Dave Asprey - Super Human

When you have as much energy at eighty or ninety as you did at twenty-five, you have a tremendous potential to positively impact the world by sharing your wealth of information gleaned from relationships, experiences, successes, and mistakes. If you take that kind of energy and intelligence and put it to work, you can literally improve the world for future generations. Now you’re the tribal elder who’s leading the hunt because you’re full of energy and you’ve been around a long time, so you know where all the animals are hiding.

Contrary to common fears, our living longer won’t lead to overpopulation and environmental ruin. If we use our advanced wisdom and energy to create a world in which everyone had access to a quality education and reproductive health care, we’d actually start to see negative population growth.

Americans may struggle to envision a world where we live past a hundred years old, but the governments of countries like China and Russia are investing in anti-aging technologies because they realize that it gives them a tremendous competitive advantage in the world economy. It costs a lot of money to keep reeducating new generations of workers, not to mention caring for a sick and aging population. What if instead of being sick, old people were productive and happy citizens who could contribute to society in their final years?

That is the future I plan on sticking around to see. If you knew it was possible, how would you change your daily decisions and priorities now? In this future, it’s not your unborn grandchildren or great-grandchildren who are going to have to deal with the effects of the environmental problems we’ve created; it’s you. Instead of making a mess in your own sandbox, you’d invest in improving that sandbox so you can enjoy it for the unexpectedly large number of years to come.

This is why I am donating a portion of the advance from this book to organizations like the XPRIZE Foundation, which is funding massive initiatives to improve the world’s oceans, soil, food supply, and education system, not to mention exploration of space. Thanks to more computer power, more research, and more money going toward fixing the world’s biggest problems, change is happening at exponential rates. Whether you know it yet or not, you’re part of a race to fix the planet so it supports a population that can live beyond a hundred and eighty. It’s up to you to either participate in that race or get out of the way. Go back to your cave if you like, but don’t stand in the middle of the road slowing everyone else down.

My goal is to share the techniques with you that have given me the greatest return on my investment of energy, time, and money. It’s easy to spend eight hours a day on an anti-aging protocol, but then you’re not actually gaining time because you’re spending so much of it on these efforts. Instead, I want you to learn how to stop dying, reverse aging, and heal with Super Human speed in the least possible amount of time and with minimal effort.

As you read this book, I hope you’ll create your own prioritized list of things to do to live longer and better based on where you are now and where you want to go. Most likely, you won’t try everything in this book. And that’s fine—it’s not a contest. Perfection isn’t required. Even I haven’t tried out all of these strategies yet (but I’m getting close!).

Yes, some of these technologies are more expensive than others, although many of the most powerful are the least expensive. And while certain interventions are a rich person’s game today, that is changing; you can now access a lot of anti-aging technologies for a fraction of what they cost ten years ago, just like the smartphone you have now is far more capable and less expensive than the models that debuted a decade ago. When you start with the most accessible and simplest lifestyle hacks and selectively choose a few affordable technologies to extend your life (or even just your health), you’ll buy yourself time so you can afford to wait for the rest to come to you. What could possibly be a better investment than that?

The slope of innovation is steeper than ever, and change is unstoppable. Are you in or are you out? I’m all in. Join me.

PART I PART I: DON’T DIE 1 THE FOUR KILLERS 2 THE SEVEN PILLARS OF AGING 3 FOOD IS AN ANTI-AGING DRUG 4 SLEEP OR DIE 5 USING LIGHT TO GAIN SUPERPOWERS PART II: AGE BACKWARD 6 TURN YOUR BRAIN BACK ON 7 METAL BASHING 8 POLLUTING YOUR BODY WITH OZONE 9 FERTILITY = LONGEVITY 10 YOUR TEETH ARE A WINDOW TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 11 HUMANS ARE WALKING PETRI DISHES PART III: HEAL LIKE A DEITY 12 VIRGIN CELLS AND VAMPIRE BLOOD 13 DON’T LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN: AVOIDING BALDNESS, GRAYS, AND WRINKLES 14 HACK YOUR LONGEVITY LIKE A RUSSIAN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO BY DAVE ASPREY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

