Dave Asprey talks with Dr. Aron D'Souza about corruption in the Olympics and the Enhanced Games, a new competition where athletes can use performance enhancements openly. D'Souza argues traditional doping rules limit human potential and that transparency beats prohibition.
This belief system is toxic. It leads to the big pharma ownership of your soul.
One of the most political and corrupt.
Organizations ever imagined by the world. Was there like one, one person who drove all this insanity.
They would boil bull's testicles and ingest them as a performance enhancing drug. They have to pull their pants down below their knees, expose their genitals, and urinate in full view of a drug testing officer.
It's gross and it's offensive. Are you using human enhancements right now? You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Today is an interview that I've been dreaming about for like 20 years. And if you go way back in time to the start of the show, I did an interview called the Doper Next Door from a science journalist who did something naughty. He used normal testosterone replacement in his 40s to improve his athletic performance, but because he was a racer, he was kind of like, I'm a doper. And I was like, is that it? And I have said for years that it's cruel and unusual to allow athletes to compete without having appropriate levels of hormones so that they can heal and recover the way that's possible. And that people like me, who is not a professional athlete, do on a daily basis. And what this has done is it's caused most professional athletes to have shorter careers than they should, not perform as well as they should. And the people who go out of their way to use biohacking, people like Nick Foles, who's been on the show, or the Bryant brothers, who've also been on the show, who do extreme biohacking, but without using all the performance enhancements available because of rules made in the 1970s by Angry, I think angry chain smoking cat ladies are in charge of limiting athletic performance. And I've had enough of that. It's gross and it's offensive. And I've been dreaming, like, what would happen if we actually took the shackles off of humanity? What would happen if we said, hey, you can do whatever you want as long as you share what you're doing so that all humans can learn from you? And I was like, maybe this is never gonna happen, but it's actually happening. And our guest today, Aaron d', Souza, is making it happen. This is the future of human advancement in sports. And I know I've already triggered a bunch of people, and I'm just gonna tell you, if you can be triggered, you're carrying a loaded gun. You should see a therapist. This is a serious conversation about ethics, about possibility, and about human freedom and freedom over your own autonomy. And the reason Aaron is doing this is that he created the Enhanced Games, which is just allowing athletes to do what they want to perform better when they know the risk. And yes, there's risk. Newsflash. Professional sports are dangerous. If we were about, let's be safe, we would ban professional sports altogether. So if you're willing to let someone have a potential traumatic brain injury, but not use technology that might help them fix it or prevent it, I think you might have to look in the mirror a little bit. So I'll get off my soapbox on that. You can tell I'm kind of a fan of this. Aaron, welcome to the show. Thanks for doing something great.
Well, thank you very much for having me on your show, Dave. It's. It's an honor.
What made you dream up the Enhanced Games?
Dave? I'm a voracious reader, and for 20 years, I've been studying the Olympic movement and, and international sports. I started my life, you know, going to college and shortly after the Sydney Olympics in Australia. And I always thought to myself, this Olympics thing, it's really interesting, but there's a few core problems with it. And there were two key pieces of literature that really struck out, struck out at me. 1,44% of Olympic athletes admit to using banned performance enhanced.
