Upgrade Spotlight: Breathe Better, Snore Less & Wake Up With Energy – Mute/Rhinomed : 1028

You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey, formerly Bulletproof Radio. You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Today's an Upgrade Spotlight. This is where I bring in the creator of an interesting technology or technique, some sort of new piece of thing that is worth knowing about because it can make a really big difference for you. The reason I do the podcast is a. I'm just kind of of crazy curious about all this stuff. I wonder how it works. But what I've realized is that you care about whether something is real, whether the people behind you are real, and you care about your time and your energy maybe more than the average person. Hate to tell you that means you're lazier than average, because that's how it works. Like, I wanted to be more efficient, which means I want to do less work, so you could do other stuff which might be fun, might not be fun. And what I'm going to teach you about here, and more to the point, what Michael Johnson's going to teach about is a technology called Mute from rhinomed. And this has to do with getting more sleep, or more to the point, more quality sleep and less time. This is something that I really like. It's called a nasal dilator. So I'm going to teach you stuff about nostrils. Michael, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much, Dave.

Do your kids ever call you Mr. Nostril?

No, but they have since they were very young. Had to stick stuff up their nose as part of our R and D program. So they're quite used to my fascination with the nose.

When did you realize that you could have a wearable nasal device that was worth wearing?

Well, back in 2013, I got involved with this company, and one of the interesting things they had was this, in a very early version of what was a nasal dilator. But it looked like a cage. And when I stuck it up my nose, it was very uncomfortable. And that was sort of a bit of a problem. So went back and redesigned the entire technology. And I guess what was really interesting from my perspective was that I had a father who snored like a bulldozer. He'd come home from work and sit on the couch and fall asleep and snore really loudly. And so I was very highly attuned to it. And when I started having kids and hit that age where, you know, you don't exercise as much and your diet doesn't go as well as you want, I was then accused of snoring. So had a bit of. A bit of incentive Mainly to stay married, that I had to do something about it. So one of the interesting things about the technology was that we discovered is that it's really a stent. Now, probably a lot of your listeners are familiar with stents, as in, they go for arterial veins and hearts and so on. So the idea that you could stent your nostril and actually allow you to breathe more was something that was really, really intriguing to us. So we then set about designing what is now the mute and discovered that simply by opening up the airway, you can actually really radically improve people's breathing.

A typical human hearing, this would probably say it sounds like you woke up in the middle of the night and just came up with this idea and launched a kind of thing. There's 10 years of R&D. Like, you joined rhinomed 10 years ago, and you've been the lead author on 50 patents. So this is not a small kind of invention. It feels kind of simple. You know, stick a paperclip up your nose and stretch it. But why is it hard to do? Like, why couldn't I just put anything that's kind of, you know, flexi up my nose?

Yeah, yeah.

Why would I want to do it anyway? But what's so cool about what you're doing?

Well, I guess what I hadn't realized at the time, and one of the things we've done a lot of time get digging into, is just how complex the nose is.

And why would I want to do it anyway? But what's so cool about what you're doing?

Well, I guess what I hadn't realized at the time, and one of the things we've done a lot of time digging into is just how complex the nose is. And we know that, for instance, at the early part of the, you know, the small. The entry of the nose is actually. The inside is actually skin. It's dermal, and then it becomes mucosal. And so we had to design something that wouldn't irritate the nose, that would actually be comfortable to wear. Because even though we all grow up with sticking things in our nose, and certainly my kids have done, every time you walk into the room, there'd be one small child with his finger up his nose or something. So we're used to. We're used to that idea. But the idea of actually designing something that you can wear inside your nose took a lot of R and D, a lot of trial and error, just to get it right from a design perspective.

Longtime listeners have heard multiple interviews with experts on breathing where we Talk about mouth taping, nasal breathing, nitric oxide. It's kind of been a through line where like, how do you just get better sleep? And I've experimented with every kind of sleep technology on the planet, including the mute and including. Actually I've tried a metal stent a long time ago and that was not that comfortable, but it did push things out. Why is it so important to spread the nose out when we're asleep and why isn't our body just doing it?

