July 1, 2025 • 20 mins
What if your path to better sleep, more energy, and a clearer mind didn’t cost a dime?
In this special My Legacy episode, hosts Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, Marc Kielburger, and Craig Kielburger dive into the world of accessible biohacks with some of today’s most fascinating thinkers.
- Dave Asprey, the father of biohacking, shares the free and low-cost changes that transformed his life.
- Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia reveal how redefining taste buds and cooking at home can radically shift your health.
- Deepak Chopra offers a surprising perspective on AI as your personal health coach and spiritual guide.
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta distills years of neuroscience into three simple habits: move your body, open your heart, and talk it out.
Whether you're optimizing longevity or just trying to get through your day, this episode is packed with powerful, practical takeaways.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The good news is that the most powerful biohacks are free.
In biohacking the definition and I thought really hard about this.
It's the art and science of changing the environment around
you and inside you so you have control. So first,
what are the goals if you're a mom with four kids?
I have two kids, and I know the goals always.
I just want to have enough energy right and I
(00:24):
got to make sure I put food on the table
and all these things. And it's like, can I show
up right now the way my family needs me? So
what are the affordable or free things?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That was Dave Aspury, the father of biohacking, sharing some
free hacks to the multi billion dollar industry, promising to
help you live a longer life. What if you could
hack your health without spending a fortune? In this special
My Legacy episode, we're breaking down small, powerful habits that
cause big results. Host Martin Luther King the third Aren't
Your Waters King, Mark Kilberger and Craig Kilberger dive into
(00:57):
biohacking with their guests Jay Shehtty and Roddy dev Lukiya
reveal how resetting your taste buds can transform your health,
and Deepak Chopra shares how you can get your own
free personal health coach Kicking things Off. Dave aspreed drops
three free or low cost biohacks for more energy and
better sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
There was a lot of skepticism when biohacking came as
an idea.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I can ask what gave you the drive to
push through that skepticism to bring it to mainstream.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, I was pretty sick when I was young. I
had Asperger syndrome. It's a form of autism, a lot
of weird behavioral issues, fat at arthritis since I was fourteen.
And when I reversed all that with what is now biohacking,
my goal was I want five people to read my blog,
and if they don't go through the hell I went through,
(01:50):
I have done my active service. I thought about making
it a nonprofit. I didn't collect a list, I didn't
do anything. I made a quarter million a year. I
had stock options at a publicly traded computer security company
because I'm a computer hacker. I was a pretty good
one back then. So it was that I don't want
people to go through it. I went through, and then
after I recovered, like I'm not going to stop, and
(02:10):
I was you can make your brain work better than
you ever imagined, and you can reverse your age, and
you can. I'm six percent body fat and I was
really obese with a forty six inch waist, and I
feel so good. And when my brain works, I'm nice
to other people. And you give me MSG and the
wrong foods and I feel like I'm doing exercises with
my middle finger muscles, like I'm a jerk, right, So
(02:32):
being HYPOGLIBITCHI was a problem for me. So I just
want to teach people, and I write all my stuff.
If I was nineteen or twenty and I just would
have known this, it would have saved me a million
dollars to recover, and the other million and a half
was for longevity. I'm happy with that. But the suffering,
all the times I was just a jerk to people,
it was not because I was a bad person. It
(02:54):
was because my hardware wasn't working right.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
One of the things, though, that I that I often
think about, is that there is a certain privilege if
you will, to longevity or health. What advice would you
give a single parent with four children that she wants
to be as healthy as she can be, and she
wants her children healthy. But we all know it's much
(03:20):
more expensive to eat at I'm not going to say
the name of places, you know, versus getting a.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Value mil at XPlay.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
So what are things that she can incorporate for the
health of herself and her children.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The good news is that the most powerful bioacs are free.
In biohacking the definition and I thought really hard about this.
It's the art and science of changing the environment around
you and inside you so you have control. So first,
what are the goals if you're a mom with four kids?
I have two kids, and I know the goals always.
I just want to have enough energy, right, and I
(03:54):
got to make sure I put food on the table
and all these things. So you look at it from
that lens, and whether you gain or lose ten pounds
probably isn't your biggest goal. Of course, we all want
to lose the weight, but that's not most important. It's like,
can I show up right now the way my family
needs me? So what are the affordable or free things?
One of them is sunlight. Go outside without glasses on
for twenty minutes in the morning and it actually charges
(04:17):
your mitochondria and it sets you up to get better sleep.
At night. Number two, turn off the lights at night,
get some dimmer switches, so sunlight in the morning and
darkness in the evening, and eating dinner a little bit earlier,
even if it's not the best dinner. And then you
look at, Okay, what are the food choices I can
make for the same amount of money that are better choices.
(04:39):
And as an example, if you learn how to cook,
it doesn't have to be fancy French cooking. White rice
is really cheap and it's better for you than French fries.
Butter is not more expensive than many other foods on
a per calorie basis. It's cheaper than vegetables. So now
you're getting good fats instead of some canola oil. So
you didn't spend any more money, but you're more nourished.
(05:01):
And your kids are not having these blood sugar swings
that makes them into little monsters, right, And they say,
how do I get more protein? And I used to
say eggs, but man, they've gone expensive lately. And if
you go to a place like a costco when you
get a big old hunk of meat, it still can
be two dollars a pound, and you say, but that's
a lot of work. To cook it. It's not boil
(05:24):
some water, throw the rice in there, chop up the meat.
Throw the meat in there, and add some spices. It's
called soup and it's highly nutritious. And you can do
that for less than you'll spend at mickeyeas I did
not have the privilege of health as a kid. I
was antibiotics every month for fifteen years. I was pretty sick.
And so when I regain my health, this is powerful
(05:48):
and the whole idea of biomicking. We change our environments
so we become healthier. It's not about going out and
spending a bunch of money. It's about just no one
give us the manual for the body, and if you
just know what to do, you can have leverage. And
one thing I've done a couple of shows on this,
so I've mentioned on shows that just it just makes
me angry. So vitamin D is a longevity SEP one.
(06:11):
It's five dollars a month. It's a very very cheap drug.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
They're very critical, particularly for black children.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well there you go.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
More deficient traditionally.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Not just for black children, for black parents. Yeah, these
good parents they take third kids to the hospital because
they're crying, and then hospital says, well there's five broken bones.
Which of you beat the child? And then because deserve child,
we love our child, we didn't beat him. And they say, well,
you're gonna We're gonna take the child to CPS unless
one of you confesses. So then the guys confess and
(06:40):
they go to jail. And doctor Kennell from the Vitamin
D Research Institute has testified dozens of times to help
get black men out of jail for a nutrient deficiency
that has nothing to do with abuse. And the more
we're indoors, the less sunshine we get. I have very
pale skin. I don't get enough sunshine. If my skin
was darker, I would need it even a bigger dose. Right,
(07:02):
So teaching that this very cheap supplement makes for better brains,
less risk of diabetes, cancer, all the bad stuff, and
that the darker your skin and the more north you live,
and the more you endoors, the more you need. This
is cheaper than one meal at McDonald's. And just the
knowledge is so critical? Is it just tell me what
(07:23):
to do with very little money or no money to
get results?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You should have dnk to go the correct you should have.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
D have to have vitamin K because vitamin K stops
the tissues from getting all crusty as.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Your age.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
To pack.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Your latest book is Digital Dharma that explores the connection
between AI and consciousness. And many people are afraid that
AI is going to further disconnect us, but in fact
you talk about how AI can help deepen our spiritual
and emotional growth. Can you help us understand?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
You know, when you with kids, if you say you know,
every kid asked the parents where did I come from?
And the parents said God made you right, then you
say where did God come from? And then you don't
know what to say. You say, go play with your toy.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Shut up.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
You don't know the answer. So I said, you know,
now that we have digital technology, why don't we tap
into the minds of the greatest teachers. I can now
tap into the mind of Jesus. Okay, through AI, explain
to me the Sermon on the Mount. Okay, why does
(08:32):
Jesus say, treat your enemies as yourself? And the answer
is your enemy is yourself in another uniform with another conditioning,
another cultural conditioning, whatever economic conditioning, not the skin color,
but it's the same infinite source. So I can now
(08:53):
do that with digital technologies. What did Plato have to
say about it? What did Chopenhair have to say it?
What did the stages of the upnishads have to say
about it? So the book I wrote is about four things.
