Entrepreneur Spends $1m Biohacking His Body

Dave Asprey plans to live until he is 180 and he insists he is not kidding.

The technology entrepreneur, businessman, author and top ranking health podcast host has made a career out of biohacking; the art of experimenting with diet, sleep, exercise and tech to improve your body, mind and life.

If you have heard of Bulletproof - the coffee, the diet, the books, the supplements - he is the brains behind the brand, which is all about reaching "a state of high performance".

His biohacking career began when he was fed up with being overweight and unhealthy as a technology entrepreneur hitting success in 1990s Silicon Valley.

"When I was 26 I made $6m (£4m). I lost it when I was 28. But when you're fat and tired nothing else matters," Dave said.

Since then, he believes he has spent close to $1m (£690,000) trying out different ways of eating, sleeping, meditating and exercising - as well as using various pieces of tech - to try and improve his health and wellbeing.

"I lost 100lbs of fat ... I can pay attention, I have more focus, my IQ is measurably higher than it used to be.

"I'm not special. I just started measuring and I started doing things that maybe weren't obvious."

His diet, which is high in specific fats and low in processed carbohydrates, challenges 1980s attitudes towards fatty foods. He started the US craze of adding grass-fed butter to coffee, which caught on with some high-profile celebrities.

Technology has also been key to Dave's biohacking.

When he met me in London, he said: "Technology absolutely makes biohacking more dangerous but it also gives us an amazing level of control over our own bodies that we've never had before."

Dave's top 'tech hacks' include: neurofeedback - wearing electrodes on your head to monitor and influence brain activity; reducing the brightness of your phone using a screen filter - reportedly helping you to sleep better at night; plus heart-rate variability training - the process of monitoring the spaces between your heartbeat to encourage relaxation.

A number of his biohacking techniques have come in for heavy criticism.

When questioned on whether he could be leading his masses of followers into dangerous experimentation, he insisted: "What I'm doing is showing people base principles so they can develop the things that work for them.

"When I talk about something that's dangerous, I really do my best to warn people and say: 'This can hurt you'."

But he insists biohacking methods are crucial for upgrading human performance.

"When we leave this up to doctors, nothing happens. They do not innovate at a rate that's acceptable.

"I'm planning on to live to 180 years old, and I'm not kidding about that.

"I'm not going to count on doctors, with their incredibly slow rate of fearful innovation."

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