The Real Point of Dave Asprey’s Quest to Live Forever
The Bulletproof founder and biohacker talks about his new book and his ‘hobby’ of chasing immortality
My grandmother lived forever, and by that I mean 102. She always said, “I plan to live until next February.” It was a modest plan, requiring a lot of bridge, no small amount of vodka, Planters Cheez Balls. (What we now call “micro choices.”) Every February, she said, “I hope I make it to next February.” And she lived forever. Until she didn’t.
Dave Asprey, however, actually wants to live forever, and by that, he means 180 years old. Or beyond. Biohacker extraordinaire, Asprey invented Bulletproof Coffee (itself a biohack, used in his intermittent fasting programs) and sold it to a nation of people hungry for clarity and caffeine. Now he has a new book, Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever.
You may be familiar with the business of living forever — the boosting of hormones, cleaning up blood cells, absorbing the right types of light, engineering personal diets, throwing back the selected supplements with gusto. As he churns through lists of apps and hacks, the book is initially gripped with Asprey’s exhaustingly earnest vigor.