Number one, how to use AI as a health coach. Now,
(09:17):
help me sleep, help me regulate my immune system, help
me with this nutrition. So health coach, both mental and physical,
research assistant. It a way to reflect self reflection as
a personal guide for self reflection. You know, if I say,
(09:39):
am I a body? Am I mind? Am I spirit?
Give me reasons? Why not the body? Because the body
is constantly changing? Give me the reasons? What did the
great luminaries of humanity think about it? How did they
think about the mind? How did they think about the spirits?
So it's a health it's a spiritual guide, it's a
(10:03):
research assistant, and it's actually now what I've done is
with my own AI, which is the workshop I decided.
You know, even in meditation, people have different needs. I
want a meditation for sleep, I want a meditation for relationships.
I want a meditation for feeling strong in the morning.
(10:27):
I want a meditation for making me choose the right foods,
and the AI will look at my database of meditations
and create a new meditation for you, which I didn't
create in the past, but it will take all my
stuff and then it'll consult all the meditation experts, not
from now, from Jesus onwards, or even before to now.
(10:51):
You know, so you can tap into the minds of
Moses or Jesus, or Einstein or roommate whoever you want. Now,
with large lineanguage models, we've gone beyond that because you
have the language of biology, language of mathematics, the language
of physics, the language of religion, the language of spirituality,
the language of the Great Scriptures. Without being conscious. AI
(11:17):
is super intelligent, but it's not conscious because conscious is
a much deeper or spirit is not an algorithm. In fact,
spirit is the absence of all algorithms. When you take
away all algorithms, then you touch the divine.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Coming up next, Jake Shetty opens up about breaking a
sugar habit, and don't forget to subscribe and share so
you don't miss any of these inspiring lessons.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Now back to my legacy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Your work emphasizes the importance of small, intentional actions to
create a healthy and more meaningful life. We're hoping that
you could give one to maybe even three suggestions backed
by science, for our listeners on what they can do
to live their best lives possible.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
There's this one thing that I write about in my
book Keep Sharp, which is you know, it's classic because
I write an entire book about this topic of brain health.
And then I talked to my mom about it and
she says, can you explain it in a couple of sentences.
I write an entire book, but what should I do?
And the thing I told her, and I mean this
(12:30):
is that you should take a brisk walk with a
close friend and talk about your problems. Do that on
a regular basis. The brisk walk is important because it's
the best way to actually grow new brain cells. That's
that has the greatest evidence behind it. There's obviously benefits
to the way you nourish yourselves and the activities you
(12:50):
pursue how much rest, but movement in particular, and brisk movement,
not intense movement, is the best for actually what they
call neurogenesis human connection. Again, this is one of those
things that we've known to be powerful, and now we
have data to show that you make more oxytocin. This
this the hormone that actually draws people together when you're
(13:11):
spending time with people you love, friends and family. But
the last one was a bit of a revelation for me,
which is to talk about your problems because we have
long been told it's not the number of friends you have,
it's the quality of those friendships. And what makes a
quality friend someone you can be vulnerable around. It's a hack.
If you can be vulnerable around that person, you know
(13:33):
that they're a quality friend. So talk about your problems
and you know it really works. That's something that we
do on a regular basis, as Rebecca mentioned, to have
that brisk, walk close person talk about the problems.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Jay, what would you say, because Roddy has obviously inspired
so many people with her books and her you know,
cooking and health, what would be one habit that she inspired?
One bad? If you would say habit that she inspired
you to change.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Oh yeah, it would definitely be my sugar into it.
And I think this is a really important one for
everyone because I think people just don't understand the dangers
of sugar and how much of it we're consuming, and
especially in America, where I feel like so much of
our food is just naturally filled with it, and how
much of our diets have become infiltrated with packaged foods
(14:30):
most of the things we're eating and not natural whole foods.
