Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever

Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever
Dave Asprey

From the creator of Bulletproof coffee and the bestselling author of Head Strong and The Bulletproof Diet comes a plan to bypass plateaus and ‘up’ your game at every age. Dave Asprey suffered countless symptoms of ageing as a young man, which sparked a lifelong burning desire to grow younger with each birthday. For more than twenty years, he has been on a quest to find innovative, science-backed methods to upgrade human biology and redefine the limits of the mind, body, and spirit. The results speak for themselves. Now in his forties, Dave is smarter, happier, and more fit and successful than ever before. In Super Human, he shows how this is level of health and performance possible for all of us. While we assume we will peak in middle age and then decline, Asprey’s research reveals there is another way. It is possible to make changes on the sub-cellular level to dramatically extend life span. And the tools to live longer also give you more energy and brainpower right now. The answers lie in Dave’s Seven Pillars of Ageing that contribute to degeneration and disease while diminishing your performance in the moment. Using simple interventions – like diet, sleep, light, exercise, and little-known but powerful hacks from ozone therapy to proper jaw alignment, you can decelerate cellular ageing and supercharge your body’s ability to heal and rejuvenate. A self-proclaimed human guinea pig, Asprey arms readers with practical advice to maximize their lives at every age with his signature mix of science-geek wonder, candour, and enthusiasm. Getting older no longer has to mean decline. Now it’s an opportunity to become Super Human.

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To my children, Anna (twelve) and Alan (nine), who diligently sat by my side and edited this book in a way that genuinely helped make it better. It’s my sincere hope that when you are both over a hundred years old, you’ll let me help you edit whatever you’re creating. I plan to be there for you.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

—Dylan Thomas

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE BIOHACKERS

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