When Medicine Meets Technology

Nowadays, our bodies don’t have as many secrets as they used to have in the past, thanks to advancing technology and deep research in this field. Through various tests, people can discover what their bodies need and how they can improve their health by using the advanced technologies that these five companies provide. Let’s find out who Meedigo, Woble, BEMER Group, Nemoy and HumanCharger are and how can they improve our lives! Medigoo.com and Woble Helsinki cooperate in order to offer genetic health analysis tests for home use to their customers. Woble Helsinki provides high quality DNA testing products and services for both businesses and consumers. Their online store Woblab.com offers various products that improve the quality of life and are designed both for people and animals. Woble Helsinki provides qualified laboratory and scientific advisor services at their laboratory in Espoo. For more details, take a look at Woble Helsinki’s website On the other hand, Medigoo.com provides health and medical information to consumers at no cost, and sells home health analysis devices and kits. The website is easy to use: the users can type their symptoms into the search box and then read the articles provided according to what they searched …

Upgrade Your Working Environment With These Office Hacks

With the significant amount of time that we spend working in our offices it is essential to create an environment that will boost your productivity while keeping you healthy. Finnish companies NaturVention and Salli have developed innovative solutions to make your office a better place to work, and if there are people leaving the job for any reason, a farewell party at the office can be always a good idea to keep a good office spirit. We all know that the air we breathe affects our performance and health. Now, imagine being able to work in an indoor environment and enjoy the climate of clean nature. NaturVention has created a solution to make this possible. By combining plants, biotransformation and IoT technology, NaturVention can guarantee you a higher indoor air quality with their Naava-series active green walls that provide organic indoor air for urban people. These active green walls optimize indoor air quality and humidity 24/7. NaturVention helps you control your indoor climate and optimize your working and living conditions. Depending on your needs you can choose either Naava Original green wall or Naava Smart. Naava Original wall replaces the synthetic chemicals and microbes in indoor air with nature’s own chemicals. …

Productivity, Concentration and Health: Food for the Modern Lifestyle

Nowadays, food is not just a necessity that keeps us alive, but it is also a tool to maintain our health and increase our concentration in stressing and dynamic lifestyles. Five companies from Finland have come up with the perfect solution. Ambronite believes that food has a critical impact on our productivity and happiness. This is why they are promoting a convenient and healthy meal, instead of the pizza full of calories or some noodles that are lacking nutrients. Their product: a quick and easy-to-make drinkable shake, free of artificial ingredients. This super meal contains 18 organic ingredients, which give our bodies everything they need and keep us in flow for the whole day. Just one Ambronite shake consist of 500 kcal of energy, 30 grams of high-quality protein, several vitamins and 14 essential minerals and fiber. This product is also suitable for vegans and recommended to both those who have a dynamic lifestyle or those who are keen on outdoor adventures. You can find more about the product from Ambronite website. Mushrooms can also play an important role in our diets. We all know that these superfoods are rich in B vitamins and are the only vegan dietary source …

Optimize Your Physical Performance

Now that you know what devices can help you optimize the quality of your sleep and life, it’s time to take a look at how you can optimize your physical activity. In this post we will introduce you to some great devices and solutions that can enhance your physical performance. Ben Greenfield, who will speak at Biohacker Summit on 24 September, is a founder of Greenfield Fitness Systems, which is all about achieving superhuman feats of physical performance without destroying your body. Greenfield Fitness Systems gives you answers to your toughest questions about workouts, nutrition, performance and fat loss. Ben Greenfield’s mission is to show you how to get your body performing at peak capacity, with maximum fat burning efficiency and ideal hormonal and health status, in the safest and fastest way possible. Rather than pounding you with complex workout videos and difficult diets, Ben will instead teach you how to achieve your goals by optimizing lifestyle parameters that go way beyond simply “exercise and healthy eating”. You’ll learn about fat burning efficiency zones, gut health, mental performance, maximizing recovery, boosting libido, and enhancing every possible aspect of your body – rather than just work out like a madman and eating boring food. In …

