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Smith: An Energy Enhancement System Cured His Chronic Daily Headaches
“The, I actually think that this EES thing is the only thing that worked. I just went in there and I sat in a lawn chair for an hour, maybe two hours, and then just came out and in my stomach, like I can feel my stomach, like reorganizing, et cetera, churning. …”
Smith: Fast whole-body MRI startups are just Silicon Valley branding
“So I've done that in America, and they similarly say, like, okay, well, I was the chief medical officer at Google, and we have all these Google engineers, so we do AI, And that's why we can do it in 45 minutes instead of four hours, et cetera, like you're sayi…”
Jack Smith: MrBeast could be US president if he wanted to
“I think Mr. Beast, if he wanted, he can be president of the US at some point, because he just, since the age of 15, has just had one goal, And it's not changed for 10 whatever years.”
Smith: 99% of Biohacking Fails, But 1% Yields Major Impact
“So 99% of it, I don't notice anything. However, one percent, I do notice big things. And for me, it's kind of like, okay, We don't know what works, what doesn't work, but I've only got one life, and I've only got one body, and just experimenting, I can find th…”
Smith: Medical Concierges Can Arbitrage Lower-Cost Foreign Diagnostic Clinics Without Buying Hardware
“I feel you could just brand a biohacking center in any other country if you have strong links to the country, because what they were doing here is they don't have their own MRI scanner. He just took us to MRI. He just took us to all these different labs in Ind…”
Smith: Maintaining maximum sprint intensity across a startup marathon inevitably causes burnout
“If you're just trying to do that endlessly, it's like telling Usain Bolt, like, okay, great. You just ran the hundred meters. Just keep up that pace. We're now doing a marathon, but just keep up that same pace you ran the hundred meters in. It doesn't work. Li…”
Smith Owns an At-Home Penile Shockwave Therapy Machine
“I'm starting doing this treatment where it's like shockwave therapy that you shockwave your penis, et cetera. And he's like, I'm going once a month, et cetera. I'm like, dude, I have that machine in my house.”
BodySpec bootstrapped to over $2M in revenue with 14 vans
“Body spec was bootstrapped and they built it to like more than two million in revenue, even with just like 14 vans, I think.”
DEXA scanners cost $50K new versus $1M for whole-body MRI
“New, I think like 50,000, and that was more affordable than I thought because a whole body MRI scanner, which looks kind of similar, but it's doing an MRI scan, that's a million dollars. And so this like 50 K reasonable, and then I saw some used for like 15,00…”
Smith: AIWO's $6,000 Indian Wellness Retreat Includes Full MRI and Hotel
“But 6000 dollars included that MRI that in America you're paying more than 3000 dollars for. And that was just like a few hours part of it. This was a whole week and including your hotels, et cetera.”
Smith is Building a Digital Detox Retreat For Burned-Out Tech Workers
“I'm building a place for them to detox from technology and recover from burnout.”
Smith: Vungle Tested Six Landing Pages in Three Weeks Before Succeeding
“Like, we created landing pages for each. In the space of something like two, three weeks, we iterated on six different ideas and the right idea the market pulled it out with us.”
Smith: Tony Robbins' 6'7" Height Resulted From a Brain Tumor
“Tony then found he had like a tumor on his brain that has made his body release like loads of human growth hormone. And so basically that's why he's six foot seven. He has, he's just a massive giant growth spurt, but he also feels like he has abundant energy.”
Smith: Sweat Gland Freezing Reduced His Sweating by 90 Percent
“One bit I did that was actually really effective for me is I, before I sweated a lot, so kind of embarrassing, you know, if your t-shirt or whatever you're sweating, and I did this thing where they actually freeze the sweat glands under your arm, and it, now I…”