Bulletproof Mind

June 2, 2011 by Dave Asprey

Our minds are capable of incredible things when they’re trained. After years of abusing mine with bad food, poor sleep, and lack of training, mine didn’t look so good. This custom $4,000 SPECT scan, taken before I embarked on Bulletproofing my brain, shows areas where my brain isn’t working as well as it should. Seeing the red made me very motivated to upgrade my brain!

I’ve since added at least 20 IQ points and trained my mind to do all sorts of things it couldn’t do before. I used these techniques and more to Bulletproof my brain. I’ll blog about them in more detail over the coming months so you can tell which ones are worth doing for you.

Brain hacking techniques that work – EEG, sound, electricity and more
Brain training exercises that actually help
Smart drugs in the workplace
Brain nutrition
Audio & visual neural improvements
Breathing and meditation for executives

Here’s a picture of one of my brain hacking sessions!

Bulletproof: The State of High Performance

June 2, 2011 by Dave Asprey

Join half a million people who follow Bulletproof – the number one resource for how to supercharge your body, upgrade your brain, and be Bulletproof.

What Is Bulletproof?

Discover how to upgrade your body and your mind using the proven Bulletproof® blueprint to enter your state of high performance every single day. And it’s easier than it sounds. Simple tricks like upgrading your cup of coffee, sleeping smarter, all the way to consciously controlling your brainwaves, are possible with the right information. You can think faster, have limitless focus and energy, laugh at food cravings, and…

No matter who you are, you can get even better. Belonging to a community of people who care as much about personal performance as you do will make your performance better, and it’s even easier to win when you have expert guidance from someone who walks the path of peak performance with senior executives around the globe, and shares the map. For free.

Bulletproof (adj.): The state of high performance, resilience and vibrant health where your body, mind, and life work together in unison, providing performance beyond what you’d expect.

Biohacking (verb, noun):
(v): To change the environment outside of you and inside of you so you have full control of your biology, allowing you to upgrade your body, mind, and your life.
(n) The art and science of becoming superhuman

If you’re a new reader, welcome! Read more here.

Why Do I Do This?

My name is Dave Asprey, and I’m the founder of Bulletproof. I do this because I’m happier when I get to help people, and because it took nearly 20 years and $300,000 to learn how to do things that aren’t supposed to be possible and then to use them to be a better entrepreneur, husband, and father. Things like how to upgrade my brain (12 IQ points), get lean quickly (after weighing 300 lbs 15 years ago), have more energy, or just give a press conference in 4 different countries in 4 days without getting sick.

If you’d like to take this journey with me, and upgrade your performance in every aspect of life, then please sign up for my email newsletter. You’ll gain instant access to my Biohacker Toolbox, including a copy of The Bulletproof Diet; which I used to go from a tired 300 pound young adult, to a lean, high-performing VP, coach, and father.

A View from the Quantified Self Conference

May 31, 2011 by Dave Asprey

I spent the last two days at the Quantified Self Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It was full of biohackers and the people who are leading the next big technology revolution bringing together hardware, software, the internet, health, and behavior monitoring. This is the “homebrew computer club” of this decade. Here, People are making the stuff that everyone else will be using and wearing in 10 years, like 24/7 health monitoring that actually improves the quality of life, easy tools to help you figure out what you should be eating, what vitamins to take, and what medicines won’t work for you based on more knowledge and data than we’ve ever had in history. (It looks like the Mercury News just picked up the “Homebrew” line too).

This is the exact opposite of what physicians and hospitals do. They monitor you when you’re sick so they can make you not-sick. The Quantified Self movement is more along the lines of helping you monitor yourself when you’re well so you can be even better. In fact, if you do that enough, you can become so resilient, physically and mentally, that you’re…Bulletproof®. That’s why I presented at the QS conference twice in one day, and spent several hours being interviewed and photographed as the “Tim Ferriss of the Brain” for the cover of a major business magazine! (My fingers are crossed that they like the pictures…) You’ll find the video of my talks here on The Bulletproof® Executive as soon as I can get them transcoded. [Read more…] about A View from the Quantified Self Conference

New version of My Top Biohacking Tool

May 14, 2011 by Dave Asprey

One of the things I enjoy most is advising entrepreneurs and other smart people on how they can improve their performance. It’s why I’ve been on more than a dozen startup advisory boards, a few VC advisory boards, and even IBM’s top customer advisory board. It’s why people pay my standard rate of $500/hr for consulting – in the few spare hours I have outside my day job as a high tech executive.

Because I spent a couple thousand dollars, and 3 days to get certified with advanced HeartMath training 2 weeks ago, I’m able to buy a small number of emWave2 devices at a one time discount. As a way of saying thanks, I’d like to share the savings with my loyal readers, who have generated nearly 100,000 pageviews on The Bulletproof® Executive, and help them improve their performance at home and at work. [Read more…] about New version of My Top Biohacking Tool

My Honda “daily driver” brain upgrade technology

May 14, 2011 by Dave Asprey

I’ve been a guinea pig for every technology I can find that will change (or upgrade) my brain and mind. The only brain hacking technology on my list that I haven’t tried requires a 10 ton magnet. I’m talking smart drugs, meditation, breathing, EEG, MCT oil, sound, light, whole body vibration, electrical stimulation, infrared lasers shining through the skull, shamanic drumming, yoga postures, even fasting in a cave. I’ve tried almost everything I could find, no matter how weird it sounded, as long as I didn’t think it would permanently cook me. I didn’t expect any of it to really work but hoped some of it would.

The results have been fantastic – freaking awesome actually. They have been life-changing, performance-enhancing, need-for-sleep reducing, intelligence-building, creativity-enhancing, stress-reducing. [Read more…] about My Honda “daily driver” brain upgrade technology

My Fat Body Mistakes vs. My Bulletproof® Body Plan

May 2, 2011 by Dave Asprey

The vast majority of executives I know in Silicon Valley are spending a lot of time and energy trying to lose weight, or just stay thin. That’s what I did when I weighed 300lbs years ago. Losing weight was my single biggest focus every day in the gym and at meals. I spent at least 20 hours a week trying to lose weight . I did this for years – what a complete waste of time!

Thanks to the joys of biohacking and self-experimenting, while working with world-class experts, I don’t have to spend any time on my physique to stay lean and muscular, and if I have time to exercise for 10 minutes even twice a week (a good idea), I start to look like a bodybuilder.

I maintain a 6-pack and muscle mass with no exercise at all thanks to the Bulletproof® Diet, but when I want to add 10 pounds of muscle in 2-4 weeks, I eat more, I sleep more, and I do 10 minutes of high intensity exercise, twice a week. [Read more…] about My Fat Body Mistakes vs. My Bulletproof® Body Plan

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