Searching for nutrition books can be daunting. The vast majority of books i see on amazon are books made for beginners and entry level fitness professionals that just repeats the same mainstream health reccomendations over and over again. Biased information funded by propaganda.

Two ways around this.

1. Simply buy the most basic Nutrition Textbooks reccomended by top colleges.
2. Explore the scientific literature yourself and dont buy into dogmatic tribalism one size fits all end all be all of diets type nonsense

Weak genetics  create more weak genetics. Environmental factors such as strong nutrition & adequate sun exposure in the parents lifetime directly influences the quality of genetics passed on to the child at birth. Then once the child is born, it can actually change what genes are expressed in its lifetime through those same environmental factors. Genetics which supposedly increase risk of a particular disease can be rendered irrelevant if the individual chooses to eat in a way that turns off the expression of those “sick genes”.

This is epigenetics in a nutshell.

-Wolfgang

PCOS, Diabities, Thyroid Disorders, Chrons Disease.... you name it. For 90% of diseases, There is a simple cure. If you’re looking for help from medical doctors, you won’t hear about it. Not because they’re hiding anything, but because they’re trained in “medicine”. Which means drugs, diagnostic testing & surgery. That is their entire education in a nutshell. If you really want to get to the bottom of your issues, search for the doctors who are actually healing their patients. Search for the people who have documented evidence they have cured their problems. Then study the science behind how the mechanisms of your disease work to understand why the “cure” healed your problem.

Physical conditions are generally caused by specific things you’re eating.

Mental/emotional problems generally have to do with your patterns of thought & behavior and the paradigm from which you approach the world.

If you truly invest the energy into these two things, it’s damn near impossible NOT to solve your health problems. Obviously With a few exceptions. Chances are your condition IS NOT an exception.

Destroy The Pseudo-Self

Always trying to convince yourself that everything is okay, instead of accepting the fact that nothing is perfect and it doesn’t have to be. Trying to convince yourself that you’re happy & that you’re making progress. All you’re doing is preventing yourself from cultivating true self-growth. It’s unfortunate because this is a natural defense mechanism the “ego” creates to preserve your self-image. Creating what’s known as a “pseudoself” in psyhology. This pseudoself is a false self image you constantly strive to project onto yourself & preserve at all costs.

Instead of constantly trying to convince yourself that you are happy, succsessful, empathic, caring, ritious or what ever “pseudoself” you’re attempting to project... gather the strength required to sit with yourself for an hour every day in silence. Listen to your thoughts. Bring your awareness to the battle between your “natural” thoughts & the attempts your concious makes to try to deny & subdue those “natural” thoughts. The rationalizations you dont even realize you’re making, the extreme denial of how you actually feel about yourself and your life deep down inside, this is your greatest obstacle in the way of finding peace & true happiness.

Most humans spend their entire lives trying to convince themselves that everything is alright. Constantly hanging on by a thread, trying to run away from their true negative feelings. Constantly trying to find peace with the things they don’t like about themselves. Trying to hypnotize themselves with “affirmations” and positive thinking.

The crazy thing is, all you have to do is stop the denial & look your true feelings straight in the eye.

This is the source of most human’s mental anguish. It’s extremely rare to find people who understand what im saying. It’s unfortunate. But i suppose there’s a reason very few go through with the work im talking about & cultivate their true self. Destroying the false sense of self & cultivating realness.

Id love to meet more people who understand what i speak of. Deeply.

Dave Asprey Bulletproof - My Opinion

Overall, Dave Asprey is full of ideas and information. He has three main books all of which are jampacked with value. One thing im not fond of is his emphasis on mold and toxins of that kind. I personally feel there are more immideate problems with peoples lifestyle that once adressed will make a far more significant impact than alphatoxin or environmental mold exposure. But then again, After reflecting on dave aspreys books I did actually experience my worst health problems specifically neurological in nature that occurred when I moved into an apartment that was very noticeably full of black mold.

