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Now, for all I know we're color correcting what I'm talking with right now and I don't even know if my guys are doing it. Today's guest is awesome and if you're watching on video you've noticed that it's actually a live interview, which is amazing because Brandon Routh, who you'll probably see very soon here on Arrow Season 3 and who also played the role of Superman and that was Superman Returns, was it? Brandon Routh: That's correct, 2006. Dave Asprey: All right. I'm actually sitting here in my makeshift biohacker labs while we're Building the real biohacker labs with actually Superman, so welcome. Brandon Routh: Thank you. I'm excited and happy to be here. Dave Asprey: Thanks for coming out to my house to check this out. Seriously, we got a chance to meet in Vancouver. I was really JJ Virgin introduced us. Brandon Routh: Yes. Dave Asprey: Your story was amazing, and I was touched to hear like how some of the techniQues of Biohacking had really worked for you. I thought it might be useful for people who are listening in their cars or people who are watching on iTunes or on YouTuBe, just to hear like what the application of Bulletproof does to someone who has oBviously very high-level performance like working as an actor is crazy. You grew up In Iowa just like I think Superman did and … Brandon Routh: Yeah, just records. 3 Bulletproof Toolbox Podcast #162, Brandon Routh Dave Asprey: You're like … Are those different states, okay. Brandon Routh: Lot of corn in Both of them. Dave Asprey: I wanted to ask you aBout your story and how you got to be where you are, and then Because you are here and set up on Skype we're going to actually like hook you up to some electrodes and equipment and we're going to actually biohack you. Brandon Routh: Yeah, and I'm excited. I'm excited to get let electrocuted and whatever else is going to happen on game. Dave Asprey: How did you get into biohacking? Brandon Routh: Well, thank you to my friend, Adam Carolla and his Brother Eric. Adam, friend for long time, we were at a bachelor party in August of 2013, asked about if I tried this … I heard about putting butter and coconut oil in my coffee, and I'm like "Are you crazy?". He had on his phone the article, at that time the post and I read it and I was just Blown away By what you were talking aBout with fat and my world was turned upside down and I was intrigued, instead of Being scared, I was like, "What is this?" I, that following Monday I think, I was traveling and from that two days after I heard it, I basically transforms my whole diet and way of eating and started on Bulletproof coffee and I've had it every day with exception of one day when I had … Two days when I've had tea instead of Bulletproof coffee and start eating a lot more fat and turned my Brain on … Turned the light on in my Brain, I didn't know it was off, it's like how I'd like to explain it. It's made so many different changes for me, allowed me to have so many different changes not just in my energy and in my aBility to communicate and rememBer things and my social engagement, But also sleep and many other ways. That's the short story, But so I've Been Basically Bulletproof for a little over a year now and turning my family and all my friends as I can. My son is pretty Bulletproof. Dave Asprey: How old is your son now? Brandon Routh: He is two years old. Dave Asprey: Two years old. 4 Bulletproof Toolbox Podcast #162, Brandon Routh Brandon Routh: A lot of this happened while when he was turning one, when we were starting to introduce, six months, you start to introduce solid food. It's all avocado and banana and sweet potato and we're getting to the point where we were deciding whether he was going to have animal protein, animal meat for the first time really and I had gone Back and forth throughout the years and well, I never really been vegan or vegetarian, But I daBBled, I tried vegan. That made me start thinking about that whole lifestyle and raw vegan and I had sampled really good food on both sides, and in Los Angeles still it's kind of some of the Best food that you can get, purest, cleanest food. Unfortunately it's only you can get in a vegan restaurant. There aren't many carnivorous restaurants that really do too much of that. I was doing this kind of exploration aBout how I felt aBout it, saw this video on YouTube with this kid Questioning what's before us and they had asked, "MayBe I should let my son have his choice." Then I read some things aBout processed foods to Be given … Rice puffs to help their dexterity and learned aBout the whole extrusion process, what's their they, I started reading about grains and all the stuff, and then it was a couple of days after that, that my buddy introduced me to Bulletproof coffee. Those two things crossed path’s and explosions in my head. Now, I'm where I am, and he's eating a lot of meats, fish, Beef, little Bit of chicken, high fat, very … He's incrediBly dense and intelligent and vocal and… Dave Asprey: The density you've noticed? Brandon Routh: Yes. Dave Asprey: Tell me more about that. Brandon Routh: Because he weighs … He is 25 months old, I suppose. He must weigh 36 pounds and he's aBout 36 inches tall … Three feet tall. Dave Asprey: He's not unusually chubby. Brandon Routh: No, no, no. He is just stocky, and I don't know where he pacts weight, it's in his bone … I mean it's in his bone density, and he loves all types of foods which is the exciting thing. One of my cunning victories for my wife and I is that he says yummy, yummy water all the time. That's a very good thing to have a victory, and he has over his egg every morning, especially his Breakfast, and he is incredibly vocal for other reason not just his diet but I can guess, helped with his linguistic skills also us just talking to him in terms of the practice that we used, now 5 Bulletproof Toolbox Podcast #162, Brandon Routh that we're here to talk about raising children, but he communicates very well at an early age and has a Big vocaBulary for … Dave Asprey: You brought … Bringing fat in for kids as well as for yourself and you've noticed obviously, hardcore after missing two days of increasing saturated fatty diet it was doing something in your biology light, like if felt right? Brandon Routh: I felt right. I noticed that hunger changed. One of the first things I noticed, I didn't have sugar cravings as badly because I was getting full and I'd need, as long as I had my vegetables and my fats on my vegetables and things with dinner, traditional dessert didn't sound as good Because I was satiated. I have a couple of bites of dark chocolate or whatever it was and I'd be satiated. I can notice when I don't have enough fat those are days when I feel "Oh, I can really have something sweet and that would Be really good, Because I'm not getting enough from the fat." Also just hunger period, now I can go 7-8 hours without eating, not that anybody should do that, But there are times when that happens and I didn't lose my mind and I didn't get upset and you get cranky, like I used to all the time.