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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Bonus: Intermittent Fasting Boosts Brain Power: Mark Mattson, Ph.D., with Dave Asprey

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Education, Fat, Wellness, Diet, Brain, Self-improvement, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Hacking, Meditation, Nutrition, Science, Biohacking, Fasting

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus replay episode of Bulletproof Radio, we've taken all the best parts of my previous podcast with Mark Mattson, Ph.D., and condensed them here for a shorter episode. Highlights include Mark's great research on fasting and supports the topic of my new book, "Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be."

Pre-order at https://fastthisway.com before the Jan. 19, 2021, launch and get cool stuff! 

Mark, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, is one of the world’s top experts on the health benefits of intermittent fasting on the brain and body.

Decades before intermittent fasting diets became popular, he began studying mouse models to understand how the brain adapts to challenges like fasting and exercise. He and his research teams have shown that fasting can improve cognitive function and metabolic health. See some of his current research in the New England Journal of Medicine on how fasting can help people live longer.

"Intermittent fasting and exercise can reverse diabetes, and obesity in humans if a person can switch their eating pattern, and get on an exercise program,” Mark says.

His work on intermittent fasting has been featured on national media and he has given a TED Talk, “Why Fasting Bolsters Brain Power”.

Enjoy the show!

Mark Mattson, Ph.D.neuroscience.jhu.edu/research/faculty/57

Full Podcast Episode with Transcript: What the Godfather of IF Eats – Mark Mattson, Ph.D. – #634

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0:00.0

I'm re-releasing an episode of Bulletproof Radio with Mark Matson, who's a PhD, and I

0:05.3

call him the Godfather of intermittent fasting, who published a ton of research about how

0:11.0

intermittent fasting improves your brain function and improves your metabolic health.

0:15.8

He spent decades working on this long before anyone was paying attention to it.

0:20.2

I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I do.

0:23.2

Great sleep upgrades you on virtually every level.

0:25.4

Body fat, muscle mass, mood, brain function, and lots of other ways.

0:29.2

One of the more powerful things you can do is feed your body natural melatonin building

0:33.1

blocks and transformers, known as cofactors.

0:36.4

That way your body can naturally produce melatonin.

0:38.8

I've been tracking my sleep for almost 15 years, and sometimes I think I'm going to run

0:43.4

out of new ways to sleep better.

0:45.3

My friends and bi optimizers have come up with something new called sleep breakthrough.

0:49.6

It's got all the right ingredients like vitamin B6, magnesium and zinc that help with getting

0:54.3

good quality sleep, and it targets five different sleep pathways.

0:57.8

I like it because it does it very quickly.

1:00.2

It works so fast because it's got an easy delivery mechanism.

1:03.0

All you do is mix in a cup of water and drink it right before bed.

1:06.5

When you hack your sleep, you regain your power.

1:09.0

You owe it to yourself to feel rested each day.

1:11.7

Check out sleepbreakthrough.com slash day of use code Dave 10 for a special discount.

1:16.6

That's sleepbreakthrough.com slash day of use code Dave 10.

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