#5 Ben Greenfield on Going Beyond Training

In the fifth episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina and MD Olli Sovijärvi interview Ben Greenfield. He is an ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, Spartan racer, coach, speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life”. In 2008, Ben was voted as NSCA’s Personal Trainer of the year and in 2013 and 2014 was named by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness. Ben blogs and podcasts at http://www.BenGreenfieldFitness.com, and resides in Spokane, WA with his wife and twin boys. [powerpress] Watch on video: Check out some of the highlights of Ben’s podcast below but make sure to watch the whole thing to learn some amazing biohacking techniques to implement in your life right away including Bens favorite supplements, meditation techniques and foods. “For me two ways how I got into biohacking initially would be ironman triathlon and body building. Now I don’t care that much about getting jacked or even about doing ironman – I’m kind of past that phase in my life. Now more of my interests lie in happiness, longevity, anti-ageing and some of those things that you start to think about when you get to the age …

#4 Ari Meisel on the Art of Less Doing

In the fourth episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Ari Meisel. Ari Meisel is author, speaker, coach and the creator of Less Doing, More Living, a set of practices and principles designed to help the overwhelmed become more effective. Ari is a Crohn’s disease survivor that almost cost his career. Less Doing, More Living is the result of Ari’s journey back to health by optimizing, automating and outsourcing everything in his life. Ari currently lives with his wife and three boys in New York City and spends his days helping others master the life-changing principles of Less Doing. Ari has written the book Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier. [powerpress] Watch on video: “What would you do, if you could only work an hour a day?” Ari Meisel knows like no other what can happen if you do more than your body can take: “I put my body into a state of fragility and it broke…I was diagnosed with crohn’s disease. I got really, really sick. I have gone from working literally 18 hours a day into a state where I sometimes barely could do an hour of work a day…Very quickly I began to figure …

Improve Your Quality of Life and Sleep

The times when rings were just jewelry are long gone. Now there is one ring to rule them… I mean you and your habits. With the latest technologies a ring can be a computer that will enhance your performance and wellbeing. Take ŌURA ring for example. ŌURA is a revolutionary ring-sized wellness computer that helps you sleep and perform better. ŌURA ring senses you through the day; learning about you and guiding you towards better, more balanced performance. ŌURA ring observes your sleep quality at night; measuring and learning how well you recover from mental and physical load. ŌURA ring measures and analyses your body and learns about you and your lifestyle. It communicates its observations and suggestions through a mobile app. The ŌURA app visualizes the measured data, providing you with personalized recommendations. It delivers clear textual message flow showing the trends, details and changes over time. On top of all these benefits ŌURA has a beautiful design. ŌURA combines material and manufacturing innovation to allow for a product as comfortable and functional as it is refined. Elegance and intelligence combined. Sounds very exciting. You can already pre-order this awesome beautiful device from Kickstarter at a reducd price. Speaking of beautiful …

Virtual Assistants Get Things Done

Have you ever wondered what your work week would be like if you only had to focus on the essential things, and you could outsource the rest? Sure, all of us would like to find a balance between work and play, and get our work done as efficiently as possible. In reality the work week of an ordinary knowledge worker is anything but efficient: on average we spend two hours per day on interruptions. Clearly, being in the office 9-to-5 doesn’t mean getting things done 9-to-5. It’s time for a change and Mikko Ikola, entrepreneur and virtual assistant specialist, knows exactly how to upgrade from being an ordinary knowledge to worker to becoming a high-performing individual, with the help of outsourcing and virtual assistants. Check out the whole presentation to learn more! Stay tuned for more interesting videos from Biohacker Summit ’14 and remember to get your Biohacker Summit ’15 tickets here.

#3 Nell Watson On Artificial Intelligence

In the third episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Nell Watson. Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker. Nell lectures globally on Machine Intelligence, AI philosophy, Human-Machine relations, and the Future of Human Society. She is a faculty member of the Singularity University, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics track and the founder & CEO of Poikos, “Instagram for body measurement”. Nell has taught post-grad Computer Science at the age of 24, advised a number of startups, accelerators, and venture capital funds and serves as an advisory futurist to The Lifeboat Foundation, which has a mission to protect humanity from existential risks that could end civilization as we know it, such as asteroid collisions, or rogue artificial intelligence. [powerpress] Check out some of the highlights of the interview with Nell Watson: “It’s been a strange journey. From the very young age I was inculcated with the love of engineering and technology and computer science from my engineer father. I was the only child so I kind of ended up getting all of his love of engineering and science. Unfortunately he killed himself when I was 11 and that altered my path and I ended up leaving school at a …