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I have done the vegan thing I have tried
the low protein thing it will provably
make you feel like crap which will make
you wish you didn't live longer
they've asked me welcome back to the
show I love the new set thank you man I
appreciate that diving right in what are
five foods that people should stop
eating if they want to live a very very
long time
anything that's fake plant-based
replacement for something animal based
and you can just stop that but it's
going to be made from Plants it doesn't
really matter if it's trying to replace
meat with plants it's not the same thing
and it's a highly processed food by
definition
is it the highly processed that's the
problem or is it not eating the meat
that's the problem they're both problems
but the highly processed is definitely
independently a problem you look at egg
replacement stuff it's a chemical
concoction you look at the meat
Replacements it's random oils and random
carbs designed to taste like meat but it
won't have the same effect biologically
so we have people telling themselves
that they're being healthy but they're
actually eating stuff that is provably
less healthy for them there's something
called phytic acid which is one of the
five big types of plant toxins that I've
written about in the bulletproof diet
and phytic acid is something that
inhibits your ability to absorb minerals
and you find it in grains you find it in
corn you find it in oats you find it in
oat milk and things like that and what
that means is that even if you get
minerals from food that are depleted you
can't absorb them and there's protein
digestion blockers that are present in
plant proteins that stop you from
absorbing that protein and the other
protein you might eat from something
like an egg or a piece of meat so we
have a problem we say it's healthy but
it's not and then we have kale and
spinach especially raw which are full of
another plant toxin called oxalic acid
that is causing kidney stones gout and
even something called vulvodynia which
is when razor sharp crystals of calcium
oxalate form in the vulva which is
really painful for women and they don't
know it and then they eat another kale
salad Chase it with a kale smoothie kale
is not a superfood it actually has
things that keep you from wanting to eat
it and it shreds your gut
Okay so we've got a couple Foods in
there that we've called out by name so
we've got problems with grains it sounds
like because it's there is the something
acid God damn it what was it oxalic acid
kale and spinach are the two major
sources but it's presence in other
things even like almonds I'm not saying
that they're always bad for you but too
many seeds and nuts will contain enough
phytic acid and oxalic acid to steal the
minerals out of your body what I'm
thinking they steal the minerals or do
they stop them from being absorbed both
so what I'm finding in the context of
all this anti-aging research I've done
written a very big book about it 20
years of running a non-profit in the
space
when you are depleted of minerals none
of the repair systems in the body or the
energy systems can work since phytic
acid which is present in most of these
grains and nuts is something that can
suck calcium from your bones it can
cause osteoporosis and zinc Earth and
copper that's a chemical reaction it
turns out plants they don't want us to
eat them so they can't run away so they
make this to inhibit our ability to use
the minerals in the plants it's just
Mother Nature fighting with itself okay
so which is utterly fascinating but I
want to understand phytic acid better so
I'm eating something that's been highly
processed is is is it that there's
something in the processing of these
items that the phytic acid is isolated
and there's more of it or I'm just
getting so many grains so many nuts so
many oils that I'm just getting a ton of
phytic acid in my system they're
tricking you into eating more grains and
they're processed in a way that has more
phytic acid for instance a rice cake is
surprisingly high in phytic acid and
puffed oats is terrible for you but if
you went back the traditional way of
soaking and sprouting or things like
that that actually reduces phytic acid
so we knew about this ancestrally and we
would prioritize meat and dairy
especially dairy fat and no one was
allergic to milk because we hadn't
broken Dairy back then so that was where
you would get your calories and your
fast breaking Dairy me well you
create a breed of cows that makes highly
allergenic Dairy and because it tastes
better has higher sugar content I'm
assuming just because it produces more
milk okay and it happens to have these
side effects yep it's called A1 casein
versus A2 casein and so the old breed of
cows that make less milk but more
nutritious milk don't make the
allergenic proteins so many people can
handle raw A2 milk but when you take a
cow that makes A1 milk and you feed it
corn and soy so it has the wrong fats
and it has a bunch of other allergenic
proteins then you cook the milk briefly
which makes it more allergic and then
you press it through a very fine sieve
under high pressure so all the tiny
droplets of fat are so small your body
can't use them and then you take out
whatever fat you wanted to take out and
make skim milk which is provably worse
for you than whole fat milk and you give
it to your kids and you wonder why
there's a problem that's the problem if
we hadn't done all that we would have
far fewer milk allergies than we do
today okay so your density of
information per words spoken is insane
so I'm going to keep trying to like make
sure that I get takeaways here okay so
phytic acid we're getting a lot of it in
the way that we're hyper processing
these plant meat replacement plant-based
items but I still want to understand so
the phytic acid is leaching minerals
calcium out of my bones calcium many
different minerals how Okay so is it is
it because I'm breaking the barrier in
my gut and the phytic acid is getting
into my bloodstream in a way that it
shouldn't or is it actually a an
