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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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What if one spray could upgrade your brain, protect your mitochondria, and outperform IV therapy and liposomal supplements? In this episode, you’ll discover the breakthrough science behind topical glutathione delivery that uses your skin’s water channels to raise intracellular glutathione levels in just 60 seconds. Learn how this powerful antioxidant works at the cellular level to reduce oxidative stress, support mitochondrial function, and drive real improvements in brain health, emotional resilience, and human performance.
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Host Dave Asprey sits down with Nayan Patel, a world-leading pharmacist and formulator who pioneered this next-gen delivery method. With over two decades of clinical work in functional medicine, Nayan has helped reshape how we think about glutathione benefits, systemic detox, and performance optimization. His research shows that topical delivery bypasses traditional fat-based absorption, achieving higher brain uptake and faster results than IVs or capsules.
You’ll learn:
• Why glutathione for longevity is foundational to biohacking
• How it protects against cellular inflammation and improves TBI recovery issues
• Why pairing glutathione with NAD+, vitamin C, or pharmaceutical nicotine creates a powerful synergy
• How it preserves NAD+, supports sirtuins, and enhances ATP production
• When to use glutathione as an immune booster for resilience and recovery
This conversation also reveals the truth behind liposomal supplements, how your age affects glutathione absorption, and why this molecule is critical for anyone using nootropics, in ketosis, or pushing metabolic limits.
This episode is essential listening for anyone into biohacking, cold therapy, functional medicine, or RFK-style medical freedom. You’ll walk away with practical tools to boost nitric oxide naturally, prevent dysfunction, and optimize your biology whether you’re on a carnivore diet or just looking for an edge.
Dave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, founder of Bulletproof Coffee, and the father of biohacking. With over 1,000 interviews and 1 million monthly listeners, The Human Upgrade is the top podcast for people who want to take control of their biology, extend their longevity, and optimize every system in the body and mind. Each episode features cutting-edge insights in health, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, hacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living.
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Timestamps:
• 00:00 Trailer
• 00:20 Intro
• 01:12 Water Channel Delivery Explained
• 02:25 What Makes Glutathione Special
• 05:04 Why IVs and Liposomes Fail
• 06:29 Measuring Glutathione in the Brain
• 10:42 Key Benefits and Use Cases
• 20:49 Emotional Resilience Effects
• 23:54 Sensitivity and Response
• 24:55 Best Timing for Use
• 25:53 Workout Performance Boost
• 26:47 Brain Health and TBI Support
• 28:22 Best Stack Combinations
• 29:32 Nicotine + Glutathione Synergy
• 33:18 Longevity, Sirtuins, and Genes
• 40:36 Glutathione as Immune Booster
• 43:15 Peptides and Next-Gen Hacks
• 45:29 Dosing Tips and Wrap-Up
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0:00.0 | Nyan, you're one of my favorite people to interview about the weird biohacking topic of transdermal delivery systems. |
0:09.7 | And what that means for listeners, there are different ways of bringing compounds in through your skin, and some of them are even more effective than eating it or injecting it. |
0:19.9 | What are the big three types of transdermal delivery and what do you do that's different? |
0:25.4 | So the transdramal deliveries, I mean, there's literally two ways to get into your system. |
0:30.6 | One is passive diffusion. |
0:33.4 | So you make something in an oil-based systems, a liposome-based system, which is lipid-soluble, |
0:39.3 | and gets through your skin, into the fatty tissues and all the cholesterol, everything under your |
0:45.2 | skin. And it goes passive diffusion. And this is where 99.99% of all the medications are in the marketplace today. |
0:55.8 | So this mix with fat droplets and then you smear it on, the fat soaks in like lotion. |
1:00.0 | Exactly. |
1:00.8 | And then, of course, you can enhance the diffusion by putting a patch on there or CERN, wrap |
1:06.4 | the whole thing or whatever. |
1:07.9 | So make it more bioavailable or faster penetration. And then we |
1:13.4 | discovered a new way of delivering this for the very first time, which is bypassing all the fat |
1:18.4 | layer, putting into a water-based system using sugar technology that goes to the water channels |
1:24.9 | of your skin, which is unheard of, and that has no barriers |
1:28.9 | whatsoever and just go straight through the channels into your body instantaneously. There's no |
1:34.7 | passive diffusion. It's active transport of the products through the channels. |
1:40.0 | What does it take like one minute, right? It takes about a minute, yes, to rub it in. |
1:46.1 | But the results are coming in with insectins, right? |
1:50.3 | For example, if you have a sunburn, it just sprayed on. |
1:53.3 | Even before you start rubbing it in, it starts pain, it starts getting away immediately. |
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