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31:09because for every 10 minutes of work you do, you might get into the state faster. And for some people say, well, that's not okay. The Dalai Lama years ago offered a$100 ,000 reward to neuroscientists who could help him get into a special esoteric state. He says, it takes me four hours of meditation to get there. And I don't have four hours. If you can get me there in an hour, I'll pay you$100 ,000. Okay. This is possible today. I run a neuroscience clinic called 40 Years of Zen. And in five days people have the brainwaves of someone who spent 20 years in the cave And i've spent six months of my life with the electrodes glued to my head Meditating every day with a computer teaching me how to not do it wrong And for me that was faster, but I also did five years of art of living Breath work every single morning because I found it worked better than just sitting and meditating Which I also did every morning and I want people to understand Any of those approaches is better than not doing it and you've got to find the one that works for you.

32:07And there's a list of exercises in here, including the reset process, which is one of the most important things I teach. Can you walk us through that? The reset process is something that I pioneered with the neuroscience practice because you can measure when it works and what you do and the whole recipes and the book for it. But what you're doing is you're finding something that is a trigger for you. And I want to be really straightforward. If you can be triggered, it means you're walking around with a loaded gun you need to unload the gun it's not everyone else's job to not make you shoot them it's your job to say i'm not carrying a weapon anymore and so you find something that triggers you and you sit and you think about that feeling and it's usually something will pop into your head you were bullied uh something a parent said someone cut you off in traffic it doesn't really matter something's gonna pop in your head say okay i'm gonna run the reset process on that so you sit the person who made you angry down across from you in your mind's eye yeah visually in your also in your mind's eye you imagine some sort of uh infallible deity some people use god or jesus or buddha or you know any of the deities that you like or it could just be you know a a light bulb that's always right it it doesn't matter but this is your your double checking thing and then you sit there and you actually say you did this and it made me feel this way.

33:29And then you tap into how bad you felt and you actually turn on the bad feeling. You're like, what? You want me to actually, yes, I want you to feel it. And then once you're sure that you've really felt the bad feeling, you might have tears in your eyes. I mean, it might've been a big thing then. And this is the key that's missing from a lot, even of older literature. Before you work on letting it go, you have to find gratitude. So you find one thing. It doesn't matter how big of gratitude is you just need a spark of gratitude and say oh here's one good thing that happened and all of a sudden that flips a switch in your brain and then you can step into the f word called forgiveness and forgiveness like hey depends on everyone's mind right yeah and the reason i call it the f word is a lot of people i'm not going to forgive that person they wronged me you don't have to tell them you forgive them this is just you unloading the weapon this is you no longer being triggered right and then you look at it from the other person's point of view and you realize maybe their mom was mean to them you know maybe they didn't know maybe the guy who cut you off in traffic was on the way to the hospital to see his daughter being born you just don't know right and you start looking at that all of a sudden because you did gratitude first you feel your heart open and you go oh my gosh and when you're done and sometimes it takes neuroscience or a facilitator or some coaching but when you're done you can look at someone who wronged you greatly and all you feel is peace and love and you can no longer be triggered.

35:02This is very important because what we normally learn to do is to say, well, I know that every time this situation comes up, I'm going to feel triggered. I'm going to notice that I'm triggered and then I'm going to take a deep breath and I'm going to choose to behave like an adult. Hallelujah for doing that. We all need to do more of that. It's just biologically expensive because it takes a lot of effort and time and focus. what if there was no trigger so the reset process lets you turn this off at a very deep and profound level and when you're done you can look at your greatest enemy and you can say i love you i forgive you we are one and you are done for the rest of your life with that trauma and i have done this on every single trauma that's ever happened i've had a very successful conscious uncoupling in the last two years i had an employee embezzle money i've had people try to ruin my reputation all of it around the reset process on it.

35:52And I'm absolutely at peace with it. And to be able to get there running, I mean, you run at a very big level. So do I. And the amount of stuff that comes at us, no one's ever going to know is an enormous thing when you're leading millions of people and making the world a better place. And to be able to do that without the constant stress and the constant tension and the constant questioning in your mind, that all comes from unresolved forgiveness. So the reset process in the book is how do you get there most quickly? And you may say, I don't want to do that. That sounds awful. Do some EMDR. That's another way to get to a similar state.