absorbable mineral like how does this so
phytic acid is a chelating agent and
what a chelating agent is is something
that has a very strong affinity for
minerals and and it binds to that it
sticks to the minerals and then your
kidneys have to excrete them it's known
in agriculture in fact they measure
phytic acid and feed of cows and
chickens because they know if they give
them too much the animals stop growing
but they don't really control for it in
human they feed cows like corn though
they do but they actually give them
enzymes called phytase and phytase stops
phytic acid humans don't make any phytes
so that's why we shouldn't be eating
grains Okay so it is a big reason why so
because we also obviously with
gluten for sure we know that that's
going to break the Junctions in your
epithelial lining of your gut which is
going to allow proteins into your blood
which creates the immune response which
gives you wild inflammation so that's
also a problem but now we've had almost
every whole grain will do that even
including brown rice has problems that's
why you do white rice as the safest
grain so there are people who say oh
there's no gluten in that it's corn well
corn has a protein called Zine that's
very similar so all grains do it because
we don't work well on grains they're
great for not dying of starvation that's
why we developed agriculture the problem
is they create shorter people they
create crooked teeth they create spinal
problems and they're not an ideal food
for living a long time yes croissants
taste good I'm not arguing that I'm just
saying it's not worth it you can make
something out of rice with real butter
and real eggs and it's going to taste
pretty good and you'll live a lot longer
because you don't deal with any of those
problems and if you want to live a long
time you want to eat mineral minerals in
every food you can get but most plants
and even most animals are deficient in
minerals because we pull them out of our
soil a long time ago as I've learned
more and more about anti-aging as I've
transformed myself lost 100 pounds and
I'm not gonna lie you look better than
the last time I saw you thank you all
right I like to think it's working I'm
11 and a quarter years younger in My
methylation DNA test than my actual age
so I think it's working and I came from
behind just given how unhealthy I used
to be
so
you look at all this minerals are a
uniting element and what I've been doing
over the past five years is studying
minerals and increasing the amount of
minerals the macro minerals like calcium
not too much calcium though magnesium
potassium but specifically trace
minerals which is what makes danger
coffee my new coffee brand very
different is there's more than 50
different trace minerals that you would
have gotten in eating meat or eggs or
plants but they're just missing from our
environment because we've over farmed
our soil and because we take all these
chemicals in our food that are sticking
to the minerals so we don't absorb them
so I put them as a part of danger coffee
so I'm getting a big dose of minerals
every time I drink my coffee which is
there to help restore the mineral
balance in the body more minerals you
live longer
why
every single process in your body is
driven by enzymes and what enzymes do in
Biochemistry is enzymes allow a chemical
reaction to happen with very little
energy so when you make ATP which is how
your cells are making electricity when
you fold a protein properly so that you
have healthy proteins instead of
misfolded proteins in your brain which
is a contributor to alzheimer's we think
well you have to have minerals to form
the enzymes and if you're low on
minerals the body won't make the enzymes
and then you can't do the repair
processes
okay so now we're getting into
mitochondria we're getting into the
things we want to be adding into our
diet I want to close the loop on the
things we want to be removing from our
diet so the big problems that we're
creating I assume are inflammation
related
leaching more minerals out of the system
related
when you think about longevity I've
heard you say a lot that you know the
reason that we should be able to live to
180 is because if somebody was you know
born let's say 100 120 years ago they
didn't have all of the technology and
knowledge and all of that that we have
now but I would say I would say that the
data shows that we're actually living
shorter because of now I'm guessing
environmental toxins all of the
big agriculture all of the things that
we've done leeching the soil of minerals
all that that you actually would have
had an easier time if you were born 120
years ago to live 120 years than you
would being born today now if somebody
does what you're doing that may be not
the case but I think that most people
are going to be at such a wild
disadvantage that first they need to
understand why this is actually a worse
time to have been born if you want to
live 180 years then it would have been
to say be born 60 or 70 years ago
when do you agree with that because if
you don't I want to debate I don't agree
with all right tell me why you don't
agree okay
if you got sick 70 years ago you'd go to
the doctor
doctors seven years ago didn't know very
much at all they would do the craziest
stuff a lot of them are influenced by Dr
Kellogg you know behind Corn Flakes who
invented low-fat foods to drop male
testosterone yeah that's still crazy
okay that was part of Medical Training
and just all this weird stuff so there
was nothing you could do if things went
sideways and the doctors were telling
you to smoke all the time because hey
this is the brand of cigarettes that
doctors recommend the most those same
type of personalities are the ones
telling you to eat plant-based Foods
instead of meat the ones telling you to
eat corn and soy and other oils like
that that are provably bad for you
because they don't know any better so
you wouldn't have had anywhere you could
go today yes we have tons of
environmental pollutants we have
artificial blue light that is not good
for you but you have more control over
