The New Poisons Lurking Around You – Save Your Longevity

Dave Asprey

Aug 12, 2025

Episode description

Toxins you cannot see are damaging your health, wrecking your metabolism, and quietly accelerating aging. This episode reveals how to detect the new poisons lurking in your home, how they sabotage mitochondria and brain optimization, and the biohacking fixes that restore longevity, energy, and human performance. You’ll learn actionable strategies you can implement right away, from functional medicine detox protocols to supplements that protect your nervous system and upgrade neuroplasticity.

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Host Dave Asprey sits down with Alan Bell, an environmental health attorney and author of POISONED. Alan’s landmark legal work and decades of investigative experience have exposed some of the most dangerous everyday chemicals in modern life. After surviving his own severe toxic exposure, he’s dedicated his career to helping others identify hidden threats, fight back against corporate negligence, and restore their health through targeted biohacking and functional medicine.

You’ll learn:

• The most common invisible poisons in homes and how they impact metabolism, mitochondria, and brain optimization

• Biohacking techniques for detox, from supplements to fasting and cold therapy

• How to protect longevity and human performance with targeted functional medicine strategies

• Why your sleep optimization, ketosis, and nootropics stack may fail without toxin removal

• The connection between environmental toxins, neuroplasticity, and emotional resilience

• How to use smarter not harder thinking to upgrade your biology for the long term

This is essential listening for anyone serious about biohacking, brain optimization, hormone hacking, nootropics, functional medicine, emotional resilience, and building a state of unstoppable energy.

Dave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, founder of Bulletproof Coffee, and the father of biohacking. With over 1,000 interviews and 1 million monthly listeners, The Human Upgrade is the top podcast for people who want to take control of their biology, extend their longevity, and optimize every system in the body and mind. Each episode features cutting-edge insights in health, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, hacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living.

Episodes are released every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday where Dave asks the questions no one else dares, and brings you real tools to become more resilient, aware, and high performing.

Keywords: Alan Bell, Dave Asprey, environmental illness, toxic building syndrome, VOC exposure, multiple chemical sensitivity, U.S. chemical safety laws, environmental toxins, mast ce

Mindsip insights from this episode:

Reevaluate chemical sensitivity as potential MCAS diagnosis

Many diagnoses like multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or fibromyalgia may actually be Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), where immune cells overreact to chemical triggers.

#autoimmunity

#immune-system

Choose an organic mattress to reduce toxic exposure in bed

Since you spend a third of your life in bed, buying an organic mattress with no flame retardants is one of the most impactful ways to reduce your daily toxic burden.

#organic

#toxin

Utilize mast cell stabilizers for comprehensive inflammatory relief

For mast cell issues, antihistamines only block histamine, while mast cell stabilizers like Ketotifen can address hundreds of other inflammatory chemicals released by mast cells.

#inflammation

Identify top 10 toxic chemicals in everyday products

A leading environmental lawyer's list of the 10 most toxic chemicals includes acrylamide, atrazine, benzene, bisphenol A (BPA), and phthalates, which are found in everyday products.

#BPA

#toxin

Challenge chemical safety assumptions to protect public health

In America, all chemicals are legally presumed innocent until proven guilty, allowing any company to introduce new chemicals into the marketplace without prior safety testing.

#safety

#toxin

Demand safer products regardless of location

Companies like Apple will sell a computer in the US with higher levels of VOCs than the exact same model sold in Denmark, because Denmark has stricter regulations.

#safety

#VOC

Reform medical education to prioritize prevention over treatment

Medical school curriculums are heavily influenced by big pharma and chemical companies, meaning doctors are taught how to treat illness but not how to prevent it.

#education

Reduce environmental toxins to lower cancer risk

An estimated 80% of all cancers are caused by the everyday environment you're exposed to in your home, school, workplace, and community.

#cancer

#toxin

Recognize Parkinson's as an environmental disease

It's estimated that 85% of all Parkinson's disease cases are caused by environmental exposures, making it an environmental disease rather than a genetic one.