His nutrition information is top notch. Emphasis is on eating mostly ketogenic, organic & grassfed, avoiding foods that most people are intolerant to for example foods that contain lectins and other irritating nutrients such as gluten. But at the same time I believe he emphasizes unnecessary caution with some foods especially relating to their possible “mold infection”. For example, cheese and nuts he claims should be avoided due to tendency to being contaminated with mold toxins. In my experience many people tend to do just fine with these foods and have no adverse reactions where as many people are intolerant to cheese and nuts not because of mold but because the specific foods themselves contain something the persons digestive system doesn’t vibe right with. For example casein and lactose in cheese, or the complex fibers in nuts. Its highly individual. One may find cheese a superfood while another, a super toxin.

Many people critisize asprey for his claims that his coffee is toxin free. Saying that most coffee companies have already found ways to remove the mold toxins in coffee a long time ago. They say his “mold free” beans are nothing special. And there have been studies done on coffee beans showing that most coffee doesn’t contain “mycotoxins” like dave has claimed in the oast. Which is part of the huge amounts of criticism dave recives. People call him a scam artist because of this.

In my experience, most coffees definitely make me feel jittery & cortisol/adrenaline like. Yet daves bulletproof beans don’t make me feel that way at all. Even if I consume triple the amount of coffee, bulletproof beans for some reason make me feel sharp focused and happy without the jitters. My girlfriend who works at a high tier coffee & wine bistro full time as well as starbucks part time, said out of all the different coffees shes had at her work she has never felt as good as she feels drinking bulletproof coffee. I don’t lnow what it is honestly but we both can trll a huge difference in brain performance betwene regular coffee and bulletproof

Brain octane is an isolated extract of a single fatty acid extracted from coconut oil. C8. Where as coconut oil generlaly contains only 8% of its fat as MCT’s, daves Brian Octain & XCT Oils are 100% MCT and only the beneficial MCT’s with no lauric acid. Compared to other mcts which may have up to 4-6G per serving.

When I take brian octane I feel an insane difference in focus energy and productivity. People used to think I was on crack when I first started drinking it

The bottom line is, you don’t have to do any of the stuff dave asprey reccomends in order to be significantly happier, healthier or productive. But the fact is, most of his main suggestions  are very effective for most people. These things work. His history with modafinil, testosterone & thyroid hormone really doesn’t matter when we consider the thousands of people doing the things he talks about and experiencing massive improvements in mental and physical performance.

The fact is thousands of people do the butter coffee, Ketogenic diet, avoid foods their intolerant to & various other things dave talks about even without every hearing of dave asprey. These things are extremely popular even outside of the Bulletproof circle. Keto is very popular in the mainstream and so is butter coffee. Nootropic type herbs and amino acids are also pretty popular. So is the negative effects of blue light, and the benefits of meditation and so on.

I honestly don’t understand why so many people leave hateful negative & usually childish comments about Dave Asprey on youtube comments. I think most of these people have just heard other people hating on him or “debunking” him, and so they decide to repeat all the things they heard on every dave asprey video they can find. I also definitely don’t think these people have even tried bulletproof products or tried the protocols dave talks about before leaving a ton of comments on youtube about how bad of a person dave is and how much they hate him

Whats really weird to me is if they don’t use his products and don’t like his content then why are they posting comments on so many of daves videos. I personally don’t watch videos from people that I strongly dislike. And I def don’t waste minutes of my day commenting about how much I dislike something on hour long videos that I strongly dislike.

I see hundreds of comments from people about how “narcissistic” dave is. I don’t know where people get that from. The guy is constantly giving valuable information backed by science & his own personal experience. He tells a lot of stories about his life & experiences to help give context to his recommendations. People act jealous of his success. They mention how he talks about spending thousands of dollars on biohacking himself as if that makes him some kind of snobby narcissist. But the reality is, he spent that tons of money experimentinf with tons of different things to find what works. And hes sharing all that he found from spending that money for free. Crying about him talking about having more money than you doesn’t make sense.

Overall, dave asprey is full of ideas and inspiration. Some of his ideas I don’t agree with, but his main suggestions relating to ketogenic dieting nootropics bulletproof coffee, etc are staples in many peoples routine around the world and have been proven to be extremely effective for giving people the reuslts they want day to day.

People who hate on apsrey seem to mostly be jealous of him for some reason. Mentioning his money & how he talks too much bout his experience. When in reality he talks about these things for an intended purpose.

The moldy coffee thing does deserve skepticism but to completely disregard everything dave says because of the moldy coffee controversy is just plain ignorant. And many people do notice a difference from his bulletproof beans. For what ever reason.