your environment today than at any time
in human history you have access to more
information than a or a president 50
years ago for free at your fingertips so
you have control
you have choices that no human on earth
had 50 years ago that means yeah if you
don't do anything you have less of a
chance but it means you can do things
and you know what to do now in a way
that's unprecedented in all of recorded
history
okay you ready for the rebuttal yes
I concede every point that you made for
people that are plugged in and they're
engaged with all of that so
on the for the people that are awake
that's what I refer to as being awake in
The Matrix if you're awake in The Matrix
100 like way better time to be alive
but the reason I think the average
person is in a way worse position is you
can't accidentally remain healthy in the
way that you could accidentally remain
healthy 100 years ago because they just
hadn't created all of the things that
can create a problem whether it was
ingest like the fact that I have to
worry and I know that you actually have
a solution for this but the fact that I
have to take a supplement when I have
sushi because I have to worry about the
uh heavy metals that have gotten into
the fish like the fact that tuna eat
like smaller fish and those smaller fish
are eating microplastics and heavy
metals and like that's crazy it's
terrible so that there are so many
things like that leaching the vitamins
and or minerals excuse me out of the
soil
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also just loneliness uh social media
[ __ ] with people's psychology like
there are so many things stacked against
you that if you're not awake that
they're just it's hard to accidentally
be healthy
now to your point I would rather be
alive now than ever so I don't want
anybody to confuse what I'm saying like
this is the best time to be alive thank
God I couldn't be more
um stoked about the moment that we're
living through
but when I look at
how much the average person is
struggling whether it's opioid addiction
or all of the things that I just
mentioned like this is a rough time to
not be paying a lot of attention
and that worries me and I mean look if
you've made it this far into this
episode you're the kind of person that
pays attention but I want to walk people
through some of the things that they
need to do some of the whys uh and I
think that this will get really really
interesting okay so we know that we want
to avoid highly processed foods we know
that we have to be careful over
consuming grains for sure but you've put
your finger on a lot of potential
problems with being even going all the
way vegan dude I was a raw vegan I was a
regular vegan it made me profoundly sick
and there's a programmable thing we know
happens when you go vegan in plant-based
even if you tell yourself it's for the
planet or for your health or for the
animals none of those is true those are
propaganda the same way that the
propagandists were telling you in the
1940s to smoke
so that seems crazy so let's take just
the first one one at a time so it seems
unarguable that it you love animals that
you should eat plants
oh it seems unarguable but do you know
about deaths per calorie
only because I've studied you yes but
please for people that have not
when I was a vegan I stopped being a
vegan because I went to Nepal and Tibet
to learn meditation from the Masters
a Buddhist llama at a monastery
where there's a big sign that says no
killing
was talking with me and I said you have
a yak skin on your prayer pole you
killed the yak you're a hypocrite
Buddhists loved to argue it was not
disrespectful and he laughs at me he
goes one death feeds everyone
and I took that back when I stopped
being a vegan because it was making me
sick and I thought about it and I looked
at how much meat you get from a
grass-fed cow
that didn't cause deforestation that
didn't cause destruction of habitat for
other animals and if you eat a pound of
red meat every single day you'll kill
0.5 animals in the entire year and
that's it unless the cow steps on a frog
now if you eat your soy nugget crunchy
testosterone reducing flavored whatever
what you're doing is you're destroying
habitat bunnies Turtles ladybugs
I'm trying to name the cute ones mice
snakes lizards salamanders like we've
now gone outside the cute ones right
slugs okay those are gross but what they
do is they sterilize the land and
they're doing this and then they spray
glyphosate which is provably destroying
our entire ecosystem we just found out
that when you spray this nasty weed
killer around that kills bacteria in the
soil it also causes seizures and worms
at 300 times less than the allowable
levels this means that the foundation of
our soil which is worms and bacteria is
being completely sterilized so they can
grow corn and soy that then you eat in
your breakfast cereal that's full of
glyphosate that's also bad for you so
we've got to stop doing that stuff
entirely but you're saying that you want
that world and all the deaths and all
the habitat destruction news flash cows
are an amazing technology they walk
around on land and they eat plants that
we can't eat natural plants that are
self-sustaining and they turn them into
Dairy protein dairy fat and into meat
and protein and usable skins cows are
amazing and we need them to build our
soil I say this as a small Farmer on 32
Acres with three cows now in the freezer
but there were there
25 sheep and 25 pigs and a whole bunch
of chickens and I'm building soil
thickness and everywhere the animals go
green Lush amazing plants follow and in
the areas where there are new animals
small amounts of vegetation animals
create life in the soil soil creates
plants soil creates life and when you
choose a vegan diet you are voting
against the presence of any animals
in that agricultural land and that is
not okay
it's really interesting what is it in
manure that makes things grow like what
are we [ __ ] out literally that is it
minerals is it yeah what is it well it
depends on what the animal ate you can't
