 Thanks everyone. I'm Dave Asprey and you may have noticed there's something on my forehead. Those are electrodes and just sort of for the sake of being interesting as well as for mental performance I'm running a shaped square wave 50 hertz current across my brain right now that comes out of a 9 volt battery. It's a technique called cerebral electro stimulation. I've been doing this in a whole bunch of other electronic and nutritional vitamins and pharmaceutical interventions for brain and physical health for oh last 15 years or so. I have an EEG at home. I have a new one on the way I'm really excited about and so I'm definitely a biohacker and what being in a gamma state does which corresponds with 50 hertz is actually makes you a little bit more focused and vibrant and just more present which is kind of nice. I've never actually presented. I've monitored myself while presenting but I haven't actually actively hacked myself while I'm presenting. This is the first time for me if I fall over just turn the volume down I'll be fine. My Twitter and my blog and all where I talk about a lot of this stuff is available up here. I wanted to talk about the path of being hyper connected which I probably am although I'm not sure that's a good thing to say. This is a capro 2. A 40 pound maybe the first portable personal computer you could have from 1981. Now I'm old I guess. Before Windows before DOS I had this because I was 8 and my father was an IT guy. So I started, learned how to type and spent a lot of time on that computer with a 9 inch green screen so doing this presentation made me think I'm actually one of the first people to live a substantial percentage of his life online because people who were born even 5 years after me it was much more prevalent and people born 5 years before me they didn't have computers and I was an early adopter you could say. I've also been hyper connected for a while. My first internet date was actually 20 years ago this was actually before they had a web browser so I worked in the computer labs and I wanted to meet this girl so I broke her computer you know I did it in a humorous way and I was trying to find the right graphic and I got it. So but basically the by the way this is a trend micro graphic if you want to know what a hacker looks like they look like anyone in this room there is no way to graphically represent a computer criminal who might hack your personal data so they were scheme asks and type with one hand. I also was the first person that's actually my photo when I was 20 something when I weighed about 300 pounds first person to sell anything online I paid for my computer science education selling caffeine t-shirts that said caffeine my drug of choice with the picture of the molecule right here. That was really cool okay I'm basically really young and I'm in all these magazines and I had my sort of 15 minutes of fame that was a really good thing about being very public the way this happened is because I lived my life online I flamed a Rutgers professor of marketing who said no one would ever make money off the internet and I said that's funny I'm doing it now. Well there was a con I think I have to apologize for this I think I may have contributed to the creation of spam it would have happened anyway but two weeks after the article about how to market on use net came out the world's first spam from a law company called Cantor and Siegel trying to sell illegal green cards I'm hit use net I don't know if they read the article but I think they did. Problem was maybe spend a little too much time online because I would hit 300 pounds that's a lot 150 kilos then I sort of thought there should be a way to use the browser to communicate with friends and being the hacker type created this website from I don't know what year this is now whatever 18 years ago from today is that's my pedaguanas kippy who's now no longer with us and there's an interesting thing here I just caught this as part of this presentation Davis never really out of touch because of things that I didn't add that that was actually for 18 years ago but here's what it does to you there was a point in my life when I realized I could know every website that was started on the internet because there were so few of them so I was like yeah I know about all the stuff like the internet is mine all mine the problem was maybe I'll just sleep a little bit less I have a whole blog now about how to sleep less and stay healthy about sleep hacking but I wasn't doing it the right way back then it affected my health and when my email account would go down it was like literally I felt like it was the end of the world it was super stressful I literally would just like be beside myself which is ridiculous I would say that I was actually classically an internet addict even though we don't talk about that anymore because that was like the media story from six or seven years ago but I think it actually happens where you just compulsively click on stuff and it certainly was something that I did without really thinking about it and then my brain started to break maybe it's because I was fat I don't know but I noticed my cognitive performance was going down but I thought maybe it wasn't me like maybe I could just make sure that it's it's just not my perception of things so I use my favorite biohacking tool of all time which is called free cell do you guys know free cell it's a solitaire game you play on your computer I found out I could play three games of that every day and some days I couldn't do it and some days I could and the days when I couldn't do it were the days when I felt kind of like my brain wasn't working anymore it turns out my brain really wasn't working and I could graph which days that was a problem so now I was fat and I'm getting to be stupid and you know in seventh grade that's not what you want so that was a fast jump so I decided I needed to to hack myself a little bit here and then I got to this internet company at 26 I made six million dollars and about a year and a half it was a really nice time at the first company to invent web hosting so Google Hotmail Yahoo all of their first servers when they were founded were stored in the buildings and served by the bandwidth from the company that I joined I was featured in monster careers because I was an early adopter of social networking and the company went bankrupt if you think you're set when you're 28 and that you can spend the rest