36:29But this process is so powerful and it leads you to amazing spiritual states where you no longer are carrying a grudge because I mean, smarter, not harder, the power of laziness, how expensive is it for you spiritually at a soul level to carry a grudge against someone who wronged you for the rest of your life. Life is too precious to waste it that way. And this is the fastest way I've found for people to learn how to let go of something. And I put it in a book. You say, well, I thought that was about exercise or biohacking. Look, the biggest thing you can do and the hardest thing you can do is to let go of something that your body is holding onto because it thinks it's keeping you safe.

37:08And I thought it was just worthy of including in the book. That's what I mean by spiritual hacking. Find the technique that lets you fully let go of something so that you can be present with your family, with your friends, with your loved one, and then you can be present for your mission or maybe you can find your mission and your purpose. Yeah, I think it's so well said. I'm so glad you included it because I think for the sake of simplicity, we talk about our body, our mind, our soul or spirit or whatever we call it. But the truth is that it's so interconnected in that, as you were saying, if you can't let go of an emotional disconnect or a misalignment, chances are that's going to lead to your eating habits and then that eating habit is going to link back to a lack of that spiritual cleansing or detoxing or whatever that may be so we're kind of just stuck in this vicious cycle and i i wanted to talk to you about that because using that spiritual hacking the other way and going what are some of the blocks that are created physically because of the lack of letting go what are some of the habits that you've seen develop physically in our diet, in our, you know, in our physical practices because of a lack of that.

38:16I believe that every cell in your body has its own small consciousness. And even inside the cells, the mitochondria, each of them is an ancient bacteria and ancient bacteria have a consciousness. It's a pretty slow, dumb consciousness. Actually, it's a very fast consciousness, but it's, it doesn't have much awareness. But when you have billions, actually for those things, almost trillions inside the body, they function as a distributed consciousness for your meat, for your hardware. And they're just trying to keep the petri dish alive. And they think you're a petri dish. And you realize that they're storing traumas.

38:51And when you do this really deep forgiveness work, you're causing the body to relax and you're causing the body to feel safe at a cellular level. And when a cell feels safe, it will expand and grow and thrive and it'll maintain itself. And when a cell feels like the environment around it is hostile, whether it's because of self-hate or whether it's because of a lack of nutrients or because you're over-exercising or under-exercising, then they don't feel safe and then they don't do their job right. So when your body is in that place, your energy field gets bigger and stronger. And we can even measure that at the neuroscience clinic.

39:30We measure brain voltage and people will increase their brain voltage. And when that happens, suddenly that injury that you've had that won't heal, it heals. The cancer that you have can shrink just from doing meditation, right? Because if there's conscious or unconscious loathing around a part of your body, like, oh, you don't like your love handles, right? They're probably not going to go away. In fact, they'll probably get bigger, right? Because they don't feel safe. So this deep loving of your body, of your tissues. And I was working with a teenager recently and she said, you know, some of my friends don't like their bodies.

40:12Very common occurrence. Yeah. And they think they're fat or they think they're thin or they don't like their nose or whatever. And she said, I thought about it a lot. And I realized I really like my body because it can do all these amazing things. And I was like, that is the most enlightened cool thing I've ever heard from a teenager. Right. Because if you have that self-love for your tissues, even if they're not working right. And I say this as a guy who was 300 pounds with like arthritis and a knee that I couldn't trust because it would just like, it would just fold in the middle of walking.

40:43I would fall over. Like I was such a wreck. And to be able to go through and forgive yourself, that's actually the hardest forgiveness. And you can run the reset process on a part of your body that you have an issue with. You can run the reset process on your entire body and the feelings of not being enough, not being good enough. All of those things you can just let go of. So you're just at peace and things are as they are. And you don't have to have an emotional reaction to everything. And that allows you to have so much more energy for your spirit. When that spiritual lacking is draining all your energy, you don't have the energy to pick the right foods and to do the workout and to put into your creative processes.