count on the presence of minerals
because a lot of food doesn't have
minerals in it but what's always present
unless you're feeding antibiotics to
your cows is bacteria so the role of
ruminant animals like our sheep is to
walk around and they're putting
probiotics back in the soil and this is
why my sheep will [ __ ] anywhere because
that's their job they go they eat some
of this plant they eat some of that
plant they mix them up they ferment them
and then they redeposit good healthy
bacteria that worms and bacteria eat in
the soil that makes for a rich thick
soil and you get the cycle of life my
pigs though and that's not their job
pigs clean up the land and pigs eat
scraps they don't poop everywhere they
poop in a corner of their space because
they're not there to put probiotics back
in the soil and when you become a farmer
when you live in nature the way I do you
start seeing this and it's abundantly
obvious why don't pigs why isn't sounds
ridiculous why isn't patient as useful
as cow [ __ ] I I hire pneumonia as far as
I know and it's not that big [ __ ] isn't
useful you just have to distribute it
this is why farmers keep pigs in a pen
Farmers keep pigs in a pen because
they're easier to eat also pigs are
destructive as all hell like they will
eat anything so they'll destroy your
crops and all that solo cows for some
crops but for me I have my garden area
which is a couple acres fenced off from
the sheet but the rest of the property
the Sheep keep it clean you have to mow
the lawn at least most of the time they
literally eat everything that needs
eating but they don't destroy it and if
you have other types of animals they'll
actually pull it up by the roots so you
can create this amazing ecosystem where
the Sheep are eating stuff that humans
couldn't and wouldn't eat they don't
kill other animals when they're in there
so what I want to do is I want to eat
the type of food that makes me feel
amazing it gives me the longest
longevity the best mental function the
type of of body that I want
and I want to minimize death and
environmental destruction and what I'm
doing is I'm pulling carbon out of the
air by building soil
I'm not displacing any animal in the
production of my food I'm actually
contributing to the existence of animals
and because I get to raise my own
animals I know they're treated with
respect I know that we were up at three
in the morning birthing the sheep or the
Lambs when it's that type of season from
the sheep and I know they were butchered
ethically you can do this if you talk to
a local farmer in your area they are
struggling and they want to sell you
meat directly you can buy eggs from
someone who has chickens most people can
do that right now and if you're just
starting out and you're in a big city
and that's not accessible if you go to
the Farmers Market at the end and you
talk to the farmers they'll probably
make you a deal because they get screwed
by a grocery distribution so what you
can do is you could become wealthy like
you and I have done and we could buy
Farms or you can support the people
around you do that that's what
communities do you build a community of
people who have like-minded values and
you support your farmers and they
support you and that's what I'm working
to do
Okay so
if I'm putting all the pieces together
the thing that I bump into is
what makes big egg work and the reason
that we're able to sustain the whatever
7.8 billion people that are on the
planet is because we've gotten really
efficient at growing cups crops that
keep people from starving to death of
taking as little space as possible to
grow the cows the pigs the chickens all
of that and it might be absolutely
Dreadful and hateful morally what
happens to the animals and what we're
doing to the soil but we're able to keep
people alive two
do things the way that you're describing
which sound way better
can we sustain the kind of population
that we have or do you think that we
need because there's two debates right
we need less people and then other
people like Elon Musk are like yo
population collapse is actually a far
bigger concern
well
I think we're
we're having a conversation where I can
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today's episode
human testosterone in men at least is
about 45 lower than it was 50 years ago
whoa yeah there's a lot of reasons seed
oils are one of them environmental
endocrine disruptors or another BPA from
your receipts and your water bottles
these are real things and they matter
so I'm not worried about population
continued growth I'm worried about our
ability to sustain our population I do
look at Japan and remember I've written
a book on anti-aging I've studied aging
populations around the planet and what
do they do
and
Japan's losing 600 000 people a year
because they're dying and there aren't
kids to replace them and it's not going
to stop there's entire cities now in the
in the countryside or towns that are
abandoned because there's no one to live
there
so are we gonna do that in the U.S yes
our replacement rate is lower
like we're not replacing our people our
birth rate is lower than our replacement
rate so
what does that mean yeah we have a
problem now how do you feed these people
there is a group of large companies who
say the only way to feed is to
centralize
look I'm a computer hacker by training
the stuff that I worked on was how do we
take centralization away from Computing
and decentralize it the newest wave of
that is the web 3 stuff that's happening
and what we know is that Distributing
things makes them highly resilient
highly fault tolerant and harder to
control
if one in ten families had chickens we
wouldn't need industrial egg laying
facilities it's not that hard to have
chickens and you don't have to have
roosters the noisy ones
if a few families had cows and sheep we
would have plenty of meat production for
the country the problem we have is that
we're slamming it all together
we're doing it unsustainably because
it's slammed together so we can control
it and people don't know this but most
of the pork producers and pork
