Biohacking & HealthSpan

In this edition of Biohacking Weekly:

1. Can lifting weights shield your brain?
2. Mitochondria transplants - new hope for slowing the effects of aging
3. High-dose Vitamin D for multiple sclerosis relief
4. Why everyone's talking about functional mushrooms?
5. Everyday habits that strengthen neuroplasticity

 

Learning to regulate the nervous system and better manage stress is a skill. Mira Rao, resilient-life coach, yoga teacher and writer teaches the "Regular Regulation" practice aimed to reduce stress by regulating the nervous system.

She is talking about the importance of taking proactive steps and practicing stress reduction techniques long before the major stress happens. Mira also teaches a simple breathing exercise that anyone can easily incorporate into their daily life.

 

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.

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.

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.

Drawing on his 20 years of Competitive Bodybuilding and Personal Training experience, Wade Lightheart describes how weight training boosts mental endurance. Muscles will not just put meat on your bones, but it will put some meat on to your thinking. You also want to have super high protein absorption with no waste. Find out which enzymes and probiotics work best to digest, absorb and utilise protein. And we also look at fats for keto people.

Wade Lightheart, a co-founder of BiOptimizers, talks about how essential optimising the gut is to boosting cognitive performance. Learn which gut bacteria influence the production of neurotransmitters that improve brain performance and which probiotic strains help boost digestion.

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.

“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