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March 27, 2013
Podcast #40: Bulletproof Brains & Brawn with Dan John
Dan John has spent his life with one foot in the world of lifting and throwing, and the other foot in academia. An All-American discus thrower, Dan has also competed at the highest levels of Olympic lifting, Highland Games and the Weight Pentathlon, an event in which he holds the American record.
Dan spends his work life blending weekly workshops and lectures with full-time writing, and is also an online religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri. As a Fulbright Scholar, he toured the Middle East exploring the foundations of religious education systems. His books, on weightlifting, include Intervention, Never Let Go, Mass Made Simple and Easy Strength, written with Pavel Tsatsouline as well as From Dad, To Grad.
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What We Cover
~1:41 Why are you a trainer of trainers/athletes with your high interest in religion?
~4:20 The 5 questions you ask for clients to get them started on your program?
~7:05 The difference between a health goal and a fitness goal
~9:00 What quadrant are you in? And how it affects your mentality toward training
~11:50 What do you think about older guys using hormones to reach their health/fitness goals?
~13:30 Dan’s experience with BP Intermittent Fasting
~17:00 Interesting thoughts on fasting and feasting
~19:00 Cold thermogenesis
~20:40 The mammalian part of your brain and how it is related to Dan’s training
~23:00 The secret of freewill
~24:50 The difference between “I don’t” and “I can’t”
~27:15 What is “absolute strength”?
~31:20 How putting 100% effort into your workout affects your recovery (Volume vs. Intensity)
~35:00 Bio-hacking vs. track & field
~37:30 The warrior spirit
~40:00 The “how” and “why” of health/fitness
~45:20 The 2 minimum effective doses to get strong as fast as possible
~49:50 What should we be eating? (And a story about fitness experts NOT knowing what the best eating habit is)
~54:00 What are the top 3 recommendations for people who want to be as powerful and resilient in all aspects of your life?
Links From The Show
Featured
Intervention
(Dan John’s book)
Mentions
Bulletproof Upgraded Whey (To Start Training!)
Updates & Announcements
Upgraded Subscriptions are now here! One less thing you have to do to make sure you receive your supplies that keep you Bulletproof.
Upcoming Events:
Imagine setting sail for a week with people who are passionate about upgrading their health! I’m excited to be a part of The Low-Carb Cruise 2013 setting sail MAY 5-12, 2013. I’m honored to be speaking along side Jimmy Moore, Robb Wolf, Dr. Jayson and Mira Calton to name a few. If you’re attending, let me know in the comments below. It would be great to meet you!
Want to get your Sexy Back? Join Sean Croxton, host of the Sexy Back Summit for some dynamite line-up speakers, I’ll be speaking on Upgrading Your Orgasm. Starting May 19th. Stay tuned for more details!
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March 19, 2013
Can Kids Eat Bulletproof?
In this video, that Nerdstalker captured at The Bulletproof Conference, you will learn about the basic principles outlined in The Better Baby Book that will allow you to upgrade your kids’ intelligence and genes while in the womb and in the peak stage of growth (0-7 years old).
Also Discussed:
The 4 “horsemen” of epigenetics
A child’s NECESSITY to avoid gluten
Why Avoiding Screens (Computer, TV) is important
And what we feed our kids
Want to learn more? Get The Better Baby Book!
Buy copies for friends and family on Amazon between NOW and March 22nd and you will receive coffee or coaching if you send your Amazon receipts to: receipts [at] betterbabybook [dot] com. Please note, the purchases have to be made between March 10th and 22th, 2013 to qualify.
Please help us share our research and knowledge with others!
5 books = 1 coffee bag
15 books = 1/2 hour session with Dr. Lana ($150 Value)
20 books = 1/2 hour with Dave ($250 Value)
Spread the word and encourage healthier families by letting your friends on Twitter and Facebook know that if you want the healthiest, brightest baby it all starts with the proper prenatal preparations.
