Increase Your IQ & Your Lifespan For A Dime A Day | Steven Fowkes, Biohacker : 456
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Biohacking at its best! Dave speaks with his favorite "Old-school mad scientist" friend Steve Fowkes on everything from curing herpes with an over the counter drug, to the future of cognitive enhancement.
Organic chemist and nanotechnologist, Fowkes, is a self described "incurable optimist" and interested in helping find solutions to many of humanity's grand challenges.
Some of those solutions start with just optimizing the brain you have with some simple vitamins and nutrients. It's a fascinating episode with a truly brilliant human being.
Enjoy the show!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is super fun and you're going to listen through all the way to the end |
| 0:17.7 | because I'm interviewing one of the world's very top experts on smart drugs. |
| 0:22.6 | We're going to tell you things like how you can get rid of herpes with this up on that's |
| 0:27.2 | almost free. You're going to hear about the future of cognitive enhancement, the future of |
| 0:30.6 | living forever. How long he thinks he's going to live and some really interesting discussions |
| 0:35.2 | at the end there around some of the psychological sides of things. So it's a fascinating episode |
| 0:39.6 | with a truly brilliant human being, hopefully you enjoy the whole show. You're listening to |
| 0:44.6 | Bulk-proof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's cool fact of the day is that we just found a drug that |
| 0:50.4 | promotes gold directed behavior. Basically, this is a drug that stimulates neuron pruning that |
| 0:56.3 | can push at least mice away from habit-driven behaviors, at least when they combine it with |
| 1:00.3 | retraining. The drug is called fast-soodal. It's approved in Japan for treating strokes and what |
| 1:05.1 | it does, it inhibits an enzyme that stabilizes your skull's internal skeletons. Well, they don't |
| 1:11.3 | really have a skeleton. Maybe that's how they describe it in this study. They think that what these |
| 1:15.9 | tools could do is be effective in facilitating treatment of drug abuse and preventing relapse. |
| 1:21.4 | What they're saying is that some habits are adaptive. You can turn off a light when you exit |
| 1:25.0 | a room. It's good for you. But others are maladaptive, like checking the light switch 500 times |
| 1:29.7 | or using drugs all the time. So what they're trying to do in this study is saying how do we help |
| 1:34.5 | people break a habit like cocaine and they're thinking that this may work. This is right at the |
| 1:40.4 | cutting edge of using either food, nutrients, lifestyle, environmental factors, or even pharmaceuticals |
| 1:47.5 | to increase neuropusticity or make it easier to do something. Now, one group of people could say this |
| 1:53.6 | is profoundly evil. Although, I gotta tell you, my deal here is, look, if I can find a way without |
| 2:01.1 | harm or without meaningful harm to make it easier for me to do something that I have chosen to do, |
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