And so I would say my diet as a whole
has been completely reorganized and reshifted through radhi End And
it's actually a re it's a reinvent. It's a redefining
of taste buds. Like it's not even like now, it's
not like, oh my gosh, I'm craving this and I
(14:52):
can't have it. It's almost like recognizing that our taste
buds are so badly programmed because of what we've been
can do to eat for so long, and so we
think we need it more than we do. So I
think I definitely still have a sweet tooth and I
love a chocolate freed cake if I can get with it,
but definitely made me much healthier my diet, And yeah,
(15:13):
that would easily be the biggest one. That would easily
be the biggest one, RDY.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
If someone wanted to change their overall wellness and energy,
what one or two things could they do?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Honestly, I'd say, in this day and age, one of
the biggest things to change is I always think of
the eighty twenty rule, but in this case, I mean
like eighty percent of the food not coming from a
packet and twenty percent of the food coming from a packet,
Like if you can make sure that the balance is
that way, because for a lot of people, the balance
is actually the other way. It's eighty percent coming from
a packet and twenty percent coming from whole foods, and
(15:48):
so I think that is causing a lot of the
rise and a lot of health issues. So that's one,
and I think the second thing would be I've noticed
that the fall in the amount of people that want
to cook at home, and most of us are eating
foods from restaurants or takeaways, and actually we don't know
the oils that people are using, we don't know the ingredients.
(16:10):
We are really unaware of the consciousness that people are
cooking it with. And so the second part to that
would be try and cook more meals at home, like
connect to your food, understand what's going into it, like
read the labels, start to educate yourself. You know, I
think we've put so much of our health into other
people's hands, and I think that it's really difficult nowadays
because there is way too much information online. Everybody's telling
(16:33):
you you should or shouldn't eat this. But in our Veda,
I just learned how important it is to start to
listen to your body. Most of us are so disconnected
to our body that we don't even notice when we're
having digestive issues. We don't realize that when I'm eating this,
it's actually causing joint pain. When I'm eating this, it's
making me feel lethargic and not energized. Like the bottom
line is anything that we eat or drink, it should
(16:55):
be creating vitality, energy, and likeness in the body, Like
you should feel like you can still get up and
do things as soon as you're eating foods and it's
making you lethargic, it's making you feel heavy, and it's
draining energy from you. That's design and the food that
you're eating may just not be right for you. And
so the third part of that.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Would be education.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Don't leave it to other people to tell you what
you should be doing for your body. Start to learn.
And the best way of doing that to start off
with is start listening. When I'm eating this, how am
i feeling when I'm eating this. How is my digestion?
How is my mind? Am I feeling focused and clear?
Or am I feeling foggy? You know, there are such
simple questions we can ask ourselves to really start to
tune into the ins and outs of what we're eating
(17:39):
and how it's affecting us. So I would say less
packaged foods, cooking more meals at home, and educating yourself,
because your health is in your hands. It shouldn't be
in someone else's hands.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Over the years, you've interviewed some of the most remarkable
people in the world and gain their insight and with
them on issues about happiness and living a fulfilled life.
I like to ask you if there's one or two
things from one of your guests or multiple guests that
have really impacted your thinking in those areas.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. I feel so grateful that I get to,
after six years of building this incredible community, I get
to go on tour and meet those people and hold
those hands and give them hugs and look into their
eyes and thank them for listening to us. You know,
the hundreds of millions of people who have been doing
that every single week for six years now, it's really
really exciting. So we're starting with North America. When I
(18:34):
think about my guests, I definitely think about a lot
of the incredible experts we've had on sleep. And the
reason I bring up sleep is because I think it's
the one habit that incredibly impacts every other habit. When
you get a good night's sleep, you're less likely to
(18:57):
eat foods that are bad for you, You're more likely
to have the energy to work out, You're going to
feel more motivated and focused at work. It's the domino effect.
And what I've learned about sleep is that a lot
of us are not trying to build up our sleep
like we build up other parts of our life. We
want to gain mastery at our careers, we want to
(19:17):
get good at our relationships, but so much of that
is based on the quality of our sleep. If you
have slept well, you're less irritable, you're less agitated, You're
less likely to get angry or frustrated when something doesn't
go your way because you have that foundational calm. And
so for me, the things I've learned about sleep, the
(19:38):
first is set a bedtime routine. Try and sleep at
the same time every single day. Again at least five
days a week. Second is, try and sleep in what's
known as cave like darkness. A lot of us today
have flashing lights from TVs, from remote controls, from our phones,
whatever it may be. Try and sleep in cave like
darkness as best as you can. Try and sleep in
(19:59):
a temperature that's sixty three to sixty eight sixty nine fahrenheit.
That's the recommended temperature, slightly cooler. We actually sleep better
when it's a little bit cooler than what we think.
