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The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

Gary Taubes: Bad Science, Gut Health, & NuSi - #223

The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey

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

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Gary comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss the bad science in public health, researching healthy diets, the role of gut bacteria in obesity, and self experimentation. Enjoy the show! Gary Taubes is an American science writer. He is the author of Good Calories, Bad Calories which is titled The Diet Delusion in the UK and Why We Get Fat. He has won the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 1996-97. He is also a co-founder of Nutrition Science Initiative. NuSI’s mission is reduce the individual, social, and economic costs of obesity, diabetes, and their related diseases by improving the quality of science in nutrition and obesity research. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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If you read my anti-aging book, you know that there are seven things that cause aging in your body,

0:04.7

and one of the biggest ones you could call zombie cells. Those are cells in your body that are

0:09.6

done living, but they don't really die. They sit around, they take up resources, and they make

0:13.6

free radicals and inflammation. As you age, you get more and more zombie cells. They also cause

0:19.0

aging symptoms like less energy and longer recovery times. I've been working with my friends at

0:23.6

Neurohacker on a formula that would cause your body to eliminate those zombie cells. It's called

0:30.0

Qualia Cinelletics. It's a new kind of supplement. It's got the most powerful, herbal, and natural

0:35.4

synolytics, and it's so powerful you only take it for two days per month to turn on this cleanup

0:41.4

of your zombie cells. You don't take it every day because you don't want your body to get rid of

0:45.6

those cells every day because that would get in the way of your body's normal functioning. In

0:50.0

other words, you need to do a once a month cleaning cycle. When you check it out, you'll feel the

0:53.9

difference. Go to Neurohacker.com slash Dave, use code Asprey15, they'll give you 15% off.

1:00.0

That's Neurohacker.com slash Dave code Asprey15.

1:13.2

Bulletproof Radio, a state of high performance.

1:17.7

You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

1:22.6

I'm planning to live to at least 180 and that means that I take care of my body and my brain.

1:29.1

In order to stay dangerous as I age, I focus on neurogenesis, which is when your body grows new

1:35.5

neurons. Neurogenesis helps you with brain fog, memory, even rewiring bad habits more quickly.

1:41.3

One of my all-time favorite ingredients that has clinical studies backing that it boosts neurogenesis.

1:47.2

Lions main mushroom. I have tri-lines main in a lot of different forms, but none of them come close

1:53.1

to collagenius by by optimizers and utopia. That's because collagenius supports neurogenesis with

1:59.4

four different extremely hyper-concentrated mushroom extracts. Lions main,

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