Expose Yourself to Sunlight to Burn Fat, Says Breakthrough Study

January 16, 2018 by Team Asprey

Simply incredible. Researchers just accidentally discovered that sunlight causes fat cells to shrink. In the University of Alberta study[ref url=”https://www.folio.ca/reduced-sunlight-may-contribute-to-winter-weight-gain/”], researchers found that subcutaneous fat cells — white fat cells found right beneath your skin — shrink under sun’s blue light. White fat is considered bad, because it stores calories that could be burned for energy. This breakthrough helps explain why you pack on the pounds in winter and may lead to light-based treatments for obesity and other related issues like diabetes.

Blue light shrinks fat cells beneath the skin

The study’s specifics reveal that fat cells shrink when exposed to the bluest light emitted by the sun. This is the sun’s visible light that also boosts mood and attention. When these wavelengths penetrate skin and reach the fat cells underneath, the fat shrinks and gets released from the cell. “The insufficient sunlight exposure we get 8 months of the year living in a northern climate may be promoting fat storage and contribute to the typical weight gain some of us have over winter,” Peter Light, the senior author of the study.

Excessive blue light leads to metabolic dysregulation

Exposing yourself to excessive blue light without the other parts of sunlight at the same time is linked to metabolic dysregulation. That’s why indoor LED lighting which always has excessive blue spectrum is something I call “junk light.” I started an optical filtering company called TrueDark to solve the junk light problem. P.S.: Junk light at night is even worse.

Aim for 20 minutes of natural morning sunlight each day

You can read more about how light controls your metabolism in my New York Times best-seller science book, Head Strong. One of the recommendations in Head Strong is to get at least 20 minutes of sunlight on your skin and in your eyes every morning, based on the strength of existing knowledge. This new study finding supports those recommendations even more.

I wouldn’t go out and expose your skin to high doses of blue-only light in an attempt to lose weight, however. You really want the blue with the red and infrared and even some UV to make your cells behave themselves. That’s what the sun does. So put on some shorts and short sleeves, ditch the sunglasses, and go for a walk outside. You’ll sleep better at night. And maybe lose some fat too!

Watch Next: How Sunshine Makes You Bulletproof (Video)