And the last one is have a bedtime routine. You know,
eat a few hours before you get into before you're
going to go to bed, stop looking at phone an
(20:21):
hour before bed. Really create that energy to be able
to switch off. And so sleep has been something I've
focused on with a lot of my amazing guests, and
the fulfillment and sleep can give so much fulfillment and
peace in life. I think it would change so much
of our day.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Thank you for joining us for the best of my legacy.
New episodes drop every Tuesday. Don't forget to subscribe so
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The good news is that the most powerful biohacks are free.
In biohacking the definition and I thought really hard about this.
It's the art and science of changing the environment around
you and inside you so you have control. So first,
what are the goals if you're a mom with four kids?
I have two kids, and I know the goals always.
I just want to have enough energy right and I
(00:24):
got to make sure I put food on the table
and all these things. And it's like, can I show
up right now the way my family needs me? So
what are the affordable or free things?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That was Dave Aspury, the father of biohacking, sharing some
free hacks to the multi billion dollar industry, promising to
help you live a longer life. What if you could
hack your health without spending a fortune? In this special
My Legacy episode, we're breaking down small, powerful habits that
cause big results. Host Martin Luther King the third Aren't
Your Waters King, Mark Kilberger and Craig Kilberger dive into
(00:57):
biohacking with their guests Jay Shehtty and Roddy dev Lukiya
reveal how resetting your taste buds can transform your health,
and Deepak Chopra shares how you can get your own
free personal health coach Kicking things Off. Dave aspreed drops
three free or low cost biohacks for more energy and
better sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
There was a lot of skepticism when biohacking came as
an idea.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I can ask what gave you the drive to
push through that skepticism to bring it to mainstream.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, I was pretty sick when I was young. I
had Asperger syndrome. It's a form of autism, a lot
of weird behavioral issues, fat at arthritis since I was fourteen.
And when I reversed all that with what is now biohacking,
my goal was I want five people to read my blog,
and if they don't go through the hell I went through,
(01:50):
I have done my active service. I thought about making
it a nonprofit. I didn't collect a list, I didn't
do anything. I made a quarter million a year. I
had stock options at a publicly traded computer security company
because I'm a computer hacker. I was a pretty good
one back then. So it was that I don't want
people to go through it. I went through, and then
after I recovered, like I'm not going to stop, and
(02:10):
I was you can make your brain work better than
you ever imagined, and you can reverse your age, and
you can. I'm six percent body fat and I was
really obese with a forty six inch waist, and I
feel so good. And when my brain works, I'm nice
to other people. And you give me MSG and the
wrong foods and I feel like I'm doing exercises with
my middle finger muscles, like I'm a jerk, right, So
(02:32):
being HYPOGLIBITCHI was a problem for me. So I just
want to teach people, and I write all my stuff.
If I was nineteen or twenty and I just would
have known this, it would have saved me a million
dollars to recover, and the other million and a half
was for longevity. I'm happy with that. But the suffering,
all the times I was just a jerk to people,
it was not because I was a bad person. It
(02:54):
was because my hardware wasn't working right.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
One of the things, though, that I that I often
think about, is that there is a certain privilege if
you will, to longevity or health. What advice would you
give a single parent with four children that she wants
to be as healthy as she can be, and she
wants her children healthy. But we all know it's much
(03:20):
more expensive to eat at I'm not going to say
the name of places, you know, versus getting a.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Value mil at XPlay.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
So what are things that she can incorporate for the
health of herself and her children.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The good news is that the most powerful bioacs are free.
In biohacking the definition and I thought really hard about this.
It's the art and science of changing the environment around
you and inside you so you have control. So first,
what are the goals if you're a mom with four kids?
I have two kids, and I know the goals always.
I just want to have enough energy, right, and I
(03:54):
got to make sure I put food on the table
and all these things. So you look at it from
that lens, and whether you gain or lose ten pounds
probably isn't your biggest goal. Of course, we all want
to lose the weight, but that's not most important. It's like,
can I show up right now the way my family
needs me? So what are the affordable or free things?
One of them is sunlight. Go outside without glasses on
for twenty minutes in the morning and it actually charges
(04:17):
your mitochondria and it sets you up to get better sleep.
At night. Number two, turn off the lights at night,
get some dimmer switches, so sunlight in the morning and
darkness in the evening, and eating dinner a little bit earlier,
even if it's not the best dinner. And then you
look at, Okay, what are the food choices I can
make for the same amount of money that are better choices.
