33 Facts About Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey was born on 1973 and is an American entrepreneur, author and advocate of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet known as the Bulletproof diet, about which he has made claims criticized by dietitians as pseudoscientific.

Dave Asprey founded Bulletproof 360, Inc in 2013, and in 2017, founded Bulletproof Nutrition Inc Men's Health described Asprey as a "lifestyle guru".

Previously, Dave Asprey held executive and director positions for technology companies including Trend Micro, Blue Coat Systems, and Citrix Systems.

Dave Asprey worked in the IT industry for companies that included Bradshaw and 3Com.

Dave Asprey taught and ran the Internet and web engineering program at the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension, in which Asprey created one of the first working instances of cloud computing.

Dave Asprey's first startup was an early-stage e-commerce company founded around 1993, which was featured in Entrepreneur magazine.

Dave Asprey was the director of product management for a Silicon Valley startup called NetScaler, which was later acquired by Citrix Systems.

Dave Asprey then became an entrepreneur in residence at Trinity Ventures before co-founding a company called Basis.

Dave Asprey was the vice president of cloud security for Trend Micro before he left to run his own business full time.

Dave Asprey founded Bulletproof 360, Inc in 2013 and founded Bulletproof Nutrition Inc in 2014.

Dave Asprey initially started the Bulletproof brand after developing Bulletproof Coffee.

Dave Asprey posted the recipe for the beverage and details on the health benefits he experienced on his website while still working for Trend Micro.

Dave Asprey developed "low-mold coffee beans", oils, and supplements and started selling them on his website in 2011.

In 2014, Dave Asprey authored The Bulletproof Diet, published by Rodale Books, and in 2015 opened a cafe in Santa Monica selling Bulletproof Coffee and high-fat foods.

In July 2015, Dave Asprey raised $9 million from Trinity Ventures to expand the company.

In Sept, 2019, Bulletproof announced that Dave Asprey had stepped down as CEO but would continue to focus on his role as executive chairman.

In September 2021, Dave Asprey announced franchising his new venture, Upgrade Labs.

The Bulletproof diet developed and marketed by Dave Asprey recommends eating foods high in fat, moderate in protein, and low in carbohydrates with a foundation being the consumption of Bulletproof Coffee, a brand of coffee made and marketed by Dave Asprey.

Dave Asprey developed this recipe after traveling to Tibet and drinking yak-butter tea.

Dave Asprey returned to the United States and experimented with buttered drink recipes and published the preparation for his buttered coffee drink on his blog in 2009.

Dave Asprey has claimed that when used in combination with other "health hacks", the coffee helped to boost his IQ score by more than 20 points, but failed to provide any evidence to support this claim.

Dave Asprey warns coffee drinkers to avoid mold toxins such as ochratoxin in coffee.

Dave Asprey asserts that mycotoxins are harmful substances produced by coffee-bean-growing molds and they are responsible for a wide range of health issues, including inflammation.

Dave Asprey promotes his Bulletproof-brand "Upgraded Coffee" alleged to omit mycotoxins.

Belluz wrote particularly against claims that changing diet can reduce inflammation and lead to weight loss, saying Dave Asprey ignored contradictory studies about the health benefits of certain foods, and inappropriately extrapolated studies on animals, very small groups of people, and people with specific diseases to the general human population.

Dave Asprey has been accused of making false health claims about his vitamin products to prevent and treat COVID-19.

An article by Scott Gavura commented that "Dave Asprey's output combines cherry-picked science with pseudoscience, wrapped up in a self-experimentation ethos that superficially sounds compelling but falls short in actual evidence".

Dave Asprey tried a vegan diet for six months in the early 2000s, but then returned to eating animal source foods.

Dave Asprey has criticized veganism, stating that it can increase the risk of vitamin B12 deficiency and has suggested that it is "hard to get enough high-quality protein on a vegan diet".

Dave Asprey has stated that he expects to live to one hundred eighty years of age.

Dave Asprey met his wife, Lana Dave Asprey, a physician, at an anti-aging conference, and they lived in Vancouver Island, Canada.

Dave Asprey claimed that following the Bulletproof diet helped his wife with her polycystic ovary syndrome.

Dave Asprey expressed hope that Kennedy would remove FDA regulations, believing that doing so would lead to a "dawning of a new age of biohacking".