Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever

Written by Dave Asprey

Narrated by Dave Asprey

From Bulletproof creator and bestselling author Dave Asprey comes a revolutionary approach to anti-aging that will help you up your game at any age.

Dave Asprey suffered countless symptoms of aging as a young man, which sparked a life-long burning desire to grow younger with each birthday. For more than twenty years, he has been on a quest to find innovative, science-backed methods to upgrade human biology and redefine the limits of the mind, body, and spirit. The results speak for themselves. Now in his forties, Dave is smarter, happier, and more fit and successful than ever before.

In Super Human, he shows how this is level of health and performance possible for all of us. While we assume we will peak in middle age and then decline, Asprey’s research reveals there is another way. It is possible to make changes on the sub-cellular level to dramatically extend life span. And the tools to live longer also give you more energy and brainpower right now.

The answers lie in Dave’s Seven Pillars of Aging that contribute to degeneration and disease while diminishing your performance in the moment. Using simple interventions—like diet, sleep, light, exercise, and little-known but powerful hacks from ozone therapy to proper jaw alignment, you can decelerate cellular aging and supercharge your body’s ability to heal and rejuvenate.


A self-proclaimed human guinea pig, Asprey arms readers with practical advice to maximize their lives at every age with his signature mix of science-geek wonder, candor, and enthusiasm. Getting older no longer has to mean decline. Now it’s an opportunity to become Super Human.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Oct 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780062882851

Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey is the creator of the hugely popular Bulletproof Coffee and founder of the Bulletproof company. A three-time New York Times bestselling author, he hosts the top-100 podcast The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey (formerly Bulletproof Radio) and has been featured in Men’s Health, Outside magazine, Wired, and Vogue, and on Fox News, Nightline, The Dr. Oz Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, CNN, and hundreds more. Called the “father of biohacking,” he’s spent the last two decades working alongside world-renowned doctors, researchers, scientists, and mystics to unlock new levels of happiness and mental and physical performance. Dave is also an active investor in the wellness space, and is the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Media, Upgrade Labs, TrueDark, and 40 Years of Zen. For more, visit DaveAsprey.com.

Reviews for Super Human

[Scott · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dave Asprey calls himself a biohacker. He experiments with substances and techniques to increase his health and longevity. He details some of his experiments in Super Human. I have used some of the supplements he recommends and I am going to try boron and glutathione. I'm not sure how well researched it is. For instance, I take Fisetin as a senolytic agent and I am pleased with the results. I am by no means convinced it is safe at the doses used for removal of senescent cells. Take it at your own risk and realize that there is a risk, because Mr. Asprey does not mention there could be a risk. I like his attitude, just realize much of the things he recommends have not been tested on humans.

[sam · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved how into the weeds this got and the paradigm shift of aging as more of a disease than an inevitable fate.

[Lance · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dave Asprey have outdone himself again. I was so interested in the information and the delivery was so good that it took me only 3 days to get thru this book. I will be imediatekt listeningnto it again and probably getting a print copy also to highlight and Mark up things that I find are important. Like the whole book.

[OffRoadEngineer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a great book with many actionable steps. You will want to have a pen and paper ready if you listen to this book.

[Lora Friedenthal · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Lots of good info in here. It's a bit tough to keep track of the recommendations in audio form, though.

[rickgrcia · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Honestly, I'm barely 2 hours into the book and already it's worth 5 stars. Amazing wealth of knowledge found in this book.

[xavi Kelly · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Lets live until 180, biohack tour way through that age

[Ben · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An indepth look at all things that inhanve our longevity and quality of life. Thank you Dave for youre well studied and open minded perspectives .

[Paul Reimers · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a great book full of cool strategies. I also appreciate how Dave gives multiple strategies at different levels of cost and difficulty so that people can choose what to experiment with.

[Vania Mendez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dave’s insights are life changing . Not only recommend this one but also the “Bulletproof diet”

[TC Ooi · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Will get the book. Can’t totally get everything on the audio. Thanks for the research Dave!

[Chyka · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I liked it but

The book cut off in chapter 22....
I don’t know what happened.

[Ibrahim Anwar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love it. Changed my life, my information about health, supplementation routine, diet. I had IBS fixed it myself by just implementing information from this book. Changed my diet. Amazing.

[ericlee_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dave Asprey is famous (in some circles) as the guy who invented Bulletproof Coffee, which is both a concept and a business. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Asprey seems to be one of the first — if not the first — of a new breed of bio-hackers. As a young man he was quite sickly, showing many signs of premature ageing including arthritis. He decided to try out a few things — actually more than few things — which range from the reasonable to the completely bonkers. Some of these seemed to work. In this book, he has decided to share what he’s learned over two decades of using his own body as a guinea pig.While the book seems to be evidence-based and heavily footnoted, Asprey is not a doctor and this is not credible medical advice. That doesn’t mean it’s not interesting: much of it is. The least-crazy things he suggests (like using a sleep monitor app on your phone, or taking Vitamin C supplements) are things I quickly adopted, at no risk to my health. Some of the later stuff is a bit too edgy for my taste.I do however agree with his core idea that humans need not become decrepit in our 70s or 80s, and that we absolutely need to die by the age of 120. The ‘maybe’ in the title of his book shows that he’s not convinced that immortality is an option — and his own personal goal is a 50% increase over what is now believed possible. In other words, he wants to live to 180. I wish him luck, and I salute his optimism and ‘can-do’ spirit. I hope he’s right.

[caimanjosh · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dave Asprey's latest book has some interesting material. The beginning parts of the book are, well, beginner parts. If you're familiar with the health research over the last few years you won't find much new here -- circadian rhythms, making sure to eat enough fat (including saturated), other relatively basic things like that. The later parts get into more advanced things, and I did learn a few interesting ideas that I plan to research more. Red light therapy, lesser-known supplements like PQQ, and seriously bleeding-edge things like SARMs all provide fodder for the more advanced health nut/biohacker. I have a few qualms with how cavalier he is about taking one or 2 studies as gospel for a given topic, and was a bit annoyed by constant self-promotions for other products he sells. (The author is clearly a successful businessman.) I'd suggest to do your own research before making any decisions for anything in parts 2 & 3. But the science is generally good and I learned some new things, so it was a worthwhile read.