Cognitive Function

In this post learn about:

1. A new Youtube series that explores some of today’s hottest wellness trends.
2. How biohacking technology gives the medical field insight into a person's wellness.
3. Biomarkers that can predict biological age and the main lifestyle interventions known to regulate the aging process.
4. The cause of insulin resistance diseases.
5. The impact of aerobic exercise and caloric restriction on cognitive performance.
6. Detailed analysis and comparison of exogenous ketones (ketone esters, ketone salts and C8 MCT oil).

In this post learn about:

1. The secrets to staying sharp in extreme longevity from the world's oldest person.
2. How do ketones work?
3. The science of obesity and why low-calorie diets fail.
4. What is metabolic flexibility and how metabolic inflexibility can affect your health.
5. The first FDA-approved eye drops designed to replace reading glasses.

Biohacking implies optimization of the human body. However, it is more than just about physical health. Lifestyle changes and simple activities can help improve the mental side of our state.

A more holistic approach to human health is what makes biohacking such an appealing movement. Many activities that are considered biohacking are easily pursued without much or any investment at all.

Here are 3 simple biohacking tips that can be used on an everyday basis to enhance the fundamental aspects of our life such as focus, memory and mood with little to no investment.

Brett Melanson, a PhD Candidate in Behavioural Neuroscience, describes how exogenous ketone supplementation, precisely in the form of ketone esters, can enhance performance and possibly reduce anxiety-like state. Combining ketone esters with ketone-salts or MCTs may also enhance motor performance. The addition of keto esters to a ketogenic diet may also provide benefit in reducing the long-term elevations in lipid and cholesterol that can arise from a persistent ketogenic diet alone.

Nowadays, the idea of ketone ester diet has already been utilised by nutritional companies like Ketone Aid, which received positive feedback from athletes claiming a boost to their typical performance compared to training without the ketone ester supplementation.

Wade Lightheart, a co-founder of BiOptimizers, shares 5 steps to optimize brain performance without draining adrenals. Learn what vitamins and probiotics are essential for cognitive function and how simple changes in lifestyle can lead to a healthier, happier life.

The neurobiological benefits of exercise are clear and significant and can explain why exercise can improve cognitive functioning, mental health, and memory, and also hinder the development of certain neurological conditions.

The data does show that visiting the gym and lifting weights a few times a week is an effective way to reduce and prevent against the development of, anxiety and depression.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends exercise therapy (a regimen of physical activity designed and prescribed to relieve or heal a disorder) as a possible treatment for individuals with CFS.

Ketosis describes a metabolic state where the level of ketones in your bloodstream elevate and the body burns fat for energy. Ketosis may sound like a strange and exotic phenomenon, but it is quite natural - humans evolved to use fat as energy. Nowadays this seems weird because we are over-consumers of carbohydrate and live sedentary lifestyles. A state in which we are never short of a carb refuel.

Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT Oil) have dramatically gained in popularity in Australia. MCTs are a subset of saturated fatty acids that, when used appropriately, have unique biological effects ranging from enhanced cognitive performance to accelerated weight loss. MCTs can be found in coconut and palm oil, dairy products, Bulletproof MCT oil and Bulletproof Brain Octane oil. Note that Bulletproof MCT oils are 100% derived from coconut oil. Some other brands may still source from palm oil.

“Even though it is common knowledge, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love lives, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards as his or her own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in our heads, in our brains. There is nothing else.” -V.S. Ramachandran

 

 

Brain cells. Source:University of Rochester

Some organisms are nothing more than one cell. These tend to be microscopic like bacteria, have short lives and a very restricted repertoire of behaviors. In comparison, multicellular organisms can reach thousands of mets (honey fungus), live virtually forever, (lobsters) and pilot space shuttles (humans). To achieve this complexity, they have to overcome one particularly daunting task: coordinating all their cells.

 

[Source: Nicholas Wright]