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Stomata on the underside of Tradescantia (wandering Jew) follow an ordered pattern, as common in monocotyledenous plants.
Schefflera (umbrella plant) carries numerous stomata on its lower surface only, in a chaotic pattern.
Stomatal imprint of spinach leaf. Spinach (and the other salad leaves I looked at) carried stomata on both upper and lower surfaces, unlike the houseplants Tradescantia, Chlorophytum and Schefflera.
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If you have been following Dave Asprey over the years you would have noticed how much his personal and company brand, Bulletproof®, have grown over the years. It all started as a concept on how to make yak butter tea into yak butter coffee, then into butter coffee with coconut oil, then butter coffee with MCT oil in order to get the maximum ketone benefit for weight loss and reducing brain fog.
Well since that initial cup of low carb high fat coffee Dave has managed to turn his passion into a multi-million dollar business. People are flocking to his online store and we can see a glimpse by how many people love to use his monthly promo codes and coupon codes we have listed here. No public sales figures are disclosed as the company, based in Seattle, is privately owned and so doesn’t disclose income and expenditure figures. However, in 2015 there was multi million US dollar injection. Make it more like $9 million cash flow injection.
Source: Trinity Ventures
Trinity investment’s Gus Tai explained the venture capital companies reasons for deciding to invest a large sum of money into Dave’s company and Bulletproof health products. You can read all their reasons in this article “Trinity Backs Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof With $9M For Butter Coffee, Nootropics” on Tech Crunch Jul 23 2015.
It is great to see investors money flowing into companies that can help make people healthier. It is especially unique seeing that a lot of what Dave recommends when it comes to losing weight in the short and long-term is to use fat! Yes, the apparently deadly, horrible, supposed weight gaining stuff that the US and other governments from around the world have told people, for decades, to limit dramatically in their monthly grocery shopping bills and daily intake.
In the decades before the US standard diet food pyramid came into effect people use to consume large amounts butter and lard per annum. That all changed when state wide nutrition policy changed. However, the tide has turned dramatically! Sales of butter have now soared past alternatives like margarine. News articles and latest research since about 2010 have started showing how maybe we got it all wrong about fat. Turns out the good natural saturated fats like butter and coconut oil are good for our heart health.
It is easy to see why a company, like Trinity Ventures, wants to jump the gun and be an early adopter in an upcoming business that is leading the way when it comes to producing and distributing healthy fat products.
The money appears to have helped Dave expand his growing health product line including the new Fat Water range. The money is also being used to start converting the online ecommerce business into a retail one with shop fronts in the form of coffee shops.
The first ever Bulletproof coffee shop opened its doors in Santa Monica. You can take a tour of what it looks like in the side by watching the video below. The funny thing is this coffee shop is in the same business premises as where a Starbucks franchise used to be. Could Dave be the next Starbucks? I’m sure he is hoping to be.
So it is great to see the biohacking community grow and help move the ketogenic diet movement into the next level of mainstream society. I can see it helping to alleviate so many common lifestyle diseases like obesity and diabetes that are economically draining away the available healthcare resources and personal incomes of so many people. Not only the population of the United States, but internationally in other countries like the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore etc…
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With one in six adults in Britain experiencing depression, anxiety or problems relating to stress at any one time, a statistic that is replicated in many areas of the globe, we need to relook at stress and how to manage it.
Often when we think of stress, we ask ourselves “why am I stressed?” in search of a single cause. The issue with this is that stress is rarely derived from a single moment, instead, it is a build up of incorrect habits that we have developed throughout our life. This infographic will help you understand your body and empower you with a toolkit that will enable stress-free productivity. Check out more tips at: thinknoo.com
A cast of homemade, donated, and open source insturments on the lab bench in the 'Biohacking: Do It Yourself!' lab installation at Medical Museion. Photo to be credited to Martin Malthe Borch.
I love the strings that connect the notes, images and papers in this lab space. It is an elegant, non-textual way of displaying laboratory life and processes. www.museion.ku.dk/biohacking-do-try-this-at-home/
The inspiration for the project came from an EU science-art initiative that lead to Studiolab, studiolabproject.eu/ It was brought together by an interdisciplinary team of biohackers and scientists, an installation designer, a science communication specialist and a historian of ancient technology.
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The exhibition also reminds the visitor of another famous, local building product, Lego.
from moth wing. Not sure, but could be a Willow Beauty.
The scale is about 0.12mm long from the tip of the shaft to the hind-edge.
Foto's: Maarten Smith
In de BioHack Academy leer je je eigen biomaterialen te maken, van ontwerp tot eindresultaat, met gebruikmaking van open-source hardware. Of het nu een nieuw type bio-inkt is, een bio-polymeer of bio-brandstof: wij kunnen je precies vertellen hoe je het zelf kunt kweken en hoe je de resultaten deelt met anderen.
Meer info: waag.org/nl/project/biohack-academy/
Stained with Lugol's Iodine.
Viewed using the 10x objective on my Bresser Biolux AL microscope.
If you buy a microscope and want one histological stain, you could do worse than Lugol's Iodine. It stains starch blue-black and cell walls and nuclei brown.