41:23or creative endeavors that you have going on. And I want to dive into a couple of things, which I thought really, I'm glad you talked about this in the book, because I think the challenges, as we know with health and wellness, there's always a new fad, a new trend, a new kind of thing that comes up and everyone gets behind it. And then afterwards, a few years later, we realized that there was more research to it. I think one of those big areas is around, there's two areas in the book that you'd cover really well that I want to dive into. One is around where we get our protein. We know protein's important.

41:55I mean, remind us how much protein we need to get every day, like good protein. You need between 0.8 and one gram of protein per pound of body weight. So I weigh 200 pounds and I'm about 7 % body fat. And that means I need about 200 grams of protein a day. 7 % body fat? Yeah, it's ridiculous. Yeah. As a guy who is the fat computer hacker from the first Jurassic Park, it's totally ridiculous. was. And in order to do that, if you're obese, like I was, you might say, well, if I weighed 300 pounds, I had a hundred pounds of fat. You really only need 200 grams of protein. You can subtract the extra fat from the number, but 200 grams of protein.

42:30It's a lot. And protein isn't all the same. And this is something that the big food companies are trying to tell us, oh, cricket protein or gluten is protein. There's a company making keto cookies that are all protein. they're just gluten and canola oil that is not food so a while ago the story was oh all calories are the same so you can drink this you know high fructose corn syrup it's just calories as long as you keep your calories low you can drink a diet coke and a snickers bar they cancel each other's out it doesn't work like that protein's the same way so different proteins send different signals to the body and there's something called amino acid availability score and it turns out that animal proteins score much higher than plant-based proteins.

43:12And I say this as a former vegan, a former raw vegan, and you just cannot get enough protein from plants unless you're doing heavy industrial processing of the plants. And that comes at a cost. But even then, the highest quality plant-based protein powders don't hold a candle to dairy protein, which is vegetarian, or egg protein, which is a vegetarian, or sort of the king of proteins is beef or buffalo or bison. As a vegan, I had a problem with this because I was a vegan. I was in Tibet at a monastery, and Tibetan monks love to argue. They're trained since they're about eight years old, or they have an eight-year-old sitting on the ground surrounded by older kids standing up, all arguing at the same time, doing these like aggressive things.

43:59And it's to teach you to be calm in the face of arguments so that you can still be at peace. And it's beautiful to watch. So I knew this. And so I'm kind of teasing the head llama. I said, well, you tell me no killing, but you have a yak skin on your prayer pole. So I think you're a hypocrite. And he starts laughing and he looks at me, he goes, one death feeds everyone. I'm like, mind blown. Cause I had been a vegan until I went to Tibet. And I realized I cannot be a vegan in Tibet because there's just very little food. And if there's, you know, some yak butter tea, or there's, you know, a little bit of meat, you just eat it because there's just not enough food.

44:34So I really thought about it. And that led me to think about deaths per calorie. And as a guy has built a regenerative farm on Vancouver Island and raised all of my own animals for most of the last eight years, I will tell you that a cow will feed you for an entire year. And if it's grass fed and from a local farmer, no other animal died unless the cow stepped on a frog. I mean, it is literally one death. And if the cow was treated with respect and ethically, then you're killing fewer animals than an industrial plant protein. Because when they do those, the tractor comes through and it chops up every creature that's there, including the bunnies and the mice and the butterflies and all the ugly ones like worms that no one likes that are important for life.

45:17So I feel really clean about it. But the most important thing that I can say if you choose to eat animal protein, which I do, is that practice gratitude before you eat. I believe because of my shamanic training, because of all the spiritual work that I do, that humans, our energetic field as a species, made a sacred agreement with the animals that we've domesticated. And they come here to nourish us in exchange for our gratitude. So if you're going to eat meat, you practice gratitude because that's the deal we made. And if you disrespect the animal and you're eating industrial meat and you're eating it with mindlessly, I don't think that's a good practice, but I do think it's ethical to eat meat because I'm killing fewer lives when I eat beef than when I eat plant-based protein.

