Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the

health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

Today I had the honor of reconnecting with Dave Aspery.

He is the renowned father of biohacking and a New York

Times best-selling author. We had a no nonsense conversation about his newest book,

Smarter, not harder, which quite honestly is, I think my very favorite of all of his books.

We dove deep into the impact of the pandemic, the art and science of environment, the role of the laziness principle, as well as homeostasis, the concept of slope of the curve thinking, the role of anti nutrients including phytic acid, conventional chicken and dairy, the biohacking pathway, the impact of

re-hit, which is a specific type of exercise, as well as other cellular hacks including hypoxification and specialized breathing.

I did ask him about his favorite supplements and I think you'll be surprised as well as the role of trauma as it pertains to becoming a more efficient

human. I hope you will enjoy this conversation with Dave as much as I did recording it. So let's really start from the beginning.

The last three years have impacted every person that's listening to this podcast and

every person that's out there pretty profoundly.

And did you get the idea to write the book, you know, during the, I don't want to say the

hey day, the pandemic or the insanity of the pandemic,

however you'd like to reframe it? What was the impetus? Why this book now? of the community,

what was the impetus.

Why this book now is what I'm asking.

The ideas behind smarter, not harder,

have been percolating for actually since the start of biohacking,

where the original definition when I was

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