Bulletproof Biohacker News with Dave Asprey - Episode 1 : 503
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Biohacker News, Dave discusses a report about anti-inflammatory foods, breaks down the danger of hidden gluten in your food, discusses why synthetic THC might not be the best choice for you (hint: try the real stuff if you're going to do it), and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Biohacker news, the latest in taking control of your own biology. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, I'm Dave Asprey with the latest what's going on in the world of biohacking. |
| 0:08.0 | And biohacking is the art and science of changing the environment around you and inside of you, |
| 0:11.6 | so you have full control of your own biology. |
| 0:13.8 | A new study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition just found that almost half of people |
| 0:19.0 | who are on gluten-free diets are still being exposed to gluten because they're finding gluten |
| 0:23.6 | peptides in people's urine. What that means is that if you're trying to avoid gluten, |
| 0:29.2 | you may not actually be doing it. And it turns out that avoiding gluten is important for a ton of |
| 0:34.5 | people who don't know that it's important. According to some estimates, about 99% of people who are |
| 0:39.3 | sensitive to gluten don't know it and are regularly exposed. The New England Journal of Medicine |
| 0:44.0 | cites 55 different diseases that are associated with undiagnosed gluten sensitivity. Things like |
| 0:50.0 | osteoporosis, canker sores, autoimmunity, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, neuropsychiatric symptoms, |
| 0:57.4 | depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, and all sorts of other things where you're like, oh my joints just |
| 1:02.9 | hurt a little bit or I'm doing pretty well, but you're not. So my recommendation as a biohacker is |
| 1:08.0 | look, there is not a benefit to eating gluten. There's none. Gluten is a low-quality plant protein. You |
| 1:14.4 | can get much better sources of protein somewhere else. And when you cut gluten out and you don't |
| 1:17.9 | reliably, you might find that you feel very different. One of the reasons you also might find |
| 1:22.4 | you feel different is that gluten itself can turn into something called gluteomorphine in the |
| 1:27.0 | gut. And it is what it sounds like morphine. There's an opiate receptor in your brain. In fact, |
| 1:31.6 | the first cellular receptor we ever discovered was the opiate receptor in the brain. And when gluten |
| 1:36.4 | is digested, it can trigger that, which gives you that craving that you get. You can't have just one |
| 1:41.0 | piece of bread. You eat it one day. The next day you're likely to have two pieces. The next day, |
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