The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

This episode of Bulletproof Radio kicks off Better Sleep Month. Sleep hacking is core to what I do, so I wanted to invite someone on who’s dedicated to that practice. I’m talking with Dr. Peter Martone who is a chiropractor, exercise physiologist and inventor of the  Neck Nest , a pillow specifically designed to improve your sleeping postures. Here's a challenge: try watching a two-hour movie...

Cool Facts are quick hits of new human and world science curated into short bursts of information just for you. This fun compilation publishes one Friday a month. Enjoy! Here’s the current lineup for episode #10: How a tiny brain-manipulating machine helps understand neurological disease and neurotrauma.. How to simplify your life. Why you're struggling to maintain a healthy weight. Why your...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m talking with Amy Shah, M.D., a double board-certified medical doctor specializing in allergy and immunology, hormones and gut health. After a car accident and personal energy crisis she searched for a complete mental, hormonal, and inflammatory reset.  And while she uses an integrative and holistic approach to wellness in her medical practice, wh...

When your kids are calmer and learning how to work with their thoughts and emotions, your quality of life as a parent goes way up. In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Ziva meditation creator Emily Fletcher joins me to talk about helping kids learn to meditate and her new zivaKIDS program that gives kids new superpowers. *Catch episode guest Emily Fletcher at the Virtual Biohacking Conferenc...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dr. Joe Mercola returns to talk about the topic that’s been on everyone’s mind, for better or worse, for over a year. That would be Covid-19. Dr. Joe’s been on the show multiple times because he’s been on the cutting-edge of health for the last 25 years and isn’t afraid to question the status quo in healthcare. He’s a best-selling author, an expert in the fiel...

I hope this preview about gene therapy discoveries inspires you to join me and thousands of others at the  Virtual Biohacking Conference  on May 8, 2021, to  Recharge Your Cells & Upgrade Your Life.  You’ll hear brand new information from this amazing guest and much more from all the guests who will be presenting. Liz Parrish  is a humanitarian, entrepreneur, inno...

In recognition of Earth Day, this incredible episode replay with Dr. Mark Hyman gets into the dark realities of the global food system and the policies that make it possible. He says his 2020 book, “ Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time ” is the most important one he’s ever written. "Our food system end to end is the No. 1 cause of...

This episode of Bulletproof Radio is an interesting mix of sound healing knowledge pulled from Eastern traditions and Western medicine. Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary, a neurologist and neuroscientist immersed in the field of Integrative Medicine, joins me to talk about the science of sound and just how much we’re learning from ancient teachings. She’s participated in more than 20 clinical research studies...

I hope this preview on fasting inspires you to join me and thousands of others at the  Virtual Biohacking Conference  on May 8, 2021, to  Recharge Your Cells & Upgrade Your Life.  You’ll hear brand new information from this amazing guest and much more from all the guests who will be presenting. Dr. Jason Fung  is a Canadian nephrologist known as a pioneer in inter...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m talking with Tara Stiles, founder of  Stråla Yoga , whose approach to yoga and meditation is to make it as inclusive, unpretentious and accessible as possible.  “I love the saying, if you can breathe, you can do yoga,” Tara says. “And especially if you're interested in doing it, then follow that intuition. Whether you're young or old or somewhere...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we talk about minerals, ask some foundational questions about why they matter to your biology, and why you probably would do a lot better as a biohacker, or just as a human being who wants to be hard to kill, if you pay way more attention to them. We have more than 30 trillion cells in our body and every single one of them requires minerals to function. You ca...

