Stop Fighting Your Environment & Hack Your Homeostasis – Scott Carney #596

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dave welcomes Scott Carney, an award-winning investigative journalist and anthropologist whose reporting has taken him to some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world.

Subscribe To The Human Upgrade

In this Episode of The Human Upgrade™...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dave welcomes Scott Carney, an award-winning investigative journalist and anthropologist whose reporting has taken him to some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world.

He’s also a New York Times bestselling author “What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength.” This book traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how well we adapted to the environment around us.

Scott has spent time with some of the most extreme people on Earth who do the most extreme things, such as the controller of the cold, Wim Hof; legendary big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton, and HIIT creator Brian Mackenzie.

“As a journalist, you have a couple of options for how you cover someone,” Scott says. “You can go in there and sit back and say, “Okay, I will watch you from a distance. I will watch you breathing or whatever, and I will write an article about that,” or you can jump in and give it an experience.”

That pique’s Dave interest more than a little, as he notes Scott’s curiosity and “willingness to go to the ends of the earth to figure out cool stuff.” Scott’s curiosity gets a boost from learning “neural grammar,” which allows better control of the parasympathetic nervous system. Because our system craves homeostasis, he says, it’s going to find it naturally because of the environmental stimulus to which you’re being exposed.

Listen in on this conversation about human endurance, why effortless comfort is hindering our health and how “the wedge” can flip your neurological script.

Enjoy the show!

Key Notes

  • Meeting Wim Hoff for the first time 00:10:45
  • How the Wim method sucks 00:15:10
  • Using the natural world is awesome and free 00:25:55
  • Anyone’s journey with personal health is not about someone else 00:36:00
  • Bigger Ideas:
  • How Scott decided to take down the cold exposure fad 00:07:45
  • Dave’s story about mountaineering 00:17:00
  • The process of evolution 00:19:20
  • Evidence that we need fluctuations 00:21:20
  • In the movie of my life 00:25:30
  • How do you be a biohacker and rustic at the same time? 00:31:20
  • How Scott did the coldest obstacle course race in England 00:37:30
  • What is “the wedge?” 00:41:00
  • Our system craves homeostasis and will find it naturally 00:45:40

Go check out “Game Changers“, “Headstrong” and “The Bulletproof Diet” on Amazon and consider leaving a review!

If you like today’s episode, check us out on Apple Podcasts at Bulletproof.com/iTunes and leave us a 5-star rating and a creative review.

Subscribe To The Human Upgrade

Similar Episodes

podcast-divider-bottom.png

Subscribe To The Human Upgrade

BOOKS

4X NEW YORK TIMES
BEST-SELLING SCIENCE AUTHOR

AVAILABLE NOW

Smarter
Not Harder

Smarter Not Harder: The Biohacker’s Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want is about helping you to become the best version of yourself by embracing laziness while increasing your energy and optimizing your biology.

If you want to lose weight, increase your energy, or sharpen your mind, there are shelves of books offering myriad styles of advice. If you want to build up your strength and cardio fitness, there are plenty of gyms and trainers ready to offer you their guidance. What all of these resources have in common is they offer you a bad deal: a lot of effort for a little payoff. Dave Asprey has found a better way.
media-section-06-img.png

Also Available

footer-line-img.png

Start hacking your way to better than standard performance and results.

Receive weekly biohacking tips and tech by becoming a Dave Asprey insider.

By sharing your email, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy