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Decrease Your Exposure to EMFs Right Now – Dr. Joseph Mercola – #676

March 12, 2020 by Team Asprey

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, you’re going to learn a lot about electromagnetic fields, what they are doing to your health, and what you can do about it.

“EMFs are invisible to your eyes and exist in a spectrum of frequencies that include radio and TV waves, microwaves, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and radioactive elements,” says my guest, Dr. Joseph Mercola, in his new book, “EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself.” “Some sources of EMFs are natural, such as sunlight, while others are man-made—such as the energy used to cook foods by microwave ovens. These EMFs have demonstrable negative physiological effects, but very few people fully grasp this.”

We discuss how important it is that people understand the dangers of EMFs. That can be hard in a world where technology use has become so common.

“You have to get over this hump, this reluctance to accept that there could be some harm that you may have to change your behavior if you want to remain healthy and not suffer serious derangement to your precious mitochondria by excessive exposure to these frequencies,” Dr. Mercola says.

“There are hundreds of millions of people who have symptoms and they don’t even know it’s due to EMFs. Chronic exposure at high levels that really can decimate biological health.”

Listen on to find out ways you can protect yourself from the everyday dangers of EMFs.

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Decrease Your Exposure to EMFs Right Now – Dr. Joseph Mercola – #676

Links/Resources

Website: www.mercola.com
Book: EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself www.emf.mercola.com
Twitter: twitter.com/mercola
Instagram: www.instagram.com/drmercola/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/mercola
Podcast: www .mercola.com/downloads/podcast.htm

Bulletproof Radio:

Ketofast: Your Need-To-Know Guide – Part 1 With Dr. Joseph Mercola – #588

Beyond Ketofast: Your Need-To-Know Guide – Part 2 With Dr. Joseph Mercola

The Real Dangers of Electronic Devices and EMFs – Dr. Joseph Mercola – #424

Using Radiation To Lose Fat, Repair Mitochondria & Defend Against Cancer – Dr. Joseph Mercola #398

Dr. Joseph Mercola: Roundup, Aspartame & Intermittent Fasting – #228

Dave Asprey Blog:

What Dr. Mercola Didn’t Say about Dark Chocolate and Cardiovascular Disease

Wifi Linked to Cancer and DNA Damage, Says New Report. Here’s What to Do.

Key Notes

Mercola’s Tech background – 04:29
Wired vs. wireless in the 21^st century and the health impacts 05:25
What is going on with 5G? 08:15
Whose job is it to validate the safety on light exposure and the affects on our brains? 14:00
Best strategy is to minimize your exposure to EMF’s 15:35
The impact of EMF’s on the body 17:00
Easy things you can do to minimize the dangers 20:45
Changes in sleep quality in a Faraday cage 27:25
What is the relative risk of being freaked out about EMF’s all the time vs. the harm of the EMF’s? 29:05
How should we be carrying our cellphones? 31:35
How Google’s algorithmic change impacted search results 34:20
Algorithms are meant to over come a cognitive bias 37:45
Advertisement on top health search results are supporting big Pharma 40:15
Is there a fix to change companies like Google? 43:38
You have to be willing to admit you have a problem so it can be fixed 47:14
What will the world look like 50 years from now? 49:00
Treat the cause and eat the right foods 53:00
Hide your tracks with dirty data 55:00
Incremental improvements while still getting benefits 56:40

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Women, Menopause and Alzheimer’s: XX Brain Connections with Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D. – #675

March 10, 2020 by Team Asprey

My guest today is a neuroscientist and neuro-nutritionist recognized and respected for her contributions to the fields of brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics.

Dr. Lisa Mosconi is the founder and director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and associate director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. She’s also an associate professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology at Weill Cornell and an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s Department of Psychiatry.

Her current scientific work focuses on the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease in at-risk people, particularly women. More than a decade of research has shown two things, Dr. Mosconi says: “No. 1, Alzheimer’s Disease is not a disease of old age, but rather the disease starts with negative changes in the brain years—if not decades—before any clinical symptoms emerge. So, we’re looking at midlife, rather than when you’re 70 or 80. No. 2, women tend to develop these negative changes in their brains before men do, and specifically as women go through menopause. That was a big finding.”