458. Eat Dirt: The Secret To a Healthy Microbiome

January 16, 2018 by Dave Asprey

Show Notes

Dave and Zach on what’s really pulling our guts apart, and what’s going on inside your gut, what the environmental factors are and what you can do about it.
Zach on plant health versus human health as a doctor. What got you going in this whole thing?
“One of the more exciting developments that happened in my career was finding that there was some vitamin A compounds that were enabling these cancer cells to shut themselves down and commit suicide.” Zach’s “goosebumps moment.”
“That was an incredible journey of starting to see cancer not as some disease that crops out of nowhere, not a genetic disease as we’re told by the American Cancer Institute and everything but actually just a breakdown in cell-cell communication.”
The most abundant receptor in the human cell is really this RXR receptor, what does it do?
“We’re twice removed from anything on our plate. That’s largely why we’re so in the dark ages about our beliefs about nutrition because, in fact, you’re never feeding yourself when you sit down to a plate of food. You’re always feeding your bacteria, which are then modifying your behavior and the behavior of your mitochondria to produce ultimately fuel.”
How cancer is all about cell-cell communication. A cell with uninterrupted access to information will never disease or die. Zach on his work with chemotherapy.
“We were starting to see these correlations between microbiome genomics and human disease outcomes.” How it was originally received as “crazy.”
A lot of juicing, a lot of fermentation, a lot of stuff. And seeing big changes! Zach on his practice.
Zach on the biohacking community. “My hats off to all of you. You are an inspiration to the world because you guys are really taking responsibility for yourselves, number one, but then you’re immediately applying the truths that you’re finding into a communication network of your own to create a wave outside of you. “
“At that moment, we started to research soil. That changed everything. For thousands of years, the pharmaceutical industry and the herbalism community and Chinese medicine have been looking at the plants. There has been a paucity of research and investigation into the deeper story underneath the plant of where the plant’s getting that magic.”
“I think my purpose is here. This is why I was born. This is why I did ridiculous journey in academia was just for this moment. The blinders came off. The three-dimensional structure on the right side of that molecule looked like the chemotherapy that I’d been making years previous.
They’re like snowflakes. That’s actually what we call them in the lab is carbon snowflakes.
Electron potential is literally health. Disease is all positive charge absorption of electrons, loss of electron potential.” Zach on his discovery deep in a “White Paper” on dirt.
With the molecule we found is a carbon backbone molecule that’s got redox potential.
How the human body is like a phone connecting to a cell phone tower. “That’s exactly what’s happening to the accelerating of the aging process that we see happening in this chronic disease epidemic. People are getting disconnected from their own message.”
Suddenly, this answered the whole thing of, “Oh, my gosh.” If you have a screwed up ecosystem in your gut and you start to get perturbation in any particular direction. You get a loss of this ecosystem, you get an overgrowth of this part of the ecosystem. What’s going to happen is you’re going to suddenly lose a part of that wireless communication network. You’re going to become vulnerable at multiple levels within the human body.
The other thing I want to ask you about and this is something that’s, I’ve been writing a lot about this is we’re doing things to destroy our soil because we basically say, “Oh, that only affects bacteria, therefore it doesn’t affect us,” which is just a false assumption but spraying glyphosate on soil disrupts bacteria in the soil that now we know toxic your gut biome.
Glyphosate, we’ll start at the soil. Glyphosate, if you’re not familiar with it is the active ingredient in the famous weed killer called Roundup. How it is killing the soil and your gut biome.
“Number one thing is that glyphosate, which is now the number one chemical on the planet. Four and a half billion pounds of glyphosate dumped annually around the globe now. Unfortunately, it’s a water-soluble toxin, which should never happen in nature. We had a water-soluble toxin, meaning, it’s going to go to every level of the environment. It’s in the air you breathe. It’s in 75% of the air of the US, 75% of the rainfall. It’s penetrated every level because of its water nature. That means it’s doing the same thing in your body. It’s in your bloodstream. It’s in your urine. It’s in your cerebral spinal fluid. It’s going everywhere as this water-soluble chemical that’s all over the place now. It’s in every bite of food we eat. I believe it’s in every drink of water. It’s everywhere.”
Get out in nature! We have a lot of national parks that are not being visited right now. We are not visiting these places. I invite you to go explore as many national parks as you can in the next couple years because there is still some intact microbiome. I would tell you my top three favorites, except you all would show up there but go find your own favorite few because I guarantee you, you’re going to find microbiome you have never experienced in your life.
We think of fermented foods and probiotics. All of that is just spitting in the wind compared to the potential of just breathing good quality rich air with microbiome. I have my patients go out to Virginia Beach and breathe air and then down in Southern Virginia down by the swamps. Then, up into the Appalachian Trail, be by the waterfalls. Breathe ancient ecosystems. Along the East Coast, a huge hot spot is down in Tennessee, the Great Smokys one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. I traveled as extensively as you do and I try to make sure that at least part of that travel’s taking me to far flung places. Just came back from the Great Barrier Reef and start breathing air down there that I know I’ve never been exposed to. Some of the islands along the Barrier Reef I know have some profoundly ancient microbiome.
“You start going into these environment that you’ve never been and you’re adding years to your life. I really have a profoundly strong conviction that the more you can breathe in new environments, the longer you’re going to live.” Zach on traveling just to breathe the air.
We have separated ourselves from just fundamental easy, cheap, frankly free mechanism of microbiome exchange, which is touch Mother Earth.
Our knowledge is going exponential. Our ability to communicate that knowledge through internet and everything else that’s coming behind that, super exciting. I think we’re going to see an acceleration, obviously of what this community knows, what the biohackers are doing. You guys are going to start having these conferences more frequently I think because the amount of information that’s going to emerge every three months on this planet over the next 5 to 10 years is going to be mind-boggling.
“You have 70 trillion human cells, which is an impressive number, but you have 1.4 quadrillion bacteria, fungi et cetera and you have 14 quadrillion mitochondria living within you. You are, if anything, a vehicle for the microbiome to travel the world and communicate more broadly a purpose of life itself.”
I think if we stop thinking of ourselves as human and start to think of ourselves as a connected biology and to the entirety of Mother Nature, we were going to win the game on a bigger level.

