Nutrition, Exercise, and Brain Health | 8min snip from The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

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We
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were talking about the aging things earlier. We did the one study we did with the aging population, 55, 65, all diagnosed with dementia. Within six weeks, their neuroplasticity changed 49%. All of them were taken off the, all of them, 100% were taken off the dementia scale. That study's in a bigger study now with Florida Atlantic University. But we showed that when you get blood flow to the brain, circulation improves. And then we started them exercising afterwards, not for the original study because we needed to show brain tap, but then we started giving them nutritional supplements. We can reverse this aging thing because the brain is like the liver. It will rebuild itself. But if not, if you're eating Fritos and drinking Coca-Colas on the couch. You mean retirement home? Yes. I mean, when you go to the hospital and they go, you need some fluids and they give you a soda. I'm going, that's the worst, you
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know. I just like to drink gasoline because it's less harmful at the hospital. It usually works better. Yeah. Yeah. I am kind of horrified because I understand that young brains for kids and older brains, you know, when you're 80 plus, they need the best nutrition in order to function the way that they're capable of. And school lunches and retirement home food, holy crap, it's just, it's horrible. So let's say that in those two populations, even if they're eating less, you know, they're eating the McNugget diet, what happens if they brain tap? Are they still going to get a benefit?
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Well, they will because they're going to open up their, they're going to breathe because we're teaching them breathing exercise. They're getting more oxygen. And light is one of the most important nutrients we don't get, especially in the old folks homes, in the, in the, in schools where they're not getting them out on playground. I mean, when they took away phys ed, that's the worst thing you can do for the brain. For kids. Yeah, for kids. So, all of this, all this fitness comes in and then they got them so stressed out, you know, they line them up in their wheelchairs and they watch the news. Now, they're stressing them out before they go to bed. They're not even getting deep sleep that they need to replenish. So, brain tap, we'd say, hey, turn that off, turn this on and you now have a transformation in your life that going to help with everything. And they're not going to crave negative foods. People listening probably know that we all know people that go to the gym, they get physically fit, then they start thinking better. And we know people that start thinking better, then they go, I'm going to start going to the gym. It's kind of like one, two. We know that we need to do those together.
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Awesome. If they can escape from the school campus or get some real food already. Okay. Talk to me more about the app because you have the BrainTap Pro app and that's evolved a lot since I first started using the BrainTap. There's just an enormous number of different types of sessions. What are the big buckets that you guys are thinking about when you're, you're making these different lessons?
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Well, let's use the newest bucket, which is the upgrade kind of the biohacking bucket that we have is people want to know where can I go get these? We could have put them all over the app, but we said, let's put them all in one bundle. So, Hey, these are all the experts. Let's hear their information and let's mainline that information into the subconscious. So, it plays back as behaviors and changes in their life. And so, not only are you listening to it, because once you listen to somebody on stage, wow, that's incredible. How do you apply that knowledge? You rehearse it. Because we get what we rehearse in life, not what we intend. So, they take that information out. So, that's one way. But let's say that you're having issues with stress. We have a series. So it's not just one thing. We need to wake them up in the morning, get their SMR, which is we call digital coffee, so they can wake up their brain. That's the one that really exercises. How long does that take? About 10 minutes.
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Okay. So you wake up, you say whatever intentions you want or something, and then you put on your brain top sitting next to your bed and it takes 10 minutes. All right. And do you need to set another alarm? Are they going to be awake after
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that? Oh, no, they'll be awake after that. What will happen is if you start the day off right, your brain will stay regulated. But if you got poor sleep, you're going to have that dysregulated brain we were talking about earlier. And so, we need to get that brain balanced right in the morning. Now, in the middle of the day, for everyone on Earth, at about 2 o'clock, your temperature is going to drop. This is just a natural phenomenon, 2 to 3 o'clock, most people. And most people run off and they do things that are damaging to the body. They eat a lot of sugar, do something that stimulates. But we're saying, hey. What's wrong with some coffee at 2? As long as it's right before 2? As long as they have enough time for that to die off, right? If it's danger coffee, that's fine. That's perfect.
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Literally, you can have your coffee after lunch, but after two, don't do coffee because it hurts your sleep.
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Yeah, some people will have an issue. Oh, yeah, of course. Some
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people will cap to stop at noon or even 10 a.m.
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Yeah, so you can watch that. But one thing we found, we had a person come in that actually her heart rate was 130. What did you do? She said, well, my had three shots espresso shots so I did it. She wasn't used to drinking coffee. She did brain tap we were able to bring it back down to 78 within 10 minutes.
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Wow. So we you can. So you're actually telling me brain tap can undo coffee? Dude you just killed your sales.
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What are you
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doing,
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man? Hopefully they don't want to fly at 130, you know. 130 is way too fast. I mean, that's like taking a jet pilot to get across town. You
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re-regulated her nervous system. I was dysregulated.
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Yeah. I mean, I like coffee, so people will know I'm against coffee. I just think some people, they live on it. It's not good for you. I'm the first person to say it. Right. But but in the middle of the afternoon if you do that reboot that's a 20 minute reboot 20
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minutes that's a
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long time though it is but but what they they can do a 10 minute if they need to we have we had 10 15 and 20 minute if they can do the 20 they get the maximum result because we proved with like uh kansas city sport which is a soccer team we showed them after practice we could get them better recovery than they got four hours later because that's using the standard after a workout in 20 minutes.
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You've
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got some other
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pretty impressive athletes doing this. Tell me about some of the elite athletes who are doing brain tap. Well, the coolest story is Corey
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Anderson. He was being interviewed on ESPN after he won the light heavyweight championship. And they said, you knocked the guy out in 42 seconds. How did you know to do that? He said, I knew I was going to do that. I said, I was in the locker room listening to my brain tap and I visualized myself knocking him out at 42 seconds. I was listening to the session stop into the spotlight. also, we're in the middle of an elite sports study right now. And some of the guys, they're all starters in the NFL or NBA or NHL. And the one guy, he could not, they do these tests, of course, with eye, there's a lot of different neurological tests with your eyes. And the guy, he was a lineman, but you have to look at a lot of things. And he was saying that after about 20 to 30 days, he said he was like he was back in college again. Everything was sharper, it was better. So it made a big deal for the NFL and that.
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And so we're doing a bigger study. Those football players are cognitive athletes. No one really talks about that. I didn't really understand it until I got through friends with Nick Foles. And he just shared the amount of thinking and planning that you're doing while there's large people flinging their bodies at you. Like, holy crap. So cognitive function there, right? When you're
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going to take a hit to the head. Okay. So you're finding big results there. Results. We have people that are breaking their own personal best, like Kathy Smith's daughter, who's an 800 meter runner. First U.S. Olympian to make the finals in over 30 years. Brain tap, she associated with it because she could run those times if it wasn't a race. So she had the potential, but when she was in those Olympic races, she would underperform. Yeah. So she was able to, now she still didn't win, but what she did was phenomenal for her. Well, peak performers, we're talking about that. We did a peak performance study with Julia Arn. We took the top performers at tech companies because there's this great exodus, right? People are working at home, then they got put back into the pressure cooker. They're saying, hey, I'm not going to do this anymore. So we're trying to figure out why they're getting burnout. What we found out, we didn't tell them, we had them take all these assessments because during the study, one of them was a depression scale they would have all been clinically depressed these were the top performers oh these are people who are locked in
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