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November Q&A: Biohacking Anxiety, Addiction & Poor Eyesight

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

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How to Survive Long Enough to Reproduce

Your mitochondria actually are motile. These little bacteria that kind of run who you are and who I am, that's going on in there. When they don't get the power they need, when that skyscraper's like, I'm trying to build something here, I don't have enough power. Guess what that feels like? It feels like anxiety. And what happens then? You get a cortisol spike. You get an adrenaline spike. Why do you get those? You get those spikes because those liberate glucose. So you're dealing with this on a second-by-second basis. There's only three things you've got to do as any animal. Eat everything so you don

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