Well, it's a great question. I mean, one of the interesting things about the nose is that it actually, the nasal cycle cycles every 90 minutes. So it'll swap from one nostril to the other. So the body is actually naturally trying to dilate the nostril or retract the membrane in the nose. So it's a very active spot to begin with. But what we, you know, certainly if you have a cold or something like that, you'll notice that, you know, one nostril is more blocked than the other. So that's an example of the nasal cycle working. So what we find, and you know, this is just doesn't matter whether it happened because of a sports injury or something, is that most people will have some form of deviation and it's just because, you know, our faces aren't symmetrical, so neither is the nostril. So you'll have some people with slight deviation or just some, you know, normal abnormality or you know, sort of deformity of the nose. And so the, but it's hard for the body to overcome that. So we sort of recognize that if we can help that, we can help that opening up of the nose allow people to breathe more. For the people who have a really, you know, very thin nose, just naturally thin nose or they've had an injury that's caused it to be sort of shrunk or that sort of, that, that airway to be sort of much narrower than it has. It can, you can really radically change the way they breathe. And that's really quite exciting.

It, it is very noticeable when you put them in. And these are kind of soft, pliable, medical grade polymer. It's.

Yeah.

Thanks for holding it up on the screen. For people who are watching the videos and you, you put it in there, you adjust it so it's the right size for your nose to get the right size and then adjust it and then you notice that more air is going in it. You know, I, I generally don't snore. If I tape my mouth and I have a bite guard in. But I used to snore a reasonable amount. But this, this is a noticeable, noticeable difference. So.

And the reason behind that is that when you. When you increase airflow into the nose, the body's natural reaction is to. For the. That membrane to retain. To retract.

So, so, so the signal comes from sticking in your nose. And once it gets a signal of more air, the rest of it just shrinks on its own via some sort of automated reflux in your meat operating system that you can't.

That's right. That's right. And it's important to realize that the upper airway is actually smooth muscle. So it's not actually just sort of, you know, it's not just flaccid sort of, you know, flesh. It's actually. It's a smooth muscle. So it's just like any muscle. You can actually get a reaction there.

It's actually erectile tissue, isn't it?

Yeah, absolutely. Which is actually really interesting when you get down the track into looking at sleep apnea and things like that. It's absolutely fascinating some of the technology that's coming through in that area. Everyone's very familiar, as you're saying, with a whole lot of other parts of the body, but everyone ignores the nose. And we sort of. I find the nose completely fascinating. And I think that's what's really interesting, the fact that, you know, our device, the way we engineered it, and this is to your point earlier, that we engineered it. So the point of dilation comes off the back of the device, which is if you put it in the nose, which I'll do now, when you put it in the nose, it's the fleshy part of the nose. So you're actually creating that point of dilation from the back where it's less force on the septum, which is obviously the middle bit, which is really sensitive. And then by putting a ratchet mechanism in there, we're actually able to tailor it. So I have. My left nostril is slightly. I've deviated more to that side. So I can tailor it to actually allow it to get the right fit, but also the right amount of air. So I'm sort of equalizing out on both sides, which is pretty cool as well.

It's kind of remarkable, the difference. And now I think early on, when I was learning about your tech, there are pro athletes doing that stuff.

Yeah. Well, if you think about a lot of the pro athletes, they can't obviously train anymore when they're in competition. You can't do anything more on the field. And so the key thing that a lot of these folks will think about, especially in a competitive setting, is their breathing. And not necessarily to try and breathe more, but to really control and be conscious of their breathing when they're in that competitive zone and trying to get into that mindset. And breathing is. And you've spoken a lot about this is about by controlling your breathing, you're able to control your mindset and you're able to be a much better, you know, have a clearer vision and focus around what you're trying to do. So certainly in competitive situations, and we've sort of had this feedback from folks who are doing competitive cycling and running and so on, they listen to their breathing, but they also listen to others breathing. And so they may be going, okay, I can hear that person who's cycling or running next to me or doing an activity struggling, so I'll go for an effort. And so it becomes part of that whole control and competitive mindset around.

Okay, so mute is like a silencer for your nose, so you don't give yourself away to your competitors.

Yeah, well, the product, it is. It's really one of the interesting things with that particular device because it's slightly different. I'm just trying to find one. It's. Here we go. So it's called the Turbine, and it's sort of. Obviously it's yellow because one of the guys who we were involved in early on is a guy called Chris Froome, who won the Tour de France a couple of times. And so yellow jersey, yellow, yellow device. But what we realized with this device versus the one I'm wearing at the moment is that we had to design it so that it would be able to be worn when you're vertical and doing percussive activity. So if you look, you can't really. I'll just hold it up to the camera. But there's actually got a flange almost sort of. It's an external piece of material on it that sort of holds it in. Yeah, it holds it in, but it's also hold it right up to the thing. You can almost see there's a bit of a sort of a little flange that grips inside the nose so it actually stays in place. So.