(04:39):
And as an example, if you learn how to cook,
it doesn't have to be fancy French cooking. White rice
is really cheap and it's better for you than French fries.
Butter is not more expensive than many other foods on
a per calorie basis. It's cheaper than vegetables. So now
you're getting good fats instead of some canola oil. So
you didn't spend any more money, but you're more nourished.
(05:01):
And your kids are not having these blood sugar swings
that makes them into little monsters, right, And they say,
how do I get more protein? And I used to
say eggs, but man, they've gone expensive lately. And if
you go to a place like a costco when you
get a big old hunk of meat, it still can
be two dollars a pound, and you say, but that's
a lot of work. To cook it. It's not boil
(05:24):
some water, throw the rice in there, chop up the meat.
Throw the meat in there, and add some spices. It's
called soup and it's highly nutritious. And you can do
that for less than you'll spend at mickeyeas I did
not have the privilege of health as a kid. I
was antibiotics every month for fifteen years. I was pretty sick.
And so when I regain my health, this is powerful
(05:48):
and the whole idea of biomicking. We change our environments
so we become healthier. It's not about going out and
spending a bunch of money. It's about just no one
give us the manual for the body, and if you
just know what to do, you can have leverage. And
one thing I've done a couple of shows on this,
so I've mentioned on shows that just it just makes
me angry. So vitamin D is a longevity SEP one.
(06:11):
It's five dollars a month. It's a very very cheap drug.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
They're very critical, particularly for black children.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well there you go.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
More deficient traditionally.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Not just for black children, for black parents. Yeah, these
good parents they take third kids to the hospital because
they're crying, and then hospital says, well there's five broken bones.
Which of you beat the child? And then because deserve child,
we love our child, we didn't beat him. And they say, well,
you're gonna We're gonna take the child to CPS unless
one of you confesses. So then the guys confess and
(06:40):
they go to jail. And doctor Kennell from the Vitamin
D Research Institute has testified dozens of times to help
get black men out of jail for a nutrient deficiency
that has nothing to do with abuse. And the more
we're indoors, the less sunshine we get. I have very
pale skin. I don't get enough sunshine. If my skin
was darker, I would need it even a bigger dose. Right,
(07:02):
So teaching that this very cheap supplement makes for better brains,
less risk of diabetes, cancer, all the bad stuff, and
that the darker your skin and the more north you live,
and the more you endoors, the more you need. This
is cheaper than one meal at McDonald's. And just the
knowledge is so critical? Is it just tell me what
(07:23):
to do with very little money or no money to
get results?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You should have dnk to go the correct you should have.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
D have to have vitamin K because vitamin K stops
the tissues from getting all crusty as.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Your age.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
To pack.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Your latest book is Digital Dharma that explores the connection
between AI and consciousness. And many people are afraid that
AI is going to further disconnect us, but in fact
you talk about how AI can help deepen our spiritual
and emotional growth. Can you help us understand?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
You know, when you with kids, if you say you know,
every kid asked the parents where did I come from?
And the parents said God made you right, then you
say where did God come from? And then you don't
know what to say. You say, go play with your toy.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Shut up.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
You don't know the answer. So I said, you know,
now that we have digital technology, why don't we tap
into the minds of the greatest teachers. I can now
tap into the mind of Jesus. Okay, through AI, explain
to me the Sermon on the Mount. Okay, why does
(08:32):
Jesus say, treat your enemies as yourself? And the answer
is your enemy is yourself in another uniform with another conditioning,
another cultural conditioning, whatever economic conditioning, not the skin color,
but it's the same infinite source. So I can now
(08:53):
do that with digital technologies. What did Plato have to
say about it? What did Chopenhair have to say it?
What did the stages of the upnishads have to say
about it? So the book I wrote is about four things.
Number one, how to use AI as a health coach. Now,
(09:17):
help me sleep, help me regulate my immune system, help
me with this nutrition. So health coach, both mental and physical,
research assistant. It a way to reflect self reflection as
a personal guide for self reflection. You know, if I say,
(09:39):
am I a body? Am I mind? Am I spirit?
Give me reasons? Why not the body? Because the body
is constantly changing? Give me the reasons? What did the
great luminaries of humanity think about it? How did they
think about the mind? How did they think about the spirits?