March 12, 2013
How Your Environment Hacks Your Genes for You
A new guide to epigenetics just got published that blows the doors off conventional thinking around upgrading yourself. There is no longer any doubt that you can use your environment to literally hack your genes. The research, published in the Journal of Behavioral Ecology, highlights dozens of studies showing epigenetics guides rapid adaptation.
Epigenetics, the study of how your internal and external environments change your genes, is a huge area of interest at the Bulletproof Executive because it shows you do not have to wait for the slow creep of evolution in order to transform yourself. It puts hard science behind what humans have long known – that you can optimize your diet, behavior and environment to move your body and mind to new levels.
Epigenetics promises to help crack the code behind increased obesity, cancer rates, and other wide spread degenerative diseases, but that is just for starters. By hacking our environment, we can literally turn on genes that make us more Bulletproof.
Flipping Your DNA Switches
The new epigenetic research comes from the University of South Florida’s Department of Integrative Biology scientists Christina Richards and Lynn Martin (1). Richards states, “If you have two individuals with the same DNA sequence, you can get differences in their traits just by regulating what portions of the DNA sequence are turned on and off. When you expand this up to the population level, you begin to appreciate how fast variation can arise from environmental changes. New variation does not only come from mutation. Mutations are rare and slow to affect populations.” [emphasis is mine]
In other words, you don’t have to be a genetic freak in order to do something amazing. You may just need to be an environmental freak.
With epigenetic change, the DNA sequence stays the same and alterations in behavior, health, size, and all sorts of factors happen just because DNA gets packaged differently.
In many cases, epigenetic changes are activated by some change in the environment – typically something stressful.Now you know why I keep harping on how important it is to transform your useless stress into useful stress! It’s just as important that you do not have zero stress in your life either.
What’s unique about some of these environmentally induced changes is that they can be passed along to subsequent generations, changing the nature of the species even if the DNA doesn’t change. This, among other reasons, is why epigenetics is such a big theme in my upcoming book The Better Baby Book[link]. Starting in the womb, the environment you provide for your kids induces change much more than you think. I started researching epigenetics in 2005 in order to use it to have healthier kids, and it worked.
Darwin Was Wrong
We used to think that you had to inherit a mutation in order to evolve, and acquired traits that were inherited were not important to evolutionary processes. “The current biological theory holds that differences in DNA provide the variation necessary for adjusting to a wide variety of environmental factors,” Richards said. “But invasive species appear to thrive even with low levels of genetic variation.”
For example, in a recent study of Japanese knotweed, Richards and colleagues found plants across the 100 miles of Long Island, N.Y., had almost no genetic variation. Instead, responses to new habitats such as sand dunes and marshes were correlated with variation in DNA methylation patterns, one of the ways gene expression is regulated. Her findings indicate that epigenetic effects could be responsible for how the plants manage to thrive in diverse habitats, even though they have basically the same DNA.
“We used to think that the environment mostly acted as the major selective agent for successful or unsuccessful trait adaptations – but where novel variation came from was always hard to pinpoint,” Martin said. “This new way of thinking about evolution – adding epigenetics – gives the environment two roles: environment still picks the individuals that get to breed successfully, but it also creates trait variation through gene expression and probably epigenetic change. In effect, change can show up faster than the traditional view of evolution.” [emphasis mine]
You Can Start Now
These kinds of studies are what push me to provide you with the ideal ways to detoxify your body, optimize your diet, minimize the useless stress in your life. According to this study, your environment – where you work and live, what you eat, and thousands of other variables - affect you more than you ever imagined. If you have children (or plan to), it affects them even more. That is why I am excited about sharing The Better Baby Book and teaching people how to optimize their own – and their children’s - environment.
It is time to make you and your family Bulletproof! It won’t take multiple generations to see huge changes, and what you do now to your environment will affect the next several generations of your family.
