Mini-Episode: Cool Facts Friday #13
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 10 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 #13:
- Fireflies: Nature's synchronization in action
- Earworms: Sleep quality declines
- Intermittent Fasting: Improves cognitive function and memory
- Alzheimer's: Disease signature found in the blood
- Tech: Hacking vacuums
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| 0:00.0 | One of the best things you can do to improve high-field is to get at least six and a half hours |
| 0:03.8 | of quality sleep every night. Why? Because your body heals itself when you sleep, which reduces |
| 0:08.8 | your risk of just about every disease and makes it easier to lose weight on top of that. |
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| 0:57.0 | of use code Dave 10. Hey guys, welcome to another edition of Cool Facts. Thank you for all the advice |
| 1:02.6 | and comments and questions that you've been leaving for me on the dayvastory.com webpage where you |
| 1:07.2 | can submit questions for the podcast. I really like this and just knowing that it's helping you makes me |
| 1:13.8 | excited. Our first cool fact is about fireflies. Have you ever seen a field full of fireflies on a hot |
| 1:20.9 | summer night? You know how cool looks to see them flickering and it looks random, but it's not. |
| 1:26.3 | It actually starts with synchronization in nature, sort of like when a school of fish seems to swim |
| 1:31.4 | together as one organism, but it's not. It's individual things. The same thing happens when male |
| 1:37.2 | fireflies try to attract a female partner. The synchronization takes the form of a light show. |
| 1:42.8 | At UC Boulder, researchers explored this behavior and found the insects are working together to |
| 1:48.2 | flash the lantern in their bellies to create a synchronized display of lights. And those fireflies are |
| 1:53.3 | communicating with each other to create several complex patterns in the swarm. And it can only happen |
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