So it's a health it's a spiritual guide, it's a
(10:03):
research assistant, and it's actually now what I've done is
with my own AI, which is the workshop I decided.
You know, even in meditation, people have different needs. I
want a meditation for sleep, I want a meditation for relationships.
I want a meditation for feeling strong in the morning.
(10:27):
I want a meditation for making me choose the right foods,
and the AI will look at my database of meditations
and create a new meditation for you, which I didn't
create in the past, but it will take all my
stuff and then it'll consult all the meditation experts, not
from now, from Jesus onwards, or even before to now.
(10:51):
You know, so you can tap into the minds of
Moses or Jesus, or Einstein or roommate whoever you want. Now,
with large lineanguage models, we've gone beyond that because you
have the language of biology, language of mathematics, the language
of physics, the language of religion, the language of spirituality,
the language of the Great Scriptures. Without being conscious. AI
(11:17):
is super intelligent, but it's not conscious because conscious is
a much deeper or spirit is not an algorithm. In fact,
spirit is the absence of all algorithms. When you take
away all algorithms, then you touch the divine.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Coming up next, Jake Shetty opens up about breaking a
sugar habit, and don't forget to subscribe and share so
you don't miss any of these inspiring lessons.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Now back to my legacy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Your work emphasizes the importance of small, intentional actions to
create a healthy and more meaningful life. We're hoping that
you could give one to maybe even three suggestions backed
by science, for our listeners on what they can do
to live their best lives possible.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
There's this one thing that I write about in my
book Keep Sharp, which is you know, it's classic because
I write an entire book about this topic of brain health.
And then I talked to my mom about it and
she says, can you explain it in a couple of sentences.
I write an entire book, but what should I do?
And the thing I told her, and I mean this
(12:30):
is that you should take a brisk walk with a
close friend and talk about your problems. Do that on
a regular basis. The brisk walk is important because it's
the best way to actually grow new brain cells. That's
that has the greatest evidence behind it. There's obviously benefits
to the way you nourish yourselves and the activities you
(12:50):
pursue how much rest, but movement in particular, and brisk movement,
not intense movement, is the best for actually what they
call neurogenesis human connection. Again, this is one of those
things that we've known to be powerful, and now we
have data to show that you make more oxytocin. This
this the hormone that actually draws people together when you're
(13:11):
spending time with people you love, friends and family. But
the last one was a bit of a revelation for me,
which is to talk about your problems because we have
long been told it's not the number of friends you have,
it's the quality of those friendships. And what makes a
quality friend someone you can be vulnerable around. It's a hack.
If you can be vulnerable around that person, you know
(13:33):
that they're a quality friend. So talk about your problems
and you know it really works. That's something that we
do on a regular basis, as Rebecca mentioned, to have
that brisk, walk close person talk about the problems.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Jay, what would you say, because Roddy has obviously inspired
so many people with her books and her you know,
cooking and health, what would be one habit that she inspired?
One bad? If you would say habit that she inspired
you to change.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Oh yeah, it would definitely be my sugar into it.
And I think this is a really important one for
everyone because I think people just don't understand the dangers
of sugar and how much of it we're consuming, and
especially in America, where I feel like so much of
our food is just naturally filled with it, and how
much of our diets have become infiltrated with packaged foods
(14:30):
most of the things we're eating and not natural whole foods.
And so I would say my diet as a whole
has been completely reorganized and reshifted through radhi End And
it's actually a re it's a reinvent. It's a redefining
of taste buds. Like it's not even like now, it's
not like, oh my gosh, I'm craving this and I
(14:52):
can't have it. It's almost like recognizing that our taste
buds are so badly programmed because of what we've been
can do to eat for so long, and so we
think we need it more than we do. So I
think I definitely still have a sweet tooth and I
love a chocolate freed cake if I can get with it,
but definitely made me much healthier my diet, And yeah,
(15:13):
that would easily be the biggest one. That would easily
be the biggest one, RDY.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
If someone wanted to change their overall wellness and energy,
what one or two things could they do?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Honestly, I'd say, in this day and age, one of
the biggest things to change is I always think of
the eighty twenty rule, but in this case, I mean
like eighty percent of the food not coming from a
packet and twenty percent of the food coming from a packet,
Like if you can make sure that the balance is
that way, because for a lot of people, the balance
is actually the other way. It's eighty percent coming from
a packet and twenty percent coming from whole foods, and
(15:48):
so I think that is causing a lot of the
rise and a lot of health issues. So that's one,
and I think the second thing would be I've noticed
that the fall in the amount of people that want
to cook at home, and most of us are eating
foods from restaurants or takeaways, and actually we don't know
the oils that people are using, we don't know the ingredients.
