Smarter Not Harder: The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want

World-renowned biohacker and bestselling author Dave Asprey reveals how to maximize your well-being with the minimum effort, by taking control of your body’s operating system

If you want to lose weight, boost your energy, or sharpen your mind, there are shelves of books offering myriad styles of advice. If you want to build up your strength and cardio fitness, there are plenty of gyms and trainers ready to offer you their guidance. What all of these resources have in common is they offer you a bad deal: a lot of effort for a little payoff. Dave Asprey, the founder of Bulletproof, has found a better way.

In Smarter Not Harder, the proven master of biohacking exposes the surprising secrets of your body’s operating system, or its “MeatOS.” That system is naturally designed to be lazy, which is why sweaty exercise routines and rigid diets produce such limited effects. Dave shows us how to hack the MeatOS and make it do what we want it to do, turning it from obstacle into ally. The key to achieving optimum wellness and improving your mitochondria, he reveals, isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing less―exercising and eating smarter, not harder, and making the body’s built in laziness work for you.

Smarter Not Harder is not a diet nor a fitness plan. It is a system of targeted biohacks aimed at upgrading your metabolic, neurological, and epigenetic systems. Packed with practical, accessible information on better eating; smart workouts that give you more strength and energy in less time; and strategic therapies to reduce stress and boost resilience―Smarter Not Harder will show you how to achieve lasting health in less time.

This system of targeted biohacks will teach you how to:

• Hack the Laziness Principle: Learn to work with your body’s innate desire to conserve energy, turning it from an obstacle into your greatest ally for building strength.
• Upgrade Your “MeatOS”: Go beyond surface-level diet and fitness to reprogram your body’s metabolic, neurological, and epigenetic operating systems for peak performance.
• Utilize Smart Workouts: Discover why sweaty, high-effort routines give limited results and how to get more strength and energy in a fraction of the time.
• Boost Resilience: Implement targeted therapies and biohacks to lower stress, reduce inflammation, and achieve lasting health with minimum effective effort.

Dave Asprey is the creator of the hugely popular Bulletproof Coffee and founder of the Bulletproof company. A four-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 of others. 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. Asprey 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.