Knowledge from biohacking experts.
Jay Schroeder & Charles Maka from EvoUltraFit took the lead for days 1 and 2 of the Bulletproof Biohacking conference. We're going to continue on from our first bulletproof conference post and give you guys the lowdown on our experience there.
EmWave, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Vagal Tone. These are all terms that bio-hackers have heard and know about to some degree. One of the leaders in this space is the HeartMath institute and Rollin McCraty from HeartMath was one of the presenters at the third day of the Bulletproof Conference 2013. We want to share some of the lessons we learnt from his presentation.
Talking20 offered a citizen science/QS type service looking at various blood testing bio-markers via convenient at-home test kits.
Australian Home blood screening kit services include Prixtexting and i-screen.com.au.
On our Biohack Your Life Conference visit to San Francisco we were lucky enough to come across a very innovative company called uBiome who are sequencing the human microbiome (bacteria). What 23&me did for DNA, uBiome are doing for the microbiome. Essentially, uBiome will enable you to see what bacteria are living on and in various parts of your body including the gut, nose, mouth and genitals. I caught up with one of the founders / CEO Jessica Richman for a 20 minute discussion to learn more about the service and how we can access it in Australia.
Across each day of the BPExec 2013 conference the man himself Dave Asprey gave some time for Q & A about issues that may or may not have been explicitly covered in the conference. It was a really great way to air any specific issues or questions that people had about the diet and the approach in general.
We’ve compiled a list of the tidbits that stood out to us as being particularly interesting and put them into categories below. We hope you’ll find them interesting.
An important health consideration is the issue of grass (pasture) vs grain fed meat (lamb and beef). It’s widely promoted in the various paleo communities that ruminant (grass-fed) meat is a superior choice nutritionally, we’re going to run through:
So it seems as though the whole gut-brain axis idea is catching on in the mainstream media as per an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. People like Chris Kresser and numerous others have been stressing the importance of maintaining a healthy (non-leaky) gut to maintain good mental / cognitive health for a while and from a high level it makes a lot of sense:
Leaky gut -> toxins and other nasties from your gut into your bloodstream -> nasties cross the blood brain barrier -> impact on your cognitive function. Let's get into it!
To buy grass fed butter in an affordable way (without spending $7-8 per block on something that says "grass fed" on the label) is an exercise in risk management. The risks are that the cows could get fed grain:
So the trick is to find products that tick (or don't tick) the above boxes.
