Editor's Note
This article was compiled by the Time School Institute from Men'sHealth magazine's coverage of Dave Asprey.
Dave Asprey is hailed as the "father of biohacking" by anti-aging enthusiasts, and the former Silicon Valley engineer has no intention of upgrading his computer, only to upgrade himself, repeatedly publicly declaring that his goal is to "live at least to 180 years old". To this end, he has put on a hundred supplements a day, tried various high-tech equipment, and has spent millions of dollars on anti-aging and life extension so far. The limbs must be developed, and the mind cannot be simple. According to himself, his IQ test score increased by 18 points through brain training, and he still reacted quickly in middle age.
This article will reveal the origins of Asprey's biohacker journey, why he adopted some seemingly extreme anti-aging methods, and the lifestyle advice he gave.
Original link:
https://www.menshealth.com.au/how-to-live-to-180-years-old-bulletproof-founder-dave-asprey/
At a clinic in Utah, David Asprey is undergoing an extraordinary surgery. Doctors extracted half a liter of bone marrow from his hip, filtered out stem cells, and injected them into each of his joints, spinal cord, and cerebrospinal fluid.
"Excess stem cells are not wasted," Aspre said in an interview, "I let the doctors use it on my face and scalp, who wouldn't want a rich hair and smooth skin?" ”
Aspree smugly stated that he "just wanted to go off the beaten path" and repeatedly declared that his goal was to live to 180 years old, and to that end, he took some extraordinary anti-aging methods:
Every 6 months, he injects autologous stem cells as mentioned earlier
Take 100 supplements a day and strictly control your diet
Steam an infrared sauna and enter the hyperbaric oxygen chamber
It is better to seek medical treatment than to seek oneself
Aspre was not healthy in his early 20s, and could even be considered "disease-ridden". He was diagnosed (or self-diagnosed) with arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, prediabetes, and a long list of other conditions. At one point during college, his weight soared to 135 kilograms.
Initially, he also followed the standard medicine weight loss advice – eat less and move more. Although he followed a healthy diet and exercised 6 times a week, his weight remained high, "exercise seemed to make me stronger and healthier, I could easily conquer gym equipment, but there was no change in weight," he recalls, "and the doctor even suspected that I was stealing chocolate." ”
Tired of the traditional practice of hard work but little success, Aspree began experimenting on himself. Through the low-carbon water recipes seen in fitness magazines, he lost 40 pounds, which opened the door to a new world for him.
"I realized that keeping my mouth shut was much more useful than opening my legs, and I started learning about all kinds of anti-aging bodies." For several years, he spent a lot of time studying every night, and this burning curiosity made his biohacker practices more and more bold.
Fitness and brain fitness are indispensable
Asprey calls his home office the "Alpha Lab," which displays a variety of tools and instruments he uses regularly: cryotherapy rooms, infrared lamp beds, cell trainers that can create changes in air pressure from the summit of Mount Everest back to sea level in minutes, and intermittent exercises that can achieve two and a half hours of exercise in 21 minutes. In addition to relying on instruments, he pours himself a "longevity cocktail" mixed with modafinil, testosterone and various supplements every day.
Aspre is keen to experiment on himself, and naturally does not let go of the development of the brain. He participates in personal development workshops that simulate the umbilical cord-around-neck traumatic birth pattern and train the brain in a variety of ways. For example, he will "play games" with his brain, allowing the brain to learn to recognize beneficial brain waves and reduce unhelpful brain activity, thereby improving the performance of coping with emotions such as stress. In addition, according to his own claim, a training called "double N-back" improved his IQ test by 18 points, and the short-term effect of this method was even more amazing, and the hourly training could improve iq by 2.75.
"I'm almost 50 years old, but my visceral fat levels and brain response rate are comparable to those of a 20-year-old," Aspre said.
N-back mainly tests people's working memory, that is, short-term memory. In simple terms, a set of numbers appears sequentially on the computer screen, and participants need to compare the numbers they are currently seeing with the numbers that appeared before. N in N-back refers to the number of backtracking, for example 1-back is the ratio to the previous number, 2-back is the ratio to the previous number, and so on. If two numbers are the same, press "yes" and if they are not the same, press "no", depending on the situation, the computer may also appear on the graphics or letters. In the training that Aspree does, in addition to looking at color blocks for comparison, he also has to listen to the letters for comparison, so it is called "double N-back".
Lifestyle guru
Aspre, who became famous by promoting "black coffee + butter or coconut oil", now has another identity: a lifestyle master. Over the past decade, he has attracted countless fans by writing books, recording podcasts, posting on social media, and more. The advice he gives includes, but is not limited to:
Enjoy sex a lot
Release stress through meditation and breathing exercises
Sleeping 6 hours a day is just right, sleeping 8 hours is too much
Adhere to a gluten-free diet, as gluten causes an inflammatory response in the body, which in turn leads to diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's syndrome, and multiple sclerosis
Eat less kale because it contains oxalic acid, which increases the risk of kidney stones
The Upside Down Golden Bell exercises the capillaries in the brain and helps the brain get more oxygen.
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However, biohacking is after all niche and quite experimental, and the way of eating should vary from person to person. Aspre's advice was taken as a guideline, and some were discarded. A licensed dietitian probably wouldn't agree with him adding butter to coffee or advocating that everyone should abstain from gluten-containing foods. Some say that Aspree's success was only because an era of reluctance to obey authority required deviant people like him, but since it is called deviant, no matter what others say, Aspree will not stop spending money on the pursuit of longevity.
"I'm a complete young man now," Aspre said on his 45th birthday, "my minimum goal is to live to be 180, so I'm only a quarter of my life." Longevity is of course a superpower, and I will strive for it diligently, and after death. ”
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