--- product_id: 40781129 title: "Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks" price: "€ 41.43" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/40781129-head-strong-the-bulletproof-plan-to-activate-untapped-brain-energy store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # 2-Week Plan Performance Boost Brain Activation Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks **Price:** € 41.43 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🚀 Elevate Your Mind, Elevate Your Life! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks - **How much does it cost?** € 41.43 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/40781129-head-strong-the-bulletproof-plan-to-activate-untapped-brain-energy) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Actionable Steps:** Practical advice for immediate implementation. - • **Join the Movement:** Be part of a community striving for peak performance. - • **Illustrated Insights:** Engaging visuals to simplify complex concepts. - • **Unlock Your Potential:** Transform your cognitive abilities in just 14 days! - • **Science-Backed Strategies:** Utilize proven techniques to enhance brain function. ## Overview Head Strong offers a comprehensive, illustrated guide to unlocking your brain's full potential in just two weeks. This book combines science-backed strategies with actionable steps to help you work smarter and think faster, making it an essential read for professionals looking to enhance their cognitive performance. ## Description From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower—in two weeks or less. For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover the latest, most innovative methods for making humans perform better—a process known as "biohacking." In his first book, The Bulletproof Diet , he shared his biohacking tips for taking control of your own biology. Now, in Head Strong , Asprey shows readers how to biohack their way to a sharper, smarter, faster, more resilient brain. Imagine feeling like your mind is operating at its clearest and sharpest, and being able—possibly for the first time in your life—to do more in less time? What it suddenly became easier to do the very hardest things you do? Or if you could feel 100% confident about your intellect, and never again fear being the person in the room who just isn’t smart enough, or can’t remember something important? How would you treat people if the mood swings, short temper, and food cravings that disrupt your day could simply disappear? In Head Strong, Asprey shows us that all of this is possible—and more. Using his simple lifestyle modifications (or "hacks") to take advantage of how the structure of your brain works, readers will learn how to take their mental performance to the next level. Combining the latest findings in neuroscience and neurobiology with a hacker-inspired "get it done now" perspective, Asprey offers a program structured around key areas of brain performance that will help you: Power the brain with exactly what it needs to perform at its best all day long Eliminate the sources of "kryptonite," both nutritional and environmental, that make the brain slower. Supercharge the cellular powerhouses of our brains, the mitochondria, to eliminate cravings and turn up mental focus. Reverse inflammation to perform better right now, then stay sharp and energized well into your golden years. Promote neuron growth to enhance processing speed and reinforce new learning—hotwiring your brain for success. Asprey’s easy to follow, two-week program offers a detailed plan to supercharge brain performance, including: which foods to eat and which ones to avoid, how to incorporate the right kinds of physical activity into your day, a detox protocol for your home and body; meditation and breathing for performance, recommended brain-boosting supplements; and how to adjust the lighting in your home and work space to give your brain the quality light it thrives on. A better brain—and a happier, easier, more productive life—is within reach. You just need to get Head Strong. Review: Important info for those with cognitive and/or any other health issues - I've been following Dave's podcast and Facebook (and applying his advice) for a couple of years now, so I wasn't sure how much new information I'd find in this book. In fact, I ordered it mainly out of gratitude to Dave because the information he's disseminated has been largely responsible for giving me my life back. After a couple of concussions and disabling post-concussion syndrome, extreme food sensitivities, and mysterious and severe cognitive problems that had plagued me for the last decade, applying Dave's advice from Bulletproof Radio and social media posts has been THE difference between being totally debilitated and being able to function. I truly don't even want to imagine where I'd be if I hadn't discovered Dave's work by watching his TED talk two years ago. That being said, I was surprised and impressed at the amount of hacks and information in this book that I'd never heard before. Several bits of info he gives about how the body functions on a cellular and mitochondrial level explained patterns I'd noticed in my health that had previously been a mystery to me. I've been trying some of the hacks he presents, and have noticed a significant improvement in how I feel and function. This book finally convinced me to try two things I'd been putting off for a while. One is the Wim Hof breathing method, which Dave explains succinctly and clearly; I've been doing it every morning for a few days and I'm amazed at how much it energizes me and clears my head. The other is true Bulletproof coffee - Head Strong contains an explanation for why actually blending the butter and oil into the coffee (rather than just gently mixing it all together by hand as I usually do) makes it more effective. So this morning I broke out the blender, and blended one tablespoon each of XCT oil (I haven't graduated to Brain Octane quite yet) and pastured, cultured butter with mold-free coffee. Now I finally see why Dave's always talking about Bulletproof coffee. I feel like I can take on the whole world this