The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADETM... you’ll learn about the intimate relationship between performance and sleep and how you can hack both with a combination of tech and lifestyle.

Matteo Franceschetti joins the show to talk about high performance—something he experienced in athletics, business and life. He was a competitive athlete in his native Italy and a race car driver across Europe. He started two clean-tech companies on two continents. He also worked at the top tier of the international legal world

The one thing he didn’t excel at was sleep. So, he co-founded Eight Sleep nearly a decade ago to hack sleep in all the ways that fuel human potential, performance and energy.

Eight Sleep mattress and mattress pad technology redesign sleep with AI and machine learning models to track your nighttime biosignals. It’s a technology that’s catching the attention of professional athletes in sports like snowboarding, CrossFit, Formula One, and many more.

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADETM... the new year starts off with a Legacy Upgrade conversation between Dave Asprey and Dr. Andrew Weil recorded live at True Food Kitchen in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Weil’s an internationally known pioneer and leader in integrative medicine. He’s also a Harvard-trained botanist and medical doctor recognized worldwide for his views on living a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care.

This broad discussion both hits the high points and goes deep into nutrition, aging, energy, lifestyle, and, of course, tea. Specifically, vibrant green matcha. (Or as Dave says, “It looks like green paint.”) There’s a lot of knowledge and humor shared, as well as hard-hitting truths: “One of the most toxic cultural messages here is that the value of life diminishes with aging,” Dr. Weil says.

His five pillars of good health touch on foundational elements that contribute to your core vitality and life force.

• Eat right! Learn the principles of nutrition and apply them to your life
• Get regular physical activity
• Learn and practice methods to neutralize the harmful effects of stress
• Maintain emotional and intellectual connectivity as you go through life
• Attend to your spiritual well-being

More about Dr. Andrew Weil: He founded the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He champions the use of medicinal plants and alternative medicine, as well as the reform of medical education. He’s a clinical professor of medicine and a professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona and the author of more than a dozen books on health, wellness and optimal living.

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In this Episode of The Human UpgradeTM...​

Cool Facts are quick hits of new human and world science curated into short bursts of information just for you. This fun compilation publishes one Friday a month.

• Sperm that swim together increase their chances of fertilization
• Late-night eating is worse than you thought
• Metabolic markers can be measured through your sweat
• Eye movements during REM sleep could delete unwanted memories

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADETM...

...you’ll find out why you’re tired, how to fix it and ways to increase your energy. Fatigue is a hidden epidemic, with chronic fatigue syndrome being the most severe end, but most people (in the U.S.) are experiencing some level of being flat-out tired as hell.

Guest Ari Whitten, Ph.D. (Cand.), CES, PES, says that as a culture, we have normalized fatigue. In his newest book, “EAT FOR ENERGY: How to Beat Fatigue, Supercharge Your Mitochondria, and Unlock All-Day Energy,” he explains that 5.4 million adults in the U.S. have been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (the most severe case of fatigue). However, the true fatigue epidemic affects 50 to 100 times more people.

This episode’s discussion gets right into the role of mitochondria in human energy. Ari’s research (420 citations in “Eat for Energy”!] is clear. The cause of fatigue is mitochondrial dysfunction, he says. And the biggest factors that affect your mitochondria include:

• Circadian rhythm dysregulation and poor sleep
• Carrying too much body fat and too little muscle mass
• Poor gut and microbiome health
• Blood sugar dysregulation
• Nutritional toxicities and deficiencies
• Neurotransmitter and hormone imbalances

So what can you do to increase your energy currency? A lot, as it turns out. When you understand factors like resilience, cell defense, nutrition and supplementation, you’re on your way to better energy. In this conversation, you’ll learn:

• what’s causing the dysfunction in your mitochondria and how you can repair these critical energy cells.
• strategies that will double your energy levels.
• 7 top supplements (and more) that help get your mitochondria back on the energy track.

Ari has been studying and teaching natural health science for more than 25 years. He went through his own battle with chronic fatigue that inspired his obsession with energy. For the past seven years, he's focused specifically on improving human energy. His education and work in this area touches on critical aspects of human health from nutrition to physical training, to light science, to psychology, and more.

He created The Energy Blueprint science-based lifestyle programs that target brain energy and mitochondria. He also hosts The Energy Blueprint podcast that features world-wide experts on the subject of understanding fatigue and how to get more energy.

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADETM...Harvard psychiatrist, researcher and assistant professor Christopher Palmer, M.D., introduces a bold new premise about the root cause of mental illness based on decades of research.

Dr. Palmer integrated existing theories and research into one unifying theory—the brain energy theory of mental illness that’s rooted in your metabolism. Through his research, he initially pioneered using a medical ketogenic diet to treat psychiatric disorders. In this conversation, you’ll learn how he went even further to uncover the connection between mental health and metabolic disorders of the brain. That connection lies in mitochondrial dysfunction or dysregulation.

His new book, “Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More,” also explains the increased risk for mental disorders in all metabolic conditions, including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, pain disorders, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy.

“Once you see the big picture of metabolism and all of the things that influence metabolism, you actually can see novel ways to intervene,” Dr. Palmer says. “And you can also raise some red flags about some of our current treatments.”

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