Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks

by Dave Asprey

Increasing BDNF through exercise, diet, and strategic supplementation will improve your learning, memory, and higher thinking.

If you spend a lot of time in a noisy environment or one with bad lighting, your brain has to use a lot more energy to filter out all of the distractions.

When the brain is low on energy, it stimulates the release of cortisol (the stress hormone) and adrenaline (the fight-or-flight hormone) to make emergency fuel.

proper nutrient intake is one of the easiest and fastest ways you can boost your mitochondrial function.

your mitochondria make ATP more efficiently from fat than they do from sugar, fatty acids are an important source of fuel.

If you have low progesterone as a man, your hair falls out, you get fat, and you grow man-boobs.

Two foods that slow the rate of neurogenesis are sugars and oxidized (damaged) fats.

Any inflammation ultimately led to cognitive decline.

the first time you go into ketosis, you’re going to get the worst breath ever.

it’s not “normal” for anyone to experience word recall problems—it’s a symptom of impaired brain function.)

An impaired amygdala can cause you to fly into a rage for seemingly no reason.

Mold grows in moist environments that lack proper airflow—rooms

taking supplements that contain activated charcoal and bentonite clay, both of which aid in detoxification.

traditional saunas heat the air around you, infrared light in an infrared sauna directly penetrates and heats your body tissue.

Chlorella. This is a type of algae

JUNK LIGHT IS AS BAD AS JUNK FOOD

eat cucumbers even though there’s almost no actual food energy in them. These are all great sources of biologically useful EZ water,

spend time in an infrared sauna.

I put extra collagen protein powder in my Bulletproof Coffee to provide collagen building blocks for my body