But you're not going to be doing percussive activity wearing the mute in bed, so it's softer.

That's right. But it's really. We're right into that. I mean, we geek out on that sort of level of detail going, okay, well, how do I. How do we design it so it's inside the nose. It doesn't irritate, it dissipates pressure. If you're wearing it for a long piece of time, long period of time. But if you're doing percussive activity and you've got to be running and jumping and doing all those sort of things, how do we make sure it stays in place? So we sort of understand the nose at that level. We do a lot of CT scans and MRIs. We really geek out on it.

No, I did not know that level of detail about it. And if you're listening to this going, what the heck? This is how biohacking works. You understand these tiny little details from gathering enormous amounts of data, and suddenly you get these new bits of knowledge or new abilities. And I'm kind of fascinated because we have 10 years of focused effort on shifting the front part of the nose to send a signal to the back part of the nose to make it open up. And you're like, come on, that's so trivial. Except you look at the return on investment of, like, all of the, I don't know, tens of thousands of hours that went into that. When you figure out that 2/3 of people either snore or have a partner who snores, and that, like, about 40% of people have slept in different bedrooms because their partner snoring was so bad. And get this, 15% of people, so what is that? One in six, if I'm doing my math right, have ended a relationship because of their partner's snoring. So if you imagine you have, like, the most attractive person you're with, but they snored like someone's dying all the time, after six months of that, you're going to feel like you're dying because you're so tired. So, you know, if they have a little transparent thing inside their nose and they sleep quietly, you might be tempted to stay. And these are very, very unobtrusive. So I'm, I am a user and a fan and I, I just, I recommend this if you have any snoring, even if you don't, just if you're going to go to sleep, try it one time and go, why is it like, why does my whole nose feel open instead of just the front? And you just explained. I actually didn't understand that until this interview, but the, the feeling is pretty, is pretty profound. Almost like if you took a hit of, like, Afrin nasal spray or something that causes the mucous membranes to shrink, it feels like you took Afrin. But you just had the mute and you can reuse these for a substantial amount of time. Right. I don't remember.

That's right.

Or something.

A month. Yeah. And that's certainly the challenge with things like Afrin and other antihistamines is if you long term use, you'll get a rebound effect where the body will no longer respond to it. So in effect we're doing something mechanically through engineering that the chemistry is trying to do. And I think that's sort of from a longer term perspective probably a lot, a lot safer.

Just getting a signal in without chemicals seems like a better idea when you can do that. How long does a mute last before you have to change it? And why do you actually have to change it? Because I might not have done that.

So we designed it so that it basically it will last at least 15 nights. That's. And that's. And it'll last a lot longer because we're not engineering things to make them necessarily totally disposable. But we do know that the ratchet system will not be as effective over a period of time. And also from a hygiene perspective, it'll start to. As it, as the device is exposed to, you know, more and more of your body. It'll start.

You mean like boogers?

Yeah, it'll just, it'll start. We just recommend, from a, from a hygiene cleanliness perspective, it's like a, you know, toothbrush. You want to make sure you're washing it and making sure it's clean and.

Change it like once a year.

No, no, I reckon probably I wouldn't be worried. I think that'd be pretty horrific. But it, it certainly we have a bit of designed obsolescence built in so that it'll discolor after a period of time. And so there's a, there's certainly. We recommend probably a packet of mute, which has got three in it. It should last you about between 30 and 45 days.

Got it. And I, I think it's useful. I have a packet because there have been a few times where I woke up and I have no idea what happened to it and then I'll find it like in the washing machine two months later. So I have lost it. Am I just. Is it not tight enough or does that just happen because I like scratched my nose when I was asleep or something?

Well, that's, it's some like, you know, sometimes it'll be because you've done, you like rubbed your nose and it's popped out, but it could be because you actually haven't fitted it correctly. So it should, it should fit really snugly and you shouldn't even notice it's there, which is the, that's the, the objective around the design. At the same time, there's some occasions where you know, you might knock it out and you'll find it in the bed the next morning.

I have two questions about mute that no one has probably asked you, right? Number one, do you use it with mouth taping?

