10 More Biohacks to Relieve Stress

In our previous post, we shared 10 biohacks to relieve stress that tackle 4 types of triggers: emotional, physical, mental and spiritual.

Here are 10 more biohacks to build your resilience to stress and ward of undue anxiety.

10 (More) Biohacks to Relieve Stress

We all know that stress is the body's natural response to danger. Unfortunately, the modern world presents us with too 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 reduce and even prevent stress.

Here are some stress management ideas that you can use right now:

#1. Monitor Your Environment with Cube Sensors

Most of us appreciate the importance of diet and movement, but there isn’t much talk about the quality of our environments. Cube sensors let you easily monitor and optimise your environment for performance.

They claim you can effect changes like:

• RELIEVE STRESS by modifying the humidity and adapting to noise levels.

• IMPROVE COMFORT by managing air quality with aeration and air conditioning.

• INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY by changing the lights and temperature when notified.

20/20 vision without prescription glasses or meddling with contact lenses everyday. If it’s good enough for astronauts, then it’s good enough for me. At least that is how I rationalised things when I got the surgery back in 2008. I have no regrets. After the 15 minute surgery I felt like l had woken up from years of hibernation! Today my vision is still pretty much 20/20, I've saved thousands of dollars on contact lenses and I love the new found freedom.

This is one serious bohack!

#4. Meditate to Improve Everything From Immune Function to Vagal Tone (HRV) Without the Need for Biofeedback

Can you sit with yourself quietly and observe your thoughts without judgement?

#5. Get a Pet: Pets Are Cool, Plus They Instantly Make You 10x More Interesting to People You Walk Past in the Park

Frankie - the OptimOZkelpie as a pup

• Pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without pets.
• People with pets have lower blood pressure in stressful situations than those without pets.
• Playing with a pet can elevate levels of serotonin and dopamine, which calm and relax.
• Pet owners have lower triglyceride and cholesterol levels (indicators of heart disease) than those without pets.
• Heart attack patients with pets survive longer than those without.
• Pet owners over age 65 make 30 percent fewer visits to their doctors than those without pets.
• Pets, at least dogs, let things go. They move on from being angry or upset, to go on 'being dogs' without ruminating on the past. A great lesson.

Good nutrition is essential to optimal performance and controlling your hormonal system. I also have a supply of Activated Charcoal and NAC on hand for occasions where I need a little extra helping hand like eating something that I'm intolerant to or consuming alcohol. 

#9. Eat Grass Fed and Finished Meats for CLAs and a Healthy Omega 3 to Omega 6 Ratio

Contrary to the pop science, saturated fats are in fact an essential source of nutrition, not that there is actually that much in red meat! 55% of the fat content of red meat is oleic acid... What's that? Oh it's just the same thing as olive oil which is strongly touted for its health benefits... Double standards much?

#10. Hack Your Microbiome With Microba Insight™

With an increasingly large volume of research being published about the gut-brain-immune connection (how our gut bacteria essentially drive so much of our lives including manufacturing the molecules that eventually feed our brains.)

Understanding what is living in your gut is a primary step to figuring out what to do to make improvements and then continue to quantify if the changes you make are actually making a real, rather than just subjective impact on your wellbeing.