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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Bulletproof Biohacker News with Dave Asprey - Episode 3 : 528

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

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

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Biohacker News (video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYrU6pxfVDg), Dave Asprey goes over the results of a study linking allergies and autism, the link between art and PTSD, what to do if the LED light of your phone is affecting the quality of your skin, how a small molecule can defeat asthma attacks, workplace food and unhealthy eating, epigenetic changes linked to drinking tea, and the startling report of high rates of heart disease in men who take medicine for erectile dysfunction.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Biohacker News, the latest in taking control of your own biology.

0:04.4

Biohacking is the art and science of changing the environment around you and inside of you,

0:08.4

so they have full control of your own biology.

0:10.9

This lets you do the things you want to do better, faster, with less effort,

0:15.0

and you'll probably look better, feel better, and maybe live longer too when you dial in

0:18.8

some of these variables that are within your control. Biohacker News is all about how to do that.

0:24.4

Big thing, just published news on a study from the University of Iowa that found a link

0:29.6

between food allergies and autism, and they found that twice as many kids with autism have

0:34.4

food allergies as don't, and they're quoting a mysterious link between food allergies and autism.

0:40.6

They actually said we don't know which comes first, food allergies or autism.

0:44.8

And what they stumbled across here is something that's much bigger.

0:48.0

All cases of autism have chronic immune system, autoimmune inflammation.

0:53.3

So the nervous system is attacked by the immune system, whether it's caused by food,

0:57.0

other things in the environment, or things internally, the microbiome.

1:00.0

We don't necessarily know, but it's really interesting to see that this thing with inflammation

1:04.8

happens. And special shout out to the film The Magic Pill that tied in the effect of a ketogenic

1:11.1

diet, just having ketones in your body, and what happens with autistic kids when they get this.

1:15.6

It's really phenomenal what happens. Why? Because ketones turn down inflammation in the nervous

1:20.0

system. That's what's going on.

1:22.4

Drexel University recently published a study looking at military veterans with PTSD or

1:28.4

traumatic brain injury. And they looked at the type of visual art that veterans would create.

1:33.8

And they found out that if people were drawing pictures of their psychological injuries,

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