Why wait for evolution? Biohacking with epigenetics is simply faster and easier. Want a head start? Find out how to get a free coaching session from me, or my wife, Lana Asprey, Fertility Coach.
Reference:
(1) Vickie, Chachere. “Evolving Field of Behavioral Epigenetics.” – University of SouthFlorida. N.p., n.d. Web. Oct. 2012.<http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=4798>.
March 11, 2013
Podcast #39: Hormone Alchemy (+ Why Hard Data is HOT)… How to Amplify the Positive Neuro-hormonal Dashboard with Dr. Sara Gottfried MD
Dr. Sara Gottfried is a Harvard doc, biohacker, and yoga-powered champion of your health, happiness and hormonal equilibrium. She’s also seen 20,000 patients in the past 20 years and applied her training as a MIT bioengineer to how women and men can leverage the upstream and downstream mediators to create natural hormone balance with next gen medicine, and wrote a book about it, called The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 3/12/13)
She biohacked her own happy hormones and happy brain chemicals as a 30-something stress case battling McMedicine, PMS, and low sex drive. She was offered Prozac and a birth control pill for her misery by her primary care physician, and that was a defining moment that allowed her to step from her darkest hour into the grace of biohacking bliss. The main culprit: CORTISOL. It took her 4 weeks to get her crazy-high cortisol down to the Goldilocks position of not too high and not too low, and she applied that learning and refined her protocol on her next 10,000 patients over the next 10 years. Results were staggering: Dr. Sara could neutralize cortisol, what she calls the “bad-boyfriend” hormone in 1 minute. She reversed insulin resistance in 48 hours. She got estrogen back into it’s rightful place, and thyroid, inside of 2 weeks.
She believes knowledge is power, science is sexy… and, oh yes, actionable needle-moving solutions are hot. Listen in for our dialogue about cutting-edge science, and crazy-lovin’ solutions — for men and women.
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What We Cover
2:00 How an OBGYN can make you more Bulletproof
3:20 Men, women, and their relationship with hormones
5:30 Is having TOO LITTLE cortisol a problem?
8:00 The little-known strategy that resets your adrenal function and epigenetic button (hint: it’s a new app for your iPhone)
9:25 How to craft a top-5 list of proven ways to neutralize stress, wayward cortisol, and amplify focus and resilience
13:50 Surprising ways to leverage orgasm (for men and women) when it comes to up leveling your hormone balance
18:00 Case of 40-something working mom who would rather mop the floor than have sex with her husband, but was having “mercy sex,” and what worked for her
24:10 Case of a hedge-fund exec with brain fog and depleted energy, and how he stepped back into greatness
34:30 Create the ideal epigenetic environment to biohack your hormones
39:10 A surprising secret that you need to know about organ reserve
49:40 How to fix your hormonal Charlie’s Angels (Cortisol, Estrogen, Thyroid) and in men, your hormonal Three Amigos (Cortisol, Testosterone, Thyroid), so they’re working for you, not against you
54:00 The dark-side of “The Pill”
1:01:00 The bonuses that come with Sara’s new book
More of Dr. Sara’s Story
When Dr. Sara was a young girl, her great-grandmother would visit family. Sara and her sisters hoped she’d bring presents, cookies, maybe a Barbie or two–like her friends’ grandparents. But her great-grandmother, when she stepped off the plane from California, was pulling a suitcase full of kale, fish oil, wheat berries and Meyer lemons.
“Confused” would be a nice way to describe our reaction. But Sara’s great granny was a biohacker, and believed you don’t find the answer to health in a prescription pill bottle, you find it in how your construct your life and manage your dashboard.
When you’re a little girl used to PopTarts, being fed kale is tough. But as Dr. Sara spent more time with her great-grandmother, she found that sometimes those who do the strangest things are the ones who know best. And they often have the best recommendations.
