The Entertaining Tales of a Legendary Talent Manager and Supermensch - Shep Gordon - #423
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the course of his long-running career as a manager, agent and film producer, Shep Gordon has worked with some of the most successful recording artists, chefs, and actors in the business - and he has the amazing stories to prove it! Well-known for managing musician Alice Cooper and a slew of Hollywood actors, Shep is also credited with revolutionizing the culinary arts industry by representing celebrity chefs, such as Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse. Author of “They Call Me Supermensch”, and subject of a documentary featuring his nickname, Shep shares some incredible accounts with Dave in this lively yet intimately personal discussion. From his focus on philanthropy, to his “inside joke” with the Dalai Lama, to his innate ability to develop trust with his clients – oh, and that time he got punched in the face by Janis Joplin! - Shep regales Dave with some truly unbelievable stories. You won’t want to miss today’s episode, it’s epic!
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| 0:00.0 | If you read my anti-aging book, you know that there are seven things that cause aging in your body, |
| 0:04.7 | and one of the biggest ones you could call zombie cells. Those are cells in your body that are |
| 0:09.6 | done living, but they don't really die. They sit around, they take up resources, and they make |
| 0:13.6 | free radicals and inflammation. As you age, you get more and more zombie cells. They also cause |
| 0:19.0 | aging symptoms like less energy and longer recovery times. I've been working with my friends at |
| 0:23.6 | Neurohacker on a formula that would cause your body to eliminate those zombie cells. It's called |
| 0:30.0 | Qualia Cinellytics. It's a new kind of supplement. It's got the most powerful, herbal, and natural |
| 0:35.3 | cinellytics, and it's so powerful you only take it for two days per month to turn on this cleanup |
| 0:41.4 | of your zombie cells. You don't take it every day because you don't want your body to get rid of |
| 0:45.6 | those cells every day because that would get in the way of your body's normal functioning. In |
| 0:50.0 | other words, you need to do a once a month cleaning cycle. When you check it out, you'll feel the |
| 0:53.9 | difference. Go to Neurohacker.com slash Dave, use code Asprey15, they'll give you 15% off. |
| 1:00.0 | That's Neurohacker.com slash Dave code Asprey15. |
| 1:04.0 | Will it prove radio a state of high performance? |
| 1:17.9 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's cool fact of the day is that |
| 1:23.7 | there's a strange and easy way to increase your brain function. And it comes from something |
| 1:31.2 | as simple as putting your phone far away from you. There's a recent experiment where they had people |
| 1:36.1 | take exams and they found that people who kept their phones in a different room performed way |
| 1:41.7 | better than people who had their phones on the desk in front of them. And it's because the participants |
| 1:46.3 | weren't distracted because they were getting notifications on their phones. And it turns out that |
| 1:51.1 | the presence of the smartphone alone was enough to reduce their test performance even if the phone |
| 1:58.4 | was off. And the reason for that is that your body spends some percentage of your precious mitochondrial |
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