This is a YouTube video titled "Super Detergent, Nanobubbles, & Living Water with Saba Yussouf | 1080 | Dave Asprey" featuring an English conversation recorded in August 2023. The content is a podcast-style interview hosted by Dave Asprey with guest Saba Yussouf, a futurist and disruption investor, discussing topics such as nanobubbles, biohacking, health, and wellness innovations.
You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Formerly you're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Our guest today is a futurist, and I absolutely love futurists because I am one as well. She's also a disruption investor, which makes what she's going to share with us really, really interesting because I think biohacking's been disrupting traditional health and medicine. And Upgrade Labs is disrupting your gym membership right now. So sometimes you just have to break dumb things with things that are way cooler. And that's what, not only is she doing, what she's investing in, so we're going to talk about how we bring STEM technologies, the science, technology, engineering and math into things like preventing infection, treating water, and even things like fighting climate change. You guys have heard me talk about the fact that I was the first investor to back what is now Elon Musk's hundred million dollar carbon Capture X prize. You've also heard me say that carbon is a distraction if we keep coating ourselves in endocrine, disrupting atrazine and glyphosate. So I want us to focus on the near and present problems, but let's not ignore the hundred year problems. So we're going to get to talk about that today and you're going to learn about nanobubbles and the future of health and wellness from someone who's really, really well qualified. So, Saba Youssef, welcome to the show. And you're dialing in from Dubai?
Yes, it is 11:30pm here. I'm tired, but I just had a bulletproof coffee.
You got one at 11:30 at night? Oh my God. I want to say you're doing it wrong, except you're doing it right because that's what they're for when you really need to bring it.
I flew in from London late last night, so I don't know what time zone I'm on right now.
Oh, so you're already jet lagging? It doesn't really matter. Do you get jet lag?
Yes, heavily, actually. I try to plan it. You know when you, you work backwards and you count the hours and then you think on the plane, okay, I have to go to sleep. But this time it just never happens.
You know, it can happen. The trick is you got to have the true dark glasses. And they're glasses that trick your body into believing that it's nighttime. And then you never eat. When you want your body to think it's nighttime. Those two things, you land, you get bright light have your coffee. Obviously it's gonna have some butter in it, right?
Yeah.
When you do that magically, you don't get jet lag, but it's the color and intensity of the light on airplanes. And airplanes are always backwards because they feed you food and turn off lights based on where you. You took off from, not where you land.
Yes, yes.
So last time I was in Dubai, 00 jet lag. And it's so liberating to do it. And you need to have modafinil. Do you, do you, do you take modafinil?
No, I don't. But I have read up on it. But first I need to get the glasses.
I think you need the glasses and the. There's. There's basically no excuse for jet lag. So I'm publicly jet lag shaming you.
Great start. Thank you, Dave.
What kind of futurist are you if you still get jet lagged? It's 1990s.
Thank God I was only born in 88. I'm much younger than you, Dave.
You know, I was also born in 88. Are you saying I look old? Is that what you're saying?
Not at all. With your diet? Never.
All right, let's talk about nanobubbles.
Yes.
I'm actually really, really interested in them from a biological and from a metallurgy perspective. So tell me why you care about nanobubbles. What are they and why are we talking about them?
So as someone who's obsessed with science, I came across nanobubbles probably about eight years ago. And I focused a lot on Japanese science, scientist technologies, and Israeli and Turkish, because honestly, in my opinion, they had just produced some amazing products around the world. So I was just talking to some Japanese scientists, as I do, for fun, to catch up on the gossip, and they were telling me about nano bubbles. The amazing thing about nanobubbles is that they are so small, so via a liquid, they can enter your body. So I thought, okay, what would I want to enter my body?
