Stacking Biohacks: In Tune with Body and Mind - Rick Rubin : 585
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
For this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dave talked with legendary music producer Rick Rubin at the famed Shangri-La Recording Studio in Malibu, California.
Rick coaxes creativity and musical magic from diverse artists across multiple genres, such as hip-hop, heavy metal, pop, country, rock & roll, alternative, and more. He’s known for his Zen-like demeanor, private nature and nearly four decades-long influence on music.
His formula for success isn’t a formula at all. “We're really at the mercy of the forces of the universe to control the process,” Rick says, “and we just have to be patient and be open and allow it to happen.”
He doesn’t have a formula for biohacking his way to a 130-pound weight loss, either, but being open to experimentation got him there. Take a listen to Rick’s journey to better health in which he reconsidered veganism, discovered ice baths as meditation, and embraced loving kindness.
There’s plenty more biohacking goodness covered, too, like intranasal red light, biophoto modulation, cerebral electrical stimulation, Carbogen, deuterium depleted water, and peptides. "I don't need to understand the science of why a biohack works or doesn't work,” Rick says. “I just want it to work.”
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:10.0 | Your listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.6 | Today's cool fact of the day is that singing mice are using two different brain systems |
| 0:21.8 | when they do something called a duet. |
| 0:24.6 | There's a strange kind of mouse that lives in Central American Cloud Forest and they're |
| 0:28.8 | musical mice and they sing songs to each other and a new study reveals how their brains |
| 0:33.4 | orchestrate those rapid-fire duets. |
| 0:36.9 | And they show the brains of the mice actually split up the musical work. |
| 0:40.8 | So one brain system controls the content of the song but another part called the Oro-Facial |
| 0:46.2 | Motor Cortex or OMC orchestrates the split second timing needed for them to work with |
| 0:51.0 | each other. |
| 0:52.4 | These mice are known as Alston's singing mice and they're super quirky and they're |
| 0:56.6 | kind of like the famous singers with extreme green room demands and they're kind of divas |
| 1:01.4 | according to the researchers who had to get extra big terrariums and exercise equipment |
| 1:05.9 | and special diets just like you'd expect from any big music star. |
| 1:10.8 | And the mice are really loud, really vocal in the lab and they really just studied them |
| 1:15.9 | with EEG to figure out what's going on inside those brains. |
| 1:19.8 | When they cooled the OMC of these mice, I'm not sure they did that, hopefully with an |
| 1:24.1 | ice pack, it slowed the nerve cells activity and the songs got longer, which suggests |
| 1:29.8 | that the brain region normally controls that song timing. |
| 1:32.6 | And when they used the drug to silence the OMC, they couldn't sing in common response |
| 1:36.6 | with each other. |
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