The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

#50 New Bulletproof iPhone App, Food Sensitivities & HRV with Ronda Collier from SweetWater Health

The 50th episode of Bulletproof Executive Radio introduces you to a brand new free iPhone app called Bulletproof(R) Food Sense and to the scientist who made it all happen.  Today’s interview is with long time biohacker and founder of Sweetwater Health™, Ronda Collier. Ronda is putting her more than 25 years of experience in high tech to work at SweetWater Health™, where they are looking at the signal coming from the human heart, and instead of seeing beats per minute or simple heart ...

#49 Q & A Eggs, Butter & Zen - Podcast

About once a month, I set aside a whole podcast to answer questions from the Bulletproof community. It's all about answering your very best questions, sourced from e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, the Bulletproof forum and the blog! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#48 “Fat Burning Man,” Abel James and Bulletproof Exec Unite

This podcast is with Abel James – a #1 best-selling author, fat loss coach, musician, radio show host, and veritable health crusader. Abel also runs the extremely popular “Fat Burning Man” show – which is one of the top health podcasts on iTunes.  A former strategic advisor to the food and beverage industry, Abel now acts as a consumer advocate who exposes the truth behind deceptive marketing practices, misleading corporate propaganda, and powerful special interests that have acceler...

#47 Biohacking Cows, Bulletproof Dairy and Probiotics with Natural Health Expert, Jordan Rubin

Jordan Rubin is one of America’s most recognized and respected natural health experts. He is the author of the New York Times best selling book, The Maker’s Diet, as well as the author of 19 other health related titles, including his latest work Perfect Weight America. An international motivational speaker, Jordan hosts the weekly television show Extraordinary Health that reaches more than 30 million households worldwide. He is Founder and CEO of Garden of Life, a leading health and ...

#46: Reichart Von Wolfsheild - Bulletproof Your Systems

Reichart Von Wolfsheild, is a co-host on History Channel’s Invention USA.  He is a technologist, inventor, artist and futurist. Starting in his teens, he designed and built a computer CPU from scratch. In the early 1980s, while helping pioneer music videos for the then-fledgling network, MTV, he started his first successful technology company developing Artificial Intelligence applications. Blending his talents from several fields he made history conceiving one of the first multi-pla...

#45: Q & A More on Coffee, Kale, & Adrenal Fatigue

Questions Asked in the Podcast:   1:20 What is the best way to store Bulletproof Coffee and can you pre-grind it and store it? 4:10 For people who like to do heavy workouts several times a week what do you recommend for  recovery and muscle building? 5:30 What's the deal with drugs, specifically marijuana? Is it Bulletproof? 7:14 What about marijuana by products like Hemp protein powder or Hemp seed oil? 8:44 How can I get a Bulletproof T-shirt like the one Dave had on the Joe Rogan...

Bonus: Client Review with Jonathan Kos

Jonathan Kos is an IT professional and a recent follower of the Bulletproof Diet.  He is a 44 year old IT professional . At 6' 3" and a former college athlete that played football, competitive ice hockey up until the age of 25 he was an extremely fit 220 lbs and my coaches wanted me up to 275 or so to play the defensive line so I was eating literally non stop to put weight on. After college he dropped down to around 200 lbs and eventually settled at for me was a healthy 235.  As he g...

#44: Salt and self-experimentation with Greg Pomerantz

For Greg Pomerantz everything is a science experiment. He takes citizen science to a personal level by biohacking his blood pressure and detailing his data. He blogged about his self-experiment research on salt clarifying some concerns he had about salt’s effect on the body. He determined what his salt type is, either one is salt sensitive, or one that isn’t affected much by increases in salt. He discusses how to do that in today’s podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...

#43: Kelly Starrett, Mobility and Performance

Coach Kelly Starrett received his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California. He currently runs his own physical therapy practice at San Francisco CrossFit—one of the first 50 CrossFit affiliates—and focuses on performance-based Orthopedic Sports Medicine with an emphasis on returning athletes to elite level sport and performance. His clients see exceptional results from his progressive blend of manual physical therapy and strength training....

#42: Alderspring's Glenn Elzinga, Grass-Fed Beef and a Bulletproof Protein

With training in forestry and forest ecology, Glenn Elzinga began his forestry career in Maine. In the mid 1980s, he moved to Salmon, Idaho where he worked as District Forester for the Salmon BLM for over a decade. As his family began to grow, he realized he wanted a better way to raise kids than leaving them for work all day. So began his current career in ranching. After ranching for 17 years, Glenn's cattle herd has grown from 7 head to over 600. He keeps his hand in forestry by w...

