Top 50 Dave Asprey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sugar is the enemy of neurogenesis.”

— Dave Asprey

2. “A powerful intervention is to take 400 to 1,000 mcg of chromium picolinate daily with 25 to 100 mg of vanadyl sulfate, ideally at the same time you eat carbohydrates.”

— Dave Asprey

3. “Quit eating sugar. If you make one change to improve your gut health, make it this. Bad bacteria love sugar and feed off it.”

— Dave Asprey

4. “I encourage you to try cold therapy yourself, but before you do, let me offer a note of caution: safe cold thermogenesis protocols involve gradually increasing your exposure to cold over time. Start off by simply putting your face in cold water for a few minutes, then if you choose you can graduate to using soft-gel ice packs that won’t freeze your skin, and then sitting in an ice bath for up to an hour.”

— Dave Asprey

5. “MICRODOSE DEPRENYL One of the most powerful anti-aging smart drugs available is selegiline, also known as deprenyl.”

— Dave Asprey

6. “After the first study came out in 2007, I started experimenting with methylene blue, with mixed results. The biggest concern is getting good-quality methylene blue, given that most of what’s on the market is chemical grade or used to keep fish tanks clean. I found pharmaceutical-grade methylene blue and kept the dose low. The safe range is 1–4 mg per kg of body weight.18.”

— Dave Asprey

7. “Fortunately, there’s an app for that! It’s called Sonic Sleep Coach, created by Daniel Gartenberg, PhD, who has been awarded more than $1 million in NIH grants to study sleep.”

— Dave Asprey

8. “Remove the things that make you weak.”

— Dave Asprey

9. “Nicotine gum, for example, releases only 2–4 mg over the course of twenty to thirty minutes, so you don’t get an addictive, euphoric rush from it, but you still get nicotine’s benefits. The nicotine spray I prefer delivers a 1 mg dose – about 5 percent of the amount in a cigarette.”

— Dave Asprey

10. “Ozone therapy is also more effective than antibiotics and is highly preferable because it kills bacteria without wiping out your beneficial gut bacteria or taxing your immune system.”

— Dave Asprey

11. “Catalase is one of the body’s most potent antioxidants, and other antioxidants can also help break down hydrogen peroxide. For instance, glutathione, the body’s master antioxidant, breaks hydrogen peroxide down into water.26 This is yet another reason to supplement with glutathione. It’s also a good idea to eat more catalase-rich foods such as broccoli, cucumbers, radishes, and celery.”

— Dave Asprey

12. “Words are powerful. They set expectations and limits and send messages to our brains and even our bodies about how much we are capable of. Language is a part of your mental software. Use it consciously and with precision, and you will achieve things you probably never thought you could.”

— Dave Asprey

13. “My favorite is fisetin, a polyphenol found in seaweed and strawberries. One study showed that high doses of fisetin could kill up to 50 percent of senescent cells in a particular organ.”

— Dave Asprey

14. “For the first time, I understood that the greatest gift of fasting is that it helps you divorce your story about food from the reality of your biology. My.”

— Dave Asprey

15. “The first symptom that your mitochondria are overtaxed is fatigue. Fatigue is an absolute performance killer. It causes cravings, moodiness, brain fog, forgetfulness, and lack of focus.”

— Dave Asprey

16. “When you activate autophagy, you slow down the aging process, reduce inflammation, reduce your cancer risk, and increase your body’s ability to function at its best.”

— Dave Asprey

17. “ACTIVATED CHARCOAL Another low-hanging fruit of detoxification is activated charcoal, a form of carbon that has a massive surface area and a strong negative charge. Activated charcoal has been used for more than ten thousand years by Chinese medicine healers, Ayurvedic practitioners, and Western medicine doctors alike. It’s still used in emergency rooms today to treat poisoning.”

— Dave Asprey

18. “Excessive ultraviolet A radiation causes sunburns, which are associated with cancer, so we decided with no evidence that we should remove all sources of ultraviolet radiation. But our bodies were not designed to be in an environment without any UV light.”

— Dave Asprey

19. “If you have lots of mercury fillings, there is a 100 percent chance you will not perform at your potential or live as long as possible.”

— Dave Asprey

20. “It is possible to gain energy as you age, instead of losing it.”

— Dave Asprey

21. “Scientists have proven that there are a limited number of decisions you can make each day before you reach “decision fatigue.”2 Each decision requires energy, and when you’re tired, hungry, or have already made a lot of decisions, you run out of energy and start making bad choices.”

— Dave Asprey

22. “An inflamed brain is an unhappy, low-performance brain that will make you act like a jerk even when you don’t want to.”

— Dave Asprey

23. “Spend more time in nature to boost your own natural killer cells and enhance your immune system;.”

— Dave Asprey

24. “The best thing you can do to live a long time is to eat the highest-quality food.”

— Dave Asprey

25. “That’s right – avoiding grains and sugar helped me reduce inflammation, stabilize my blood sugar, get smarter, and change my personality for the better.”

— Dave Asprey

26. “Mastering your sleep is an important way to eliminate some of the cuts that are aging you and take control of your biology.”

