Biohacking Expert Exposes Health Hacks Everyone Still Believes | Dr Dave Asprey

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Think you've been following science-backed health advice? Turns out, many wellness tips—like 10,000 steps a day, eight glasses of water, and calorie restriction—are myths that won’t necessarily make you healthier.

In this episode of Dropping Bombs, Brad Lea and Dave Asprey expose the truth behind popular health trends, biohacking secrets, and cutting-edge longevity hacks. From personal transformation stories to debunking outdated science, they uncover what actually works for optimizing your body, brain, and lifespan.

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0:00.0	In the mid-1950s, the first company on the planet to make thing that could track your number of steps, they made it up for marketing.
0:06.8	And to this day, we're still going, we've got to do 10,000 steps a day because there's some marketing crap from the 50s.
0:11.5	And eight glasses of water a day, they ever tell you how big they are?
0:14.0	No.
0:14.3	Sounds like stupid, made-up advice to me.
0:16.4	I take...
0:17.5	Do that because you're much less likely to get Alzheimer's disease.
0:23.3	What would you say to the people that aren't even going to make it to 80?
0:25.0	You can do something about that.
0:34.1	First, and I think the most obvious, how much of the health advice we get today, today is complete BS.
0:38.6	Almost all of the health advice you get today is complete BS.
0:42.1	Even something like 10,000 steps a day, you know where that came from?
0:50.6	Where in the mid-1950s, the first company on the planet to make a thing that could track your number of steps, a pedometer, it was a Japanese company.
0:52.4	They made it up for marketing.
0:54.4	And to this day, we're still going,
0:55.9	we've got to do 10,000 steps a day because there's some marketing crap from the 50s.
0:58.0	And eight glasses of water a day,
1:00.4	ever tell you how big they are?
1:02.4	No.
1:03.4	Sounds like stupid, made-up advice to me.
1:05.9	Eight hours of sleep a night?
1:07.9	Everyone needs that.
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