. Dude, you felt the grudge before you could think. You don't get to think your way out of a grudge. You can only feel your way out. And the answer is re-experience the feeling, then gratitude, then compassion and forgiveness. |
| 0:42.3 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:52.3 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:56.6 | optimal health. |
| 1:01.3 | And now here is our host and producer, Hilda Labrata Gore. |
| 1:06.9 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 1:09.7 | Dave Asprey, the father of biohacking, joins us today on this podcast which focuses on |
| 1:15.2 | ancestral wisdom. |
| 1:16.7 | Wait, what? |
| 1:17.7 | This is episode 557, and our guest today is Dave. |
| 1:21.4 | He is the CEO of Upgrade Labs and the host of the Human Upgrade podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | And he is the man who coined the term biohacking. Dave is also a four times New York Times bestselling author, including his latest book |
| 1:36.7 | called Heavily Meditated. I caught up with Dave in May at his biohacking conference in Austin, |
| 1:42.7 | Texas, and I was curious about his transition. |
| 1:46.4 | From being the king of gadgets and hacks, as I saw him anyway, to a man eager to explore |
| 1:52.4 | ancient traditions like forgiveness, meditation, and spiritual and emotional growth. |
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