— Dave Asprey

27. “If you are over forty, I recommend getting a calcium score to measure your calcification levels. If your levels are elevated, EDTA chelation either via IV or suppository can assist in lowering them while helping you detox from heavy metals, which you undoubtedly have, too.”

— Dave Asprey

28. “I recommend banking your stem cells right away if you can afford it so you’ll always have a supply of your own stem cells that are younger than you are. If you get one of the Four Killers or any big injury, those stem cells could save your life or maybe just keep you young.”

— Dave Asprey

29. “If you’re not feeling amazing, there is always a reason!”

— Dave Asprey

30. “To help with cardiovascular issues, try the Zona Plus, a digitally controlled handheld device that uses the science behind isometric exercise to increase both vascular flexibility.”

— Dave Asprey

31. “If you spend a lot of time in a noisy environment or one with bad lighting, your brain has to use a lot more energy to filter out all of the distractions.”

— Dave Asprey

32. “The importance of eating enough prebiotic fiber is one of the reasons you hear the bad advice to eat plenty of grains, legumes, and beans. These foods do contain prebiotic fiber, which does great things for your metabolism. Unfortunately, as I highlighted in The Bulletproof Diet, they also contain plant defense compounds called lectins, which damage your gut lining and cause inflammation and autoimmune conditions.”

— Dave Asprey

33. “Excess blue light also causes inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction, primarily because of its impact on glucose control. In the evening, exposure to blue light causes a peak in glucose levels, leading to higher blood sugar and an increase in insulin resistance.2 This means your blood sugar is higher than it should be, and your.”

— Dave Asprey

34. “Can’t” is always a lie. Learn to see it that way, and you’ll solve problems differently.”

— Dave Asprey

35. “Eating carbs in the morning will set you up for an energy spike and crash along with food cravings throughout the entire day. If you decide to test this for yourself, it will be blindingly obvious. Try having just Bulletproof Coffee instead of your usual breakfast and see how long it takes you to want food. For most people, it turns off the desire for food for at least 5 to 6 hours.”

— Dave Asprey

36. “A sleep tracker is an anti-aging device with one of the highest ROIs.”

— Dave Asprey

37. “Research shows that adults who regularly engage in intense exercise have significantly longer telomeres, those protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that you read about earlier. As a result, people who exercise regularly are a full decade younger than their peers on a cellular level.”

— Dave Asprey

38. “The biggest game changer here is eating foods that boost the efficiency of your mitochondria so they can make more energy and your body has the raw goods it needs to manufacture all the proteins, hormones, and fatty acids they require to function.”

— Dave Asprey

39. “They perform hundreds of critical health tasks. Combined, they can form a powerful antioxidant called copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, or CuZnSOD. It is one of your body’s most potent natural defense mechanisms against aging and molecular damage. Zinc is a key mineral in the support of healthy immune function, energy production, and mood.”

— Dave Asprey

40. “A flexible mind changes itself and builds a better model as it gathers more data about reality.”

— Dave Asprey

41. “Intermittent fasting is incredibly useful in aiding fat loss, preventing cancer, building muscle, and increasing resilience. Done correctly, it’s one of the most painless high-impact ways to live longer.”

— Dave Asprey

42. “Don’t make yourself crazy about getting it perfect all the time – stress like that makes you old. Just aim to get it mostly right at home, and you’ll be so far ahead of the curve that you’ll feel it.”

— Dave Asprey

43. “There is a reason that stressed women crave fatty and salty foods – adrenal exhaustion.”

— Dave Asprey

44. “If you plan to live longer than you’re supposed to, CoQ10 must be on your short list of supplements at 100 to 200 mg per day.”

— Dave Asprey

45. “When you want to learn, you do. Robert says that if you’re forced to learn something that you’re not interested in, you will absorb only one-tenth of the information that you would if you were deeply engaged in the subject.”

— Dave Asprey

46. “It was a profoundly transformative experience to sit for days in a fasted state, feeling my loneliness and wondering if animals were going to eat me at night. The key is that all such experiences involve.”

— Dave Asprey

47. “To get the full effect, you want at least a few ketones in your blood most of the time. You can get keto strips to measure your urine, and they should be at least a very light pink. The minimum blood level you want every day is 0.5.”

— Dave Asprey

48. “On the Head Strong program, you are going to eat lots of fresh dark veggies and low-sugar fruits to get the recommended amount of polyphenols per day, which is at least 2 grams.”

— Dave Asprey

49. “Instead of a boozy happy hour after work, soaking up inflammatory alcohol, you can meet up with your friends for a workout or a game of softball or Frisbee – something that actually makes your body feel good and is a better bonding activity than pounding beers and nachos. This way, instead of feeling deprived of social engagement, you rewrite the rules of social engagement to work for you. You’re making a new kind of human connection.”

— Dave Asprey

50. “We’ve been led to believe that whether we get Alzheimer’s or senile dementia is up to either genetics or the luck of the draw, but that’s just not true.”

— Dave Asprey