This Silicon Valley entrepreneur has spent $300,000 on 'smart drugs'

There’s nothing Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs won’t try to hack, including their own biology. Take businessman Dave Asprey, a 41-yearold Californian, for instance. He chugs fistfuls of pills every morning in the hope that these supplements will give him a competitive edge in an already competitive market, reports CNN.

The drug cocktail Asprey takes is a mix of “smart drugs” meant to increase brain function and performance. These natural supplements are also known as nootropics.

“Each drug has a different benefit,” Asprey told CNN. “One may help bolster memory, another will help you focus. One of his pills helps improve vision, and another promises more energy. They all have the same goal — tohelp you maximise your potential.”

Like others in his cohort, Asprey occasionally supplements these supplements with prescription pills like Modafinil, an anti-narcoleptic medication that healthy people have begun using to pull all-nighters.

The idea is that, with the right supplement cocktail, you can conquer your body’s mortal limits. You can pull that all-nighter while finishing up a sales pitch or write code for 19 hours a day, multiple days in a row.

“It used to take a lifetime to radically rewire the human body and mind. Technology has changed the rules,” Asprey writes on LinkedIn. “This is real. It’s what happens when you hack the human body the same way you’d hack a website. It’s why I can do what I do.” Nootropics or “smart drugs” include natural memory enhancers, neuroenhancers, cognitive enhancers, and intelligence enhancers.