morning. This is definitely my new daily breakfast. I found pretty much all of the information in the book extremely helpful; even the parts that were review for me were presented so well that I felt I gained a new understanding of them. Everything in this book should be common knowledge, and hopefully the book will help that happen. The book's focus on mitochondrial health makes the biohacks it contains relevant to and useful for pretty much all health problems, not just cognitive ones. Dave is a fantastic writer as well; I struggle with reading comprehension as part of my lingering post-TBI issues, but Head Strong was so coherently written and well-organized that I found it easy and quite enjoyable to read. He intersperses little jokes throughout the more technical information that keeps it light and reader-friendly, which I appreciated. The bullet points at the end of every chapter are quite useful as well. It's clear that Dave put an immense amount of effort into this book, really values the readers' time, and genuinely wants to help others live life on a higher level. I don't normally review books, but this one inspired me to write this lengthy and glowing review. That's how much I value it and hope it gets widely read and distributed. My sister, who has fibromyalgia but is resistant to trying anything that might improve her condition, even decided to read this book since she's heard me mention Dave's work so many times. I'm positive that applying almost anything in this book will help her. As someone who's steadily conquering my multitude of health problems one by one using the information in this book and following the Bulletproof lifestyle, I sincerely and emphatically recommend Head Strong to anyone who wants better health. Review: Mitochondria are to Genes what Free Will is to Predetermination - This book makes the case that optimizing your Mitochondria is the ultimate performance enhancing Biohack because your Mitochondria are the fundamental energy generation mechanism that underlie everything else. Mitochondria are billions of tiny, ancient bacteria that power your individual cells. You've probably heard of them before, I'll explain more in depth later what Mitochondria are but for now I think a Star Wars metaphor will suffice. In Star Wars the Jedi have their powers because of the midichlorians, which are a microscopic life form that are shared by all living things, that give the life force to all living things. That's not far off from what Mitochondria actually are! There's an important point I want to you to remember... Mitochondria are to genes what free will is to predetermination. This idea of Predetermination seems to be very popular, this is this idea that every molecule in your body and indeed every atom in the universe is bound by laws of physics and mathematics. You can often predict quiet accurately what a given atom, molecule, cell, organism, group, species, environment or even planet is going to do based upon established natural laws. We know, almost exactly, where Mars in going to be in 6 months. We know when a species is going to do their seasonal migration. We often know what's going to make a tumor of cancer cells grow and take over a vital organ. It would seem that the universe is quite predictable maybe even predetermined, with one exception, us humans. We seem to make some very random decisions that sometimes totally surprise everyone. From the insides of our own heads it certainly seems like we have free will doesn't it? We will debate back and forth with ourselves on decisions and finally go with the option that was seemingly quite unpredictable. Making a big decision we will write down a big list of prose vs cons to help us decide carefully between options. As I write this very article I make decide between the words, prose and metaphors that will best communicate the ideas my mind is refining. So this presents a big question, perhaps the biggest question, do we have free will or are we just playing out script that's already been written for us? Religion, since time immemorial, did a pretty good job at addressing this seeming paradox. In religion, god knows what you are going to do. God knows what's going to happen in the future. God has laid out of a path of challenges and lessons for us so that we can ultimately end of leaving this world better than we found it. Yet, in most religions god gives us free will or agency. God encourages us to be moral. God offers us incentives to be better people or communities but ultimately leaves the decision up to us. But, as many atheists have pointed out, this is on the surface a contradiction. Well, it's a contradiction that's reflective of the paradox of free will vs predetermination that profoundly confuses astrophysicists, neuroscientists, quantum physicists and social scientists and philosophers Here's my take on this... It would seem that, at scale, we have very little free will. Here's what I mean by this... When you get a statistically significant, similar group of people together you can quiet accurately predict what they are going to do. If you get a group of people with a specific IQ range you can quite accurately predict how many of them will get jobs, how much money they will make, if they will get married, have kids or go to jail. At scale, viewed as group, they have disappointingly little free will. Similarly, if you look at the grand course of your life, at scale, predetermined factors seem to really limit what you'll do and what you can become. For example; I was one of these ambitious young adults that was really determined to became a millionaire by the time I was 30 and I read a lot of books about what this was going to take and tried really hard, yet I totally failed. Now I probably have a pretty average net worth of an male, American 30 year old. Despite all my agency, I ended up quiet average. So even though we seem to have quiet a lot of micro-agency or free will in our short term, moment-to-moment, day to day decisions long term, at scale, you will likely end up being statistically quiet average for... Your sex Your race Your height Your attractiveness Your intelligence The social class