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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

How Sweden’s Herd-Immunity Approach Defied the World – Johan Anderberg : 958

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

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

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE...

… Swedish journalist Johan Anderberg joins the show to talk about how he captured a rare moment in his country’s history during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

His book, The Herd: How Sweden Chose Its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years,” explains this unique time. In it, he gives a fly-on-the-wall account of the herd-immunity strategy that Sweden adopted during the first year of the pandemic. 

  • First, the government instituted no restrictions
  • Then, it declined to order that people wear face masks
  • While the rest of the world looked on with incredulity, condemnation, admiration, and even envy, Sweden stood alone in its decisions.


“We have to value the fact that different countries do different things,” Johan says.

Here’s what you’ll learn by listening:

  • How the Swedish COVID-19 strategy veered far from what the rest of the world was doing.
  • Why "The Swedish Experiment” has been alternately praised and held up as a cautionary tale.
  • In what ways Sweden’s laissez-faire strategy with few restrictions worked.
  • Differing perspectives—no judgment or right/wrong—about the actions and reactions of governments, communities and individual citizens during a medical crisis.


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0:00.0

You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

0:06.0

Formerly, Bulletproof Radio.

0:09.0

You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

0:20.0

Today is going to be an episode that you're either going to love or maybe hate depending

0:28.7

on whether you like to tell yourself that you're always right or whether you're a curious

0:34.3

person.

0:36.4

Way back in the second or third week of the pandemic, I posted something on Instagram

0:43.4

and I said, you know, two years from now, I'll bet you that Sweden comes out ahead, or

0:49.1

maybe three years, whatever it was.

0:51.8

And I was soundly told that I was a bad person and probably shadowed a band for it.

0:56.5

But I like to check and see if I'm wrong because if I'm wrong, I will stand corrected.

1:03.1

So what I've put together for you today is an episode where we're going to talk about

1:08.2

what Sweden did during COVID-19 that was really different from the rest of the world.

1:13.7

And you can call it the Swedish experiment.

1:16.9

And it's been either praised or held up as a cautionary tale depending on who you listen

1:22.6

to.

1:23.6

So I'm going to dig deep on why did Sweden do this?

1:27.1

What's different about Swedish culture?

1:29.7

Are they more dangerous than other people?

1:33.8

Maybe because they're Vikings?

1:35.8

Or is it mostly because they're jealous of Norway?

1:37.8

We just don't know.

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