of your life basically like getting degrees and things you don't think about and then you don't and you're not set anymore that'll create even more stress and that happened to me and I started saying I think I should live forever anyway so I started doing a lot of work on anti-aging and to this day I run an anti-aging nonprofit that's about 18 years old this is something I posted in about 98 sort of saying here's a framework for understanding the levers and knobs you can use so I say I'm hyper connected yeah I think I make I meet that requirement and I hadn't thought of myself in that way so maybe I'm embarrassed now but if I'm gonna hack myself I need to measure myself so this is written by a physician which means none of you can read it that says increased risk for stroke am I stroke that's basically a hard attack myocardial infarction so now I'm 30 and they're like yeah you're fat you're stupid and you're gonna die and I said well all right maybe we'll see what's going off the stress so I got another stress panel here this is a saliva test and it's also hard to read so we'll zoom in there these are scans of the actual documents so if your score is greater than 12 this is your ratio of norepinephrine to epinephrine these are key neurotransmitters there's less than 12 you're stressed you're tired you have low energy and no motivation you're burned out and you don't concentrate well your brain is breaking so I said well what's my score gonna be oops and I said all right let's see this is actually my brain so I said all right let's go $4,000 and get a spec scan this type of scan is popular with dr. Amon who's written a really good series of books called change your brain change your life and a bunch of other things like that dr. Amon says you can look at what's happening a specific part of the brain and look at how that affects your behavior I would say he's right and people are coming around to that but when he first started writing this 10 and 15 years ago he was hated by psychiatry in general so this was one of the three pages of of findings and I have like 30 or 40 pages of pictures but they're basically telling me you have not enough blood flow in your prefrontal cortex where your logic stuff happens and basically interesting referral I'm 30 and I'm an interesting referral that's just not even right that's doctor speak for guinea pig time so from there I did some work did some hacking and actually improve my health substantially but not all the way I said all right I'm gonna go to Southeast Asia and I'm gonna spend a couple months walking around and just having some fun but I don't want to be disconnected here not at all so I'm going to to bring a laptop this was back in 04 something so I bought a three-pound little Acer tablet thing on one of the previous kind of tablets that opened up and clamshell and spun around and I thought I'll just lug the thing around and that way I can when I'm there's no bandwidth there so I'll be able to go to mail with download my email and then do my email at night and it'll be great and as a battery so I don't need power so I was actually educated by two things very slow bandwidth in Asia in 2004 and something that I contributed to spam the first time I plugged in somewhere in I think that was in Bangkok I said I need to download so I was barring bandwidth and it turned out the volume of spam that I was receiving because my email had accounted been open for so long like more than 10 years at the time the volume of spam just was actually more than the bandwidth could handle so even if I left my computer on all the time I could never download my email because there was too much spam for the size of the pipe I'm like oh this is awful now I have to lug this laptop around and I can't even use it but it maybe was a blessing in disguise because I realized you know wow when you're not connected different things happen so I decided if I wanted to stay sane and happy really I could reduce the internet consumption that I had which had a really bad downside I'm an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley I've had all sorts of a very fortunate career success and it's predicated on being online so I could basically become a yoga teacher or I could actually change the way I work so that I can do the things I want to do and that's why I decided to do I hacked my brain decided just to upgrade it and I decided I needed to change my nervous system response information overload and I did that as well by the way that's Mount Kailash in the back there which is kind of like in remote Western Tibet that's a cool place this is me playing around with a 64 channel EEG headnet just one of those things that lets you get an extremely detailed picture of what's going on in your brain this is part of a session I did at a private laboratory that's in the middle of nowhere in Canada where in seven days you can do the equivalent of 40 years worth of Zen meditation the end of seven days your brain does the same thing that someone has spent their entire life doing a daily practice can do pretty profound stuff actually and it does rewire your stress response that's what it looks like if you ever see Dr. Seuss when they have those drawings of those little things well it's kind of like that you sit down here they glue with enormous amounts of really sticky gross paste they glue electrodes to your head nowhere near as cool looking as these guys and then you sit in a room and all you have to do is whatever it takes to make the sounds go louder and the sounds go louder when your brain is closer to the meditative state it turns out that it's very hard to do that but over time you get frustrated because it's not working so then you sort of just figure out how to do it and then they give you some techniques that help as well so I definitely hack my brain that's one of the many ways that I've changed how it works now I live a hyper-connected life now I took these screenshots the other day and 500 and something Facebook friends 2600 LinkedIn people cloud scores about five or 6,000 Twitter followers in the different accounts that I manage I'm senior executive guy at Trend Micro travel around the world to talk about cloud computing and I I'm actually an expert and I keep up to speed on that so I consume an enormous amount of information about the latest security threats and things like that two months ago I made the cover of the Financial Times for my hobby not for my day job