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Dave Asprey

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Dave Asprey is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, health science innovator, and founder of Bulletproof Coffee and the biohacking movement. He is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, best known for The Bulletproof Diet, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast The Human Upgrade. His work has shaped modern wellness and performance.

Biography & Author's Journey

Dave Asprey, born in 1973, is an American entrepreneur and author recognized as the founder of the Bulletproof movement and a leading advocate for biohacking, a term he famously coined and helped propel into the mainstream. Asprey’s formative years reflected his early passion for technology and self-improvement; while studying computer science at university, he made headlines by selling the first product online—a caffeine-themed t-shirt—well before e-commerce became commonplace. He subsequently forged a successful career in Silicon Valley, holding executive positions at technology companies like Trend Micro and Citrix Systems. However, by his late twenties, Asprey’s relentless focus on work took a toll, manifesting in obesity, cognitive fog, and a cluster of premature aging symptoms, ultimately serving as a pivotal turning point in his life.

Quotes

Don’t make yourself crazy about getting it perfect all the time—stress like that makes you old. Just aim to get it mostly right at home, and you’ll be so far ahead of the curve that you’ll feel it

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

I have learned to prioritize my actions into three buckets: things that drain my energy, things I don’t mind and are important and useful, and things that give me energy and bring me joy. My goal is to break my daily actions down so that I spend none of my time on tasks that fall into the first category, 10 percent of my time on the second category, and 90 percent of my time in the final category, the one that Robert Greene calls primal inclinations. When I find myself drifting too far from the goal, I reset my actions

-Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

Want to age backward? Do these things right now: • Stop eating sugar, soy, excess omega-6 fats, and refined carbs, and replace these foods with additional healthy saturated fat from grass-fed meat, pastured eggs, and energy fats

-The Bulletproof Diet

Spend more time in nature to boost your health, happiness, and performance

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

Sugar is the enemy of neurogenesis

-Quoted by Dave Asprey

The best thing you can do to live a long time is to eat the highest-quality food

-The Bulletproof Diet

Get all the crap out of your diet, just do it right for a week. Then just see what can happen

-Quoted by Dave Asprey

What I'm trying to do is help people understand if for one day they could have the best day ever, where their energy and their focus and everything is super clear and they feel like a great golden god... if you do that one time you know you're capable of it and you can start working towards that

-Quoted by Dave Asprey

Popular Books

Bulletproof Diet

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Unconventional weight loss guide promising rapid results through high-fat eating, intermittent fasting, and biohacking techniques for optimal performance.

Smarter Not Harder

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Biohacking guru reveals how to optimize your body and mind with minimal effort, leveraging laziness for peak wellness.

Fast This Way

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Biohacker Dave Asprey reveals cutting-edge fasting techniques to optimize health, boost performance, and unlock your body's potential.

Head Strong

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A revolutionary biohacking plan to upgrade your brain in two weeks, enhancing mental performance and overall cognitive function.

Game Changers

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Distills wisdom from top performers into actionable strategies for becoming smarter, faster, and happier in all aspects of life.