you were born into These predetermined factors define almost everything about how your life is going to go. And what is the programming that fundamentally underlies these things? Your genes. More than anything else, your genes determine whether you are going to be really successful, happy or end up in jail. Your genes are your destiny This is an uncomfortable and politically incorrect truth that... The self help gurus won't admit to you because it undermines their transformation via positive thinking, self esteem or just be confident messaging. The genetic researchers and scientists won't admit to you because politically incorrect opinions can get them fired from their institutions or get their funding denied. Politicians certainly won't admit this to you because they sell you the illusion of free will and self determination via democracy. Even the companies that sell Biohacking products and Mitochondrial supplements won't admit this to you because they don't want to insult their potential customers. Defy your genes So if everyone in your family, is really successful and happy then that's a good sign that you have the kinds of genes that will lead you inevitably to become successful and happy. But if not, if your family is kind of a disaster, then it's going to take really herculean energy, discipline and motivation for you to defy your genes and resist this gravity of epigenetic trauma that is powerfully and subtly pulling you down a path of mediocrity. If you've ever felt like you kind of repeat the same mistakes and the same relationships and no matter how hard you try it doesn't seem like you can reach escape velocity of momentum away from the black hole that is your past then that's good sign that your genes are running your life. Genes vs Mitochondria The good news is that you can overcome your genes with your Mitochondria, sometimes in a quiet literal way, where fully functional Mitochondria allows us to overcome epigenetic trauma, it switches off vestigial defense mechanisms in our genes and psychology that don't serve us. And having our Mitochondria working right gives us the energy and motivation to consistently practice helpful habits because, ultimately we are what we repeatedly do. About Head Strong Like Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, the book is a refined version of Dave Asprey's podcast, you could learn everything in this book by just listening to the Bulletproof podcast. So you could of course save yourself the $12 and the 9 hours of reading by just listening to all his podcast episodes, but this book does a really great job of summarizing the best Biohacks discussed in the podcast and putting them in a holistic context of optimizing your Mitochondria. I don't recommend you buy and read every book I review, but this book I really do! ## Features - Asprey’s easy to follow, two-week program offers a detailed plan to supercharge brain performance, including: which foods to eat and which ones to avoid, how to incorporate the right kinds of physical activity into your day, a detox protocol for your home and body; meditation and breathing for performance, recommended brain-boosting supplements; and how to adjust the lighting in your home and work space to give your brain the quality light it thrives on. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #202,386 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #136 in Health, Mind & Body Reference #483 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) #646 in Healing | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,074 Reviews | ## Images ![Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81NNkzQLGBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Important info for those with cognitive and/or any other health issues *by S***B on April 22, 2017* I've been following Dave's podcast and Facebook (and applying his advice) for a couple of years now, so I wasn't sure how much new information I'd find in this book. In fact, I ordered it mainly out of gratitude to Dave because the information he's disseminated has been largely responsible for giving me my life back. After a couple of concussions and disabling post-concussion syndrome, extreme food sensitivities, and mysterious and severe cognitive problems that had plagued me for the last decade, applying Dave's advice from Bulletproof Radio and social media posts has been THE difference between being totally debilitated and being able to function. I truly don't even want to imagine where I'd be if I hadn't discovered Dave's work by watching his TED talk two years ago. That being said, I was surprised and impressed at the amount of hacks and information in this book that I'd never heard before. Several bits of info he gives about how the body functions on a cellular and mitochondrial level explained patterns I'd noticed in my health that had previously been a mystery to me. I've been trying some of the hacks he presents, and have noticed a significant improvement in how I feel and function. This book finally convinced me to try two things I'd been putting off for a while. One is the Wim Hof breathing method, which Dave explains succinctly and clearly; I've been doing it every morning for a few days and I'm amazed at how much it energizes me and clears my head. The other is true Bulletproof coffee - Head Strong contains an explanation for why actually blending the butter and oil into the coffee (rather than just gently mixing it all together by hand as I usually do) makes it more effective. So this morning I broke out the blender, and blended one tablespoon each of XCT oil (I haven't graduated to Brain Octane quite yet) and pastured, cultured butter with mold-free coffee. Now I finally see why Dave's always talking about Bulletproof coffee. I feel like I can take on the whole world this morning. This is definitely my new daily breakfast. I found pretty much all of the information in the book extremely helpful; even the parts that were review for me were presented so well that I felt I gained a new understanding of them. Everything in this book should be common knowledge, and hopefully the book will help that happen. The book's focus