which is the coolest thing of all I was actually wearing the same electrodes up there I've been an angel investor I have two kids two young kids actually Sam a published author that's a lie a soon to be a published author I have a publisher and I have a manuscript that's completed it's just isn't published yet the book is how to change your baby's genes based on what you do during pregnancy basically it's how to upgrade your baby so you have less risk of defects and how to have a smarter baby not talking about hacking anything here we're actually talking about just making sure that whatever is going to happen happens as good as it can I'm about 210 pounds and lean I'm relatively strong I slept three hours last night three hours the night before in fact I've slept less than five hours a night on average for the entire last two years my son is two by the way in case there's a correlation but that's not why it's by design and along along the way I eat a very special diet that I have on the website where I've basically removed toxins that slow down your brain function and things that make you fat and part of that diet is I've been eating 4,500 calories a day and I haven't been exercising I used to exercise more I've exercised at all you can see pictures of my six pack on my website I'm not gonna lift up my shirt because that's just too dorky but the bottom line is is that when you understand your biochemistry and you control things in your biology a lot of the things that we've been led to believe a lot of the things that we're even looking at doing with quantified self around eat less and work out more if you want to break your thyroid go ahead but that's actually not how the human body really works and if you experiment with yourself and you get the data you'll find that you don't work that way either I eat more and I lose weight when I ate 1800 calories a day for a year and I worked out six times a week for an hour and a half a day I weighed 300 pounds interesting I've hacked my IQ in lots of different ways I fixed my vision by in three months I actually went from 2050 in one eye back to 2020 just doing exercises for an hour a week I did some very interesting things by quantifying my hearing and finding out that there are spectral gaps in what I hear and then playing music back that has those spec those spectral gaps missing to make your brain more sensitive to certain frequencies and I share an awful lot of this data my blood tests in various flavors and comments about them online by the way this the diet that I eat for my brain includes I eat about a standard size stick of butter a day about 100 grams of butter and a lot more coconut oil and a pound or two of grass fed red meat like lamb and beef and I really like salmon's holy some of that too and eggs eat that too so I put my blood lipids online of course they're better than anyone you know because my triglycerides are 47 which is shockingly low my HDL the protective one is 81 in the last test which is shockingly high so I put them up there because I'm like guys that the things need to happen that all the scientists are predicting what happened or something's wrong with the model and right now we have a lot of problems with the model the people keep doing things that don't lead to results I have stuff about chronic diseases that I had when I was young I admit that I've slept less than five hours a night on purpose there are less people who do that and just don't admit it I talk about this meat and butter diet I talk about running an electrical current across my head now on video and this is a blog post that's about to come up where I've done some mapping based on happiness and satisfaction and frequency of orgasm that'd be male orgasm now there are privacy implications here and this is where I'm really getting with all this I'm hackable because I put this information out there so I work at a big security company but there's enough out there between all the different social media channels I have there's maybe 10,000 people one of them might be bad I don't know which one I know some people better than others and I have lots of people who would want to hear what I have to say about cloud computing or security or bio hacking or brain hacking or pregnancy health all of those are significant and real because there's so much info about me out there you can easily craft a story that's going to let you send me an email that looks very legitimate and it can have a file attached because I work at a company that has really good antivirus software and because I also know about zero day threats I actually am aware I would never open a file from someone I didn't know or if I did I would do it in a protected area on my machine the problem is that this could be a file from someone I know and it could even contain a link so someone wants to target the information on my machine they're probably going to be able to get it because I'm this involved because I'm this open because you can craft a message that says hey Dave I see you're into anti-aging and I have this new anti-aging non-profit blah blah blah tying back to what I do there and why don't you check this out maybe we can meet for coffee anyone in this room would open an email like that if it was targeted to what you do and that's how you do what's called whaling on the internet that's a targeted attack on someone the more info available online about you the more targeted you make the attack I'm also a little worried about misinformed insurers so do you think they would sell me life insurance if they knew how much butter I eat no however even though my blood chemistry is better than the guy selling me the insurance who doesn't need as much butter as he should so there's a case where we have dogma and we have data and dogma beats data especially when it comes to insurance companies they'll tell you to do the stupid thing that doesn't work because well that's what the rules say employers are the same way so I don't think at this point because I'm relatively high profile that I'm going to have a hard time with that but if I was not high profile and I posted this date up there and you Facebooked me or googled me and I'd say this guy's just too weird like why should we do this and there's parenting concerns I guarantee you there's an angry vegan listening to this video right now you and you're saying this guy feeds his kids butter and he lets him eat red meat more than once a week oh my god