“Menopause symptoms don’t start in the ovaries,” she says, “they start in the brain.” That’s why Dr. Mosconi uses brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as seen in the example below.

She is passionately interested in how risk of memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease can be mitigated, if not prevented, through the combination of appropriate medical care and lifestyle modifications involving diet, nutrition, physical and intellectual fitness. She details this in her new book, “The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Dr. Mosconi’s research into women’s neurological health is changing the way science approaches the female brain.

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Women, Menopause and Alzheimer’s- XX Brain Connections with Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D. – #675

Links/Resources

Website: lisamosconi.com
Facebook: lisamosconiphd
Twitter: dr_mosconi
Instagram: dr_mosconi
Tumbler : brainfoodblog.tumblr.com
“The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease”
“Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power”

Key Notes

How Lisa started looking into Alzheimer’s Disease – 04:12
Alzheimer’s disease affects more woman than men – 06:12
The role that hormones play during menopause that affect the brain – 11:37
What are the simple lifestyle changes that women can do to reduce Alzheimer’s risk? – 19:57
How the right lifestyle can be beneficial over time – 26:00
What should women do? – 29:12
If you are dealing with severe symptoms – 33:20
There is an education component that is missing – 36:45
What are the most likely blood work tests that can tell you what to do? – 39:30
What are 3 steps you can take to reduce your risk? – 41:00
Brain scans and what they can tell you – 49:30

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Why You Have CCE (Corona Cognitive Epidemic) and What To Do About It – Samuel Veissière, Ph.D. – #674

March 5, 2020 by Team Asprey

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Samuel Veissière, Ph.D., who examines social and evolutionary dimensions of cognition, mental health, and human well-being through a variety of projects.

He caught my attention with his recent article in Psychology Today: The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think: How COVID-19 is infecting our minds, not our lungs.

He’s an assistant professor of Psychiatry, co-director of the Culture, Mind, and Brain Program, and an associate member of the department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

We’re going to take a look at the coronavirus, formally named COVID-19, from a decidedly different perspective. One that’s worth thinking about.

“The human mind is really, really, really bad at estimating the statistical probabilities of anything,” Dr. Veissière says. “And human minds have evolved to specific cravings for different kinds of information, in particular, anything that conveys information about potential threats or danger.”

Visit my blog to learn more about how your brain processes this type of information and the steps you can take to keep panic at bay.

Dr. Veissière’s work as an anthropologist and cognitive scientist includes placebo effects and hypnosis, hyper-sociality in smartphone addiction, social polarization, gender and mental health, and the theoretical study of cultural evolution. He has worked with such varied populations as street children and sex workers in Northeast Brazil, indigenous peoples in the Arctic and the Amazon, children with neurodevelopmental disorders, people who intentionally conjure friendly auditory hallucinations, and Tibetan Buddhist monks in the Indian Himalayas.

He’s published broadly on novel theories and experimental findings on the social nature of attention, cognition, mental health, and healing, and on the impact of the internet and new technologies on human sociality and well-being.

As a special bonus in this episode, you’ll find out my best hacks to stay healthy during airplane travel. And there’s more! Read the blog or view the video.

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Why You Have CCE (Corona Cognitive Epidemic) and What To Do About It – Samuel Veissière, Ph.D. – #674

Links/Resources

Website: mcgill.ca/tcpsych/faculty/samuel-paul-louis-veissiere
Twitter: twitter.com/samuelveissiere

Key Notes

Coronavirus is infecting our minds not our bodies – 4:45
What is a moral panic? – 6:11
How did pathogens changed and caused human morality – 7:12
Difference between tight and loose cultures – 13:11
What happens when you eliminate all the dangers? 15:54
Most people who will get coronavirus will not know it or will have mild symptoms. – 18:48
We live in very individualistic societies. – 20:36
Government and businesses respond to what people want. – 23:12
We have this whole big machine around making us feel freer. – 25:50
An amulet probably has a higher placebo power than a face mask. – 27:45
To what extend to you play to peoples irrationality? – 33:03
One of the most important lessons that people could learn out of 700 episodes of Bulletproof radio. – 35:13
You said ‘ We are suffering from a corona cognitive epidemic…’ – 37:20
Corona is a really intelligent virus. – 39:11
There is a big loneliness epidemic in America and Japan – 45:55
Things that Dave actually does to not get sick from airplane travel. – 49:59

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Get Your Brain Right and Your Mind Will Follow – Dr. Daniel Amen – #673

March 3, 2020 by Team Asprey

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’ve invited a guest who knows a lot about brains.