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48:25It's the little moment. These are our moments to laugh, learn, and exhale. So join me every Monday and let's find the bright side together. Listen to the bright side on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. But even in some animal protein you are recommending, and we'll talk about the plant proteins as well, but some of the animal proteins you were saying are not as strong and reliable. I believe you mentioned chicken, turkey. I think there were a couple of others in the book that I saw. Birds are not that, they're not dinosaurs. So they're less like us. And the fat that's present in birds is similar to soybean oil.

49:01It's a lot of omega-6 that causes inflammation. And you would know this. If you're in India and you're not feeling well, your grandmother's going to give you white rice and ghee, which is clarified butter. In the U.S., you get saltines and margarine or something, and it doesn't work very well. But the reason is that ghee, that saturated fat, is very nourishing for you and that you actually need that. You don't get it from a chicken. And also, one chicken, to get the amount of protein, I'd eat a chicken a day. I'm killing 365 chickens a year. That doesn't feel very good. In addition to that, real chickens, the kind that I grow on my farm, take nine months to mature.

49:37And their fat is rich and yellow and full of vitamins, even though it's not the best kind of fat. But the chickens they're eating at the store take six weeks to get that big because they've been modified in bread to have these incredibly large breasts. And they're terribly mistreated. So unless a chicken is pasture-raised and a heritage breed, at which point it's not affordable. They're terribly expensive to raise. Chickens exist to make eggs. eggs if you're not allergic are really a good source of fat and protein and when you eat eggs you want to cook the whites and leave the yolk runny and then you get the most nutrients that way we talked about the plant protein from a ethical standpoint but but even from a nutritional standpoint i mean i as so me and my wife are both plant-based but plant protein is like not a big part of our diets at all my wife's like not into eating any of the burgers or any of the meats so it's probably a good meat is not good yeah it's yeah explain why because i think that's slightly the challenge for a lot of people who try and make that switch and i feel everyone who turns to that then goes back because yeah it's not satisfying are you plant-based to the exclusion of of dairy yes i am yeah me my wife we have been for years yeah and it's working for you and by though if you're from india you probably have the genes that are going to support that much better and so if you look at what your great grandmother ate that's going to be an indication of what you can handle and if you look at you your skin is really good and that's unusual when most people go vegan because they eat a lot of industrial processed seed oils yeah so if you're eating a diet that agrees with your body and i totally support doing that then what you want to do is you want to make sure that you're getting complete amino acids and you can do it from rice and beans but here's the issue to get enough protein it's definitely hard i'm i'm fully like i'm thinking about it a lot it's like 300 grams of carbs to get 20 grams of protein so then your best bet for plant-based proteins have the highest amino acid score it's actually hemp protein with the fat removed because hemp oil isn't particularly good for you so then what you end up doing is saying okay i'm going to do that and i feel good i've also helped a lot of um a lot of vegans in fact this is a david wolf's vegan conference i explained the virtues of ghee where no animals die to make ghee and ghee helps to escort the nutrients from plants into the body.

52:00So you make better use of the plants. So sometimes adding, you know, a tablespoon of ghee a day gives you like a healthier skin glow and it feels more nourishing and people can choose to do that or not choose to do that. And people get mad because I tease vegans. Dude, I was a vegan. Like it's teasing guys. It's not, it's not a disrespectful thing. It's in my case, it actually harmed me. And some things like spinach, kale, even raspberries and almonds are very high in oxalic acid, which I write about in the book. And it causes crystals to form. 70 % of kidney stones are from plant-based compounds, not from eating meat and beer.

52:3830 % are from meat and beer. And so you can overdo either direction, right? So I want people to say, choose the right plants when you're plant-based. And I would consider if I was plant-based adding hemp-based protein powder even though it is a processed food it's going to be a processed food that has the best amino acid score that you can get absolutely thank you so much very useful for everyone who's listening and I wanted to dive into drinking the wrong kind of milk because I think milk's been this you know there's obviously there's been the almond milks and the oat milks and then there's been debate on either side walk us through milk because I think like that's again I'd love to hear your side of it because again it's one of the I find all of this so confusing because you hear something new come out everyone gets behind it it works for people maybe it doesn't work stopping dairy milk from my diet helped me with my gut but i also don't drink a lot of uh oat milk or almond milk that's not really that's not really part of my diet i don't i don't have cereal and stuff like that so i'm not drinking that but then there's a lot of debate on that side of it as well there is a lot of debate yeah dairy milk has been a part of human food for at least 5 ,000 years.