It needs no careful measuring out - just so long as you have a strong brown solution you'll be fine.
It's not very toxic in small doses - it used to be used as a disinfectant - though you might want to avoid getting it on your skin as it will stain.
A single drop on a piece of plant skin will give an almost instant result.
Simples.
My mum said you couldn't find my WITs if you looked for them with a microscope.
How wrong she was.
(2mm wide)
A gene gun prototype made by Rüdiger Trojok from an old soda stream bottle, on display in the 'Biohacking: Do It Yourself!' lab installation at Medical Museion. The gene gun was invented in 1983-1986, and is a simple device that is key to many synthetic biology experiments, delivering gold particles coated with DNA into plants or other organisms - but it cannot be used outside authorized labs. Photograph to be credited to Martin Malthe Borch.
The interdisciplinary project Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and “speculative design”* to show the public the dominance and biological power of the hormone estrogen.
credit: tom mesic
Micro-organisms in the Lake at St James' Park, London.
Music - Sunrise on the reeds, courtesy of Pseudo on the Negative Sound Institute website, by cc license
Ctenoid scale of a sea bass.
It's about 6mm long. This image is composed of several images taken with the lowest magnification (4x) objective autostitched together.
Image appearing on postcards advertising the 'Biohacking: Do It Yourself!' lab installation and series of events at Medical Museion. To be credited to graphic designer Bente Stensen Christensen.
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Portrait art created by: Rob Shields www.robshields.net
When I met Eric Topol at Scripps Research, he greeted me with an easy calm, the sort of quiet steadiness that settles a room without ever trying to command it. There is no theatricality about him. No hint of the celebrity doctor, even though he easily could play that role. His curiosity comes first. You feel it immediately. He listens closely, as if the next idea might arrive from anywhere.
Topol has spent decades at the frontier of cardiovascular medicine, genomics, and digital health. He trained as a cardiologist at a time when heart attacks were often a sudden, devastating surprise. Much of his early work focused on clot-busting therapies and transforming acute cardiac care. That alone would have secured a distinguished career. But he did not stop there. He moved into genetics and then into the rapidly evolving intersection of medicine and data, asking how sequencing, wearable sensors, and artificial intelligence might change how we prevent disease rather than simply react to it.
He founded and directs the Scripps Research Translational Institute, where the emphasis is clear: translate discovery into real human benefit. Not hype. Not products. Not a quick fix. In a landscape crowded with longevity influencers and supplement stacks, Topol stands apart. He does not take sponsorships to push powders or pills. He is not interested in monetizing fear. If anything, he seems slightly allergic to the noise.
His focus is more austere and, in many ways, more radical. Diet. Sleep. Exercise. Social connection. The fundamentals. He talks about “super agers,” people who reach their eighties with the physiology of someone decades younger, and he does so with data in hand. What patterns do they share? What biomarkers remain resilient? How does inflammation behave across time? For Topol, longevity is not about chasing immortality. It is about compressing morbidity, extending healthspan, and preserving function.
In his recent writing, particularly in his book Super Agers, he leans into the evidence that aging is not a single uniform decline but a mosaic. Some systems falter early. Others remain robust. With genomic insight and longitudinal data, medicine can begin to map this mosaic and intervene earlier. But he is careful. He does not promise magic. He points instead to measurable behaviors: regular aerobic activity, resistance training, high-quality sleep, nutrient-dense food, minimizing ultra-processed diets. He is skeptical of supplement culture because most of it runs ahead of the evidence. If a molecule works, he believes, it should prove itself in rigorous trials.
There is also a democratizing instinct in his work. He has been outspoken about the need to make genomic testing and advanced diagnostics more accessible. He sees a future where medicine is individualized, where a person’s risk for atrial fibrillation or Alzheimer’s disease can be flagged early, and where prevention is not reserved for the affluent. He is equally vocal about the ethical tensions of AI in healthcare. Algorithms must augment clinicians, not replace empathy. Data must serve patients, not corporations.
When I photographed him, I was struck by the absence of cynicism. He has seen enough of the system to justify it. Yet he still believes that medicine can be reoriented toward prevention and personalization without losing its human core. There is a steadiness in him that mirrors his message. No flashy claims. No performative biohacking. Just the disciplined accumulation of evidence and a commitment to follow it wherever it leads.
In the end, Eric Topol represents a particular kind of authority that feels increasingly rare. Not the authority of charisma, but of rigor. Not the seduction of miracle cures, but the persistence of science. In a culture that wants shortcuts, he keeps returning to first principles. Move your body. Sleep deeply. Eat real food. Stay connected. Let the data guide you. And above all, protect the integrity of medicine from the distortions of commerce.
Standing in that quiet room at Scripps, you sense that his project is larger than longevity. It is about restoring trust in the idea that health is built, patiently and measurably, over time.
Illustrated on the first day of my BPIF. I felt inspired. Thanks to the Creator of The Bulletproof Executive Dave Asprey. Bulletproof and The Joe Rogan Experience. Coffee. Grass fed Butter. Sea Salt. I think we misjudged you guys!