#41: Jason Nunnelley, Self Tracking

Jason Nunnelley’s work is focused on application and systems development. After his first company sold in 2000, he spent his time helping small business capitalize on Internet technologies. He is presently dedicated to dosIQ, Inc., a Wellness Journal and set of apps designed to make self-tracking and health monitoring simple for anyone. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#40: Dan John, Brains & Brawn

Dan John has spent his life with one foot in the world of lifting and throwing, and the other foot in academia. An All-American discus thrower, Dan has also competed at the highest levels of Olympic lifting, Highland Games and the Weight Pentathlon, an event in which he holds the American record. Dan spends his work life blending weekly workshops and lectures with full-time writing, and is also an online religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri. As a Fulbright Sc...

#39: Hormone Alchemy (+ Why Hard Data is HOT)... How to Amplify the Positive Neuro-hormonal Dashboard with Dr. Sara Gottfried MD

Dr. Sara Gottfried is a Harvard doc, biohacker, and yoga-powered champion of your health, happiness and hormonal equilibrium. She’s also seen 20,000 patients in the past 20 years and applied her training as a MIT bioengineer to how women and men can leverage the upstream and downstream mediators to create natural hormone balance with next gen medicine, and wrote a book about it, called The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Prot...

#38: Mark Divine, Bulletproof Warrior and SEALFIT's founder

Mark Divine is from upstate New York and did his formal undergraduate education at Colgate University. His years at Colgate University were focused on the athletic endeavors of competitive swimming, rowing and triathlon racing. Mark pursued a Ph.D. in Leadership at the University of San Diego and served as an Adjunct Professor of Leadership in their undergraduate school. The Doctorate was interrupted by a one-year recall to active duty for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The recall took him...

Bulletproof Exec 37 w The Caltons.mp3

The Caltons are among the world's leading experts on the topics of weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. Their high success rate working with adults and children to achieve sustainable weight loss and reverse health and disease conditions has made their consultancy highly sought after by celebrities, athletes and top corporate executives around the world. It is their belief that becoming micronutrient sufficient is the first step towards preventing and r...

Podcast #36:Hacking your Biome with uBiome's Jessica Richman

Jessica Richman started and sold her first company after high school. Returning to formal education, she attended Stanford University, where she earned degrees in Economics and Science, Technology & Society (emphasis in computer science). Along the way, she worked for Google, McKinsey, Lehman Brothers, the Grameen Bank, and top-tier Silicon Valley venture firms. Currently a doctoral student at Oxford University, her academic interests include social networks, innovation, collective i...

Podcast #35: Bulletproof Your Nervous System with Jay Schroeder

World-class strength and neurological conditioning authority, and creator of new technology that stimulates rapid nervous system and cellular improvements He has studied the greatest training systems of the world, not to find the successes but to establish the point at which they failed. He then put together his system of training to overcome these points of failure. He has traveled to Eastern bloc countries and developed working relationships with some of the most knowledgeable in t...

Podcast #34: The Perfect Health Diet with Paul Jaminet

Paul Jaminet. Ph.D. was an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, became a software entrepreneur during the Internet boom, and now provides strategic advice to entrepreneurial companies while pursuing research in economics. Paul’s experience overcoming a chronic illness has been key to his views of aging and disease, and in writing his new book Perfect Diet Solution. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...

Podcast #33: Injury prevention and Wellness with Dr. Justin Marchegiani

Dr. Justin Marchegiani is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.S. degree in Kinesiology and Pre-medical studies. Dr. Justin has completed his Doctorate degree in Chiropractic Medicine from Life West University. Dr. Justin has completed post graduate study in the area of clinical nutrition, exercise and functional medicine so he can offer the most cutting edge techniques to help address his patient’s growing health care needs. Justin is head of Just In Hea...

Podcast #32: Hacking your Heart and Preventing Diabetes with Dr. Rocky Patel

Dr. Patel is a Bulletproof Physician.  He is a family physician whose practice is focused on the prevention, early detection and treatment of Diabetes and Heart Attack.  He knows his stuff, he lost over 85 lbs practicing what he preaches. He uses Bulletproof diet principles in treating patients in his practice at risk for or who have developed diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease.   In addition, he is the chief medical officer for Heart Fit for Duty, providing similar services to t...

Podcast #31: Hack Your Sleep with Dr. Jonathan Wisor, Ph.D.

Dr. Wisor is one of the foremost researchers on sleep and nervous system function.  His laboratory is funded by both the Department of Defense and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to apply molecular genetic and biochemical techniques to study sleep. Dr. Wisor comes on the show today to talk about how you can use biochemistry and the latest research to improve sleep and your quality of life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...

Podcast #30: Sweet Potato Power with Ashley Tudor

Ashley Tudor is a Design Strategist with the Spruce Street Institute where she works to create innovations in healthcare for doctors, patients and kids. She has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies on a variety of projects including envisioning the future of cars, finding new ways for people to invest their money, designing ways to help food companies fight obesity, and coming up with new medical devices for primary care physicians. Ashley was named one of San Francisco’...

Podcast #29: How Real Food Improves Your Performance with Joel Salatin

Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm, and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free from harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Joel joins us today to talk about his unique farming methods, and why they improve both your health, and the health of the animals. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. ...