53:48And it's a convenient way to not kill an animal and to have it continuously produce fat and protein, which are the hard things for humans to get enough of, because carbs are relatively abundant in nature. So what do you do? Well, normally you would just drink milk, but the milk we would drink was from a breed of cows that makes A2 milk and they ate grass. And that works well with our biology. The kind of milk that you get now is from cows that are bred to eat grain and and corn and soy and that milk has the wrong kind of fat and it has a kind of protein called a1 protein that's very inflammatory so a lot of people who can't drink milk which include me because it messes up my gut royally it just makes me it makes me stupid actually my brain swells up from it i get a lot of mucus i used to get throat like i used to get more throat infections like me too it's very similar so sometimes you can handle a2 milk but raw A2 milk is how we used to drink it.

54:41And in many States, it's still illegal. And why the government thinks it has a right to tell you what you're allowed to eat. I don't know. They don't have that right. So it doesn't matter if they make it illegal. They didn't have the right to make it illegal. So therefore it's not illegal in the world that I live in. Then again, if you're selling it, they might still try to arrest you. Then you got to go to court, but here's the deal. Raw milk for many people is very, very healing. And for some people, whey protein, especially if you're vegetarian, but not vegan, it's a source. Just get grass-fed whey protein because the animals are treated better and because it's a higher quality nutritional product.

55:14But let's assume you're not going to drink cow's milk because for a lot of people, it just doesn't work, including me. I don't touch it. Butter and ghee usually are acceptable, especially ghee won't trigger allergies and mucus like that for almost anyone. Well, what about the fake milks, right? So these are all industrial products unless you make it yourself. And what they figured out with almond milk was, oh, we can take leftover parts of almonds and the ones that are broken and unsightly. And we can use those to make milk. And it's just a few almonds and some canola oil and some high fructose corn syrup, some flavorings.

55:49And we blend it up and we sell it for like$8 as a health food product. It's not a health food product. So almond milk is high in phytic acid that sucks minerals out of your bones. You have to take more minerals. And it's also high in oxalates, which are the things that are causing kidney stones and things that are causing gout and joint pain when you wake up even if you have really bad skin and you're eating a ton of these high oxalate foods like almond milk and kale smoothies and all this can be why because it's making tiny razor sharp calcium oxalate crystals in your skin that are coming out so i don't recommend almond milk also if you're a vegan for animals the number of bees about a third of all bees die pollinating almonds every year.

56:30Like it is not a particularly clean product. So then we say, well, oat milk. Okay. That is the biggest scam on the planet right now. It raises your blood sugar as much as drinking a Coke. It is not a health food and it usually has glyphosate and it's high in phytic acid that sucks minerals out of your body. And I know you might not like hearing this, but do the math. There's a tablespoon of oats blended into a bunch of water and you spent six bucks on that? Like, are you dumb? Right. It's not a good move. Right. So what should you drink? There's two kinds of milk that are okay. One of them is macadamia milk, which is really expensive and you have to make it yourself because macadamias have the right kinds of oil in them.

57:12But the other one that's abundant and healthy is coconut milk. So if you're going to do it, use coconut milk. That's the worst tasting one. I know, right? Yeah. It is the worst tasting one. But here's the problem though. If you say, okay, I don't like the taste of coconut milk and I'm with you on that. So I'm going to drink any monks, but yes. Yeah. That's, that's really the key. You don't need to drink a plant milk. It's a made up product that you don't have a need for. But if you say, I'm going to do one of these other things, you're spending a lot of money. You're getting anti-nutrients, you're getting mostly water and you're usually getting a toxic burden.

