Steroids, Gene Therapy, Peptides: The Future of ENHANCED Sports with Aron D’Souza : 1215
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Step into the future of sports performance with The Human Upgrade as Dave Asprey and Aron D’Souza, founder of the Enhanced Games, uncover the controversial world of steroids, gene therapy, peptides, and human enhancement. In this groundbreaking episode, they explore how athletes can push the boundaries of physical and mental performance by embracing cutting-edge science once banned by traditional sports bodies like the Olympics.
Discover why the Enhanced Games are redefining fairness in athletics, allowing competitors to use biohacking and performance-enhancing technologies to unlock new levels of strength, speed, and recovery. Aron breaks down the ethical dilemmas, the science behind enhancements, and why athletes should have full control over their bodies and biology. From synthetic growth hormones to the latest in gene therapy, this episode dives deep into the future of sports innovation.
Whether you’re fascinated by the world of biohacking, curious about the next big revolution in sports, or want to understand how gene therapy and performance enhancers could impact human longevity, this episode delivers a thought-provoking look into the possibilities of superhuman performance.
Could you be the world’s next super athlete? Age might soon be irrelevant! The future of athletic potential is wide open—are you ready to take the leap?
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• Enhanced Games – https://enhanced.org
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Timestamps:
• 00:00 – The Toxic Belief System
• 00:31 – Introduction to the Human Upgrade
• 02:42 – The Enhanced Games Concept
• 04:12 – Olympic Inequality and Corruption
• 05:19 – The Case for Performance Enhancements
• 10:54 – Transparency and Financial Incentives
• 15:30 – Health and Safety in Enhanced Games
• 18:14 – Global Impact and Future of Enhanced Games
• 25:28 – Cognitive vs. Physical Enhancements
• 28:54 – Historical Context and Future Vision
• 33:54 – Human Enhancements and Banned Substances
• 34:36 – The Enhanced Games: Concept and Vision
• 35:53 – Biohacking and Cognitive Enhancers
• 36:24 – The Birth of the Enhanced Games
• 37:00 – Data and the Future of Sports
• 40:20 – Criticism and Scientific Debate
• 42:03 – Ethics and Sponsorship
• 47:55 – Gender and Competition Categories
• 54:41 – Funding and Logistics of the Enhanced Games
• 57:06 – The Future of Sports and Human Potential
• 57:46 – Technological and Engineered Enhancements
• 01:04:16 – Getting Involved and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | This belief system is toxic. It leads to the big pharma ownership of your soul. |
| 0:05.6 | One of the most political and corrupt organizations ever imagined by the world. |
| 0:09.7 | Was there like one person who drove all this insanity? |
| 0:13.7 | They would foil bull's testicles and ingest them as a performance enhancing drug. |
| 0:18.6 | They have to pull their pants down below their knees, |
| 0:21.5 | expose their genitals, and urinate in full view of a drug |
| 0:25.8 | testing officer. It's gross and it's offensive. Are you using human enhancements |
| 0:30.2 | right now? You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:37.0 | Today is an interview that I've been dreaming about for like 20 years and if you go way back in time to the start of the show |
| 0:46.2 | I did an interview called the Doper Next Door from a science journalist who did something naughty. He used normal |
| 0:54.3 | testosterone replacement in his 40s to improve his athletic performance but because he |
| 0:58.5 | was a racer he was kind of like I'm a doper and I was like is it? And I have said for years that it's cruel and unusual to allow athletes to compete without having appropriate levels of hormones so that they can |
| 1:14.8 | heal and recover the way that's possible and that people like me who is not a |
| 1:19.9 | professional athlete do on a daily basis. |
| 1:23.0 | And what this has done is it's caused most professional |
| 1:27.4 | athletes to have shorter careers than they should, |
| 1:29.8 | non-perform as well as they should, |
| 1:32.0 | and the people who go out of their way to use |
| 1:33.8 | biohacking people like Nick Fols who's been on the show or the Brian |
| 1:39.4 | brothers have also been on the show who do extreme biohacking but without using all the |
| 1:45.0 | performance enhancements available because of rules made in the 1970s by |
| 1:49.2 | angry I think angry chain-smoking cat ladies are in charge of limiting athletic performance and I've had enough of that |
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