You see, her great grandmother wasn’t like any ol’ granny. She was amazingly youthful and energetic—she looked half her age. She practice yoga decades before Lululemon. The food she ate, the drinks she drank (or avoided), and the supplements she took were exactly what her aging body needed to keep going—and to keep her hormones in balance.
Dr. Sara has an audacious goal to balance the hormones of 1 million women this year, but she needs your help. She wants women everywhere (and the men who try to dodge the hormonal bullets of the women they love – girlfriends, wife, sisters, mom, favorite aunties) to balance their hormones and meet their full potential. It’s up to you to re-set the way you eat, sleep, move & think, but she’s made it my mission to help. She’s including some major needle-moving extras along with the book that will really jump start your neuro-hormonal dashboard.
I know you’re excited to get your hands on her book (and we’re so excited for you to read it!)—but don’t you think your friends and colleagues would like it too? It’s rare I meet a woman who isn’t interested in getting back to the young, sexy, energetic lady they used to be. So help us spread the word, and balance a few extra hormones on the way.
Dr. Sara is also generous, and believes empowerment is the ultimate prescription. On our interview, she announced her The Hormone Cure Get-Your-Hormones-Balanced Bundle. Whether you’re a woman who is 25, 35, or 50+, or a guy with hormonal women in his life, you’ll want to jump on this offer to get 7 books and give the best gift ever to yourself and the other women in your life.
Links From The Show
Featured
The Hormone Cure: Buy a single copy? Improve your life, hormones and all.
Buy seven copies? Get these amazing bonuses:
Dr. Sara’s Blacklist: 10 Foods That Hijack Your Hormones
“Expert interviews” with Danielle Laporte on Desire, Marci Shimoff on Happiness Set Point, and Cynthia Pasquella on Transformational Nutrition (and her famous 5-Day Slim Down Diet!)
Dr. Sara’s Super Sonic Hormone Cure Playlist – hormone-balancing music and visualizations I listened to obsessively while writing the book
Dr. Sara’s Hormone JumpStarts – which will ignite your energy, sex drive, weight loss, mood
Q&A Webinar March 25th at noon PST by “invitation only” – ask anything!
“Vitality” Documentary by Dr. Pedram Shojai and the extraordinary folks at well.org (as streaming video)
“Heal Your Sugar Cravings” – 3-part video training with Tricia Nelson
Get Vital, Stay Vital Membership (my inner circle for group coaching): 1 month
7 Gottfried Protocol Sheets
Dr. Josh Axe’s BurstFIT Mini-workout – video clip from his full DVD set
Dr. Josh Axe’s Real Food Diet Cookbook (delivered as ebook)
Food & Supplements
Books
Gear
eMwave Inner Balance Sensor for iOS
Miscellaneous Mentions
Updates & Announcements
Better Baby Book DEAL, Happening NOW: My wife and co-author, Dr. Lana Asprey, and I, soft launched the book earlier this year on Amazon. This week we are asking you to help us spread the word and create healthier families by sharing our book with your friends and family. Our official launch the week of March 10th-16th. If you’ve read the book, we would greatly appreciate an honest review on Amazon.
Want to help us do more? Buy copies for friends and family. Customers who purchase the book between March 10th – 16th will receive coffee or coaching if they send us their Amazon receipts to: receipts [at] betterbabybook [dot] com. Please note, the purchases have to be made between March 10th and 16th, 2013 to qualify.
Please help us share our research and knowledge with others!
5 books = 1 coffee bag
25 books = 1/2 hour session with Dr. Lana
40 books = 1/2 hour with Dave
Upcoming Events: Imagine setting sail for a week with people who are passionate about upgrading their health! I’m excited to be a part of The Low-Carb Cruise 2013 setting sail MAY 5-12, 2013. I’m honored to be speaking along side Jimmy Moore, Robb Wolf, Dr. Jayson and Mira Calton to name a few. If you’re attending, let me know in the comments below. It would be great to meet you!
Questions for the podcast?
