Why Your Workouts Aren’t Giving You a Summer Body — with Nick Bare
Dave Asprey
Jun 24, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Utilize hyperbaric chambers for enhanced recovery and youthfulness
Using a personal hyperbaric oxygen chamber, like one from OxyHealth, after a major physical effort can make a huge difference in helping your body recover and stay young.
Experience baby pheromones to lower testosterone and reduce aggression
The pheromones and chemical signals from babies can cause a drop in a new father's testosterone levels as a natural way to reduce aggression.
Treat post-endurance event recovery like surgical care
After an extreme endurance event like a 100-mile race, you should treat your body as if it just had surgery, using protocols like low-dose cortisol to aid recovery.
Harness fear of mediocrity to drive high performance
The fear of being inferior to your potential self is one of the strongest and most necessary drives for high performance and success.
Apply athletic seasons to structure life and business goals
Structure your life and business goals into an "in-season" of intense focus and an "off-season" for rest, recovery, and working on weaknesses.
Utilize ultra-endurance running to achieve altered states of consciousness
Ultra-endurance running is not just for physical fitness but is a tool used to seek and achieve altered states of consciousness for personal breakthroughs.
Cultivate curiosity to extinguish fear
Curiosity is the most reliable way to extinguish fear because it allows you to think about a threat instead of just being in a state of fear.
Train your body to switch from stress to relaxation with biofeedback
Using a biofeedback device like HeartMath, you can train yourself to consciously switch from a stressed (sympathetic) state to a relaxed (parasympathetic) state.
Utilize LSD microdosing to enhance ultra-running experience
It's an "open secret" that some ultra-endurance runners take microdoses of LSD to change their experience and neuroplasticity during a 100-mile run.
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