Dave Asprey

What if you could use sleep and exercise to trick your body into thinking you’re fasting?

What if fasting could be personalized to your gender and your genes?

What if fasting could make you both physically and mentally stronger

We each seek our own, idiosyncratic path toward the same goals of controlling our hungers and overcoming our cravings, cravings for anything we want but don’t have. That is exactly what makes fasting so powerful

It’s more than what’s (not) on your plate

Meditation is going without thinking.

Solitude is going without other humans.

Sabbath (or Shabbat) is going without working.

Abstinence is going without sex and sexual release

be something that doesn’t seem like an addiction at all, such as going to the gym. Whatever it is you think you need, fasting is about deciding that you are in charge of it—about summoning the internal fire to say “no

When you go without, it creates space in your mind to examine the things you think you depend on and to discover whether that dependence is

You can actually fast from oxygen. It’s called hypoxic training, and it can increase endurance

are now exposing themselves to brief periods of no oxygen, which drives superhuman biological changes

are now exposing themselves to brief periods of no oxygen, which drives superhuman biological changes. There are also ways to “fast” from oxygen by controlling your breathing, which can greatly enhance a meditative state

Examining
your actual needs versus your perceived needs up