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March 8, 2013
Podcast #38: Becoming a Bulletproof Warrior with SEALFIT’s founder Mark Divine
Mark Divine is from upstate New York and did his formal undergraduate education at Colgate University. His years at Colgate University were focused on the athletic endeavors of competitive swimming, rowing and triathlon racing.
Mark pursued a Ph.D. in Leadership at the University of San Diego and served as an Adjunct Professor of Leadership in their undergraduate school. The Doctorate was interrupted by a one-year recall to active duty for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The recall took him to Baghdad in 2004 with SEAL Team One to conduct a special project studying the future role of the USMC in the Special Operations Command. Upon return home he left USD to focus on developing SEALFIT and put his Unbeatable Mind training philosophy to work on a new generation of Special Ops candidates.
You will learn all about this amazing program and more in this exclusive interview!
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What We Cover
~2:49 What is SEAL Fit?
~4:32 What is the #1 thing you have learned from your experience?
~7:50 “On Combat” and “On Killing” by Lt. Grossman
~11:55 Do you use any technologies to walk the conscious/subconscious line?
~13:15 How to use your eyes and vision to hack your mind
~15:05 The skills of a sniper and spotter
~17:10 The “sixth” sense (Is it true?)
~19:50 How do you draw the line between stress inoculation and teaching what someone can handle, and overtraining and knocking out their adrenals?
~23:30 The Magic of Rest
~28:30 How do you train to get BETTER sleep in LESS amount of time?
~30:45 What about Provigil/Modafinil?
~32:55 What can happen with sleep restriction and deprivation
~35:30 What do you eat when you do this crazy stuff?
~36:55 What about coffee…?
~40:30 What is the Unbeatable Mind? And how does SealFit help you get there?
~45:35 The Top 3 Recommendations to “Kick the most ass”
Mark gives out a coupon code for his program during the podcast, don’t forget to use it if you sign up!
Links From The Show
Featured
The Unbeatable Mind (Website)
The Unbeatable Mind on Kindle (Book)
8 Weeks to SEALFIT on Kindle (Book)
Books
On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
On Combat by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Gear
eMwave Inner Balance Sensor for iOS
Miscellaneous Mentions
The Kim (Keep it in Memory) Game
Updates & Announcements
Official Better Baby Book Launch: My wife and co-author, Dr. Lana Asprey, and I, soft launched the book earlier this year on Amazon, and are gearing up for an official launch the week of March 10th-16th. To support our mission, if you’ve read the book, we would greatly appreciate an honest review on Amazon. For our official launch, we are making a special offer: Customers who purchase the book between March 10th – 16th can receive coffee and coaching if they send us their Amazon receipts to (receipts [at] betterbabybook [dot] com). Please note, the purchases have to be made between March 10th and 16th to qualify.
Please help us share our research and knowledge with others!
5 books = 1 coffee bag
25 books = 1/2 hour session with Lana
40 books = 1/2 hour with Dave
Upcoming Events: Imagine setting sail for a week with people who are passionate about upgrading their health! I’m excited to be a part of The Low-Carb Cruise 2013 setting sail MAY 5-12, 2013. I’m honored to be speaking along side Jimmy Moore, Robb Wolf, Dr. Jayson and Mira Calton to name a few. If you’re attending, let me know in the comments below. It would be great to meet you!
Questions for the Podcast?
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March 5, 2013
Why Decaf Coffee is Back and Now Bulletproof
New science brings new insight, and that is my (humble) case for this post.
In the past, there have been a few reasons that decaf coffee didn’t meet Bulletproof standards. One of the cool things about biohackers, is that when we get new information, we upgrade our models of the world. Some of the latest research on decaf does just that.