As a physician, double-board certified psychiatrist, professor, and 10-time New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Daniel Amen studies brains from the inside out. His clinical focus on studying brain scans has led to new understanding of behavior, brain injuries, and how the brain ages.

Now he’s taking on mental health and showing how neuroscience is transforming psychiatry and helping prevent and even reverse mental health issues. “Nobody believes it’s really biological unless you look,” Dr. Amen says. “It’s really a functional medicine approach to brain health.”

He has authored or co-authored over 70 professional articles, seven book chapters and more than 30 books. You may be familiar with some of his titles, like Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; Healing ADD; Memory Rescue; and The Brain Warrior’s Way. Dr. Amen’s newest book, The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More changes the game completely for those experiencing mental illness.

Our conversation reframes mental health as brain health. “I think of brain health really simply,” Dr. Amen says. “It’s three things: 1-Care about it; 2-Avoid things that hurt.; and 3-Do things to help it.” Listen on for practical strategies.

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Get Your Brain Right and Your Mind Will Follow – Dr. Daniel Amen – #673

Links/Resources

Daniel Amen, M.D.

Website: https://danielamenmd.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drdanielamen/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/ (@doc_amen)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocAmen (@DocAmen)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmenClinic

Amen Clinics

Website: http://amenclinics.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmenClinic

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amen_clinics/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Amen_Clinics

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmenClinic

Pinterest: https://br.pinterest.com/amen_clinics/
Bulletproof Radio:
Reverse the Age of Your Brain – Dr. Daniel Amen – #444
Dr. Daniel Amen: Alzheimer’s, Brain Food & Spect Scans – #227

Key Notes

Brain health problem, not mood disorder 6:40
Mental health care 7:36
Same pattern with obesity and mental health 9:46
New doc-series on YouTube 14:49
Positives and negatives that actually come with different mental illnesses 17:30
Impacts of improving, challenges, and outcomes 19:09
Genes only load gun for likelihood of mental illnesses 25:04
Getting serious about brain health 26:36
Study on soldiers with blast injuries 29:34
Learning your brain type and solutions 31:15
Correlation between weight going up and function of every area of brain going down 34:12
Toxins we are putingt on our bodies 37:08
Correlation between infrared saunas and Alzheimer’s disease 39:20
Effects of anesthesia on brain 42:21
NFL study 48:01
Mind meds vs nutraceuticals 50:22
Rigidity and habits, are they biological or mental 55:13
New Year’s Resolution asked of Bulletproof followers 57:56

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Food Fight! Fixes for Better Health and a Sustainable World – Dr. Mark Hyman – #672

February 27, 2020 by Team Asprey

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m excited to bring back a guest who regularly appears on Bulletproof Radio because of his functional medicine expertise and his contributions to the health of people around the world. He’s always innovating and pushing boundaries of what’s possible for human wellness.

Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, and educator. He’s also a 12-time New York Times best-selling author. But it’s his brand-new book, “Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time” that he says is the most important one he’s ever written.

“Wait a minute,” Dr. Hyman says. “If food is not only making people sick, it’s also destroying our environment. It’s causing climate change. It’s causing social injustice. It’s threatening our kids’ academic performance in school, their future productivity and success, our global competitiveness, and our national security because kids are too fat or unfit to fight, leading to poverty, mental illness, violence.”

As you listen, you’ll find out why Dr. Hyman is:

invested in the health and economic impact of our food system;
working to save our food environment; and
taking on the many inequalities and injustices of our modern food industry.