57:45So like, why, why am I doing this again? The thing that milk has that's most important is it has protein. And the second most important is it has good fats. When you have a replacement milk, even coconut milk, there is no protein. So the coconut yogurt you like, it doesn't work because it doesn't have protein. So you have to take out an ad whey protein or add scoops of maybe hemp protein if you're doing plant-based, but you've got to add a whole bunch of protein to it because normal yogurt has that. most people tolerate grass-fed yogurt pretty well i still don't i can't touch cow's milk unless it's ghee for the most part or i could do some butter but if i was to have you know uh two tablespoons of regular milk it messes me up my gut's wrong it's just not right so that's an immune response so i just want to tell you you're not getting protein in your plant milks and you're getting stuff you don't want in your plant milks so just don't do it you've mentioned canola oil a few terms as well and i feel like oils has been obviously in the biohacking world it's it's been known for a while but i think it's finally coming into like the forefront of checking the back of something and going oh my gosh wow this is canola oil palm oil you know the millions of different oils walk us through that because i think that's kind of still for the majority of people like an under understood area like it's it's we're just not aware unaware is probably the right word like yeah we're unaware we've been taught first calories are what matter and it turns out well calories do entirely different things so we've tossed that out for most people have understood that's different and then we say okay well it's how much fat are you eating but who would imagine that different fats do different things in the body right oh my gosh you mean the kind of fat matters oh and different proteins so even saying fat carbs and protein it doesn't mean anything unless you know what it is so we zoom in on fat well it turns out omega-6 fats which is canola, corn, soybeans, safflower, even grapeseed oil, those are fats that when they enter the body, they slow your metabolism and they cause inflammation because they're unstable fats.

59:46They're called polyunsaturated fats. And when you eat saturated fats, things like coconut oil or butter or ghee or most animal fats from like sheep or something or from cows, but not from chickens, then you end up saying, oh, the saturated fats, they can't oxidize because they're stable. So you eat those and they stimulate your metabolism and they allow your body to make testosterone and to make other hormones that your body needs and to make stable cell membranes. So we understand the biochemistry of this, but the food companies are saying, well, it's cheaper to do canola oil. So let's fry our French fries in those.

1:00:24Canola oil and its cousins there, they're a major cause of diabetes and cancer, which are skyrocketing because they're unstable especially and they're heated a lot and they're pretty much in every packaged good they are but change is coming so before about the 1970s all french fries were made with beef tallow because it's a very stable oil that's fat from cows at mcdonald's that's what they use and then they switch to these seed oils and then all the diseases went through the roof so we have a problem food needs to be affordable for everyone one of the companies that I've invested in and that I'm backing that I'm most excited about is called Zero Acre Farms.

1:01:00And I don't work for them. I did put a small amount of money in them, but it's because of the mission. They found a way to use fermentation to make an oil that is monounsaturated like olive oil that is stable for frying at 25 % the cost of canola oil for a restaurant. And they're scaling up to get to that price point. But what it's called Zero Acre because it'll remove millions of acres of corn and soy from being grown to squeeze oil out of them. And they can take sugar cane, just the entire sugar cane, not sugar, and they can ferment it and make a healthy edible oil for humans. And this is going to change the world's metabolism.

1:01:37It's a huge thing. So in the meantime, you can go to a place that has duck fat fries or tallow fries, which you wouldn't eat, or you don't eat fries. Don't eat fried food at restaurants is a great rule to live longer and don't eat the salad dressing either. Tell them I want real olive oil that's not cut with canola oil and i want vinegar or lemon juice and you do that just those two things nothing fried and do that and all of a sudden you find you lose weight your brain is focused your body makes more hormones it's that big of a deal i'm so glad you raised that because that's the it's it's it's such a tiny simple change but it could save you from so many different things like i switched probably might have been a year now but i traveled a lot this year on tour and that was hard because my diet on tour was not as easy to maintain because i was in different cities every day and and i didn't have a chef who was traveling with me or anything like that and when i'm back here i've been eating like a whole foods diet only eating plants not eating anything out of packages oh yeah you know not eating pretty much no packaged food whatsoever maybe now and again and like that in and of itself has transformed i used to love a bag of chips right even if they were like the healthiest chips that I could possibly find.