Ah, great question.

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You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Do you use it with mouth taping?

Ah, great question. So I do not. I don't tape my mouth all the time. But I do and I find that it is quite profound when I, when I tape and wear them and, and not profound in terms of just breathing, but my sleep is vastly different. When I'm doing both mute and taping. I'm actually doing. It's, it's. I'm doing Feb fast at the moment, which is, you know, no, no, no alcohol, trying to cut down in sugar, all that sort of thing. And so I'm doing a little experiment at the moment where I'm, I did at the moment this week I'm not doing anything, so I'm not even wearing mute. Next week I'm wearing mute. And the week after I'm wearing mute and mouth taping to see because I want to get some data just because I overfib fast because I'm not drinking. I want to see what the change in sleep, it looks like over that period of time.

Wow. So it's, it's going to be pretty big. Drinking is, I mean all of my data from all 15 years of tracking my sleep says drinking is kind of bad for you.

Oh yeah, it is. And it's really, as you get older too, it becomes, that becomes more pronounced. I've just got, I've sort of.

What if you're getting younger? Because I have that. I keep getting younger.

Okay. Yeah, well one of the, you know what, I keep sort of, you know, sort of facetiously say that one of the reasons behind developing this technology is the real way of like not snoring is lose weight, start exercise and don't drink. So we went invent technology is probably the, another, another option in that.

So what you're saying is if you use mute you can drink more. Is that.

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, that's. No, we're not making that claim.

No, you did not say that for the record.

No, we did not say that for the record.

One of my jobs as a host is to put words into people's mouths. I just had to do that. It was, it was there.

Well, God, that'd be a, that'd be a real interesting step forward for the alcohol industry if we could make it.

I don't recommend drinking actually at all unless the alcohol is older than you, self regulating and celebratory and you won't do it very much.

Very good point.

So, okay, that was the first question and you had a really good nuanced answer. So the combination is pretty amazing because we also know taping your mouth signals at least one nostril to open up more yeah, right. But when both nostrils are getting a double signal, one from the mouth tape, one from the mute, you're going to have like a jet turbine in there, and you're going to get more nitric oxide, you're going to get more oxygen in the brain, which means better sleep, less snoring. There's a strong argument for that. So here's the other question for you in my new book, Smarter, Not Harder. Guys, yes, you can order it anywhere you like to buy books. If you like the podcast, please get the book now. Smarter, Not Harder. But I talk about things that work better than meditation. Right. I'm a fan of meditation. Right. But just you could do it faster. And one of the things that is provably better than meditation is breath work. I talk about holotropic breath work. I talk about all sorts of different breaths you could do. So do people use mute in combination with breath work? And if so, what does it do?

Well, a bit like the answer is yes. And I guess a bit like I was talking about the use of the turbine in athletics, in aerobic activity, if you have any form of deviation or struggle to breathe through the nose because of structural issues, then the ability to actually have something that's actually going to assist, that will obviously help. The second focus is really about the actual physical stimulation of having something here that allows you to focus on your nasal breathing. And that's certainly, you know, one of the things that I find especially probably more at, you know, forgetting to sleep. But by focusing on my nasal breathing, it gets me into that zone quicker than if I didn't have it in. And it's almost that. So it's just that physical stimulation of having something there, the sense of the feeling of actually being able to breathe better and breathe more air through the nose. It's about 38% more air through the nose that seems to be able to help people get to where they want to get to quicker.

I really like that. That's really powerful. Anytime you're going to do breath work, we include breath work at 40 Years of Zen. And I've done breath work with a variety of guests on the Show, Joe Dispenza, Dr. Barry, and the list goes on and on. It's really worth your time, especially if you have a hard time, like kind of with congestion during those. It's worth your time to look at using mute during breath work. I think you might find noticeably different and more powerful results like you're talking about.

I'll give you an example. We actually had just the Other day, as a fantastic dentist in the us Erin Elliot, and she uses mute on her patients when they come into the chair. Sit in the chair. Because obviously, if you're having work done in your mouth and you have any form of nasal obstruction, it's hard to breathe.

So.

And. And also, as you know, as well known, you know, people, if they're. If they're anxious, anxious, getting any form of anxiety, the focus is. If you focus on nasal breathing, it'll help you calm down. So there's, you know, for instance, I'm. I'm a reasonably good flyer, but I wear mute when I'm on a plane because I get, you know, especially if I'm sort of. If it's a bit bumpy and you get a little bit, bit anxious about that, I find it helps me, once again to calm down and zone in.

