Biohack to Win. Nick Foles : 489
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Yes, Nick Foles is the Super Bowl MVP for the Eagles, but in this episode of Bulletproof Radio he goes into why it is okay to lose. "If your identity is in winning you're eventually going to struggle."
Nick is one of the most humble performance focused amazing people I've had the opportunity to interview. I spent time with him in person but in this episode you'll hear about his mindset, how he includes a spiritual practice, his take on food, and all the other things he does to be at the top of his game.
Including his approach to failure. You'll hear about how he pretty much got burned out and was thinking about leaving the game and how he stayed motivated and what he does to build this incredible resilience.
You'll also hear about something called POTS that his wife Tori is dealing with, which is a really common problem, much more common than people know about and we go into some details about what happens if your blood pressure suddenly fluctuates and drops during the day so your brain has no oxygen.
I just found him to be a fantastic human being with this amazing attitude and a pretty high level of accomplishment!
Enjoy the show!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.7 | Today's cool fact of the day is about plastic. |
| 0:19.6 | There's a type of plastic called PET or polyethylene terrafallate. |
| 0:25.4 | It's a widely used plastic and polyester clothing disposable bottles, and it tends to survive |
| 0:31.0 | in landfills. |
| 0:32.1 | But in 2016, in Japan, scientists identified a new species of bacteria, whose name is |
| 0:37.6 | Ideonella sacchiensis, which I probably said wrong because honestly I've only read about |
| 0:43.9 | this, which has a specialized enzyme that can naturally break down that kind of plastic. |
| 0:48.6 | So now there's an international team of researchers studying the enzyme structure and they created |
| 0:53.0 | a new upgraded variant that's even more efficient at eating plastic. |
| 0:57.6 | They used some called x-ray crystallography to examine how the enzyme works, how it |
| 1:02.2 | breaks down plastic. |
| 1:03.4 | They genetically tweaked the enzyme to create small variations in the structure, and they |
| 1:08.2 | tested those, and what they found was that we can make an enzyme that works even better |
| 1:13.1 | than the one that evolved. |
| 1:15.2 | The original version and the mutated versions break down PET and another kind of biobase |
| 1:21.1 | plastic called PEF. |
| 1:23.0 | And so I'm really hopeful though, with a little bit more engineering, we'll be able to |
| 1:26.6 | seed our landfills. |
| 1:28.7 | It's time that we take control as a species or at least acknowledge that we have a huge |
| 1:34.4 | impact on the bacterial balance of the entire planet. |
| 1:38.0 | What's in our soil, what's on our skin, what's in our guts, what's in our homes, and what's |
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