The Sneaky Place Glyphosate Is Hiding in Your Food

January 15, 2018 by Team Asprey

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is a widely used and harmful herbicide used on crops and other plants to kill weeds.
Glyphosate residue can be found in your food supply — on produce, in meat, and in packaged foods. Glyphosate in animals gets concentrated in collagen.
Minimize your exposure to glyphosate by eating only organic foods and using only organic animal bones in your broth.

As the weather turns, there’s nothing better than cozying up with a mug of rich, delicious bone broth. (Get our bone broth recipe here.) A cup a day will help you reap the healing benefits of this excellent source of collagen — but may also be giving you a sneaky dose of glyphosate, a widely used, potentially cancerous herbicide.

The good news is, you can hugely reduce your exposure to glyphosate in food by eating an organic diet. Take a moment to clean up any broth you may have just spit out, then read on for a breakdown.

What is glyphosate?

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is the most widely used herbicide in the world, and poses a major health risk to consumers[ref url=”https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0″] who unwittingly consume it in their food. Genetically-modified (GMO) crops such as “Roundup Ready” corn and soy are designed to be resistant to extreme doses of glyphosate, allowing farmers to spray billions of pounds each year to kill off weeds without killing their crops.

The research on the safety of glyphosate in food is plagued with dirty politics and conflicting studies, with Monsanto (the owner of Roundup) and other agriculture giants protecting their stakes in the outcome. You can read up on the glyphosate food controversy here, but the bottom line is: if you want to perform better, keep glyphosate out of your food.

Health risks of glyphosate in food

In May of 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” based on their review of publicly available research. Human-specific studies on glyphosate exposure and cancer rates remain conflicting, with some studies showing correlation, and others finding none.[ref url=”http://www.thelancet.com/action/showFullTextImages?pii=S1470-2045%2815%2970134-8″][ref url=”https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253709″]

A study using human liver cells in vitro showed that even in low doses, glyphosate is toxic to human cells, causes genetic mutations, and disrupts endocrine function.[ref url=”http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X09003047″] Glyphosate’s role as an endocrine disruptor, as well as a factor in promoting oxidative stress, can also explain its cancer-promoting effects.[ref url=”http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869151530034X”] This was proven in a 2013 study, where glyphosate exposure caused breast cancer cells to proliferate in vitro, by mimicking estrogen.[ref url=”http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691513003633″]

If there’s one thing glyphosate is great at, it’s killing anything not genetically engineered to resist it. Not only does it wreak havoc on soil biodiversity, it can also decimate your gut flora. Its antibiotic action, depletion of certain amino acids and minerals, and impairment of metabolic enzymes, is leading some researchers to investigate glyphosate as a direct cause of celiac disease.[ref url=”https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24678255″]

Where is glyphosate found?

The short answer? Pretty much everywhere. In 2014, farmers sprayed 1.65 billion pounds of glyphosate — that’s enough to cover every acre of our globe’s cropland in about half a pound of the chemical.[ref url=”https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25883837″] When you spray that much of anything into our environment, it comes down virtually everywhere. Even on a small, biodynamic farm that’s completely organic, there are still detectable levels of glyphosate in the ground.