like yeah and my kids can kick your kids butt sorry they're little caveman kids but the serious thing there is that there are different belief systems here when you put your data online like that if the people with another belief system I don't mean science necessarily I mean a belief system about nutrition or about what's appropriate for raising kids they can call child protective services and they can make your life really uncomfortable I don't think anyone's gonna do that to me and if they do they won't like what happens and there are social implications I mentioned I blogging on basically happiness and dopamine sensitivity in the brain as it relates to orgasm well some people don't like that I live in a small town my kids go to a Waldorf school so maybe someone there will see it but I'm hoping because it's a Waldorf school that none of them have web browsers and that's okay I didn't mention by the way my wife is Swedish and so I can say yet to bra and what I worry about most in all this is enabling malevolence and what I mean there is I mentioned this cerebral electrical stimulation thing I have now it's not an online device there's no Bluetooth radio it doesn't have an IP address it has a little thumb wheel and it has a keypad I can type things in but there's no reason it couldn't be controlled by my iPhone or can be controlled from the cloud even and that creates a pretty scary scenario because what we're dealing with here is not the typical oh someone might know you know what my heart rate did actually know in this case someone can change the state of my mind you want to make me feel really tired you dial the thing down to a nice so six Hertz or something nice sort of theta state and you leave it on for five minutes or so and I'm not going to be quite as awake as I am right now I'm not going to probably pass out but I'm going to be much less capable than I am right now this device was actually developed in the 50s by the Russians to put on the astronauts so the astronauts could develop less sleep but it could be misused now if it was controlled from my cell phone I'm just imagining the day where your cell phone carrier doesn't like that you tethered your phone too much used too much data so they just put you in a theta state and you go to sleep I don't think they would actually do that I would like to hope not but the technology is there and it's there today and this is one of the software technologies that I have for controlling the brain there are feedback ones where you learn to control your own brain and there are entrainment ones where other things control your brain and we need to be really cautious with technologies like this because if you hand controls of those up to some internet entity you might not like what happens likewise I was CTO of one of the quantified self style startups with the heart rate monitoring thing and we built social gaming metrics into this to help people with their health and it was always a question for me in the back of my mind well on one hand we're telling people measure how many calories you burn but all the data that I have on this other hand says well maybe it's the quality of the calories not the quantity of the calories that's terribly important what if the things that your social media health data type of things what if the things are motivating you to do are the wrong things that's a big question and I know for many of the devices out there right now that if you do everything right you get the very high score you probably won't look like this you might look more like that so there are other other things you can do with the data that are malevolent as well including sorting information identifying specific people we have a very long history of this ever since technology came out even before computers really were possible quick question how many of you have heard of IBM's involvement with Germany in the 1940s this is kind of I don't know how it is here in Sweden but for the rest of people didn't raise their hands some of the first and most sophisticated punch card machines that IBM made were used by the Nazis to to help them sort people into one category or another and that's nothing compared to what credit bureaus do today but still we have we have risks there and the more of your data you put online especially when all of us are putting our heart rate data online it makes it really easy to legislate really bizarre things one example if all of your brainwaves were online I could do an average and I could say you know what these people who are this far out of norm they need to be on psychiatric medication because they're clearly deviating right so let's do it now that's kind of nice okay maybe those are people really sick but maybe those are just Einstein I'm pretty sure he was deviant so we need to be hyper aware that we put this information out there that we take care to look at ownership rights and right now the Facebook model which is toss everything to Facebook is a bit of a risk what you want to do when you can with your personal data is you want to keep that data private and maybe even consider encrypting it if it's particularly personal or if you care a lot about your privacy I expect with quantified self there are several startups involved there who are actually looking at the security of your health information and I think that's terribly important in the coming five years with that the end of the day if you want to change the world you can focus all your attention on political maneuverings or something but one of the biggest things you can do is you can hack yourself and when you do that it changes your perspective of the world and it also changes your abilities to to do as much or to do what you want to do when you're there if I hadn't have hacked my brain there's no way I could have started a family written a book and continued to grow my successful career and done all the other things that I've done in the last couple of years it's because I am able to sleep less it's because literally I have changed the way my brain functions and I can also look at a mountain of email or a huge amount of whatever and not do it and it doesn't trigger the fight-or-flight response that it triggers in almost everyone who hasn't successfully trained themselves to control that response and to make sure that their brain and their heart are working together which is another technique I've used so with that I think it's time thank you all