Bulletproof biohacking. Day 1
These are old h&e-stained samples.
I rescued them from the bin when one of the histology labs in the hospital I used to work in relocated.
The staining on a lot of the slides has faded quite badly, but this one's ok.
Prepared slide that came with my Bresser Biolux AL
The Natural History Museum scope this was taken with is a very basic bit of kit, but for £7, who's complaining?
Stained with Lugol's Iodine.
Viewed using the Natural History Museum pocket microscope - cells and nuclei are clearly visible.
If you buy a microscope and want one histological stain, you could do worse than Lugol's Iodine. It stains starch blue-black and cell walls and nuclei brown.
It needs no careful measuring out - just so long as you have a strong brown solution you'll be fine.
It's not very toxic in small doses - it used to be used as a disinfectant - though you might want to avoid getting it on your skin as it will stain.
A single drop on a piece of plant skin will give an almost instant result.
Simples.
Tacks are hammered into a map of the world in the 'Biohacking: Do It Yourself!' lab installation at Medical Museion, to represent the worldwide spread of DIY biology, from Singapore to Copenhagen to California. Photograph to be credited to Ane Pilgaard Sørensen.
Colony division in real time.
Music - Ramsay Sand, courtesy of Dava Sobel on the Negative Sound Institute website, by cc license
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Do you want to help take care of your mitochondria? Of course you do just like everyone should be working on. Our health status is linked to how well we can support the work, millions of mitochondria do around our body.
On Dec 21, 2016 a brand new Bulletproof supplement was released to the biohacking public. It is called KetoPrime and it is designed to help allow your brain to achieve high performance. However, brain function is not all that it helps with.
If you follow a ketogenic diet or a low carb high fat way of eating then you’ll enjoy the added benefits taking KetoPrime can assist you as you try make tons of ATP from quality fats like, Brain Octane oil & butter.
Benefits
Helps get rid of brain fog
Helps the Kreb cycle make ATP energy
Mimics calorie restriction which helps you make new mitochondria
Helps manage glucose levels
Useful anti-aging (longevity) supplement
Ingredients
Above are just some of the positive effects that you can get from taking oxaloacetate, which is the main ingredient of KetoPrime.
You may have heard of oxaloacetate (OAA) before as it is also used in the Bulletproof aging formula. If you have been taking aging formula then you will love KetoPrime too. This is a new bioavailable form of oxaloacetate that is combined with other co-factors to allow you the chance to get up to 90% into your bloodstream. You can get anywhere near this from OAA raw form.
How to Take KetoPrime
Take one KetoPrime lozenge
Place it under the tongue or between the gum & cheek
Wait 5-10 mins to allow to dissolve
Chew and swallow any remaining lozenge
Done
You can take a lozenge anytime of the day ideally with food. Don’t swallow them with water, let them dissolve a bit in your mouth first.
Suggested Usage
Morning Time
Take one in the morning with your Bulletproof coffee to help with an Bulletproof intermittent fast. Supercharge your brain with ketones to keep it feeling great for the day.
Work Time
Take one when you feel your mind is foggy and you can’t get clear thoughts. Get rid of the cotton wool feeling in your brain by popping a lozenge in your mouth. Great for keeping at work in a desk draw ready to boost you for a task, presentation or meeting.
When Exercising
Take one before a workout at the gym. This is because oxaloacetate (OAA) has been linked to improved muscle endurance. So why not try get some more milage out your muscles as you exercise them.
Before Sleeping
Take one at nighttime to assist you body whilst you are naturally fasting overnight. However, do remember that you need to brush your teeth after taking a lozenge. This is because it contains Vitamin C and you don’t want vit c on your teeth all night. It might cause an unwanted side-effect.
Best Bulletproof Supplement for Ketosis
Bulletproof Product
Description
Link
KetoPrime
Convenient way to assist nutritional ketosis.
Click Here for Pricing
Brain Octane Oil
Pure C8 oil that helps raise blood ketone levels and put you in a state of ketosis
Click Here for Pricing
XCT Oil
Upgraded form of MCT oil that is used on a ketogenic diet.
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Ghee
Similar effects to butter when on a low carb high fat diet or ketogenic diet.
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Ketoprime is one of the best supplements from the Bulletproof store to help assist you during nutritional ketosis. The best one to help you raise your blood ketones and put you in a state of ketosis would be Brain Octane Oil then XCT oil. As you know the Bulletproof diet is an upgraded way of living in ketosis.
When you buy it you will get 30 lozenges that come in a convenient flip top tube, which is resealable. This means you can easily travel with it and since it is not a liquid even take it through airport security when flying. They taste is pleasant and similar to taking a vitamin C tablet.
Science
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25027327
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19793063
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19795928
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjem1920/96/2/96_2_127/_article
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Prepared slide of a housefly leg which came with the microscope.
This image was taken with the highest magnification (40x) objective. The field of view is about 0.2mm wide.
The depth of field is very, very shallow at this magnification. This image was made from a rough Z-stack of images composed in Helicon Focus. The weird shadowing / haloing is an artefact of this technique.