That said, it’s a whole lot less than the amount of glyphosate found in any conventionally farmed food. Because spraying with glyphosate is prohibited in organic agriculture, people eating an organic diet have significantly lower glyphosate levels in their systems. It’s one reason the Bulletproof Diet recommends eating only organic food. If you’re doing Bulletproof on a budget, you can check the Environmental Working Group’s dirty dozen list to learn which conventional produce has the highest pesticide residue.

When you think of cutting out foods sprayed with glyphosate, it’s easy to overlook meats. After all, no one’s spraying down their cows with Roundup. But glyphosate has a tricky way of sticking around in animal proteins, and your bone broth just might be its ride.

Glyphosate in bone broth

Once it’s in your system, glyphosate accumulates most heavily in bones and collagen. This is because your body uses glyphosate indistinguishably from glycine, the most prevalent amino acid in collagen.[ref url=”https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2017/SamselSeneff_Glyphosate_VI_final.pdf”] The same goes for animals raised on glyphosate-drenched GMO corn and soy. When you eat non-organic meat or collagen, you are incorporating significant amounts of glyphosate residues from whatever dose the animal ate.

Bone broth and collagen powder are proven ways to increase the collagen in your diet, but not so great if they’re served with a side of Roundup. To maximize your benefit, make sure your bones and collagen come from 100% grass-fed cows. Then head to our easy bone broth recipe to start sipping with confidence.

Reasons to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone (And 10 Things You Can Do Right Now)

January 12, 2018 by Dave Asprey

When in your comfort zone, your brain doesn’t want anything to change. Your needs are met, you have zero stress, and your brain recognizes that the body is surviving. It’s a recipe for steady performance.
Your brain especially doesn’t like change. It requires so much energy for day-to-day activity that it doesn’t want to give extra resources to the attention required to do new things.
Getting out of your comfort zone from time to time creates just enough good stress to ramp up your focus, creativity, pace, and drive, and it helps you respond to life stress when unexpected things happen.

Change can be an uphill battle as it is, and depending on what the scenario is, your brain might not do you any favors. There are ways to help your brain adapt to change a little more easily, but first, there are a few things to understand about your brain.

Your brain is busy. It hogs a ton of your energy resources to do what it needs to do every day, especially when you’re sleeping.

Your brain is lazy. Because it needs so much energy and there’s so much going on up there, it doesn’t want to do extra things. It doesn’t know the difference between a good new habit and a bad new habit, so it tries to get you to do what you’ve always done, by staying inside your comfort zone.

Your brain wants to keep you safe. Your own survival and the survival of the species depends on avoiding danger. Humans are built to live in a world where we have everyday threats to survival, like hungry cheetahs. Sometimes your brain fires up the oh-crap-there’s-a-cheetah fear response when it’s more like, you’re a few minutes late for class and most likely not going to die because of it. Your brain doesn’t always respond with the proper intensity.

Because of these tendencies, your brain craves routine. But doing the same song and dance every day of your life doesn’t lead to growth and maximum performance. More on why in a minute.

Getting out of your comfort zone from time to time alters your brain’s tolerance to change, for the better. Shaking things up every now and again shows your brain that there’s nothing to fear — you’ll be fine on the other side of a little stress, and it’s worth it. Keep reading to find out why it’s hard to force yourself out of your comfort zone, why you should do it anyway, and things to try.

Change is hard because you’re wired to expect the worst

Getting out of your comfort zone is hard because humans are wired to expect the worst-case scenario. Your brain wants to keep you safe, so you have a natural negativity bias — a stronger reaction to actual or anticipated negative events.

When you’re evaluating whether or not to take action and you receive negative information, it influences you more strongly than equally positive information.[ref url=”http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-12834-004″]

If the scenario already occurred, studies show people tend to give more weight to negative events. Say you rated a situation on a scale, one being the worst and 10 being the best. If the consequence was bad, it’s human nature to give it a lower rating than it deserves. If the consequence was positive, you’ll tend to rate it less positive than it deserves and more toward neutral.[ref url=”http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0504_2″]

This thought process carries over to predicting outcomes. Researchers hooked participants up to electrodes to measure brain activity during positive and negative stimuli. Negative stimuli created stronger activity than positive stimuli, even though the stimuli were equally probable to happen in real life and they were equally extreme.[ref url=”http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-12834-004″]

Practice mindfulness to be less afraid of the unknown

How do you re-calibrate your evaluations? Mindfulness.