on mitochondrial health makes the biohacks it contains relevant to and useful for pretty much all health problems, not just cognitive ones. Dave is a fantastic writer as well; I struggle with reading comprehension as part of my lingering post-TBI issues, but Head Strong was so coherently written and well-organized that I found it easy and quite enjoyable to read. He intersperses little jokes throughout the more technical information that keeps it light and reader-friendly, which I appreciated. The bullet points at the end of every chapter are quite useful as well. It's clear that Dave put an immense amount of effort into this book, really values the readers' time, and genuinely wants to help others live life on a higher level. I don't normally review books, but this one inspired me to write this lengthy and glowing review. That's how much I value it and hope it gets widely read and distributed. My sister, who has fibromyalgia but is resistant to trying anything that might improve her condition, even decided to read this book since she's heard me mention Dave's work so many times. I'm positive that applying almost anything in this book will help her. As someone who's steadily conquering my multitude of health problems one by one using the information in this book and following the Bulletproof lifestyle, I sincerely and emphatically recommend Head Strong to anyone who wants better health. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mitochondria are to Genes what Free Will is to Predetermination *by J***D on October 31, 2017* This book makes the case that optimizing your Mitochondria is the ultimate performance enhancing Biohack because your Mitochondria are the fundamental energy generation mechanism that underlie everything else. Mitochondria are billions of tiny, ancient bacteria that power your individual cells. You've probably heard of them before, I'll explain more in depth later what Mitochondria are but for now I think a Star Wars metaphor will suffice. In Star Wars the Jedi have their powers because of the midichlorians, which are a microscopic life form that are shared by all living things, that give the life force to all living things. That's not far off from what Mitochondria actually are! There's an important point I want to you to remember... Mitochondria are to genes what free will is to predetermination. This idea of Predetermination seems to be very popular, this is this idea that every molecule in your body and indeed every atom in the universe is bound by laws of physics and mathematics. You can often predict quiet accurately what a given atom, molecule, cell, organism, group, species, environment or even planet is going to do based upon established natural laws. We know, almost exactly, where Mars in going to be in 6 months. We know when a species is going to do their seasonal migration. We often know what's going to make a tumor of cancer cells grow and take over a vital organ. It would seem that the universe is quite predictable maybe even predetermined, with one exception, us humans. We seem to make some very random decisions that sometimes totally surprise everyone. From the insides of our own heads it certainly seems like we have free will doesn't it? We will debate back and forth with ourselves on decisions and finally go with the option that was seemingly quite unpredictable. Making a big decision we will write down a big list of prose vs cons to help us decide carefully between options. As I write this very article I make decide between the words, prose and metaphors that will best communicate the ideas my mind is refining. So this presents a big question, perhaps the biggest question, do we have free will or are we just playing out script that's already been written for us? Religion, since time immemorial, did a pretty good job at addressing this seeming paradox. In religion, god knows what you are going to do. God knows what's going to happen in the future. God has laid out of a path of challenges and lessons for us so that we can ultimately end of leaving this world better than we found it. Yet, in most religions god gives us free will or agency. God encourages us to be moral. God offers us incentives to be better people or communities but ultimately leaves the decision up to us. But, as many atheists have pointed out, this is on the surface a contradiction. Well, it's a contradiction that's reflective of the paradox of free will vs predetermination that profoundly confuses astrophysicists, neuroscientists, quantum physicists and social scientists and philosophers Here's my take on this... It would seem that, at scale, we have very little free will. Here's what I mean by this... When you get a statistically significant, similar group of people together you can quiet accurately predict what they are going to do. If you get a group of people with a specific IQ range you can quite accurately predict how many of them will get jobs, how much money they will make, if they will get married, have kids or go to jail. At scale, viewed as group, they have disappointingly little free will. Similarly, if you look at the grand course of your life, at scale, predetermined factors seem to really limit what you'll do and what you can become. For example; I was one of these ambitious young adults that was really determined to became a millionaire by the time I was 30 and I read a lot of books about what this was going to take and tried really hard, yet I totally failed. Now I probably have a pretty average net worth of an male, American 30 year old. Despite all my agency, I ended up quiet average. So even though we seem to have quiet a lot of micro-agency or free will in our short term, moment-to-moment, day to day decisions long term, at scale, you will likely end up being statistically quiet average for... Your sex Your race Your height Your attractiveness Your intelligence The social class you were born into These predetermined factors define almost everything about how your life is going to go. And what is the programming that fundamentally underlies these things? Your genes. More than anything else, your genes determine whether you are going to be really