All right, now I'm bringing in some questions from the Upgrade Collective. You're doing breath work. Do you use the mute? The one designed for sleep or turbine or turbine, however you say that the one that's designed.

It's probably better to use the turbine because it depends on if you're lying down, will I be using me? But I think the turbine is more for those people who are sort of probably doing yoga or that sort of type of activity. Pilates, I use it with. I'm doing Pilates. That's sort of. I find it's much easier just to focus with it in. So either or.

It seems like the best way to determine your nostril size is just to see which finger sticks in your nostril the best. Is that the best way to know what size of mute I need?

It can be, but there's actually. We have. We do have. If you go online, you can see we have a really cool sizing guide. And this is. This is one of those weird. This comes from the 10 years of, you know, trying to work out how to fit people. And what we've discovered is that there's the distance from the base of your septum just here outside your crease in your nose. That triangle. If you think from there's a triangle from there to there to here, that's the size. That's how we work out the size of what route you are.

But, I mean, if I'm going to order it, I'm assuming I would order the pack that has small, medium, large. That's how I started using. You sent me the pack and I said, oh, I think I was a large. I mean, kind of obvious, just turn sideways. I Should be a large, but what you do is you try all three. And I ended up giving the small one to my kids.

Yeah, there's a starter pack, a trial pack which has got small, medium and large in it. If you get online at Amazon or mutesnoring.com or whatever, you know, drugstore, they'll generally have the starter pack there. And you can try as a rule, most women will be small, medium, men will be medium, large. It sort of works out in that sort of, that sort of, that sort of basis. The medium has been designed so it will fit about 80% of noses.

Okay, got it. So medium is the guess, but people just, when you first get the one, try all three, find the right size, go for it, and if you don't use it every night for whatever reason, they're going to last you for quite a while. Yeah, and I'm, I'm, I'm just really impressed and I never could quite figure out why. Why does my nose feel like it's open all the way up when I'm just doing something at the entrance? And you just, you, you elegantly answered that for me. So now, now I get it. One of our, one of our listeners is also asking probably one with tons and tons of piercings. You know, guys will, or women I guess, will get like a piercing in their ear and they put in a progressively larger thing until their ear is like as big as a Prius. Can you do that with these? I mean, can I get progressively larger with my mute? Is it going to somehow expand my nostril capacity or anything like that?

So the alar, which is this muscle around the nostril here, that's the bit that if, you know, like it flares just like if you think about a horse's nostril flares. Well, we have a similar sort of muscle there. So you're not going to, through use of this, change your shape of your nose. Okay, that's not going to happen.

I think that'd be really cool.

But yeah, but it actually, what it does is that because you're not wearing it continually, it's not like something that you're going to be wearing 24 hours a day. It's. The nostril will come back to normal when you're not wearing it. But it's really at night that we're trying to, I guess with mute, especially trying to resolve and improve breathing overnight. Because obviously one of the troubles with not breathing properly overnight is that the long term impact of that and this is certainly, you know, from a Personal perspective with my father, who is really one of the, I guess the drivers of behind doing this was that he ended up with. He obviously had chronic sleep apnoea at the end and then as long term he had both cardiovascular issues. So he had a quadruple bypass when he was 62 and then a. The pacemaker put him in 70. And when he died two years ago, he had dementia, vascular dementia. Now I don't have any clinical evidence or, you know, solid data to say it was related to his breathing, but I certainly suspect that the decades of poor breathing led to that.

It's a part of it.

Yeah. And so I'm a very passionate sort of, you know, advocate and evangelical about if we can improve breathing over the long term, it should have an impact on cognitive and physical health. And certainly there's a lot of really interesting, amazing work that's been done with kids. Like 50% of children with ADHD have sleep disturbed breathing.

Wow.

Which I just find mind blowing. And there's an amazing guy out of New York, another dentist, Michael Gelb, another guy, Howie Hinden, who have been working in that space and showing that if you change the shape of the upper palate, if you change the shape of the palate so that you get a bigger airway early on in kids lives, you can actually really have an impact on that. And I think that sort of to me is really exciting, but it also really emphasizes just how important breathing through the nose is for developing brains and aging brains. Just, it's quite amazing to me that we only really discovered that, you know, the sinuses were producing nitric oxide. I think in the 90s. It's, this is really, it's not, you know, this hasn't been around for a long time, this knowledge. So it's really, I think really this is what I love about the nose. It's, it's, it's untapped territory in what we really understand. Its true impact is now obviously ents. And you know, those sort of specialists will say, well no, we've known about that for a lot. But the vast population doesn't understand how important nasal breathing is and the impact it can have over the longer term.

