Mini-Episode: Cool Facts Friday #23
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 19 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.
- Drugs that cut down cancer risk by 61% aren't really drugs.
- Take the right type of Vitamin D for the most benefit.
- Stressing cells in the sauna could help reverse neurological disease.
- A new discovery in brain communication and function.
- Making stem cells younger in less time.
- Active brown fat could be a marker for pre-diabetes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Cool Facts on the Human Upgrade. |
| 0:06.4 | If you like these short hits of cool facts, go to Davasprey.com and tell me what I should |
| 0:11.0 | include next time. |
| 0:13.8 | This cool fact is about an article published in the journal Frontiers of Aging that |
| 0:19.5 | trumpeted that a combination of drugs can cut down cancer risk by 61%. |
| 0:26.3 | Guess what the drugs were? |
| 0:29.3 | Hit him in D and Omega 3 Facts. |
| 0:34.2 | Those are not drugs and every time a pharmaceutical company tries to label a supplement as a drug, |
| 0:40.5 | it's because they're trying to tenx the price and mean you have to have a permission |
| 0:44.2 | slip to get it. |
| 0:45.4 | So no my friends, vitamin D and Omega 3s are supplements and you may not prescribe them |
| 0:53.4 | you can only recommend them. |
| 0:55.8 | You're not allowed to put them behind a paywall. |
| 0:58.0 | Now the study though showed 61% in reduction of cancer from a very basic exercise program |
| 1:05.4 | plus vitamin D and Omega 3. |
| 1:08.3 | This was a study conducted in Zurich. |
| 1:10.3 | It was a three year trial to figure out if the combination of those could have an impact |
| 1:14.5 | on cancer risk. |
| 1:16.2 | What they found was that if they tested each one of these things separately, there was |
| 1:20.0 | a very small individual benefit. |
| 1:22.6 | Little bit from vitamin D, little bit from Omega 3, little bit from exercise, not that |
| 1:26.3 | remarkable, but when you did these together in a system, I mean your body is a system, |
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