Today’s guest is an Austrian-American who emigrated from Vienna to Brooklyn in 1939 at the age of 9, Dr. Eric Kandel will celebrate nearly nine decades of curiosity, study and incredible scientific discovery at his upcoming 89th birthday on November 7 (about the time this podcast will air). Dr. Kandel is a renowned neuroscientist with a psychiatric background who is considered one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory wo...
Oct 25, 2018•58 min•Ep. 538
This episode is a special edition of Bulletproof Radio because a good friend and mentor, Charles Poliquin, a man who has helped elite professional athletes and Olympians win hundreds of medals, passed away unexpectedly. Charles was a knowledgeable biohacker, and a wealth of knowledge and was always eager and willing to share it. We lost an amazing biohacker when he passed but I am grateful to be able to share his amazing knowledge one more time in this episode. During this episode, we discuss ho...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 537
Harpreet Rai is the San Francisco-based CEO of Oura Health, a company in Finland that developed the Oura Ring five years ago. Oura is the world's first wellness ring and app that shows how your body responds to your lifestyle by analyzing your sleep, activity levels, daily rhythms and the physiological responses in your body. This podcast was recorded live at Bulletproof Alpha Labs (on Vancouver Island) and we talk about sleep, circadian rhythms and why Harpreet believes that “sleep is the found...
Oct 18, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 536
Dr. Kogan earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn, New York, where she studied Dermatology and completed a Pediatric Dermatology fellowship. Her interests in holistic and integrative medicine led her to study and lead research on the effects of herbs, nutrition, and stress management on overall wellness, and particularly how they manifest in the health of hair and skin. She also has a personal investment in this work, as she suffered hair loss due to an eating di...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 535
Drew Manning is the author of the New York Times best-selling book Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons From Gaining And Losing 75 Lbs On Purpose . In this episode, we talk about Drew’s winding journey of fitness, faith, failure and feats of self-awareness. He’s best known for his year-long Fit2Fat2Fit.com experiment that went viral, garnered national attention, and led to appearances on Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The View and more. His experiment also became a hit TV show called “Fit to Fat t...
Oct 11, 2018•57 min•Ep. 534
After decades of innovative work in the health and wellness field, Dr. Mark Hyman is broadening his focus and hosting disruptive conversations about our food and food systems in this episode of Bulletproof Radio as well as in his compelling new podcast. Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, an 11-time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the Pritzker Foundation chair in Functi...
Oct 09, 2018•48 min•Ep. 533
You may know Byron Katie as the bestselling author of “Loving What Is.” She is an inspirational guide who offers people a different way to think their thoughts so they can change their mindsets and, ultimately, their lives. In 1986, at the bottom of a 10-year spiral into depression, rage, and self-loathing, 43-year-old Byron Katie literally woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left her. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that wh...
Oct 04, 2018•56 min•Ep. 532
You have undoubtedly heard of Tony Robbins. He is a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur and philanthropist. For more than four decades, millions of people have enjoyed the warmth, humor and transformational power of Tony’s business and personal development retreats. He also is the nation’s No. 1 life and business strategist who consults and coaches some of the world’s finest athletes, entertainers, Fortune 500 CEOs and even presidents of nations. He is the founder or partner i...
Oct 02, 2018•59 min•Ep. 531
Today’s guest is a dual writer, both a literary journalist and a novelist. He is also a dual citizen of the United States and Germany and his name is Michael Scott Moore. In 2011, Michael covered the trial of 10 Somali pirates in Germany for Spiegel Online, part of Der Spiegel (The Mirror), a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. After the trial, he travelled to Somalia in January 2012 to research a book about piracy and ways to end it. While there, he was kidnapped and held hostage,...
Sep 27, 2018•53 min•Ep. 530
Today's podcast guest, Anousheh Ansari , has a very unique story. She grew up in Iran and lived through the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s and the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. In 1984, she immigrated to America at the age of 16. She went on to become a successful serial entrepreneur and active proponent of world-changing technologies. She currently is the co-founder and CEO of Prodea Systems , a leading Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm. On September 18, 2006, the day her company, Pr...