Researchers found that mindfulness reduces negativity bias. A researcher-assigned mindfulness practice increased participants’ overall optimism and they were more likely to give appropriate weight to positive and negative scenarios.[ref url=”http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550610396585″]

There are a zillion ways to be more mindful. One that you can do throughout the day is to intentionally shift your habits and patterns. (Yes, that means getting out of your comfort zone, even if only a little.)

Meditation, mindful movement and mindful eating are good practices, but you can work mindfulness into the tasks you’re already doing, too. On this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Pedram Shojai offers some small tweaks you can make for a frequent boost of low-level stress that will shake you awake.

Taking risks helps you respond better to stress

When you take a risk on purpose, you’ve weighed the pros and cons, and you’ve evaluated the possible outcomes. Good things can happen, or bad things can happen, and you go for it anyway.

You’re capable of dreaming up a lot of gloom and doom in your head, and a lot of the time, you expect the worst. Most of the time, taking a calculated risk produces a favorable outcome. When it doesn’t turn out as you’d hoped, chances are, everything’s still a-o-k after it all shakes out.

When you routinely experience the thrill of taking a risk and it turns out awesome, or it turns out disappointing but ultimately things are still fine, you’re actually practicing for those unwelcome surprises in life. There are times when things will happen that you didn’t prepare for, and you will need to deal. When you’re used to seeing that everything is fine on the other side of stressful events, you can put your head down and do what you need to do to react appropriately, instead of reacting in a way that doesn’t suit the situation.

You’ll learn what you’re really made of

If you’re always calm and working within your same old habits, how will you ever learn what you truly can handle?

Forcing yourself into discomfort then seeing the result will keep you pushing yourself. When there’s an element of uncertainty and you come out on the other side either the same or better than you were before, you’ll have the confidence to take the opportunity to kick it up a notch toward something that has the potential to be amazing.

Sure, things can go the other way, and results can range from disappointing to the worst outcome you considered.

But that’s the thing — you already considered that the outcome could be bad, which means you’re still in control. When you feel in control, you can deal with anything that comes out of it. Even when things turn sour, you know it’s temporary, you know you can bounce back, and you’re more likely to push past your comfort zone again. With some practice, you’ll learn what you’re made of.

Shaking things up ramps up productivity

When everything is hunky-dory, your brain doesn’t want anything to change. Your needs are met, you have zero stress, and your brain recognizes that the body is surviving. It’s a recipe for steady performance.

You know deep down, you’re capable of more. In order to maximize performance, you need to be up against it from time to time.

According to the Yerkes Dodson law, feeling comfortable does zilch-o for your growth.[ref url=”http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1959-03098-001″] If you’re cozy in your ways, you’ll do the bare minimum.

To make progress, you need to feel a little pressure. Whether it’s a deadline, a number in your bank account, or a sales goal, a low level surge of uneasiness may be just what you need to take it to the next level.

The burst of stress from stepping outside your comfort zone doesn’t just create a “hurry up” effect. Sure, your pace increases, but other things improve, like:

Focus
Creativity
Drive
Working memory
Task management

If you don’t have these external pressures nudging your performance upward, how do you self-impose a little stress? You guessed it – work outside of your comfort zone. This can range from changing your workflow so you have to pay close attention to what you’re doing, or taking your work elsewhere for a change of scenery. Or, you can take on a project that flat-out scares you.

In the typical workplace, people aren’t short on these swells of panic, and you should be aware of that, too. Too much stress affects your physical body and tanks your performance. So, it’s something to consciously balance. Head on over here for ways to manage stress.

