Mini-Episode: Cool Facts Friday #16
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this Episode of The Human Upgrade™...
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.
- Examining the relationship between autoimmunity and pain.
- Plants up regulate their own autophagy to bring nutrients back in balance.
- How autophagy supports stressed-out cells.
- New genes found! Nearly three times more cause obesity than prevent it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:05.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:10.0 | For 10 years across a thousand episodes and a quarter billion listens, my podcast has |
| 0:18.6 | elevated what you knew about the capabilities of your mind and body, and because we're |
| 0:24.0 | at the 10 year anniversary, I'm evolving Bulletproof Radio even further in my plan to |
| 0:29.8 | upgrade humanity, and I'm evolving myself as well. |
| 0:33.2 | I invite you to expand your knowledge, explore your performance, and embrace your possibility |
| 0:38.0 | with the human upgrade. |
| 0:39.8 | You'll meet bright thinkers and radical doers who push the boundaries of science, technology, |
| 0:44.6 | personal development, and human performance in every way imaginable. |
| 0:49.1 | Every guess you listen to, every topic you learn about, every new idea you discover |
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| 1:09.4 | My commitment to you is that the time you spend with me on the human upgrade will always |
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| 1:24.0 | Welcome to another edition of Cool Facts right in the middle of the awkward teenage phase, |
| 1:29.6 | because this is cool facts number 16. |
| 1:31.8 | Hopefully, my voice won't crack right in the middle of it. |
| 1:34.9 | At the 7th annual by-hacking conference in Florida last month, I had a chance to walk around |
| 1:38.7 | and ask people what they thought of Cool Facts, and what I heard, and what my team heard, |
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