processors and many of the chicken ones
in the US are owned by Chinese companies
who are leaving the unfiltered crap here
that's too concentrated to be put back
into the soil and they're taking the
meat and sending it overseas which is
also a waste of
well it's a waste of oil
so what I'd like to see is countries
learning how to grow their own food in a
distributed Manner and this comes down
to deregulating right now when I want to
take one of my cows that has been raised
carefully in most of the country I'm
going to have to ship it in Cruel
conditions 500 miles to a commercial
meat producer who's going to kill it
unethically in a state of stress and if
I don't do that I'm not allowed to sell
it that is not okay even my restaurant
here in Santa Monica I can't buy the
bacon I want to buy because it's
approved by The Regulators to sell that
kind of bacon to people's houses but not
for restaurant use so people don't know
this but big AG has put callers and
Shackles on small farmers with all sorts
of rules like this that are unnecessary
you wonder why food's expensive that's
why because it is cheap and easy to have
your own food growing in your backyard
and during food shortages in the past
even in the last hundred years people
would get a goat they would get chickens
because they'll eat everything and then
you can eat them and they'll give you
milk in the meantime and that's okay
it's very interesting uh I want to go
back to longevity and now while I have
drawn the following conclusions from
David Sinclair I want to be careful to
say that this does not necessarily
represent the accurate depiction of what
he's trying to convey which is what I
took yeah David and I are friends what
he said but basically if I understand
his punch line right what he's saying is
because I said the what you said about
eating the things that make me feel
great meat makes me feel great so I am
far closer to being a carnivore than I
am to being a vegetarian though I do
have a reasonable amount of vegetable
matter in my diet but
meat makes me feel awesome and every
time I've tried to transition to a much
higher plant-based diet I don't feel as
good and when I was pushing him on why
does it make me feel so awesome if it
isn't what he recommends for longevity
like what's the give and again my
interpretation of what he said was
basically it's a little bit of formesis
you're turning off mtor so you want to
give your body the impulse hey things
aren't necessarily so great so you need
to dial it back you need to slow your
metabolism down you need to not be you
know living as if it were a time of
abundance that you're you're sort of
God these are words he's going to hate
but like you're I was gonna say you're
hibernating or you're going into like a
famine state
so that you can when you get back into a
time of Plenty then you can start
building and all of that but in doing
that you give this you're in a hormetic
state which for people is a little bit
of bad to have a positive effect and so
because you're sort of dialing things
down you get the longevity so you might
not feel as good in any one moment but
you're far likelier to live for a long
time and I think I'm all about quoting
him when he says that just all the
studies show that high meat consumption
does not lead to a longer life
and so what's your take on that
I love David's work he's been on my show
and he's one of the first academics to
stand up and say we are extending human
life
this is a big risk as a researcher
because not so long ago they would pull
your tenure because you're crazy if you
said you could reverse biological Aging
in cells and he's right about mtor if
you go back to the bulletproof diet I
published that 10 years ago I think
I wrote a chapter about
stacking mtor so mtor is a compound that
causes the body to grow so if you want
muscles you have to have mtor and low
mtor equals muscle loss and lack of bone
density and even lessening of your
cognitive function
problem with inter is if it's high all
the time your cancer risk goes up cancer
risk goes up longevity goes down so we
have this conundrum you want mtor but
you don't want mtor so the strategy that
works for mtor is to suppress mtor
so that you live a long time and then
it's like a spring the more compressed
it is when you give it the signal to
spring back you get a spike in mtor so
the deal is low low low Spike low low
low Spike
now
that means you have to talk about what
suppresses mtor and then what spikes
mtor what suppresses mtor is three
different things one of them is
intermittent fasting
the other one is coffee
and the other one is exercise so if you
do what I've been teaching for a long
time you would intermittent fast in
other words sleep
that's often enough maybe sleep and Skip
breakfast you would work out at the end
of a fast and you'd have coffee during
fast so now you've maximally suppressed
mtor and then as soon as you finish your
exercise you eat some meat
because animal protein will raise mtor
but guess what raises him toward way
more than animal protein carbs carbs
so wait a minute if you want to live a
long time you should keep your mtor low
I don't believe that you should spike it
which means intermittent fasting is
probably all you need to do but you'd
have to be on a carb free diet that was
also low in animal protein so all you
would eat is what vegetarian protein
which is full of phytic acid which is
full of enzyme disruptors protein enzyme
disruptors and all the other well-known
problems with highly processed
plant-based proteins oh and you
shouldn't have the plant-based fats
because those are bad for you too the
omega-6 oils this is not a diet that
anyone would want to do it's akin to the
old anti-aging people who would say I'm
cold and thin all the time but I finally
got used to eating 70 of the calories I
actually need I hope I'm going to live
longer until the rat studies show that
it didn't work so if you want to live a
long time and feel amazing don't spike
your blood sugar very often I'm wearing
a continuous glucose monitor right here
on my on my stomach
