You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact today is that scientists just figured out why some people from Southeast

Asia known as the Bajau may have superpowers.

This unusual group of people can hold their breath for as long as 13 minutes and they

spend about 5 hours a day in the water and are sometimes known as C-nomads.

And scientists now believe that they can do this because they have really large splines

and this is probably a genetic variation that came about.

This is interesting because on Bulletproof Radio I'm always looking for ways to figure

out how people do things that are supposed to be impossible and sometimes it's genetic

and sometimes it's epigenetic which means that your environment reprograms your DNA.

In this case it's probably a combination of both.

Scientists believe this is the mechanism for this because certain seal species also have

really large splines which is kind of cool because splines can bring a larger supply of

oxygenated red blood cells.

What does that mean for you and me if we don't have really large splines?

I have no idea.

But figure out how humans do cool things is awesome.

This episode of Bulletproof Radio is one of the most powerful and most amazing interviews I've

ever had the honor of conducting.

And we go to some places that are graphic and real.

And this is the sort of stuff that teaches me and teaches all of us about human resilience.

But it's not the kind of stuff that you probably want to listen to with young kids.

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