1:02:45I love a bag of chips. I love, you know, I love a little bit of crackers, biscuits, whatever, any of this kind of stuff, knickknacks. And just taking out packaged foods has had a massive impact on how I feel. It's kind of life-changing to do that. And I realized I missed an oil that should get a shout out. It's palm oil. So palm oil is saturated and I would much rather eat something cooked in palm oil than canola oil the issue with palm oil is mostly environmental so there's deforestation and orangutans and things like that but if you are at the store and you want to buy some chips or crisps or whatever yeah crisps is what i would have called it i've adapted bag of chips we'd call it a bag of crisps back in london yes so you want to eat those look for something that's cooked in coconut oil or palm oil and when you do that you're going to be much healthier and they're going to taste better and they're going to be more satisfying because when you eat those bad oils the omega-6 oils they make you hungry really quickly because your body says i gotta deal with all this inflammation have some sugar so all of a sudden you ate a chip that felt good and i don't generally eat stuff like that maybe at a barbecue or something i'll bring a bag of those because of course yeah i'm not perfect yeah and dave i want to thank you for doing all this research because you know as as i've got older and i'm 36 now and as i get older every single year my health goes up and up and up on the priority list and i think for me it's been so challenging because i grew up i would say with no health education right i'm benefited by having a wife who's very disciplined and focused and understands more i'm grateful to have my podcast where i get to sit down with incredible people like you and i get introduced to books like yours that i have over the years on longevity and now smarter not harder and to me i'm just like i want to get this right to make getting older easier right like to get make getting older like your goals your goals suck oh sorry that's a bad goal i want to make i want to make getting older easier how about i want to stop getting old that i want to stay how i am now or better every single year i want to be better there you go let's do that it's isn't that a different vision it feels different definitely We have it so built in that we're going to get old.

1:05:00We are living in a world today where you can measure as 20 years younger than your calendar age. I want that. I want that. You don't have to get old. Right. You might age, but the getting old thing, that's what we did in the 70s. Yeah, it made me happy. I've been playing a lot of pickleball and that's been like my form of exercise that I love and I enjoy. And it's start and stop. It's fast. It's competitive. I love every part of it. and i just got beat by a 70 year old a couple of weeks ago and i loved it because i i just i was like i want to be like you and i was like it's so inspiring he destroyed me one person can do that yeah and and that brings up something that that's actually really important yeah please learning from our elders the reason i can do all this biohacking is i was so desperate for my health in my 20s i started running an anti-aging longevity non-profit group near stanford university so i was learning how to maintain my health from people in their 80s who could run circles around me like that's possible i saw it and i saw it in the 90s and if they could do it back then we can do so much better now thank you for calling me out on that that's good i like it you're welcome you're allowed to yeah i like that that's awesome i learned from my elders you learned from the guy on the pickleball court you can be that guy when you're 70 yeah and what's really going to happen when you're 70 is you can be that guy but look and feel like you do now yeah and we're building this world for all of us.

1:06:21And it's really important because the birth rate in all developed nations is so low right now. We're not replacing our population, which means it's our job to be strong and young forever. Well said. Well said. The book is called Smarter Not Harder by Dave Asprey, The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want. I highly, highly recommend that you grab a copy of this book. We have just skimmed over some of the things that I found interesting, some of the things that I felt were front of mind for me. I know a lot of you have been asking questions about these things. I see tons of videos on TikTok sharing all sorts of advice.

1:06:52I felt it was great to dive into it with Dave. Please go and grab a copy. Go and read it with your friends. Figure out that one thing that you're going to focus on. Remember, you don't need to try and do all of this. Pick that one area that you want to solve, master it, move on to the next. I promise you that as much as it sounds hard and complicated and difficult, once you start seeing a win in one area it's going to have that domino effect so go and grab it dave thank you so much for always coming on and being such a you're such a you are you are an elder truly but you don't look like one you know you know you don't you don't feel like one which is amazing and i'm very grateful that i get to have these conversations with you because i always come away more inspired and uplifted and my goals get bigger and bolder and better so i'm glad that you're not letting me settle so thank you for not letting me settle i appreciate it you're so welcome i mean it i mean I appreciate your work so much.

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