How to Use Nootropics to Feel More Like Yourself | David Asprey on Health Theory

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🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week’s guest on Health Theory is Dave Asprey. He is the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Coffee and the author of 5 best selling books. In this episode he talks about nootropics, gratitude and how to use cyclic ketosis to enhance your performance. Check out our amazing sponsors! Thrive Market: Get 25% off your first order and a 30-day free trial at thrivemarket.com/health ButcherBox. Use the discount code: "TOM" at butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey: https://amzn.to/2DD4W7W Game Changers by Dave Asprey: https://amzn.to/2tjhn3V Headstrong by Dave Asprey: https://amzn.to/2GukWgv Bulletproof products: https://bit.ly/2jn3UBr 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene: https://amzn.to/2Gq6iXA SHOW NOTES How to use nootropics to enhance cognitive performance [01:22] Why the most successful people in the world get out of their head [07:35] Is breathing more powerful than psychedelics? [10:27] Overcoming trauma from birth [12:51] Why being angry is making you dumber [15:30] The four rules for survival [17:58] Why the ego responds before the brain does [20:55] The antidote for "hungry ghost syndrome" [24:28] Why time in nature is critical for health [27:50] How to use cold showers to your advantage [30:14] Daily habits that will help you live a longer life [31:26] A few of the supplements Dave takes every day [33:41] How to get sufficient Vitamin D, even in Winter [35:13] The best diet tips for living longer [37:27] The two most important things for your health [41:48] FOLLOW DAVE WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/2jn3UBr PODCAST: https://apple.co/1KxER4f YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/2yHzntI INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2an8MRS FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/2GGPLNX

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory.
0:05.2	Today's guest is Dave Asprey, the Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and New York Times
0:10.0	best-selling author of several books, including Headstrong and most recently Game Changers,
0:15.7	what leaders, innovators and mavericks do to win at life.
0:19.8	He's also one of the world's most famous biohackers, the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Coffee,
0:25.5	and the host of the Webby Award-winning podcast Bulletproof Radio.
0:29.6	Dave, the fascinating thing about you is how eclectic you are, which I was really impressed
0:35.3	by, the new book is cool, all over the map.
0:38.3	But as somebody who's crazy-go-to optimizing where I want to start as Neutropics, so my personal
0:44.0	obsession is the brain.
0:46.1	You go into in the book Neutropics, you talk about going to Burning Man as one of your
0:51.2	action items, which I thought was cool.
0:53.3	Talk me through Neutropics, how we can use things to enhance our cognition, and not
0:59.6	just Neutropics, but the sort of host of things that we can do.
1:02.7	This is one of my favorite 20-year passions.
1:07.5	Starting in my mid-20s, I said, my brain isn't working the way it's supposed to.
1:12.0	I started forgetting things.
1:13.1	I was having problems I didn't like, and my career was just taking off.
1:17.6	So I said, what can I do to hack this?
1:20.1	I ordered my first big package of smart drugs, and these are mostly pharmaceuticals.
1:26.8	They came in, I was all excited, and I took the first of the bunch I was testing out on
1:31.4	myself.
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