Sep 25, 2018•54 min•Ep. 529
In this episode of Biohacker News (video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYrU6pxfVDg ), Dave Asprey goes over the results of a study linking allergies and autism, the link between art and PTSD, what to do if the LED light of your phone is affecting the quality of your skin, how a small molecule can defeat asthma attacks, workplace food and unhealthy eating, epigenetic changes linked to drinking tea, and the startling report of high rates of heart disease in men who take medicine for e...
Sep 24, 2018•8 min•Ep. 528
In this episode, I am talking with a nationally board certified naturopathic doctor, a fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology, and someone who also studied and is licensed in both acupuncture and Oriental medicine. I'm talking about none other than Dr. Nasha Winters. Dr. Winters is the bestselling author of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer , which is definitely worth reading, even if you don't have cancer. Nasha is based in Durango, Colorado and is the former CEO of Optimal Terrai...
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 528
Ryan Holiday is a fantastic author who has helped to reinvigorate an almost extinct philosophy. That philosophy is called Stoicism which is, as you will find out, more than simply enduring pain or hardship without complaining. There have been many authors on Bulletproof Radio and Ryan deserves to be among them - he is seriously good. You might have read including The Obstacle Is the Way , Ego Is the Enemy , The Daily Stoic plus the one that you really should read, Perennial Seller. Ryan's compan...
Sep 18, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 527
Imagine building something like a cell phone, a car, or a house and then imagine that thing went on to reproduce itself. Well, that is what Andrew Hessel , the guest on this episode of Bulletproof Radio, and the people at the human Genome Project-Write intend to do. Starting by helping people better understand and use living systems to meet the needs of society. Andrew Hessel is the CEO of Humane Genomics Inc., a seed-stage company developing virus-based therapies for cancer, starting with dogs....
Sep 13, 2018•58 min•Ep. 526
Dr. Mike Dow is a psychotherapist, a neurotherapist, and a New York Times best-selling author of several books. He is also a well-known expert in relationships, brain health, addiction, and mental illness which is why he is a part of Dr. Oz's core team of experts . You might have seen him on TV shows on VH1, TLC, The Today Show, and on top of that, he's got a second doctorate in clinical sexology and a post-doctorate in psychopharmacology. Dr. Dow is a full time, licensed psychotherapist and sex...
Sep 11, 2018•58 min•Ep. 525
The guest on this episode of Bulletproof Radio is a doctor who was referenced heavily in Headstrong , my book about cognitive function and mitochondrial hacking. His name is Dr. Frank Shallenberger (or Dr. Ozone) and he has been practicing as a physician for more than four decades in both conventional and alternative medicine. He started as a western doctor, earlier in his career but he decided that he wanted to know more about health than what happens in a hospital. This happened after he reali...
Sep 06, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 524
Ryan Cummins has had an amazing path working with influential people through Live Earth, talking with 120 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Genius Grant recipients, and Pulitzer Prize winners. His work culminated in him having a new understanding of what he could do to allow us all to have life-changing, amazing, celebrity experiences, while also supporting massive charity efforts. This all gave birth to a company called Omaze . Omaze is an experience-driven fundraising platform th...
Sep 04, 2018•59 min•Ep. 523
Dr. Dale Bredesen has spent over 30 years researching the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and has recently published the first paper on the Reversal Of Cognitive Decline in patients with early onset Alzheimer’s. He truly is a pioneer in the science of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain. He is also an internationally recognized expert on how Alzheimer's happens, and his lab, the Bredesen Laboratory, studies the mechanisms behind neurodegeneration. Even i...
Aug 30, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 522
Ryan Estis has spent 15 years in the ad agency business helping companies connect with their employees and consumers. Which means that he understands the challenges business leaders and top performers face because he has been in their shoes. His clients include AT&T, Motorola, MasterCard, Adobe, the NBA, the Mayo Clinic, and many more very recognizable names. Now, before you say "what the heck is someone like that doing on Bulletproof Radio?" you should know that Ryan started his own researc...
Aug 28, 2018•44 min•Ep. 521
Our guest on this episode is Dan Levendowski. Dan is the President and Co-founder of Advanced Brain Monitoring which is a neurodiagnostic device company that has been working on the science of human sleep for about 20 years. Dan is returning to Bulletproof Radio for the second time. His first appearance was alongside Phillip Westbrook back in 2014. Back then, Dan's company had a new sleep apnea device called Night Shift , but in this episode, we dive into the topic of why so many people do not g...
