Bulletproof Founder Dave Asprey wants to be Immortal

Dave Asprey has spent over $300,000 on research trying to do so, using data to optimize his mind and body. Everyone wants to live forever, but the reason Dave Asprey wants to live forever is quite different and interesting.

Dave Asprey once told his life story and the reason behind living for a long period of time in an interview. He started with his childhood memory:

"When I was 14 I was diagnosed with arthritis in my knees, And I remember, going home, I was shaken. Because in my mind, as a 14-year-old, I said, look, this is a disease that old people get. And now that I'm 46-- when I say "old people," I'm talking about people that I respect and admire, the sources of wisdom."

"And I cultivate friends, when I can find them, at least twice as old as I am, because they know all the stuff that I haven't learned yet. But at the time, I said, I'm young. I'm a teenager. I'm not supposed to be experiencing this. And I was dealing with metabolic issues. I already had stretch marks that still cover me. I hit 300 pounds in my very early 20's."

"And I started having brain fog in my mid-20's. I was diagnosed with a high risk of stroke and heart attack-- very high risk-- as circled by the doctor when I was 29 years old. It turns out I was dealing with all the stuff that normally hits you when you're 60-plus. And I was doing it as a young man. And it scared the heck out of me. And it did that because no one likes to look in the mirror at a time you're supposed to be growing your career and say, I can't remember what happened in that meeting. It turned out that the people who knew how to fix this weren't my doctor."

"My doctor told me vitamin C would actually kill me, believe it or not. So I fired him. And for four years, I became my own scientist. Fortunately, I'm a computer hacker, and I know how to do that kind of thing. But then I hooked up with an anti-aging nonprofit group. And I started hanging out with these people full of wisdom who are making themselves younger. And the stuff that they knew, the things I was learning from them and the top researchers".

"They gave me the tools of what became biohacking, a movement of people that's now even a word in the dictionary. It didn't exist eight years ago. Well, it turns out that those tools that make older people young make younger people kick a**. "

Dave Asprey started doing his own research. Dave is part of the ‘growing biohacking movement’, which is made up of people (mostly men) who use data science to become "super-human."

In a few weeks, he will open Bulletproof Labs, a facility in California, where members can practice biohacking — for exercising on special equipment to boost your immune system, give you more energy, and help you live longer.

He got parts of his Bone marrow removed to have the stem cells injected back into his body. As part of his morning routine, Asprey also picks a "biohacking practice" to work on. These include lying underneath an ultraviolet light for 10 minutes (which he says slows down aging).

Standing on a "biovibration platform" that vibrates 30 times a second (which he says burns calories), or standing inside his cryotherapy chamber that flows -260-degree nitrogen-iced air for about two minutes (which he says reduces muscle inflammation).

He believes that one day, he’ll hack the process of life & death, and live up to 200 years.