Impaired energy metabolism in the brain is known to be tightly correlated with cognitive decline during aging and in subjects at high risk for developing neurodegenerative disorders,” said Dr. Pasinetti. “This is the first evidence showing the potential benefits of decaffeinated coffee preparations for both preventing and treating cognitive decline caused by Type 2 Diabetes, aging, and/or neurodegenerative disorders.(1)
The study did not specify which types of coffee beans were used, which brings us to the Achilles’ heel of coffee – mycotoxins.
There are two reasons why caffeinated coffee is preferred. One, the caffeine protects the beans from toxins (if stored improperly). And two, poor quality beans are universally turned into decaf – KEYWORD ‘poor quality.’
Poor quality beans negatively impact coffee drinkers, and inhibit peak performance. Until there was a solution, decaf was a bad idea. Many of you still wanted decaf, and that served as inspiration to solve your problem!
Upgraded™ Decaffeinated Coffee is now available, and will give you your favorite coffee taste with added health bonuses.
Along with the study above, it turns out decaffeination allows cafestol to remain in the coffee. Cafestol modulates bile acids in the intestine, and is a potent neurological anti-inflammatory in the brain.
Antioxidant Download
The antioxidant molecules in decaf coffee are numerous. Roasting increases the antioxidant content of the beans and we carefully control our roasting process to maximize antioxidant content as well as minimize any mycotoxin contamination. Upgraded™ Decaf Coffee delivers a bottomless cup of benefits.
Improve Carbohydrate Metabolism
Research concludes that people who drink coffee on a regular basis have a significantly lower risk of Type 2 Diabetes. This effect is independent of caffeine content but is dependent on the amount of coffee consumed. Many published studies show that people who drink 4-6 cups of coffee daily are at 50% lower risk of Type 2 Diabetes than people who drink two or fewer cups per day. Upgraded™ Decaf Coffee makes this level of consumption both more attractive & easier!
Post Work-Out Bulletproof Coffee
If you’re a biohacker that loves a second helping of Bulletproof Coffee in the afternoon, but don’t want to throw off your muscle gains from an afternoon workout by consuming caffeine, then Upgraded™ Decaf is for you. With our decaf coffee, you’ll reap all the benefits of Bulletproof Coffee, without putting a stop to your Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting. Caffeine inhibits mTOR (Mammalian Target of Rapamycin), a mechanism in all of us that increases protein synthesis in our muscles after exercise. Now, you can enjoy a second helping of Bulletproof Coffee with our decaffeinated beans, and continue to build muscle. Win!
The Bulletproof Standard for Decaf
Our beans are of the highest quality source we can find; from a single estate, Central American farm (just like our regular Upgraded™ Coffee beans). They will also be processed without fermentation, which means it will be the highest quality decaf with the least amount of toxins available.
Upgraded™ Decaf brings a new age for Bulletproof coffee. I hope you’re as excited as I am!
Share a comment below about your thoughts on the new Bulletproof Upgraded™ Decaf Coffee.
1Mount Sinai Medical Center. “Decaffeinated coffee may help improve memory function and reduce risk of diabetes.” ScienceDaily, 1 Feb. 2012. Web. 6 Jan. 2013.
February 25, 2013
Vegetarian Alchemy: An Interview by Doc Fermento
Doc Fermento
Probiotics are a buzz word in today’s natural health landscape, but did you know you don’t have to buy pills or rely on trendy yogurt to get the goods? Doc Fermento, aka Bryan Davis is a lacto-fermentation expert of askbryan.com fame. He is on the unfolding path of what it means to eat real food, be mindful of food choices for his family and teaching what he’s learned in the ancient art of fermenting foods.
More importantly… he is not a vegetarian, so why call the podcast Vegetarian Alchemy? You’ll have to listen to find out. (Download from iTunes)
The podcast with AskBryan Covers:
The Evolution of the Better Baby Book and The Bulletproof Diet
The link between fertility and performance
Lana’s birth experience as an older parent with PCOS
How the book can help have healthier kids
What’s epigenetics got to do with healthier kids?