Aug 23, 2018•59 min•Ep. 520
For almost four decades, Dr. Frank Lipman has been a pioneer in integrative and functional medicine. He is also a well-known international speaker in the health and wellness industry, has made many popular TV and magazines appearances, so you have probably have heard him if you're interested in taking care of yourself. He is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City, a New York Times bestselling author, and the creator of the Be Well lifestyle brand . On this...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 519
Today's guest is one of those people who is definitely changing the world for the better, but he's not a scientist, shaman, guru or inventor, he is Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary's a serial entrepreneur who best known as Gary Vee. He is a chairman of Vayner X , and he runs Vayner Media and Vayner Sports . He has built businesses starting with his family's wine company when he got out of college, established one of the first eCommerce wine sites in the late 90s, produced 1000 episodes of his YouTube vlog,...
Aug 16, 2018•33 min•Ep. 518
Close your eyes, sit back, and let healer and spiritual guide Shaman Durek create a bridge between your spiritual and physical self with this guided meditation brought to you by Bulletproof Radio. If you want to know more about Shaman Durek download his Bulletproof Radio podcast with Dave Asprey on iTunes and Google Podcasts. You're welcome. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 15, 2018•22 min•Ep. 517
Today's guest is known as Shaman Durek and is a third generation shaman who has devoted decades to the study and practice of becoming a thought leader and spiritual enthusiast for people all over the globe. Durek acts as a bridge between the spiritual and physical planes (which he demonstrates during the podcast), and applies ancient spiritual wisdom to help bring success, happiness and healing into clients’ lives. In this podcast episode, we talk about visiting hospitals around the world, commu...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 517
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, our guests are Justin Strahan and Scott Nelson , the co-founders of a company called Joovv . Joovv is a company that is taking the clinical research behind the healing benefits of red light therapy and turning that into practical devices that you can use at home. Scott and Justin have a combination of expertise that is truly unique. Scott focuses on the biology of how this stuff works and Justin has spent years doing design and engineering. So, in this episo...
Aug 09, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 516
Today's guests are the founders of BiOptimizers , Wade Lightheart and Matt Gallant . Both of these guys are high performers, they look amazing, and they both have deep knowledge of human performance. Wade is a former three-time Canadian natural body-building champion, and Matt is an experienced strength and conditioning coach for pro athletes who is in ketosis most of the time. Matt has also been working on supplements for more than a decade - so he really knows his stuff. In this episode, we ta...
Aug 07, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 515
This podcast episode is all about the brain because the guest is master clinician, certified neuropsychiatrist, and brain scientist, Dr. David Feifel. Feifel founded the Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute in San Diego after having been a professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego for more than 20 years. Nearly a decade ago, he developed the world's first ketamine infusion program for psychiatric disorders and integrated that practice into the UCSD's Center for Advanced Treatments. In this episode, we...
Jul 31, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 513
Today's guest was an anesthesiologist at the top of his game before he changed his focus to become a leader in Regenerative Medicine. His name is Dr. Matt Cook and he has repaired injuries for many top-tier athletes, enabling their bodies to heal in ways that are not normally possible. In addition, Dr. Cook sits on the scientific advisory board of several high profile medical companies and is a true a leader in the emerging fields of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound imaging, nerve hydrodissection, and...
Jul 26, 2018•56 min•Ep. 512
Today's Bulletproof Radio guest is Dr. Michelle Perro who is a 37 year veteran of pediatrics in acute care and integrative medicine, which means that she has truly been on the front line of caring for children. Over the past couple of decades, she has personally witnessed the decline in kids' health and also the increase in the environmental load our children are experiencing. In fact, this issue affected her so much that she wrote a book about it, What's Making our Children Sick . In this podca...
Jul 24, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 511
Today's special edition of Bulletproof Radio was recorded at Nike's "Just Do It" headquarters in Los Angeles. And who better to chat with, in that location, than the star of E!'s hit series Total Bellas and Total Divas , WWE superstar and entrepreneur Nikki Bella. Aside from being a kickass WWE star, Nikki owns and runs the businesses BirdieBee.com and BelleRadici.com . She was also ranked No. 2 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Female 50 , and was named 2015's Diva of the Year by Rolling Stone mag...
Jul 19, 2018•42 min•Ep. 510