Blunders come with benefits

So, you calculated a risk, identified some positive outcomes and some negative ones, and went for it.

And the bad thing happened.

You chalk the whole endeavor up as a mistake. In the grand scheme, everything is fine, but you’re bummed. You were hoping for it to go the other way.

Failures are okay. Every CEO and successful person’s biography highlights failed plans, pointing out that mistakes don’t define you. Actually, mistakes are celebrated as high points in the learning process. But did you know there’s another big benefit to making mistakes?

Imperfections make people like you. According to the Pratfall Effect,[ref url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratfall_effect “] people who never make mistakes aren’t as likable as people who trip up, literally and figuratively, from time to time. It shows your flaws and your humanness, which are qualities that draw people to you.

There are exceptions. If you’re a jerk, mistakes affirm others’ opinions that you’re awful. So if you’re nice to people, mistakes are not only allowed but beneficial to your social life.

10 things you can do today to get out of your comfort zone

Drive a different route to work
Do lunges or squats every time you have to take the stairs, even if you think you look silly
Ask for a project at work that you’re not 100% sure you can do
Open up a conversation with a colleague with whom you don’t normally interact
Take an art or music class that uses medium you’ve never touched
Pick an activity you enjoy doing solo and join a group that meets regularly to do it
Choose a fear to confront (heights, public speaking, etc.) and make firm plans to face it
Set a moonshot goal and tackle one smaller benchmark that will get things rolling
Ask for something you want, but doubt the other person will agree to
Reach out to a seemingly inaccessible person you admire and tell them how they impacted your life

It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. You may have goals, but your brain and biology don’t care whether or not you climb Everest or play in the band. They want to maintain your heart rate, body temperature, and keep you from putting yourself in a situation where you might bleed.

Since society morphed faster than you’ve adapted, your body responds to your presentation at a high-level conference as equally threatening as being stalked by a pack of wolves.

That’s why you need to get uncomfortable. Push yourself out of your comfort zone frequently, and the stresses you impose on yourself should range from low to high (just not chronic). With repetition, you’ll prove to your body and mind that everything is just fine on the other side, if not better.

New Study Pinpoints Why Saunas Are So Good for You

January 11, 2018 by Team Asprey

If you or a loved one deals with heart or vascular symptoms, you may want to hop in a hot sauna. New research, published in the Journal of Human Hypertension[ref url=”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41371-017-0008-z”] and the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology[ref url=”http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2047487317737629″], shows that a sauna kept at 164 degrees Fahrenheit lowers blood pressure.

Research shows sauna-bathing is heart-healthy

Previous research found that regular sauna users had lower rates of hypertension, cardiac death, and dementia compared to infrequent users. However, these observational findings were only association-based, meaning they didn’t prove cause and effect. However, this most recent study does. Finnish researchers recruited 102 people, whom they observed before and after a 30-minute sauna session. The results revealed people’s systolic blood pressure dropped from 137 to 130 mmHg, while their diastolic pressure dropped from 82 to 75 mmHg. The systolic pressure drop was temporary, however the diastolic pressure remained lower 30 minutes post-sauna bath.

Peoples’ vascular compliance — a measure of blood vessels’ ability to expand and contract — also improved. Moreover, their heart rates increased during sauna sessions to an average of 120 beats per minute — what is achievable with moderate-intensity exercise. Study co-author Dr. Jari Laukkanen, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Eastern Finland noted that, “circulatory responses may be similar (to exercise),” suggesting that sauna bathing is aerobically healthy, too.