Well, I think you've done something solid with mutes and all the patents, 10 years of research and just the level of, I'm going to call it nostril nerdiness that you put into. That's why, that's why I want to have you on the show to talk about it. And if you guys are interested in checking this out, you know, anyone who comes on the show especially for a spotlight, I'm going to get you a discount. So if you go to mute snoring.com mute snoring.com, use code DAVE10, they'll give you a discount and they'll actually send it to you in Australia with free shipping, as well as us in Canada, which is unusual. So I just, I gotta say there's a lot of sleep technologies out there. I cover all of them. I've tried all of them. That's part of the plan. This is one that's remarkably easy to use. It takes all of five seconds to stick it in at night before you go to bed, and then you get the signal into your mucosal passage and then you sleep better and you snore less. And probably your spouse and maybe your dog sleep better too because you're quieter. And that just seems like a good return on investment. How much is mute anyway? Does it vary by country? Can I ask you that?

Yeah. So in the US it's around between, I think about between $16 and $20, depending on if you're doing the starter pack or the, or the size pack.

So, okay, not a huge amount of money. It lasts for at least, what, 45 days and. Yeah, you know, or thereabouts. So if it improves your sleep even by 10% every night, this is just like a no brainer. There are some things where you're going, like I've talked to you about systems that cost, well, $20,000 for a mattress. We've had those guys on talking about all the things you do a mattress. This is not a huge expense. And so if snoring is your jam, you can probably undo it for the cost of 1.3 lattes at the current price of lattes. So it's probably worth it.

And it's one of those things, Dave, that we often, when we look at, you know, people buying a lot of, you know, spending a lot of money on a mattress that, and that they snore, they're not going to sleep on it. They'll sleep on the couch because their partners kicked them out. It's pretty crazy to us that you go, well, if you're spending that money on a mattress and you're never going to sleep on it, dude, just bloody try. Just try.

Yeah, it's worth a try for sure. I'm seeing comments from the Upgrade Collective, one of our regular members here, Todd says that his hrv, his heart rate variability scores when he wakes up are better when he uses the Mute. It's like it raises his baseline hrv. And for longtime listeners, heart rate variability is the number one measure of how well you recover the night before. So there's something meaningful going on with Mute and with this thing that you've discovered that you don't have to stick something all the way up your sinuses to hold it open, you just need to trick it into opening itself. I think that's an elegant biohack. It's super cool. I just want to remind our listeners, you can go to mutesnoring.com and that's where you get all the information about this and use code DAVE10. But overall, man, this is like, affordable, takes almost no time to use and provides consistent effects with tons of research backing up. Perfect Biohack.

Wonderful. Well, we're actually in about, I think World Sleep Day is coming up in March, and around then we're going to release a major bit of research that we've done in the uk, Australia and the US that looks at the amount of snoring and sleep and the key issues. And we're partnering with that with WebMD, which is pretty cool.

Wow.

But it's a. Pretty much the most comprehensive bits of research with users with people who are struggling with sleep and snoring every night. And I think it does point to the. Just the sheer number of people who need to buy into this biohacking concept, who actually need to understand that snoring and sleep is a modifiable behavior and you can change it. It's not something you just have to sort of put up with and live with. You can actually change it. And as you said, it might be through diet, weight loss, but it actually might be through actually finding a solution that actually helps as well.

Interesting. All right, I'm, I'm sold. I've. I've actually been sold for a couple years. I just wanted people to, to hear this story of 10 years of research to get a little signal into the body. For every. Everything you hear about here, there's probably 500 other researchers around the world working on other signals for other little parts of the body that you just could never do until we had model modern tools. This is like the renaissance for biohacking. It's super cool. All right, guys, this was Upgrade Spotlight. And thank you for listening. Thank you for checking out Mute. If it's going to be a service to you and if this idea of biohacking is interesting to you, go to my new book, Smarter, Not Harder, where I do talk about sleep as one of the most important hacks. This is one for you. See you on the next episode. You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.

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