You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that there are actually ways to teach your body to heal

faster.

Dr. Caitlin Sadler, a TED 2018 fellow and Immuno Engineer and her team are working on

creating materials that command your immune system to help regenerate tissue, which is

awesome because it means you can basically be like Wolverine.

She figured out that the helper T-cell, a specific type of immune cell that's important

for your wound healing, is available in various implanted materials they're currently testing

and they know they can regrow muscles that way.

So with the right materials and giving the immune system the right cues, they can tell

it to heal injuries so the skin looks the same as it did before the injury without any

scar instead of getting fat cells inside the muscles that were injured or damaged.

Well, wouldn't it be kind of cool if you just had a little bit of an implant that let

you heal like Wolverine if you got a big car accident or maybe just had surgery to add

a third arm, a robot arm or something?

Okay, maybe not.

I don't think we should upgrade our hardware until we take full use of what we got.

But here's the deal.

I want to heal faster, especially when I'm 120.

I'd like to heal like I'm 20.

Today's guest is a fantastic human being and a famous guy, at least famous if you've

seen shark tank or you've ever heard of something like, oh, vitamin water, smart water, things

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