Knowledge from biohacking experts.
We all know that stress is the body's natural response to perceived danger. Unfortunately, the modern world presents us with too many everyday situations that trigger our flight-or-fight mechanism and can potentially make stress a chronic condition.
In order to live a full, happy life and protect our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, we need to learn ways to become more resilient, reduce and even prevent undue stress.
The term "sleep hygiene" refers to a complex of healthy sleep habits, behaviors and environmental factors that attribute to a person's ability to have a good night's sleep. Building and following optimal sleep hygiene is one of the most effective and natural ways to improve sleep and overall health.
There are numerous factors that affect our sleep and by recognizing them, we are able to alter our lifestyle in order to enjoy a better night's sleep and feel more rested. In this post, we discuss 7 sleep improving ideas that you can adjust according to your circumstances to create your personal sleep hygiene.
Prior to modern electrical sources of light, people used to divide their sleep time into two segments, separated by several hours of night-walking. This sleep pattern is called segmented sleep.
The space between first and second sleep is a quiet-wakefulness, a meditative silent space for prayer, reflecting on dreams and creative activities. With new information available, waking up in the middle of the night is considered to be completely normal.
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.
Glucose or Ketones? Carbs or fats? Carbohydrates have been a staple part of meals for centuries, but there is evidence that ketones produce more energy per mole of substrate than glucose, while optimising body composition, cognition and sports performance.
Brett Melanson, a PhD Candidate in Behavioural Neuroscience, talks about how following a ketogenic diet allows our body to tap into fat stores to produce energy during extended periods of low glucose availability. He explains that burning ketones instead of glucose preserves carbohydrates in muscle. Therefore transitioning the body’s energy dependence from glucose to ketones could be beneficial in the long run, both mentally, and physically.
Biohacking is a self-directed and self-tracked anti-aging and longevity focused health optimisation movement. It is a collection of ideas to achieve optimal performance while employing the minimal effective dose. Biohacking is the art of changing the environment around and the science of getting healthy.
Being a biohacker means to question everything: your body, your mind, your spirit to unlock your inner potential and tune you to a higher degree than other mortals.
This is my Beginner Biohacker journey.
Biohacking can help optimize all areas of your life including health, performance, focus and productivity. With nutrition, mind and lifestyle changes it is possible to reduce stress, improve sleep and even slow down aging.
In this post, you will find surprisingly simple yet effective biohacks to try. from intermittent fasting, cold therapy and breathing exercises to practices of mindfulness and slow eating. Having these tools in your arsenal will help you conduct self-experiments to determine the best approach for your body.
Dr. Eric Berg is a chiropractor who specialises in weight loss through nutritional and natural methods and is a world-renowned ketogenic diet expert, published writer, and author of the bestselling book “The 7 Principles of Fat Burning”.
In this post, he gives practical recommendations on what to look for when buying eggs, as well as the healthiest way to cook and eat eggs for maximum benefits.
In a population of 786 Australian elders, higher concentrations of carotenoids (lutein and zeaxanthin) and vitamin C in plasma were associated with longer Telomere Length, which is positively correlated with longevity.
Lutein and zeaxanthin are carotenoids found in the egg yolks that concentrate mostly in the human eyes retina and macula, and to a lesser extent, in the liver and brain. Both of these compounds can help reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration as well as cataracts.
In this post, Dr. Berg describes the numerous health benefits of eating eggs: One of the key reasons that I consume eggs on a regular basis is not only do I enjoy it, but eggs have the greatest anabolic effect out of all the food options around. Anabolic means that it's contributing to growth. Building muscle protein.
48% of egg actually turns into your body tissue and that's pretty much the highest, not counting breast milk. Moreover, cholesterol and fat in the yolk actually help in the anabolic effect.
Egg whites have really low amounts of essential fatty acids, while egg yolk contains most of the nutrition.
Despite sleep being such an important function, there is still quite a lot of mystery surrounding sleep and exactly why it is good for us. However, what we do know for sure is that sleep is important. Proper planning can have a dramatic impact on both your sleep quantity and quality. That's why evening routine has a huge impact on how we sleep. Unfortunately, bedtime routine is often neglected. In this post, Christian Baker, shares his tips and tricks on how to build an effective evening routine that helps sleep better.
In the modern, hectic world, it is easy to forget about sleep. But quality sleep is vital for our performance, physical and mental health. Toby Yo, a personal trainer, entrepreneur, lifestyle podcaster and Australian biohacker, shares his personal story about struggling with sleep problems. He also gives valuable recommendations on how to optimize a lifestyle for sleep and describes his routine to wake up well-rested and happy.
