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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Biohacking Your Way to a Bulletproof Life with Dave Asprey

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

“When you want to have more energy and more ability to write, it comes down to one thing. And that’s electrons. At the end of the day, you’re a battery. Your job is to make enough electrons to do what you want to do. We call that energy. You get energy from food, air, and to some extent from light and magnetism. The problem that most people have is that they have unstable energy supply to their head. Your brain and visual processing system are probably using 20% of your calories. Your heart, eyes, and your brain have about 10,000 mitochondria (these little power plants in your cell), per cell. So they’re very dense in energy consumption. The rest of your body has 1 or 2 per cell. So you have 10 times the energy consumption and energy production ability in your brain. That means, especially if you’re smart and focusing a lot, if you have slight perturbations in your ability to bring energy into those cells, it’s basically energy brownout.” – Dave Asprey


Dave Asprey, the founder of Bulletproof and author of New York Times bestseller The Bulletproof Diet, is a Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur who spent two decades and over $300,000 to hack his own biology


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0:00.0

Did you catch our recent pilot episode of How They Made Each Other?

0:02.9

If you enjoyed hearing the stories of how couples met,

0:05.2

then we've got some great news. We're working on making a full season of the show,

0:08.4

but we need your help to make it happen.

0:10.1

If you want to hear more episodes of how they made each other, just text the code Love to 3377

0:15.4

777. By texting us, you'll let us know that you're interested in hearing more episodes and that'll help

0:20.1

us secure the support we need to bring you a full season of how they met each other.

0:24.2

So don't wait.

0:25.2

Texts love to 33 777 now and stay tuned for more updates on how they met each other.

0:30.6

Thanks for listening and don't worry we're not going to spam you, we promise we just need your email address so we can gauge the level of interest in the show and keep you updated on our progress.

0:38.0

When you want to have more energy and and more ability to, it really comes down to one thing, one fundamental thing,

0:48.0

and that's electrons.

0:50.6

At the end of the day you're a battery.

0:57.0

Your job is to make enough electrons to do what you want to do. We call that energy.

0:59.0

And you get your energy from food, you get your energy from air and you get your energy to some extent from

1:08.4

light and magnetism like there are important elements there. The problem that most people have is that they have unstable energy supply to their head.

1:21.0

Your brain and visual processing system are probably using 20% of your calories.

1:27.0

Your heart, your eyes, and your brain have about 10,000 mitochondria, these little power plants in your cells, per cell.

1:35.8

So they're very dense in energy consumption.

1:37.8

The rest of your body has 1 or 2,000 per cell.

1:40.0

So you have 5 to 10 times the energy consumption and energy production ability in your brain.

1:46.6

That means, especially if you're smart and you're focusing a lot, if you have slight perturbations in your ability to bring energy into those cells,

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