
Super Human
Dave Asprey
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Super Human presents Dave Asprey's pioneering discoveries in the fields of diet and nutrition, offering a scientific approach on how to live your best life and look like the best version of yourself by instantly adopting practices recognized by bioengineers.
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Super Human by Dave Asprey
Introduction: Your Ancestors Were Biohackers
Picture two cavemen huddled in the dark. One of them figures out how to make fire, and he shares it with the tribe. The other, call him Thog, refuses to go near the strange glowing thing because it scares him. One of those two men is your ancestor, and it isn't Thog. Dave Asprey opens Super Human with this little parable because his entire argument rests on it. The people who survive and thrive are the ones who lean into new tools instead of fearing them, and today the most powerful new tool is the ability to control your own biology.
Asprey calls this biohacking, a word he defines as changing the environment inside of and around you to take control of your own biology. It sounds like Silicon Valley jargon, but he's quick to point out that the practice is ancient. Egyptian pharaohs chased longevity in Alexandria. Taoist philosophers practiced internal and external alchemy. Indian Ayurvedic healers had a whole science of life extension called rasayana. Even the founders of modern science, Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among them, were card-carrying members of the longevity and alchemy tradition. Biohacking, in other words, is not a fad. It's the oldest human ambition there is.
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