The pre-pregnancy nutritional pre-game for Dads and Moms
Carbs & Pregnancy
What to avoid
The Critics
Biggest surprise during research
What is the mycotoxin issue?
C-section and it’s impact on gut health and impact on later life
Dental care
What does your baby eat after breastmilk?
The impact of the 1st 7 years on how you model the world, pattern matching & conditioning
The Importance of Supplements
Stress management
Improving your environment and food on a budget
Bryan’s history and how he’s gone toe to toe with the Clevland Health Clinic, Walter Willet, and mainstream medicine
The truth about Tropical Oils
Macronutrient break down
Vegetarian Alchemy & Spinach
Links mentioned:
babyupgrade Twitter
Announcement:
As mentioned on the podcast, the book was released early by our publisher, so we are choosing a new launch date of March 10-16. In honor of our book launch, we are offering coffee & coaching sessions if you purchase the book during our launch week. Sign up on the Better Baby site on the right hand side of the page for a free copy of the Better Baby Guide and an e-mail reminder for when to buy. If you buy books between March 10 – 16 we will give you cool stuff when you send a verified receipt from Amazon; or buy one now, and the rest during the week of March 10 and send in both receipts to qualify.
5 books = 1 coffee bag
25 books = ½ hour session with Lana
40 books = ½ hour with Dave
February 20, 2013
Podcast #37: Rich Food, Poor Food with Jayson and Mira Calton
The Caltons are among the world’s leading experts on the topics of weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. Their high success rate working with adults and children to achieve sustainable weight loss and reverse health and disease conditions has made their consultancy highly sought after by celebrities, athletes and top corporate executives around the world. It is their belief that becoming micronutrient sufficient is the first step towards preventing and reversing many of today’s most prevalent health conditions and diseases.
In today’s podcast, they discuss their new book, Rich Food, Poor Food, and go into a step-by-step guide of how to shop for food, make good choices, and discuss top micronutrient deficiencies.
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What We Cover
~3:40 Returning to the podcast, what new insights do you bring in your new book “Rich Food, Poor Food”?
~4:34 …So This is a Grocery Guide? (And More!)
~9:00 The Focus is Micronutrients & Food Quality
~12:16 Why are GMOs SO bad?
~14:30 The Cost of Food Quality
~17:01 3 Most Hyped Foods & Why People are Deceived by Them
~19:45 The Dilution of Unhealthy Terms in the Grocery Store
~23:50 The Basis of Micronutrients
~26:30 Rich Food Resource List Summary
~27:50 Bulletproof Coffee in the Coffee Section (pg. 254)
~32:00 Coupons for ALL of the Rich Foods
~39:30 What are the Top Micronutrient Deficiencies in Developed Nations?
~44:05 Jayson’s Opinion of the Better Baby Book
~45:20 Top 3 Recommendations to be Supercharged and Bulletproof
Links From The Show
Featured
Rich Food, Poor Food (the book)
Calton Nutrition (the website)
Food & Supplements
Books
Updates
Due to a scheduling conflict that has come up, I’m no longer speaking at Paleo FX, however I still strongly encourage any of you with an interest in health and nutrition to go and check out their wonderful speakers!
March 2 & 3rd, The Bulletproof Exec is sponsoring coffee at BIL Conference. I’ve given two talks at BIL, Top Six Biohacks and Biohacking with Salt, Butter and Coffee, regrettably I will not be there this year, but if you’re in Long Beach, tickets are cheap and the people are fun!
March 8 & 9 , I’ll be speaking at the Superhuman Coach Live Event, hosted by Ben Greenfield, to sweeten the deal, I’ll give you a free bag of coffee!
Interested in winning free coaching from me or Lana? Stay tuned for more details in March on some of the Better Baby contests.
Questions for the podcast?
