I Drink Fat To Look Shredded (Lost 100lbs) : 1480
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
I used to weigh 300 pounds. I tried every restrictive diet, became a vegan, and trained 90 minutes a day for 18 months with absolute zero results. Everything changed when I drank a cup of yak butter tea at 18,300 feet in Tibet. Within 30 seconds, my severe brain fog lifted, and my metabolism completely shifted.
In this video, I break down exactly why adding sugar to your morning coffee is destroying your metabolism, spiking your insulin, and keeping you fat. I explain the hard science behind the alternative: blending "fat cubes" (grass-fed butter) and MCT oil into your coffee. I reveal how this specific combination of butyrate, CLA, and medium-chain triglycerides bypasses traditional digestion to go straight to your liver, instantly converting into ketones for pure brain fuel. You'll learn how eating more fat actually trains your body to burn its own stored fat, allowing me to hit 4.8% body fat at 50 years old with a biological age in my 30s—without hunger, without a 3 PM crash, and without living in the gym.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
00:42 – Pancreatic Cancer Halted by Virus Injection
01:44 – Teens & AI Therapy Chatbots
03:13 – GLP-1 Drugs Cut Breast Cancer Risk
04:30 – Russia's $26B Longevity Program
06:18 – Sauna vs. Cold Plunge
09:10 – Closing
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| 0:00.0 | You can be health conscious, doing everything right and still feel like garbage. |
| 0:04.6 | And the reason is almost always the same, mineral deficiency. |
| 0:08.6 | And not because you're not trying. |
| 0:10.6 | Because modern soil is depleted. |
| 0:13.2 | Crops today have up to 40% fewer minerals than they did 50 years ago. |
| 0:17.8 | Your food isn't what it used to be. |
| 0:20.1 | But here's the part nobody talks about. |
| 0:22.7 | Nutrients don't work in isolation. Minerals and fat-soluble vitamins D, A, K and E, work together in |
| 0:30.1 | your body. Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium. K2 makes sure calcium goes into your bones, |
| 0:36.3 | not your arteries. |
| 0:37.8 | You need magnesium to activate vitamin D so your body can use it. |
| 0:42.0 | Without these nutrients present together, your system doesn't run efficiently. |
| 0:46.5 | You might as well flush money down the toilet. |
| 0:49.5 | That's exactly why I created Dake and Minerals 101. |
| 0:53.5 | D3A, K2, E, and a full mineral stack designed to work together because that's the only way any of it actually works. |
| 1:03.0 | Cold plunges, red light, sauna, you can do it all, but none of it matters if your foundation is broken. |
| 1:10.0 | Fix the foundation. |
| 1:11.6 | Grab your Dake and Minerals 101 Duo at shop, subgradelabs.com, and use code Dave Pod for 15% off today. |
| 1:21.6 | Sugar is sweet, white, processed, and too much of it can ruin your metabolism. |
| 1:25.6 | That's where sugar is. And pretty much everyone adds it to their coffee. |
| 1:30.3 | But there's a different thing you can add to your coffee |
| 1:32.3 | that is animal-based, fat-based, salty, natural, |
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