Mini-Episode: Cool Facts Friday #11
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Cool Facts are quick hits of new human and world science curated into short bursts of information just for you. This fun compilation publishes one Friday a month. Enjoy!
Here’s the current lineup for episode #11:
- Hyperbaric oxygen treatments could make your blood cells grow younger.
- Infection-fighting immune cells in your brain get their training in your gut.
- Reprogramming T-cells to act like stem cells helps your immune system.
- What happens in the womb changes genes through mom's epigenetics.
- Self-watering soil could expand farmable land and reduce water used in agriculture.
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| 0:00.0 | Great sleep upgrades you on virtually every level body fat muscle mass mood brain function and lots of other ways. |
| 0:06.1 | One of the more powerful things you can do is feed your body natural melatonin building blocks and transformers known as cofactors that what your body can naturally produce melatonin. |
| 0:15.9 | I've been tracking my sleep for almost 15 years and sometimes I think I'm going to run out of new ways to sleep better my friends at bi optimizers have come up with something new called sleep breakthrough. |
| 0:26.5 | It's got all the right ingredients like vitamin B6 magnesium and zinc that help with getting good quality sleep and it targets five different sleep pathways and I like it because it does it very quickly. |
| 0:37.0 | It works so fast because it's got an easy delivery mechanism all you do is mix in a cup of water and drink it right before bed when you have your sleep you regain your power you owe it to yourself to feel rested each day. |
| 0:48.5 | Check out sleep breakthrough comm slash Dave use code Dave 10 for a special discount that's sleep break THR AUGH dot com slash Dave use code Dave 10. |
| 0:58.5 | You might already know that your cells make energy to do things like keep your heart beating make your brain work and keep your lungs breathing. |
| 1:06.5 | But a lot of people don't know that they also drive your immune system the journal immunity recently published a new study that looks at how immune cells fight cancer better when they're at full power. |
| 1:17.5 | The study found that when your cells turn on an anti aging process called mytoffigy they become better at immunity and there's one compound you can get that has both of those known health benefits immune modulation and mytoffigy and that's called EuroLithin A. |
| 1:34.5 | That precious compound is made by a company called timeline nutrition and the product is called might appear you can get it as soft gels you can get it as a powder that tastes great or even an protein powder formula. |
| 1:46.5 | Might appear was already in my permanent stack you may have heard the interview with the chief scientist of the company but these new forms make it a lot more convenient. |
| 1:54.5 | Check out timeline nutrition dot com slash Dave use code as pre 10 to get 10% off your order get the might appear added to your permanent stack look at better immunity and better energy levels. |
| 2:06.5 | Welcome to another edition of cool facts Friday. |
| 2:10.5 | This cool fact is about how hyperbaric oxygen treatments can make your blood cells grow younger. |
| 2:16.5 | It's a new study from Tel Aviv University and researchers discovered that high pressure oxygen treatments were able to reverse two of the major processes that cause aging. |
| 2:25.5 | One of them was the shortening of telomeres you read about that in headstrong didn't you or in fast this way when you figure out that fasting is your longer telomeres. |
| 2:33.5 | These are protected regions located at both ends of every chromosome that shorten as you age and turns out oxygen therapy like this fix that. |
| 2:41.5 | And they also figured out that it fixed the accumulation of old and malfunctioning or zombie cells in your body. |
| 2:47.5 | In the study the researchers exposed 35 healthy people over 64 to a series of 60 hyperbaric sessions over a period of 90 days. |
| 2:55.5 | And they found that telomeres grew longer and said or shorter at about 20 to 38% for different cell types. |
| 3:02.5 | What does that mean for you? Well it means you might want to consider hyperbaric oxygen therapy. |
| 3:06.5 | This study used high pressure steel chambers but we know from other interviews on bullet proof radio that even the lower pressure chambers that you can use at home have a substantial effect on your aging especially if you have anything bad going on with your brain like a brain injury or Alzheimer's. |
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