You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite topics ever. The definition of biohacking is you change the environment around you and inside you so you have full

control of your own biology. Well what's part of the environment around you?

Animals, soil, bacteria, even fungus, the water, the air.

How does that connect to living longer, higher human performance?

Well, given that your body is a bag of mostly water

containing tiny bags, cold cells,

that contain even tinier bags, mitochondria that have their own environmental sensors

and their own distributed consciousness, they listen to all the variables in your environment

that your conscious mind will probably never be aware of unless someone tells you about the things that make a difference.

But the reason they make a difference is they do it at a very low level in your system that percolates up until you feel it.

And that's why I made the decision, oh, 15 years ago or so, to move to a place where I could build a regenerative farm.

And I built one with 25 pigs, 25 sheep, three cows, and a variable number of chickens and turkeys depending on raccoon activity and ran in for

about seven years. I raised my kids on that farm and that environment and I did it for

them because I wanted also the

experience of doing that. It was a huge amount of work and I oftentimes don't even

talk about it that much on the show but it's so fundamental to feeling good to have a clean high quality food supply and

that it's an incredible luxury to be able to do that. Most people dream of that without knowing it's damned expensive to run a farm and 90%

of small farmers the few that haven't been taken out by Bill Gates and Company and large companies buying up all the farmland,

90% of them have daytime jobs and they come back and running a farm is a full-time job,

unquestionably, and it's one that doesn't have hours because the

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