that's from levels and when you eat
animal protein but you don't eat it all
day long you have a window around oh 2
P.M to 6 p.m where you consume your
animal protein you'll be low in tour the
rest of the time but you'll still have
muscle mass and you'll feel good and in
the morning if you're going to have
something have some fat because fat
doesn't change mtor at all and doesn't
change insulin at all
so you can be compatible with what David
Sinclair says but you have to be more
afraid of carbs than animal protein if
you're going to use mtor as you're
Guiding Light
what I would also add is we've all heard
of collagen I made collagen into a
billion dollar category right collagen
is high in glycine glycine is the amino
acid that balances out the two
problematic amino acids in animal
protein they're called
methionine and tryptophan so if you take
some collagen or some glycine
supplements with your meat during your
eating window you're likely going to
undo the damage from those amino acids
that raise their mtor
sounds really complex here's what it
looks like don't eat breakfast
exercise then eat some meat and maybe
some carbs if you like and don't eat bad
fats don't eat after the sun goes down
rinse and repeat that is the thing that
mechanistically given all we know from
David Sinclair's amazing and worthy
research I have done the vegan thing I
have tried the low protein thing it will
provably make you feel like crap which
will make you wish you didn't live
longer any of these interventions I talk
about for biohacking if it's a lot of
money and a lot of energy and a lot of
work to do it you're probably not going
to do it unless that payoff is Extreme
so what I've done over time is I've
become lazier and lazier so am I going
to go take a mineral supplement or can I
put it in my coffee like I drink my
coffee every day it has built-in trace
minerals that I'm not getting and even
if I went out and bought a bunch of
plants and had a big salad which I like
big salads but I have no idea what
minerals are in those things anyway so I
just make sure I get it enough to think
about it when it comes to things like
exercise
you mentioned that you think I'm looking
healthier I think I am too well one of
the biggest contributors to that is I'm
actually exercising less and I didn't
exercise that much before I'm doing the
stuff from upgrade Labs why are you
exercising less because I like
efficiency look if I could sleep none at
all and I could exercise none at all
I would have so much more time to do fun
stuff right but of course I'm sleeping
I'm getting high efficiency sleep I
sleep six and a half hours a night
and with exercise and with every other
environmental input we're figuring out
that there's a Code or a signal that
makes the body adapt more rapidly
and this is akin to what Dr Sinclair is
talking about there okay what's the
signal it's mtor well it turns out for
exercise we can put muscle on three to
five times faster than picking up rocks
we can do cardio 10 to 12 times more
effectively than the spin class or going
for a run the stuff that we were told
was healthy it turns out it's mostly a
waste of time
so I've been studying for the last eight
years at upgrade Labs how to do these
things and how to make it so I can roll
it out to everyone and upgrade Labs is
now franchising across North America US
and Canada so these will be opening in
every city where you can come in and in
the hour you would have just sweated a
little bit and hoped that flopping the
weights around did something we can
provably do your VO2 max put on muscle
encourage resilience we actually train
your system to be more resilient and do
a bunch of other stuff that doesn't even
fall in the category of exercise but it
sends a metabolic signal into your body
to make you healthier so let's start
taking those one at a time so how are
you getting more efficient at
weightlifting well your muscles are
expecting gravity
and gravity has certain characteristics
we evolved for billions of years in it
if you give your muscles a signal that
takes gravity out of the signal they go
oh my God I'm gonna have to adapt to
something new so they rapidly adapt by
growing and getting stronger and by
removing gravity yeah gravity
accelerates at 9.8 meters per second
squared it's a fixed constant on Earth
that means that if I pick up this coffee
cup and I slowly drop it like that it
weighs more predictably the more I I'm
dropping it and this is all invisible to
us but your body's doing all the
calculations well what if
when I picked the cup up it wanted to
fall a lot more than 9.8 meters per
second isn't that just a heavier weight
except it accelerates but now it doesn't
want to accelerate okay it slowly moves
down inevitably I cannot stop it from
dropping no matter how hard I push but
it doesn't accelerate ever right the
body's like what is going on here
it turns out your muscles will not
activate fully because they're afraid of
gravity we can teach your muscles in
this one environment there is no gravity
so you can turn on all the way and in I
have a book that's coming out in March
if there wasn't gravity wouldn't things
be weightless
not if someone's pulling on something so
if there's isn't that just more gravity
it's not gravity what gravity does
gravity accelerates over time but if I
take my finger here and I just move it
at a constant speed
it doesn't accelerate ever but what
gravity do is I start moving in the more
it moves the faster it goes that fact
that gravity accelerates over time your
body is adapted to that in a crazy way
we're using AI algorithms to give your
body a signal that says I have no idea
what I'm doing but I have to get
stronger okay so hold on it's awesome
it's interesting I this is the first
time I'm being exposed to this idea so
I'm gonna have to work through this okay
so for anybody following along at home
there's a thing called terminal velocity
terminal velocity is when you reach
maximum gravity is yanking you down most
things don't reach terminal velocity
because they're not far enough to fall
now ironically my entire life I've never
