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Dave Asprey (0:00)
It's totally crazy. What happens when your brain is tapped out on energy. Then you're not going to be able to get the quality sleep that you want, which makes you more tapped out of energy, and you just get stuck in this negative cycle.
Dr. Patrick K. Porter (0:11)
You don't need a lot of sleep. Most people are. The misconception is we need eight hours of sleep. That's not true. Studies show six and a half hours is the optimum because I'm not wasting my time in bed. You know, I'm going to get a good, efficient sleep and I'm going to wake up, rest and relax. During the middle of the day, I'm going to do my reboot because everybody has a psychological and physiological low. About 2:00 in the afternoon, your temperature drops 2 degrees.
Dave Asprey (0:31)
Just having a a photo of the sun in your office can change your brain waves. It seems counterintuitive that you could use light in order to induce sleep. How does that work with Braintap? You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.
Dr. Patrick K. Porter (0:48)
Hey, real quick.
Dave Asprey (0:49)
If you've only been listening on your favorite podcast app, you're missing half the fun. Head on over to my YouTube channel. I'm doing way more over there. Full video podcast episodes, weekly YouTube only videos, and some wild extras you're not going to hear here. Just search Dave Asprey on YouTube. See you there. Today is a special short edition of the podcast and it is a focused episode looking at light and sound and biohacking and what you can do. Our guest is a longtime friend and member of the community and a guy who is a lead sponsor at the Biohacking Conference May 28th in Austin, Texas. None other than Dr. Patrick K. Porter, who's the founder and chief brain officer at Braintap. And Braintap is a platform that blends light, sound and guided visualization to let you have full control of your brain function, your mental performance, your stress levels. It's got decades of experience in neuroscience and we're going to go deep on how this works. Dr. Porter or Patrick, welcome to the show.
Dr. Patrick K. Porter (1:51)
Hey, thanks for having me, Dave. It's great to be here.
Dave Asprey (1:53)
How do light and sound rewrite biology?
Dr. Patrick K. Porter (1:56)
Well, it actually. Now they're proving it actually changes your DNA because. Because now they know that our DNA is actually a crystalline structure of like 80,000. We could stretch our DNA from here to Pluto and it's absorbing light energy and transmitting that energy as codes. So if we don't have energy, we can't transmit those codes. So first of all we're going to give energy to the body, what's needed. So think about it. You want to drive to New York and you're in Florida. You can't drive without a gas tank full of gas. So a lot of people try to make changes in their life. They don't have any energy in their cells. So we need to fill the energy in the cells. And also what happens is we know that your genetic system, your epigenetics, has changed by the words you choose, actually, even by the people you're around. Everything you're talking about in biohacking changes. When somebody says, what changes your biology, Everything. When you think about the words you use, they now know. Like Bruce Lipton, who we bring out all the time to Quantum University. He says 3200 gene expressions are triggered by or basically activated, either going up or down, depending upon your propensity to being an optimist or a pessimist. If you're a pessimist, they've actually done studies that show you actually crush your mitochondria. 200 times less energy is emitted from the cells or light. They can actually measure this. So when we think about what do we do first? We're going to create an environment balancing the brain. Because most people when we're born, when you and I were born, Dave, we had 18.1 volts in our brain. And then by the time we're 27, it's usually about 10.1 volts. If that voltage goes down below 6, we're going to start having dementia. If it goes down below 4, we're going to start having Alzheimer's symptoms. It's all about energy. So if we can bring that energy up, then we can function better, we can think better, we can perform better. And most importantly, the one thing that most people take for granted is sleep better. You know you want to sleep, you know, that's where you incubate those superpowers.
