Biohacking & HealthSpan

Our modern lifestyles are slowly killing us: by overeating and being excessively sedentary, we might have brought upon ourselves an epidemic in metabolic diseases. Our body is not optimized for these modern ways of life and we can’t change that overnight, nor even in the course of a few generations. Evolution is slow.

Throughout evolution, the survival of humans may have greatly depended on the constraints of needing to acquire food. Food deprivation was most likely one of the biggest energetic and evolutionary challenges to our bodies - it is likely that many of our ancestors could only acquire food during daytime, having to fast for long hours; it is also likely that long periods of food scarcity were common. So, those who were able to endure in these conditions ended up being favoured by evolution.

The fact that our bodies store fat as a backup long-term, high-energy source, and that we can survive relying solely on it for a fair amount of time, is an indication of how human evolution prepared us (and maybe even optimized us) to go through periods of fasting.

Vanilla & Berry Coconut Chia Pudding 

Serves 2 

Ingredients 

• ¼ cup chia seeds
• 1 ½ cups of coconut milk (100% pure)
• 2 tsp vanilla powder
• 1 - 2 tsp cinnamon powder
• ¾ - 1 cup organic berries + extra to garnish with
• Fresh mint leaves for garnishing
• A pinch or two of coconut flakes

Optional Add Ins: raw honey, pure maple syrup or liquid stevia to taste, other fruits, lemon or orange zest and juice, chopped pure organic dark chocolate, nuts or seeds or nut butter mixed through.  

More than forty years ago Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi posed a simple question: “How does it feel to master something?” To figure this out, he interviewed hundreds of people who had demonstrated excellence in their chosen field. They included rock climbers, painters, chess players, basketball players, athletes and surgeons.

The short answer to his question was: joy.

“A strong relaxation and calmness comes over me. I have no worries of failure. What a powerful and warm feeling it is! I want to expand, to hug the world. I feel enormous power to effect something of grace and beauty.” - professional dancer describing a sense of control experienced while dancing.

Ingredients

Serves 2

• 1 – 1 ½ Chocolate powder
• 2 Tbsp Grass fed Ghee
• A pinch of Himalayan salt
• 1 ½ cups organic coconut cream
• ½ cup of boiling filtered water
• Raw honey, pure maple syrup or liquid stevia to taste
• Peppermint essential oil (food grade) to taste
• Vanilla powder, sprinkled on top

Optional Extras: 1 Tbsp of grass-fed gelatin (bloomed), for the hot chocolate version only.

The development of the human cerebral cortex has been linked with multigenerational consumption of oily fish containing essential fatty acids, in particular, DHA and EPA. A decline in proportionate consumption over the last century correlates with the marked rise in lifestyle-diseases, and perhaps even a dumbing-down of the population. Without essential fatty acids (DHA and EPA), humans fall prey to a host of debilitating and lethal chronic diseases, including the big C.

Our focus today is on two long chain Omega-3 essential fatty acids known as EPA and DHA. They are essential because our bodies can’t manufacture them so we must obtain them exogenously, i.e. in our food (1). And when we don’t get them, we're in a whole lot of trouble.

Hi all!!! How’s life treating you? Must say it’s always a busy time leading up to the end of the year and we all tend to run ourselves ragged….sleep tends to take a back seat during these times doesn’t it? Long days, late nights…then we often end up crashing in a heap at the end. It all can be such a blur. Well, I plan on NOT doing that this year! It’s pretty easy what I am getting my mates for Xmas….my amazing Blue Light Blocker glasses have been my life saver and continue to be so!