thought of that as gravity accelerating
over time but I guess effectively it is
I've never thought about why you don't
immediately hit terminal velocity the
second you step off something that's
utterly [ __ ] fascinating do you know
how on Earth is that not true I actually
don't know that you don't hit terminal
Voss yeah why why isn't everything
falling at terminal velocity at all
times it's because gravity is measured
in meters per second squared or meters
per second per second so every second of
time he's been falling wise more
acceleration I don't understand oh that
probably goes back to Newtonian motion
but terminal velocity talk about things
you don't know you don't know wow okay
so terminal velocity is a fun function
of air resistance there is no terminal
velocity if you are in space in a full
vacuum and you have an unlimited amount
of time to fall you'll keep accelerating
accelerating accelerating accelerating
and there's probably some kind of like
getting close to the speed of light
thing I don't know if that's an advanced
physics question yeah terminal velocity
sure about that velocity of a feather
and terminal velocity of a lead brick
which one's in a vacuum there'd be no
difference in a vacuum there'd be no
difference right so then terminal
velocity they'll keep accelerating of
course it's just a function of time we
usually hit something after a certain
amount of time in Space the big problem
we have is that we need to be able to
continue accelerating right and once you
stop accelerating then you just keep
moving at that speed forever but if you
want to get going faster and faster and
faster you have to have more and more
fuel right now anyway
okay this continues to get interesting
uh so this machine
is pulling down at a constant well I
guess I'm thinking it's like a winch
it's easy you're standing in front of a
pickup truck the pickup truck has a
winch it can pick up a car
you're gonna do a curl against the winch
yeah you know the truck's going to win
right but now your body understands you
know what when I wobble it doesn't
accelerate it I don't feel any gravity
in there I'm only feeling the pull of
the winch which is constant this is a
new signal to us we've never had the
signal is it all negative
um Force you can do you can you can pull
it back we just let the winch out at the
right speed Okay so
is there any difference in muscle
formation whether we're doing concentric
or eccentric there absolutely is it's so
cool there's a whole chapter in my book
that's coming out in in a few months
it's in March of next year but yeah
there is a difference and it turns out
that you put more muscle on during The
Eccentric part of it so when you pull up
you don't put on as much muscle as when
you're slowly releasing but when you're
slowly releasing against a dumbbell
Against Gravity there's going to be some
of this that's not just from your muscle
shaking it's because when you wobble a
little bit the dumbbell got heavier
we're taking all that out and so now the
question is what is the signal to put on
muscle the fastest how fast do I have to
move up against what force and how does
the force modify as I'm at different
places here and it there's a whole
universe of signals in there that tells
the body to change way more rapidly than
you would imagine and from a cardio
perspective you don't even have to sweat
and you get huge benefits in five
minutes
of exercise and most of that five
minutes you're stripping out gravity is
how we get the muscles to grow faster
what are we doing on the cardio side
one of the the big things that I'm
working with at upgrade Labs is this
thing called slope of the curve biology
which sounds nerdy but it's not that bad
what is up my friend Tom bilyu here and
I have a big question to ask you how
would you rate your level of personal
discipline on a scale of one to ten if
your answer is anything less than a 10
I've got something cool for you and let
me tell you right now discipline by its
very nature means compelling yourself to
do difficult things that are stressful
boring which is what kills most people
or possibly scary or even painful now
here is the thing achieving huge goals
and stretching to reach your potential
requires you to do those challenging
stressful things and to stick with them
even when it gets boring and it will get
boring building your levels of personal
discipline is not easy but let me tell
you it pays off in fact I will tell you
you're never going to achieve anything
meaningful unless you develop discipline
all right I've just released a class
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legendary peace out
it's that your body wants to adapt this
hormetic stress but the way the body
measures whether it adapted or not is
how quickly
was it stressed and very importantly how
quickly could you return to an
unstressed state so the healthiest
strongest of us we can handle it and
then we're at peace and instead what
we've told ourselves is the harder I
work for longer the better it is so we
spend all this time going for a run
we're sweating for 45 minutes or an hour
and we think that's good because we
suffered and suffering makes you a good
person but what the body listened to was
you ran away from the tiger and then you
laid on your back and you rested which
is the very beginning version of this
which is provably better than
intermittent training high intensity
interval training where you basically
run for a minute and then walk for a
minute well why would laying on your
back work better than walking for a
minute it's because the faster you
return to Baseline the more the body
takes the signal in so what we're doing
is we're measuring your heart rate we're
measuring the stress on your body and
adapting the resistance of in this case
a bike to make sure that it matches what
your body's capable of
in order for you to be the strongest
person possible you want to stress your
system right up to the edge where it's
dysregulated
but not dysregulated because if we
disregulate your system it's going to
take you a couple days to recover so we
