Dr. Myles Spar discusses nitric oxide and how it affects endurance performance and cardiovascular health. He covers personalized approaches to boosting nitric oxide levels for athletes and anyone looking to optimize physical performance.
You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Formerly. You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Today's episode is an Upgrade Spotlight edition. And that means that we bring someone in on the show who has created something interesting. I want you to hear from the creators, hear from the founders and, and the people who do the actual work so that you can judge for yourself what works, what doesn't work. I bring on experts who maybe could save you some time, increase your energy or improve your performance, all in the areas of biohacking or personal development. And there's too many knockoffs these days. People go out there and they say, oh, I, I heard about something, I saw something new, so I will just make my own version of it that's cheaper and crappier and doesn't work. And I've seen this throughout the course of my time with, with Bulletproof and with some of my other companies where the. The race to the bottom isn't what you are here for. I want you to race to the finish line in a race you didn't think you could even compete in and do it effortlessly while having a good time. And that's going to take a little bit of work and some technology. And part of it is find out who's making what and why and how and then work on that. So our guest today is Dr. Miles Spar, who's an MD he's a leader in personalized performance medicine, and he's a author, teacher, researcher, a TEDX speaker, and he advises NBA players. And because he's a masochist, he's also an Ironman athlete. Did I get all that right? Dr. Miles. Dr. Spar. What should I call you?
You can call me Miles. Absolutely. Yep. All that's right. I wouldn't call it masochism. I would call it everybody has to have a goal where they push their edge. And for me, I just kept increasing the distances of triathlons till I found one that would just almost kill me.
So you only did it once or do you do these, like, all the time?
Not all the time. I've done two full Ironman. I do a lot of the half Ironman races. Yeah, you know, it's hormesis. It's. You gotta push the edge.
That's a good excuse. I mean, there are other ways to feel pain, like just sitting in an ice bath or something. True.
See, that I can't deal with. See, there you go.
I just did that this morning. That's funny.
And it's great. And there are great benefits and the science is there and it's so painful for me. So we each have our, our thing that we have to try and get done.
There's great evidence that doing something that, that doesn't feel good every day, even just for a minute or two, has a lot of good effects on dopamine signaling. So I've been doing the cold plunge thing with my 13 year old son.
Nice.
And we've been doing it every morning. And the idea is it makes everything else in the day suck less. That's true.
That's a good way.
It's kind of the same with an iron man. Although the Ironman might be, you know, you might, your knees might regret it later, but you know, when you've completed an Ironman, you're like, man, nothing sucked as much as, you know, mile 99 or whatever the heck it was.
Right, right, right.
So I full respect for, for doing it. I, I, I don't know that I want to do that to my body. But also the discipline, it, it's a real thing.
Yeah, yeah. It's a goal. It's all about having a goal that you're training toward. You know, I need that thing to chase after and, and skill.
