Mini-Episode: Cool Facts Friday #14
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 13 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 #14:
- CBD linked to Alzheimer's prevention
- Reducing stress could reverse gray hair
- A new device detects bad breath
- Spirituality found in brain circuitry
- Inflammatory clock of aging determines your "immunological age"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Cool Facts. |
| 0:03.2 | I appreciate the feedback and advice you've been offering me on the dayvastbreed.com podcast |
| 0:08.8 | page. |
| 0:09.8 | I actually see what you have to write there and I'm having fun with these and I'll keep |
| 0:13.2 | doing them as long as you like them. |
| 0:15.4 | Our first cool fact, CBD oil linked to Alzheimer's prevention. |
| 0:21.0 | Guys, when CBD and TUC first became legally available, it was like everyone who couldn't |
| 0:27.3 | have it in high school had to have it and there's this huge wash of CBD and it turns out |
| 0:32.4 | CBD is a useful supplement for a lot of people. |
| 0:35.5 | There's validity to it and there's still a lot we're learning about different forms of |
| 0:39.3 | CBD and different brains and all and the initial amazingness has died down a little bit. |
| 0:45.1 | But this new study is pretty cool because after a two week course of high dose CBD, mice |
| 0:50.4 | showed improved function in two proteins that are important for preventing Alzheimer's. |
| 0:54.8 | They're called IL-33 and Trem-2. |
| 0:58.9 | Both proteins keep Fego cytosis going, which is a natural housekeeping process in your |
| 1:03.4 | brain. |
| 1:05.2 | In that process, immune cells eat beta-ameloid and if you've read superhuman or headstrong, |
| 1:11.9 | you understand that amyloid throughout the body is a bad thing but beta-amyloid in the |
| 1:15.8 | mind is very much a problem because it is a sign of Alzheimer's, probably not the cause |
| 1:20.4 | which we used to think it was. |
| 1:22.4 | We do know that beta-ameloid plaques are the primary markers for Alzheimer's so controlling |
| 1:28.8 | those two proteins can play a significant role probably in preventing the disease. |
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