successful, happy or end up in jail. Your genes are your destiny This is an uncomfortable and politically incorrect truth that... The self help gurus won't admit to you because it undermines their transformation via positive thinking, self esteem or just be confident messaging. The genetic researchers and scientists won't admit to you because politically incorrect opinions can get them fired from their institutions or get their funding denied. Politicians certainly won't admit this to you because they sell you the illusion of free will and self determination via democracy. Even the companies that sell Biohacking products and Mitochondrial supplements won't admit this to you because they don't want to insult their potential customers. Defy your genes So if everyone in your family, is really successful and happy then that's a good sign that you have the kinds of genes that will lead you inevitably to become successful and happy. But if not, if your family is kind of a disaster, then it's going to take really herculean energy, discipline and motivation for you to defy your genes and resist this gravity of epigenetic trauma that is powerfully and subtly pulling you down a path of mediocrity. If you've ever felt like you kind of repeat the same mistakes and the same relationships and no matter how hard you try it doesn't seem like you can reach escape velocity of momentum away from the black hole that is your past then that's good sign that your genes are running your life. Genes vs Mitochondria The good news is that you can overcome your genes with your Mitochondria, sometimes in a quiet literal way, where fully functional Mitochondria allows us to overcome epigenetic trauma, it switches off vestigial defense mechanisms in our genes and psychology that don't serve us. And having our Mitochondria working right gives us the energy and motivation to consistently practice helpful habits because, ultimately we are what we repeatedly do. About Head Strong Like Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, the book is a refined version of Dave Asprey's podcast, you could learn everything in this book by just listening to the Bulletproof podcast. So you could of course save yourself the $12 and the 9 hours of reading by just listening to all his podcast episodes, but this book does a really great job of summarizing the best Biohacks discussed in the podcast and putting them in a holistic context of optimizing your Mitochondria. I don't recommend you buy and read every book I review, but this book I really do! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Book with Small Caveats *by T***N on May 31, 2017* If there was a prize for writing the word "mitochondria" in a book, Dave Asprey would be the winner by a MILE. That's not such a bad thing, since he's teaching people how to hack their biology, with mitochondria as the basis of that, but wow - the last time I saw the word written so much was in high school biology. The book is quite a good one, and surprisingly quick to read. It's got good summaries that go at the beginning and end of the chapters, so if you read those first and then the chapters it makes it a bit easier. The advice is good, and while I think some of the ideas are even a little farther out in the future that I have a tolerance for, I'll be open-minded enough to at least try some of them. That being said, I'll try those that don't cost $1500. I get that Dave has a seemingly unlimited budget, but the rest of us likely don't, and while a "vibe plate" isn't entirely necessary to get earth grounding effects (you can walk in the grass in bare feet to accomplish the same) some of the ideas in here are fairly expensive. Of course, those expenses do contribute to Dave's seemingly unlimited budget, in that he sells any number of the products he uses and/or recommends in the book. To be fair, and to his great credit, he does provide alternatives and recommendations for things that either he doesn't sell, or that are cheaper, or both. This book could easily have come off as one giant sales pitch, and while there is some of that, Dave does indeed not only temper his urge to push you into all his BulletProof products, he uses self-deprecating humour to point out (most of the time) that hey, he does sell this stuff, and he makes no bones about that fact. As good as most of the information is, there were things I would have like to have seen that for me would have made it a five star book. First, not everyone does, or wants to, drink coffee. I get that it's the world's most popular beverage and that it does actually have a lot of health benefits. There are some of us though that can't stand the sight or smell, and have no desire to get near it. Tea has some health benefits, and there are no attempts to address any of those, or even make a comparison, and certainly it doesn't seem that tea merits even testing in Bulletproof format. (I get that Dave might not drink it, but there are plenty of people who do.) Though he does occasionally mention green tea, those mentions are few and far between and don't cover black teas or any other kind. Second, I'd have liked a "planner" for the two week Headstrong programme. A list of recommendations is good, but I was expecting throughout the course of the book a "Day 1,do this, Day 2, do this..." and etc.... while it's only a "neutral" detraction as such, perhaps an appendix or something similar would be possible in the second edition. (I know not everyone would benefit from this, but some would and it seems easy enough to include.) Overall, a really good book with some really cutting edge information that I enjoyed reading and hope to put into practise. ## Frequently Bought Together - HEAD STRONG - SUPER HUMAN - Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators and Mavericks Do to Win at Life --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.es/products/40781129-head-strong-the-bulletproof-plan-to-activate-untapped-brain-energy](https://www.desertcart.es/products/40781129-head-strong-the-bulletproof-plan-to-activate-untapped-brain-energy) --- *Product available on Desertcart Spain* *Store origin: ES* *Last updated: 2026-06-01*