Podcast #28: Monitoring Your Brain with Chris Berka

Chris Berka is the CEO and Co-Founder at Advanced Brain Monitoring (ABM). She has over 25 years experience managing clinical research and developing and commercializing new technologies. Co-inventor of nine patented and 11 patent-pending technologies, Ms. Berka is the principal investigator or co-investigator for grants & contracts awarded by the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, ONR and NSF that provided more than $22 million of research funds to ABM. Chris Berka comes on Upgra...

Podcast #27: Minding My Mitochondria with Dr. Terry Wahls, MD

Podcast #26: Body By Science with Dr. Doug McGuff, MD

Podcast #25: Wheat Belly with Dr. William Davis, MD

Podcast #24: Becoming Awesome with Julien Smith

Podcast #23: The Art of Less Doing with Ari Meisel

Podcast #22: Beyond Paleo with Chris Kresser

Podcast #20: Naked Calories with Jayson & Mira Calton

Podcast #21: How Technology Will Help You Live Longer with Christine Peterson

Podcast #19: Carb Back-Loading with John Keifer

John Kiefer is an exercise scientist, nutrition expert, and author of the new book “Carb Back-Loading.”  John applies his knowledge from a career in physics to hack the human body for fat loss, muscle gain, and improved performance.  He is the author of the Carb Nite Solution, and is releasing a new book that is designed for rapid fat loss and muscle gain.  John is coming on Upgraded Self Radio to help you do what some people call alchemy - burning fat and building muscle at the same...

Podcast #18: The Doper Next Door with Andrew Tilin

Podcast #17: Free The Animal Richard Nikoley, Paleo Blogger

Podcast #16: Everything You Need To Know About Saturated Fat & Cholesterol with Chris Masterjohn

Chris Masterjohn is an expert on fat, cholesterol, and pretty much everything else we’re told to avoid.  He has written hundreds of articles for the web on his blog the Daily Lipid, as well as Mother Nature Obeyed.  He is currently pursuing a PhD in Nutritional Sciences with a concentration in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition at the University of Connecticut.  He has authored two peer reviewed research papers which are available on PubMed.  He comes on Upgraded Self Radio to disma...

Podcast #15: "Are Artificial Sweeteners Safe?" with James Krieiger

Podcast #14: Michael Vassar of The Singularity Institute

Podcast #13: How To Take Care of Your Brain with Coconut Oil & Ketones

Podcast #12: Sexification with Roger Lawson

Podcast #11: Paleoista with Nell Stephenson

Podcast #10: The Man Who Would Stop Time

Podcast #9: How To Profit From Provocation with Linda Bernardi

Podcast #8: Quantifying Recovery With RestWise

RestWise is the first software program that enables athletes to track their recovery.  This system is being used by everyone from the world’s top olympians to the weekend warriors.  Using science based metrics such as heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, mood, and sleep, RestWise gives athletes the ability to look at their recovery over time and make changes based on their results.  Jeff Hunt, the cofounder, was nice enough to spend some time talking to us about this unique piece of ...

Podcast #7: Low-Carb Diets with Adam Kosloff

Adam Kosloff is a journalist and blogger who writes about low-carb diets (among other things).  We talk about how his knowledge has evolved over time, and the merits of low-carb dieting.  Adam shares tips on how to make low-carb diets work for you, such as exercise recommendations, tricks to kill carb cravings, and how to overcome the hardest part about eating low-carb. Sign up to have these interviews delivered straight to your email or RSS(subscribing to the podcast makes you Bull...

Podcast #6: Optimum Performance Training with James Fitzgerald

#5: How To Quantify Fatigue Like Never Before

Rick Green and John Kalns have created the first test that can objectively measure fatigue.  Using an at-home test for salivary peptides, you can now gauge exactly how much stress your body is under.  This test can be used by athletes, or businessmen and entrepreneurs who burn the candle at both ends.  This is the first test which allows you to know when you’re really pushing your self too far. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...

#4: Evolutionary Psychiatry With Emily Deans (Paleo Brain Hacking)

Emily Deans is a board certified adult psychiatrist who uses evolutionary clues to solve modern mental illnesses.  She runs a popular blog called Evolutionary Psychiatry, and another blog on psychology today.  Emily is considered one of the top experts on the connection between nutrition and mental performance.  She is well respected in the “paleosphere”, and was kind enough to share her knowledge on Upgraded Self Radio. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

#3: Hacking Fatigue With Tim Noakes (Plus More 4 Hour Body Fun)

Dr. Tim Noakes is one of the world’s foremost exercise scientists and the author of numerous books including the Lore of Running.  From the University of Cape Town exercise research center, Dr. Noakes has worked with some of the greatest athletes of all time.  His research is redefining the way we think about fatigue in sports and regular life.  A lifelong runner (71 marathons and ultra-marathons), writer, and researcher (and more recently, a paleo eater), Tim Noakes has used his kno...

#2: The Dark Side of Fat Loss With Sean Croxton