If you’ve decided to take full control of your biology, Congratulations! You are well on your way to being a biohacker.
In my last post, I already explain how I started exploring this filed. Since then, I have come a long way and today enjoy exceptional health and well-being that I have never before experienced in my life. My journey into the world of biohacking has brought me to a place of good fortune and health that I now feel privileged to share my experiences with you.
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What is biohacking in simple terms
Biohacking involves proven methods to improve your health by attempting to understand your body and mind and using the tools at your disposal to engage the best version of yourself. From cutting edge technology, scientific principles, tools and life hacks, you have the potential of making impactful, positive changes to your overall well-being.
What you know can change your life
To understand how biohacking can work for you, it can help to know about the basics. As an essential practice of transforming one’s chemistry and physiology through scientific principles and experimentation, biohacking aims to energize and improve bodily functions and capabilities. It can be a broad definition, but given that the concept is evolving as we progress, it can range from being as elementary as changing one’s diet and lifestyle to improve bodily functions to wearing technology in understanding how physiological functions occur to going the advanced way of adopting genetic engineering and implant technology.
Let’s consider some of the benefits of biohacking
- Enhanced cognitive functionalities
- Improved energy levels
- Greater productivity
- Conquering mood swings
- Improved sleep patterns
- Balanced hormones
- Decreased food cravings
- Reduced information
- And ultimately, longevity.
As experience-based learning, biohacking involves trying new things to know if it works for you. Simply put, use these basic principles according to accelerated learning expert, Jim Kwik. These helpful pointers can aid you to work around your challenges and prepare you for an improved ‘you’.
- Forget: leave your preconceptions behind.
- Active: read, learn, and understand.
- State: let excitement and curiosity run through your veins.
- Teach: Grasp knowledge as to what you must impart to others.
Let’s start with the basics
1. Hot and Cold Biohacking
(My proven and unique technique)
This is my personal experience and a proven biohacking technique that cannot really improve your quality-of-life, longevity, but also overall well-being. I have unusually named it as Hot & Cold Biohack due to the reasons listed here. To know more, go through my detailed explanations and how to do it method here.
- The hot shower component helps to expose the body with intense heat (via controlled sauna & steam)
- While the cold shower can help in stimulating your immune system and strengthening your capillaries can be done via a cold shower and cold swimming.
2. Put the right foods in your mouth
Plenty of vegetables, grass-fed fats, pastured eggs, a moderate amount of fruits and starches, etc., are typically the keys to good health. Almost every common disease has a connection to sugar. And while it is regarded as more addictive than morphine, it’s negative impact create inflammations and a wide range of disorders. The most prominent biohack you can take today is to remove sugar from your diet altogether.
3. Hack your morning to good health
You may not like the taste, and definitely, not the smell, but having daily shots of raw apple cider vinegar with warm water, the first thing you wake up in the morning and the last thing you have before sleeping is actually the secret recipe for good health.
4. Biohack your drinks
Mix 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of warm water. This concoction is a powerful antioxidant and digestive that can work wonders for your health. At the beginning, the taste may overwhelm you, but you could try adding half a teaspoon of freshly ground cinnamon powder to the mixture to make the drink more palatable and tasty.
- Celery juice mixed with orange, lime, ginger
- Watermelon + ginger + lime
5. Remove wheat, add veggies
Did you know that giving up wheat products can help you lose weight have improved health, and give you more energy? It also increases blood sugar levels and causes digestion problems. Removing wheat from your diet can help you have better focus, more profound quality of sleep, improved bowel health, enhanced energy and much more. To begin with, remove all kinds of processed and white wheat products. This includes white bread, pasta, cereals, pretzels, doughnuts, and other such foods. Include more:
- Fresh and green vegetables
- Healthy dried seeds and nuts
- Extra virgin olive oil, avocado, coconut, and cocoa butter
- Ground flaxseed
6. Stand up Right and move as much as you can
Sitting for long periods is nothing short of disastrous. Over the period, it can result in chronic pain and even make you prone to injuries. Move about as much as possible; reset your standing and sitting posture every hour; work on your abs and watch your energies start to rise.
7. Out with sugar, in with clean eating
And if you thought wheat was terrible, we have not even started on sugar! Sugar is not only bad for health, but experts and scientists today call sugar a horrible drug addiction and a poison. Unfortunately, no matter how much you try to minimize your sugar intake, you need to be careful and read the labels on the ingredients of food as sugar is basically founded in almost every processed food. Eating sugar causes ill health and increases fat levels. And more so, they are packed with empty calories.
Start by avoiding sugar for a week to understand and get a feeling of how much sugar there is in all food items. Since it has no nutritional value, the empty calories only spike your blood sugar and cause devastating effects on your health. From tooth cavities, type II diabetes, morbid obesity, different types of cancers, heart disorders, non-alcoholic liver diseases, acne and decreased energy levels, the list of sugar in one’s diet can go on and on.
8. Read this book to know more:
- Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig
- Greens, greens and more greens
9. Controlled Seafood
Seafood is a beloved delicacy in all parts of the world. From saltwater fish, freshwater seafood and shellfish, these protein-rich foods are high in omega-3 fatty acids and offer the right amount of protein, vitamins, and minerals. In addition to providing essential nutrients, seafood is also helpful in promoting heart health and is excellent for your joints. It is an excellent booster of healthy skin, and regular consumption can help in maintaining eyesight and improving brainpower.
Some studies have shown that seafood is also useful in fighting against depression due to the omega-3 fatty acids in it. With so many choices at your hand, include different healthy ways of preparing seafood to obtain all its benefits for your health.
10. Biohack Music
Binaural beats and health benefits: Also known as auditory illusions, binaural beats and their various versions such as Chakra Healing music and mediation on Binaural beats, Tibetan Gongs, Solfeggio tones — a subset of Alpha Beta and Theta Waves are connected with potential health benefits. It can help in reducing anxiety, enhancing your focus and concentration, lowering your stress levels, boosting relaxation, fostering positive moods, promoting creativity, and helping you to manage any chronic pain.
Tibetan gongs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPmef74ZR_Q
Night Meditation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtkMAELICk
Binaural beats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2RvqKCn7S4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0eLmyJkQBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHkndkuJ18A
Solfeggio tones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goyZbut_KFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXL_MupS6NQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs2bQxid2ZE
Chakra healing music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOpOaG1-83Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2YixHG0-x8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q16psIgEslI
11. Give and Take only Positive vibes
Having read numerous books, my absolute favourite are the ones that talk about sparking gratitude and positive thinking. This is because the power of positivity goes much beyond just positive thinking. It affects all aspects of our life, from physical and spiritual health to relationships and finances. Here are some books that can help you just like it did for me.
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- The Power Of Positive Thinking – Norman Vincent Peale
- Think And Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
- As A Man Thinketh – James Allen
- Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Malts
- The Magic – Rhonda Byrne
Conclusion
If it has not crossed your mind, you will be pleasantly surprised to know that the air you breathe is a form of nutrition. Natural and fresh air can rejuvenate you in more ways than one. A brisk morning walk in the crisp fresh air can work wonders for your metabolism and keep you charged throughout the day.
Remember: What you make your body endure; what you put inside it is what you get out of it. Good things in brings out good results. Get started on a biohacking journey today!