I hope this preview on the power of peptides inspires you to join me and thousands of others at the  Virtual Biohacking Conference  on May 8, 2021, to  Recharge Your Cells & Upgrade Your Life.  You’ll hear brand new information from this amazing guest and much more from all the guests who will be presenting. Dr. Heather Smith-Fernandez  is a board-certified anesthesiol...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m talking with a godfather of fasting, Professor Valter Longo, Ph. D. He started researching fasting decades before anyone else started paying much attention to it. In 2018, TIME Magazine named Prof. Longo as one of the 50 most influential people in health care for his research on fasting-mimicking diets as a way to improve health and prevent disease. He’s d...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, you’re going to learn a lot you probably didn’t know about histamine. Turns out histamine is a major neurotransmitter that affects your awareness, food cravings, tiredness and inflammation. I’m talking with Dr. Becky Campbell, a board-certified doctor of natural medicine who focuses on histamine issues based on experiences from her patients and her o...

This episode focuses on energy with two masters dedicated to this work. You’ll hear highlights from their previous interviews with me to get an idea of their styles and areas of expertise. I hope this preview inspires you to join me and thousands of others at the  Virtual Biohacking Conference  on May 8, 2021, to  Recharge Your Cells & Upgrade Your Life.  You’ll  ...

Great In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dr. Stephanie Estima encourages women to start the process of owning their health by collecting data on their cycle. That way, women can start to understand their body’s individuality and work with it, not against it. She’s a doctor of Chiropractic with expertise in female metabolism and body composition who joined me on the show to discuss her new book...

I talk about sex regularly on Bulletproof Radio because the energy, connection and humanity that’s a part of sexual wellness improves our lives. So does the fun factor. In this episode, credentialed sexologist Alexandra Fine talks with me about the pleasure gap and ways to close it. After earning her master’s in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in sex therapy from Columbia University,...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we’re talking about bugs. The good kinds! Emeritus professor and microbiologist John Tagg has been researching bacteria since the mid 1970s and has been specifically looking for a probiotic solution to Group A Strep. He’s done this work primarily at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He’s responsib...

Great PodMonitoring your blood sugar is one of the most important interventions you can make for yourself in order to live long and truly feel good.  If you have diabetes, your cardiovascular disease risk, your cancer risk and your Alzheimer's risk all go up dramatically.  So, what if we were to just put on our thinking hats as biohackers and say, "Which intervention has the highest ROI...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio my guest shares an inspiring life story about addiction, adversity and resilience. Doug Bopst is an award-winning personal trainer, author, speaker and host of the Adversity Advantage podcast. His journey traverses a difficult childhood, an addiction spiral and time in jail. He credits a judge, a cell mate, and unexpectedly finding faith with 12 years of sobrie...

Cool Facts are quick hits of new human and world science curated into short bursts of information just for you. This fun compilation publishes one Friday a month. Enjoy! Here’s the current lineup for episode #9: Sleep may pre-date brain activity. Genes could contribute to daytime nap needs. Dopamine links aerobic fitness and cognition. Eat bad food as a kid; pay the price into adulthood. Green lig...

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we find out how my guest, 81-year-old Margaret Paul, Ph. D., has sustained intermittent fasting (IF) for more than 50 years! Although IF may be a newer concept with regard to health and wellness, research has been happening for decades. And some people have been following IF for that long because it works for their own biology. “I started intermittent fasting...

This episode of Bulletproof Radio runs over 90 minutes and definitely will be worth the time you’ll spend listening.  We’re talking about insulin resistance, something that affects half of all adults in the U.S., a lot of our children, and is the leading cause of many common health disorders. Insulin resistance makes you less powerful every day until you get diabetes.  Insulin resistance...

At 70 years young, Dr. Steven Gundry feels and exudes more energy than he did at 40. In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we’ll talk about how you can make sure you feel the same. Dr. Gundry explains seven deadly energy disruptors that surround us in his new book, “ The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone .” “The walking well have become proficient at shoulderin...

For a while I was anti-juicing because I found myself consuming a lot of sugar with very few health benefits. But I wanted to flip my own script and introduce you to a brand-new juice company. These juices don’t cause a blood sugar spike. Instead, you get a lot of phytonutrients and the bonus opportunity to support small farmers. In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m talking about juicing with...