(16:10):
We are really unaware of the consciousness that people are
cooking it with. And so the second part to that
would be try and cook more meals at home, like
connect to your food, understand what's going into it, like
read the labels, start to educate yourself. You know, I
think we've put so much of our health into other
people's hands, and I think that it's really difficult nowadays
because there is way too much information online. Everybody's telling
(16:33):
you you should or shouldn't eat this. But in our Veda,
I just learned how important it is to start to
listen to your body. Most of us are so disconnected
to our body that we don't even notice when we're
having digestive issues. We don't realize that when I'm eating this,
it's actually causing joint pain. When I'm eating this, it's
making me feel lethargic and not energized. Like the bottom
line is anything that we eat or drink, it should
(16:55):
be creating vitality, energy, and likeness in the body, Like
you should feel like you can still get up and
do things as soon as you're eating foods and it's
making you lethargic, it's making you feel heavy, and it's
draining energy from you. That's design and the food that
you're eating may just not be right for you. And
so the third part of that.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Would be education.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Don't leave it to other people to tell you what
you should be doing for your body. Start to learn.
And the best way of doing that to start off
with is start listening. When I'm eating this, how am
i feeling when I'm eating this. How is my digestion?
How is my mind? Am I feeling focused and clear?
Or am I feeling foggy? You know, there are such
simple questions we can ask ourselves to really start to
tune into the ins and outs of what we're eating
(17:39):
and how it's affecting us. So I would say less
packaged foods, cooking more meals at home, and educating yourself,
because your health is in your hands. It shouldn't be
in someone else's hands.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Over the years, you've interviewed some of the most remarkable
people in the world and gain their insight and with
them on issues about happiness and living a fulfilled life.
I like to ask you if there's one or two
things from one of your guests or multiple guests that
have really impacted your thinking in those areas.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. I feel so grateful that I get to,
after six years of building this incredible community, I get
to go on tour and meet those people and hold
those hands and give them hugs and look into their
eyes and thank them for listening to us. You know,
the hundreds of millions of people who have been doing
that every single week for six years now, it's really
really exciting. So we're starting with North America. When I
(18:34):
think about my guests, I definitely think about a lot
of the incredible experts we've had on sleep. And the
reason I bring up sleep is because I think it's
the one habit that incredibly impacts every other habit. When
you get a good night's sleep, you're less likely to
(18:57):
eat foods that are bad for you, You're more likely
to have the energy to work out, You're going to
feel more motivated and focused at work. It's the domino effect.
And what I've learned about sleep is that a lot
of us are not trying to build up our sleep
like we build up other parts of our life. We
want to gain mastery at our careers, we want to
(19:17):
get good at our relationships, but so much of that
is based on the quality of our sleep. If you
have slept well, you're less irritable, you're less agitated, You're
less likely to get angry or frustrated when something doesn't
go your way because you have that foundational calm. And
so for me, the things I've learned about sleep, the
(19:38):
first is set a bedtime routine. Try and sleep at
the same time every single day. Again at least five
days a week. Second is, try and sleep in what's
known as cave like darkness. A lot of us today
have flashing lights from TVs, from remote controls, from our phones,
whatever it may be. Try and sleep in cave like
darkness as best as you can. Try and sleep in
(19:59):
a temperature that's sixty three to sixty eight sixty nine fahrenheit.
That's the recommended temperature, slightly cooler. We actually sleep better
when it's a little bit cooler than what we think.
And the last one is have a bedtime routine. You know,
eat a few hours before you get into before you're
going to go to bed, stop looking at phone an
(20:21):
hour before bed. Really create that energy to be able
to switch off. And so sleep has been something I've
focused on with a lot of my amazing guests, and
the fulfillment and sleep can give so much fulfillment and
peace in life. I think it would change so much
of our day.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Thank you for joining us for the best of my legacy.
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