Biohacking & HealthSpan

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.

Can you sit by yourself without distraction and simply observe your thoughts without the need to judge or react? Lex Stuart shares her two year meditation journey and the lessons learned along the way.

Meditation is a practice that is proven to have numerous benefits including stress reduction, better concentration and focus, improved mental health and more. But where should one begin?

Lex Stuart talks about her wins and struggles, as well as insights from her personal experience. Finally, she shares how meditation has taught her to be her own teacher through self-communication and consistency.

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.

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.