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February 19, 2013
VIDEO: Augmented Authoring – Biohacking Technologies to Improve People Who Write
The Humanity+ conference in December proved to be fun and educational, with many accomplished writers, philosophers and scientists at the event. The conference explored how to write the future and what risks and opportunities to consider when upgrading humanity through technology. My topic: “The Augmented Author: Technologies to Upgrade People Who Write.”
It’s a short video, about 25 minutes, and it has a ton of useful information whether you’re a blog writer, a student, a book author trying to increase productivity, breaking through writer’s block or whether you’re interested in performing better in general. Several biohacker toys are showcased. The effects on my health and brain function have been profound! There is even some controversial Q & A regarding modafinil.
Topics covered:
1:05 Biohacking the Unconscious Parts of Your Brain
2:50 EmWave 2 – Monitor Your Heart Rate & “The Zone” Neurological, Biochemical, Mechanical, & electromagnetic
5:00 Radioactive Sugar Measurement
5:59 Dual N-Back Training – Double Your Working Memory; Pay Attention to Your States of Consciousness
7:55 Electrostimulation (tDCS & CES)
9:45 Direct Stimulation (Lasers!)
11:35 EEG Neurofeedback
13:25 HEG Biofeedback, (aka Upgraded Focus) Blood flow training, feels where your brain works
14:24 Light! Orange-Tinted Glasses & Blue LED lights
15:00 Sound Entrainment
15:30 Modafinil
15:55 Bulletproof Hardware (Bulletproof Coffee & Diet)
17:00 Q & A
What are some of the tools and tips you use to upgrade your writing? Share in the comments below!
February 7, 2013
The Art of Biohacking for a Bulletproof Life: Interview by Michael Ostrolenk
It is so much fun to meet people like Michael Ostrolenk and discuss ways to continue to learn, discover and explore new ideas, ways of being, acting and organizing in the world. This man has done some interesting work in the political sphere.
Michael is the founder and national coordinator for the Medical Privacy Coalition (2001-present). He is the co-founder and National Director of the Liberty Coalition, a transpartisan coalition of groups working to protect civil liberties, privacy and human autonomy (2005- present). He is also co-founder and President of the American Conservative Defense Alliance , which works to promote a traditional conservative foreign and defense policy (2008- present).
In the interview topics discussed include: Nootropics, EQ, non-ordinary states of consciousness, perinatal psychology, Holotropic Breath work, coffee, Epigenetics, sleep, sex and making babies.
January 30, 2013 Interview of Dave Asprey, The Bulletproof Executive by Michael Ostrolenk
What is the Art of Biohacking?
Hack Your Biology and Bio-chemistry for more focus, better health, and happiness
Use Technology to get Immediate Feedback From Your Performance, Diet, Sleep, etc.
How to Keep Your Brain From Turning Off?
After meetings, Dave didn’t remember half the things that happened. He began to play FreeCell, and found out some days he could play and others he couldn’t. Hence, the need to a better diet, practices, and supplements.
Provigil increases your ability to focus and it is profound what you can do. It is a prescription medicine. The military uses it for fighter pilots in replacement of methamphetamine to stay up for 40-50 hours.
Aniracetam is our new Upgraded Brain
MCT Oil reverses disease in studies, as seen on our podcast episode #
Sleep Hacking?
Sleep is controlled by the reptilian brain
Improve the quality of your sleep, and you can recover faster
More good stress and good food during the day helps you have higher quality sleep
After your nervous system learns, your body knows you are not going to die and will be able to sleep less.
Holotropic Breath-work
Imitates LSD and you experience very strong visionary state
Dave learned a lot about himself. Answering questions like: Why am I here? What is holding me back?
Other Topics Discussed in the Show:
Upgraded Chef – It is MORE than food Quality, it is HOW you COOK your food
Orgasm Talk – Tao Equation: Age–7 and divide by 4. Higher satisfaction with life
Bulletproof Coffee – 93% of Coffee from South America has mold!
1 Million People Prove 5 hours is Better than 8 of Sleep
emWave 2 – Heart Rate Variability