DON’T DIE PART I: DON’T DIE 1 THE FOUR KILLERS 2 THE SEVEN PILLARS OF AGING 3 FOOD IS AN ANTI-AGING DRUG 4 SLEEP OR DIE 5 USING LIGHT TO GAIN SUPERPOWERS PART II: AGE BACKWARD 6 TURN YOUR BRAIN BACK ON 7 METAL BASHING 8 POLLUTING YOUR BODY WITH OZONE 9 FERTILITY = LONGEVITY 10 YOUR TEETH ARE A WINDOW TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 11 HUMANS ARE WALKING PETRI DISHES PART III: HEAL LIKE A DEITY 12 VIRGIN CELLS AND VAMPIRE BLOOD 13 DON’T LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN: AVOIDING BALDNESS, GRAYS, AND WRINKLES 14 HACK YOUR LONGEVITY LIKE A RUSSIAN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO BY DAVE ASPREY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Widen your relationship to time, slow it down. Don’t see time as an enemy but an ally. It provides you with perspective. Aging doesn’t frighten you. Time is your teacher.

—Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

1 1 THE FOUR KILLERS 2 THE SEVEN PILLARS OF AGING 3 FOOD IS AN ANTI-AGING DRUG 4 SLEEP OR DIE 5 USING LIGHT TO GAIN SUPERPOWERS PART II: AGE BACKWARD 6 TURN YOUR BRAIN BACK ON 7 METAL BASHING 8 POLLUTING YOUR BODY WITH OZONE 9 FERTILITY = LONGEVITY 10 YOUR TEETH ARE A WINDOW TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 11 HUMANS ARE WALKING PETRI DISHES PART III: HEAL LIKE A DEITY 12 VIRGIN CELLS AND VAMPIRE BLOOD 13 DON’T LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN: AVOIDING BALDNESS, GRAYS, AND WRINKLES 14 HACK YOUR LONGEVITY LIKE A RUSSIAN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO BY DAVE ASPREY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

THE FOUR KILLERS 1 THE FOUR KILLERS 2 THE SEVEN PILLARS OF AGING 3 FOOD IS AN ANTI-AGING DRUG 4 SLEEP OR DIE 5 USING LIGHT TO GAIN SUPERPOWERS PART II: AGE BACKWARD 6 TURN YOUR BRAIN BACK ON 7 METAL BASHING 8 POLLUTING YOUR BODY WITH OZONE 9 FERTILITY = LONGEVITY 10 YOUR TEETH ARE A WINDOW TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 11 HUMANS ARE WALKING PETRI DISHES PART III: HEAL LIKE A DEITY 12 VIRGIN CELLS AND VAMPIRE BLOOD 13 DON’T LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN: AVOIDING BALDNESS, GRAYS, AND WRINKLES 14 HACK YOUR LONGEVITY LIKE A RUSSIAN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO BY DAVE ASPREY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

THE CURIOUS CASE OF DAVE ASPREY

Until the age of five, I was a normal kid with few health problems. Then my family moved from California to New Mexico, and something in my biology changed. I started acquiring health problems normally reserved for people far older than I was. Today I recognize that my bedroom, which was in the basement of our new house and covered in water-damaged wood paneling (it was the 1970s), was full of toxic black mold. My own home was silently aging me, but nobody, least of all me, was aware of this at the time.

For the next two decades, I suffered from joint pain, muscle pain, asthma, brain fog, extreme emotions, and even weird, frequent nosebleeds. Out of nowhere, my nose would start gushing, and I had unending strep throat that came back every time I finished yet another round of antibiotics. After I got my tonsils out, I started getting chronic sinus infections instead. My body didn’t properly maintain blood pressure, so I often got dizzy, and I was easily fatigued.