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Food Fight! Fixes for Better Health and a Sustainable World – Dr. Mark Hyman – #672

Links/Resources

Website: drhyman.com
Facebook: facebook.com/drmarkhyman
Twitter: twitter.com/drmarkhyman
Instagram: instagram.com/drmarkhyman/
YouTube: youtube.com/user/ultrawellness
Pinterest: pinterest.com/markhymanmd/
Vimeo: vimeo.com/drhyman/
The Doctor’s Farmacy Podcast
The Doctor’s Farmacy #7 with Dave Asprey
Bulletproof Radio Episodes with Dr. Mark Hyman: What The Heck Should I Cook, Dr. Hyman? #637, Why Disrupting Big Food Matters #533, Meat is the New Ketchup #288, The Dangers of Fructose #144

Key Notes

How do we hack the food system that is hacking us? – 04:43
Why do we have the food we do? 05:41
Benefits of fixing the food system 07:01
Dave asks if there is a demand problem or a supply problem 0:930
How do creators of food solve the problem of food costs? 14:50
Are we going to go back to distributed food production? 17:15
Composting the right way 21:00
How do small farmers handle the incredibly high regulatory burden in order to sell their food? 23:35
Obesity is a chronic disease epidemic 26:35
Regenerative farming 32:20
What can we personally do to help fix the food problem? 39:18
Ending food marketing is a really powerful intervention 45:22
Truth in marketing 46:00
We can fix this 49:55

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Keto, Fiber and Strong Women – Naomi Whittel – #671

February 25, 2020 by Team Asprey

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is an entrepreneur, a nutritional expert, and a New York Timesbest-selling author of the book “Glow15.” Naomi Whittel is recognized as an innovator in the health and wellness industry, and an advocate for clean and safe nutrition.

Naomi cracked the Top 10 all-time favorite Bulletproof Radio episodes and has stayed there since her 2018 interview: Glow From The Inside Out: Autophagy And Women – #477.

Since then, she realized that much of the current ketogenetic information available does not consider the unique needs of female biology. So, she investigated the issue in depth. She went beyond the existing research to design and run her own clinical study.

Prevention magazine listed her as the top female innovator for natural products in the United States. She’s also appeared on numerous national media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, ABC News, PBS, InStyle, The View, The Doctors, The Dr. Oz Show, SHAPE, Good Morning America, and the TODAY show.

Naomi joins me again to discuss her new book, “High Fiber Keto: A 22-Day Science-Based Plan to Fix Your Metabolism, Lose Weight & Balance Your Hormones.” She shares her findings on how keto can best benefit women with a few points:

“Getting your body into a place where you’re using fat for fuel and you’re really in a consistent state of nutritional ketosis is the one thing that’s going to make the biggest difference once you start to incorporate the fiber.”
“Fiber is a very important piece in the nutritional ketogenic diet because it’s easy to go off track and not support your microbiome the way that we need to. It’s easy to have issues with too much acidity in the diet.”
“If I can activate my autophagy by getting into the state of utilizing my ketones and using my own body fat as a source of fuel instead of using the sugar as a source of fuel, how much more free time will I have in the day to be a better thinker?”

Listen on to find out more about the important fiber-keto connection. Naomi lays out the new science, gives tips on what to do and explains exactly why it matters to women.

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Keto, Fiber and Strong Women – Naomi Whittel – #671

Links/Resources

Website: naomiwhittel.com

Instagram: instagram.com/naomiwhittel/

Facebook: facebook.com/NaomiWhittel/

Twitter: twitter.com/naomiwhittel

YouTube: youtube.com/user/naomiwhittel

Bulletproof Radio: Glow From The Inside Out: Autophagy And Women —Naomi Whittel #477

Book: High Fiber Keto: A 22-Day Science-Based Plan to Fix Your Metabolism, Lose Weight & Balance Your Hormones

Key Notes

There are macro trends right now, one of them is safety – 7:07
What is the role of keto in women in modulating sympathetic and parasympathetic balance? – 11:11
Most women are really in a self-conscious place about their bodies – 14:50
The Confidence Code – 18:56
Keto is about becoming strong – 23:45
By focusing on this daily renewal process, I never restrict myself – 26:46
What I care about are me ‘Cakes’ – 29:20
We are eating a lot of different types of pestos – 31:59
If you want to make your microbiome happy, provided it it’s favourite food – 32:35
Where to get other sources of inulin – 34:25
What do you recommend people do when they can’t get enough vegetables? – 38:53
How Dave broke all the Health and Wellness boundaries – 41:08
Are there fibres to avoid ? 44:28
We are at a place where there is a scientific black hole – 46:17
Hydration from Gel water, cucumbers, celery – 48:56
If you are getting fibre are you still in a fast metabolically? – 51:43

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