{"id":34146,"date":"2025-06-13T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=34146"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:27:53","slug":"larry-chiang-asks-dave-asprey-5-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/larry-chiang-asks-dave-asprey-5-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Chiang Asks Dave Asprey 5 Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div>Beyond is a Biohacking Conference to take place may 27-29, 2026<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let\u2019s get our ROI before May 26, 2026. Here\u2019s a start<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><br id=\"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote type=\"cite\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Subject:<\/b>&nbsp;<b>Re: Interview with Dave Asprey<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote type=\"cite\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 18px;\"><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">Q<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">1 :<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;What&#8217;s the &#8220;hack&#8221; that you are most proud of outside of biohacking?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">Forgiveness. It\u2019s the ultimate nervous system upgrade. Not the fluffy kind\u2014I\u2019m talking about rewiring your&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">subconscious<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;so you\u2019re no longer controlled by resentment, shame, or rage. Most people think biohacking is just about supplements or cold plunges. But learning how to let go of emotional triggers? That\u2019s how you stop being programmable. You reclaim energy you didn\u2019t even know you were leaking. It\u2019s the cleanest, most powerful freedom I\u2019ve ever found\u2014and now it&#8217;s programmable. Matters more for executives.<\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">Q2: What is your 1st entrepreneurship \u2018project&#8217; that only family childhood friends know about<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">I was in 9th grade and selling candy bars at school. I didn&#8217;t know the word biohacking yet, but I did know that&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\">10am<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\">2pm<\/span>&nbsp;were the sweet spot for sales based on blood sugar crashes. I made $50\/day doing it at a time when minimum wage was $2. Fast forward, and that same instinct helped me build a nine-figure company using data-driven personalization for human performance.<\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\">Q3: I&#8217;m an advocate of mind-body- HEALTH and their&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\">inferconnectedness<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\">&#8230; How would you catalyze curiosity in a&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\">non believer<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s7\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">I\u2019d let their biology do the talking. Put them in front of a&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">red light<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;panel, give them mold-free mineralized coffee, and measure their brainwaves in real time. When they&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s6\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-style: italic;\">feel<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;the shift\u2014more clarity, less anxiety, better focus\u2014they don\u2019t need a philosophy. They need to understand one thing: the nervous system is trainable. Once they get a glimpse of their upgraded self, curiosity becomes a craving. That\u2019s the gateway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s11\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 18px;\"><span class=\"s8\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s9\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\">Q3b:&nbsp;What&#8217;s your foot-in-the-door idea that causes people to change habit(s)?<\/span><span class=\"s9\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s8\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s10\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">I show them that anxiety is not a character flaw\u2014it\u2019s an energy allocation error. When people realize that most of their reactivity comes from their mitochondria freaking out, not from who they are, everything changes. It flips the script from \u201cwhat\u2019s wrong with me?\u201d to \u201cwhat\u2019s the signal here?\u201d Now they want to experiment. Now they want control. Now they start listening to their own data. It&#8217;s enormously freeing to learn the mean voice in your&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s10\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">head<\/span><span class=\"s10\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;isn&#8217;t you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">Q4: During your Naveen Jain interview, what did you learn? And in the 72 hours after now, did you change your behavior to&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">biohack<\/span><span class=\"s3\" style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;as your chair &amp; curate 2026 conference?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">Naveen Jain dropped the biggest news on stage at the Beyond Biohacking conference&#8230;that Viome now can detect pancreatic cancer with what was once a consumer product. I&#8217;ve been advising Viome for almost 8 years and I&#8217;m so proud of the secrets of biology they&#8217;ve&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">unlocked. It fired me up to go deeper on the 187 million data points we gather for each member of Upgrade Labs. As we scale beyond 30 locations in our AI powered longevity and fitness franchises, the data is going to show us so much more about how our bodies&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">actually work<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 21.6px;\">&nbsp;and what we can do about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image0.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image0-23-rotated.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image1.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image1-17-rotated.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image2.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image2-17-rotated.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image3.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image3-14-rotated.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image4.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image4-13-rotated.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image5.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image5-6.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond is a Biohacking Conference to take place may 27-29, 2026 Let\u2019s get our ROI before May 26, 2026. Here\u2019s a start Subject:&nbsp;Re: Interview with Dave Asprey Q1 :&nbsp;What&#8217;s the &#8220;hack&#8221; that you are most proud of outside of biohacking? Forgiveness. It\u2019s the ultimate nervous system upgrade. 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