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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Your home could be quietly stealing your IQ, disrupting your hormones, destroying your mitochondria, and triggering chronic disease, and most people never connect the dots. This episode gives you the full picture on toxic mold, and exactly what to do about it
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Host Dave Asprey sits down with Seth Jones, CEO of Superstratum and the creator of the first patent-pending process to remove mycotoxins from homes. Before founding Superstratum, Seth spent 15 years as an international songwriter, producer, and DJ until a personal experience with Building-Related Illness changed the entire direction of his life. Today he and his team are on a mission to heal the estimated 66 million homes in the U.S. that create toxic conditions for the 170 million people living inside them. If toxic mold has derailed your health, your relationships, or your ability to think clearly, this conversation will change how you see your home forever.
Dave Asprey built his entire biohacking and longevity career trying to fix what mold did to his body. By his mid-twenties, he carried diagnoses of arthritis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and mold-induced brain damage that wiped out his prefrontal cortex activity. Functional medicine doctors couldn't help him. Specialists gave up. It took him years of self-directed research into mitochondria, metabolism, and environmental toxicology to understand that his home was the root cause. He lost 100 pounds, reversed brain damage confirmed by imaging, and recovered IQ points he thought were gone for good.
In this episode, Dave and Seth break down the real science of how mycotoxins poison mitochondria, hijack hormones, crush sleep optimization, and block the neuroplasticity your brain needs to perform. They reveal why mold is additive with every other toxin in your environment, why most remediation fails, and how a systematic home detox protocol can do what no supplement, nootropic, or fasting protocol can fix on its own.
You'll Learn:
- Why mold toxins are direct mitochondrial poisons and what that means for your energy, willpower, and metabolism
- How mycotoxins lower your IQ by up to 15 points and why removing them reverses the damage
- The estrogen-mimicking mold toxin 10,000 times stronger than human estrogen that causes weight gain no diet can fix
- Why your AC and HVAC system are the most dangerous mold delivery systems in your home
- How mold disables detox pathways and makes every other environmental toxin worse
- The connection between toxic mold, Lyme disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, and fertility loss
- Why Danger Coffee and mold-free nutrition matter as much as fixing your home
- The step-by-step Superstratum protocol for fogging, bombing, coating, and restoring a healthy home microbiome
- How to salvage your belongings, treat your car, and avoid recontaminating a clean environment
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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 brings you the knowledge to take control of your biology, extend your longevity, and optimize every system in your body and mind. Each episode delivers cutting-edge insights inhealth, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, biohacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living.
New episodes are released every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday (BONUS). Dave asks the questions no one else will and gives you real tools to become stronger, smarter, and more resilient.
Keywords: Seth Jones, Superstratum, toxic mold symptoms, mycotoxins in homes, Building-Related Illness, mold and IQ, mold brain damage, HVAC mold, home detox protocol, hypochlorous acid mold, environmental probiotics, HomeBiotic, mold and mitochondria, mold and hormones, zearalenone estrogen, mold weight gain, mold and fertility, mold and Alzheimer's, mold and Lyme disease, ochratoxin, mold and chronic fatigue, Dave Asprey, biohacking, longevity, functional medicine, human performance, anti-aging, Danger Coffee, mold detox, brain optimization, sleep optimization
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Trailer
00:46 – Intro
01:27 – Dave's Mold Origin Story
02:37 – Health Decline & Recovery
06:02 – Coffee, Bulletproof & Moldy Movie
10:17 – Systemic Effects of Mold
13:24 – Introducing SuperStratum
18:04 – Weight, Hormones & Brain Damage
19:53 – Brain Scans, Sleep & Symptoms
26:09 – Fertility, Prevention & Costs
31:03 – Treating the Home
42:42 – Seth's Story
48:45 – Resources & Car Detox
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| 0:00.0 | You have to remediate. You've got mold growing inside of your walls. We tell people you need to rip that mold out. |
| 0:04.5 | But like you're saying, it's really the mycotoxins. It's the leftover. It's all of these things that get left in the house after. These micro toxins are very small particles. They get on everything. And if you move to a new home and I'm going to bring my moldy furniture with me, you will remain sick. So you have to throw away all your stuff. |
| 0:20.4 | What we like to say is car detailing is not car detoxing. |
| 0:24.0 | A lot of times when you de-trial, the furniture with me, you will remain safe. So you have to throw away all your stuff. What we'd like to say |
| 0:21.3 | is car detailing is not car detoxing. A lot of times when you detail a car, you're introducing more |
| 0:26.5 | chemicals. One of the things that cars have are volatile organic compounds. Chemicals that off gas, |
| 0:31.6 | especially in new cars, none of those chemicals are oxidizers that are strong enough to destroy |
| 0:36.5 | the chemical. And that's with a building cleaner and the whole system, as well as the deodor bombs, |
| 0:40.6 | are designed to do, designed to clean up all that chemical contamination without even a wipe. |
| 0:45.3 | Just from a fog, landing on the surface, there's a hundred percent reduction in open toxin from the building. |
| 0:50.3 | Wow. |
| 0:52.6 | You're listening to The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:59.4 | You can be health conscious, doing everything right and still feel like garbage. |
| 1:04.6 | And the reason is almost always the same, mineral deficiency. |
| 1:08.6 | And not because you're not trying. |
| 1:10.7 | Because modern soil is depleted. |
| 1:12.6 | Crops today have up to 40% fewer minerals than they did 50 years ago. |
| 1:17.6 | Your food isn't what it used to be. But here's the part nobody talks about. |
| 1:22.6 | Nutrients don't work in isolation. Minerals and fat-soluble vitamins D, A, K, and E work together in your body. |
| 1:30.3 | Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium. K2 makes sure calcium goes into your bones, not your arteries. |
| 1:37.3 | You need magnesium to activate vitamin D so your body can use it. Without these nutrients present together, your system doesn't run efficiently. |
| 1:46.3 | You might as well flush money down the toilet. That's exactly why I created Dake and Minerals 101. |
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