You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

This is an episode recorded live in person at the Consumer Health Summit in Scottsdale.

Today's cool fact of the day is that giant pandas eat bamboo like a wolf and vegan clothing.

What does that mean? Well, pandas started out eating meat, then they evolved to strictly eating bamboo.

And since they have the digestive system of carnivore, they forage for about 14 hours a day and sleep pretty much the rest of the time.

Like I did when I was a raw vegan. Researchers in China's wing-ling mountains wanted to see just how much protein those giant pandas were actually getting from their bamboo.

So they fitted them with tracking collars and then sneakily collected their droppings for research about 120 droppings from each panda a day, which also described me as a raw vegan.

And detailed analysis of the Dung discovered that the pandas digest the bamboo so efficiently they're extracting about as much protein from it as a wolf gets from its carnivorous diet.

There's really not a lot of protein in bamboo. The researchers noted and they said quote, that's why a panda spends a lot of time eating the bamboo.

Now when I was a raw vegan, I spent a huge amount of time, a two or three hours a day preparing food, which was super weird.

I had these special giant bowls to eat enough salad and I put huge amounts of fat and I was always hungry, but I did lose weight.

And I caused some autoimmune harm and did some other bad things to my biology and I've heard this over and over from people.

So like, hey, you want to try a vegetarian diet. You can probably pull off bulletproof vegetarian.

But if you want to try bulletproof vegan, if you're young, you're going to feel good for a couple of years. If you're old, you're going to feel good for a couple of months.

And then it's a slow decline.

So now that I'm a farmer, now that I have pigs in sheep and I've seen the effect of animals on regenerative agriculture on soil health, on vegetable production, animals are necessary for human life.

They're a part of the world around us and I don't want to live in a world full of people and monoculture vegetable crops because it doesn't work.

Now if that was kind of dark, the guy who's our guest today is even darker.

He's known as one of the most evil humans on earth. Okay, not really.

He's a guy named Kyle Seese and he's a New York Times bestselling author, a well-known comedian and a transformational speaker who helps people release anxiety and fear on stage, which sounds weird.

But this is the guy who's had two number one comedy central specials to his to his credit, but he turned comedy into a way to help people release stuff.

I did not know who Kyle was until last night. I sat next to him at dinner and we started talking like this guy has an amazing brain where we can talk about humor and we can talk about how that turns into letting people really talk about what's going on.

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