Other sauna benefits include detoxing

Sauna bathing is a centuries-old way to detoxify your body – it’s actually been a way of life in Finland for over 2,000 years. Why? Well, for one, sweating get rids of the junk. A 2012 review of 50 studies revealed that sweat carries lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury out of the body, especially in people with high heavy-metal toxicity[ref url=”http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/184745/#B30″]. Another study observed participants in both traditional and infrared saunas with similar results[ref url=”https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen_Genuis/publication/47701626_Blood_Urine_and_Sweat_BUS_Study_Monitoring_and_Elimination_of_Bioaccumulated_Toxic_Elements/links/5561456c08ae86c06b64aad6.pdf”]. Sweating also eliminates hormone-disrupting BPA, which accumulates in your fat cells[ref url=”http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/185731/abs/”].

Infrared saunas yield health benefits as well

Trendy full-spectrum infrared saunas heat up your body’s core at a cellular level – detoxifying the most harmful and deep toxins from the inside-out. The penetrating heat of infrared saunas stimulates metabolic activity like no other – triggering the release of stored toxins through sweat and through the liver and kidneys. It goes deep. Learn more about the benefits of infrared sauna detoxification here.

Be A Boss With Your Brain, Heart, & Gut – Eric Langshur #457

January 11, 2018 by Dave Asprey

The art and science of how to be happy! Eric Langshur is a bestselling author and CEO who woke up one morning and realized he had learned how to manage a large business, and thousands of people, but couldn’t get a handle on his own mind.

In this episode you will get some tips on how to “train the skill of wellbeing.” and what it means to “notice, shift, and rewire.”

Change your mind and be happy!

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Show Notes

Eric and Dave discuss studying how to be happy.
On Eric’s first company, CarePages.
“If we look at what’s just going on externally, the pace of play just continues to accelerate” Eric on technology burn out.
Why is the corporate world so sick?
“The pace of play just continues to accelerate. Technology, which has improved our lives in so many ways, is also making us sicker.”
How much the percentage of Americans that are on antidepressants has increased since 1999.
Eric on figuring out he has anxiety, “It just it was a dawning awareness as you studied personal development and the wisdom of the masters.”
Eric on anxiety. “The irony is I had learned how to manage large businesses and I had learned how to manage thousands of people, but I didn’t really know how to manage my own mind. That was an incredible awakening.”
How to train the skill of wellbeing. “The way to do it is to train the skill of attention, really get control of the mind.”
“Imagine living with spaciousness. Imagine living with peace.” Eric on the experience he has now on being alive.
Eric on Jung quote that resonated, “He who looks outside dreams. He who looks inside awakens.”
On lost money for companies because people are not engaged at work.
info@life-xt.com to write Eric.
Dave and Eric on science of habit change.
What’s the difference between training attention and training wellbeing?
How Eric developed what he calls the master practice of notice, shift, rewire.
Eric on why “Most importantly, when our minds are wandering, we’re less happy.”
Eric on Six practices in his book, which include, “balancing of being and doing, which is being, being a human being and being engaged in the world and being present and showing gratitude and compassion.”
Eric on more topics in his book. “Then doing, focusing on relationships, focusing on engagement, really productivity, and then contributing to the world.”
“A good example is building the habit of presence, just learning the science of what it is to engage the parasympathetic nervous system with a four-by-four breath.”
Using daily activities as opportunities to practice the skill of presence.
Eric and Dave talk about 40 years of Zen.
Dave on compassion. “If you don’t have compassion for yourself, it’s hard to have it for something else.”
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Expose Yourself to Sunlight to Burn Fat, Says Breakthrough Study

Blue light shrinks fat cells beneath the skin

Excessive blue light leads to metabolic dysregulation

Aim for 20 minutes of natural morning sunlight each day

Show Notes

What is glyphosate?

Health risks of glyphosate in food

Where is glyphosate found?

Glyphosate in bone broth

Change is hard because you’re wired to expect the worst

Practice mindfulness to be less afraid of the unknown

Taking risks helps you respond better to stress

You’ll learn what you’re really made of

Shaking things up ramps up productivity

Blunders come with benefits

10 things you can do today to get out of your comfort zone

Research shows sauna-bathing is heart-healthy

Other sauna benefits include detoxing

Infrared saunas yield health benefits as well

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