bring you right up to the very edge and
then bring you right back down
and this provably works better but you
can't do it without Tac
since I am angry that I spent 18 months
of my life
six days a week an hour and a half a day
going to the gym halfway tough cardio to
try and lose 100 pounds of fat and it
did not work in fact I gave myself an
autoimmune condition and I over trained
and raised my cortisol
I still had a 46 inch waist when I was
done that was a lie that was the same as
the doctor telling you to smoke for your
health
it was this a lie or did they just not
know oh it's a good that's a good point
in fact
I believe someone somewhere probably
knew
but yes it could have just been a
mistake
okay it was a financially beneficial
mistake for someone else but to be
really clear and I want to say this if
you say someone is lying it means that
you can read their mind and you know
their thoughts or you have direct
evidence of it versus that they are
wrong so to correct myself they were
wrong right
okay so that is really intriguing so
that's something
um I've not heard so I'd heard about
eccentric being bigger of a muscle
builder than the concentric motion which
always struck me as weird but cool I'm
certainly willing to believe it
um but I had not heard that about rapid
getting back to
um calm I'm not sure what this is
original material I don't think that
there's anyone who's written about that
other than end mechanisms with stress
resistance but what we've seen at
upgrade Labs over eight years of using
Tech to make people more resilient
it's that wow if we do it that way
people change dramatically what data
points is the machine or the AI reading
it depends on which intervention we've
got
about eight different interventions so
it depends what we're doing but if we're
doing neurofeedback and I've got a ton
of data from my neurofeedback company
about that that's a part of upgrade Labs
now as well where you can actually train
your brain same thing you bring it to
the edge bring it back so that's
basically brain stuff from a stress
resilience when we're doing resilience
training it's heart rate variability
from cardio we're looking at heart rate
which is a marker for respiration and
for muscle we're looking at the slope of
the curve of muscle strength
so it's a lot of data the overall
arching data to monitor human
performance at upgrade Labs is based on
the electrical performance of your cells
so when you come in you stand on a
device that lets us measure how good
your cells are at resisting electricity
or storing electricity which tells us
are you hydrated are you dehydrated
where's the fat in your body where's
your skeletal muscle mass in the body
and it's amazing with thousands and
thousands of data points we have that
and then we tell you like a prescription
of which of the different Technologies
to do to reach your gold fastest I just
want to give everyone their time back
most people want to live a long time
are willing to spend 50 bucks a month or
200 a month whatever they can come up
with as long as it works and what we do
is we buy a membership at a health club
and then we just don't go but we know
that by having it we're a good person
what I want to do is say if you're
willing to gift me with one hour of your
time let's get it all out of the way for
the week maybe you'll come in twice this
week because you feel so much better but
that's it I don't want more time more is
not better with the cardio interventions
I'm doing if you do the five minutes of
mostly moving really slowly doing six
minutes does not improve your
performance at all doing 10 minutes is
zero benefit more or you could tell
yourself you're doing well and you could
sweat and you love that person in the
front of the class yelling at you and
sloshing water in her face I just don't
want to spend my life doing that what's
the difference between what you're
helping people optimize for and like
ultra high performance like an Olympic
Athlete Olympic athletes and pro
athletes are are by definition
biohackers and a lot of them follow my
stuff what they're looking at though is
a day that involves training and a huge
amount of recovery what you and I are
looking at is not that we might train
but then we go about our life that is
not about eating properly getting extra
rest getting a massage going to the
sauna there's an upper limit to the
amount of time that most people have to
improve themselves what that means is
that we have a moral obligation to get
that done and still have time to be a
householder to take care of your family
to do your job to take care of other
aspects of your community and if you
spend all your time better that's what
I'm trying to figure out so an Olympic
Athlete is going to train their [ __ ]
face off so are they just wrong and they
should be doing because like when you
said you're mostly moving slow I'm like
I don't see how an Olympic Athlete does
mostly moving slow and still sets the
100 meter damage it would depend on what
you're training for right so a sprinter
is training for something very different
than cardiovascular performance among
they don't even need that endurance
right but what's happening now is
endurance trainers have figured out that
cranking out the miles actually doesn't
work very well so they're mostly doing
something called zone two training which
is fascinating and this is another one
of those biohacking innovations that
says if you spend about an hour and a
half to two hours a week at a very
narrow and specific range of heart rate
your mitochondria will burn fat and it's
metabolically awesome but if you go a
little bit faster or a little bit slower
it doesn't work so you have to have a
heart rate monitor and you have to go at
a certain speed and if you do that kind
of training you can do a lot less of The
Chronic cardio so we're seeing a new
generation of endurance athletes who are
actually able to do it for a lot longer
because they've learned that training
less gives them more results
so we used to just say well if some is
good more is better it's one of the