Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because you have the opportunity to capitalize or completely screw up what you are trying to accomplish. So, I think one of the things that I want to make sure people understand is that you always have to ask yourself what are you doing and what are you trying to accomplish. Ryan Munsey the Renaissance man of the biohacking space. Ryan has a degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Clemson University and has worn the titles of fitness model, strength coach, gym owner, author and now works with Natural Stacks as the Chief Optimizer where he hosts the Optimal Performance Podcast and specializes in helping people around the world optimize their lifestyle, mindset, productivity, and brain performance. Enjoying the Hot Springs of Ouray only gets better with a stay at Ouray Chalet Inn with your family and friends. The way I approach fitness is that it has to enhance the rest of my life. It can’t rule, dominate or dictate the rest of my life. There are so many ways to be active and move that don’t require going to a formal gym whether it’s a Crossfit gym or …
Dr. Beth Healey on Living In Extreme Conditions
Biohacker’s Podcast Teemu Arina interviews Research MD Beth Healey who spent an extended period of time at Concordia station in Antarctica researching extreme conditions (e.g. temperatures as low as -100 celsius) where humans are put to test during difficult missions such as one we may take to planet Mars. Beth Healey’s most recent role was with the European Space Agency (ESA) as a Research MD, Concordia Station, Antartica. During her year long mission at Spaceflight Analogue Concordia ‘White Mars’, she was responsible for co-ordinating and implementing seven research protocols, selected by the ESA, to investigate the effects of this extreme environment on the physiology and psychology of the crew. Beth led the medical rescue team and worked alongside the base doctor in case of emergency. Beth is a UK trained doctor. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, with an interest in polar environments she has worked as part of logistical and medical support teams for expeditions and endurance races in Svalbard, Greenland, Siberia and at the North Pole. As part of her medical elective she worked in a remote Inuit Hospital in NE Greenland. Beth Healey is also a patron of Extreme Medicine. [powerpress] Time-stamped Show Notes 0:35 – Biohacker Summit …
Prof. Russel Hanson on How To Make a Digital Copy of Your Brain
Biohacker’s Podcast Teemu Arina interviews professor Russell Hanson on our current capabilities of making a digital copy of a human brain on the connectome level. Professor Russell Hanson is founder and CEO of Brain Backups a company with the ambitious mission of providing non-destructive non-invasive brain imaging at the connectome level. Why would one want a Brain Backup or connectome? This is the image of one’s neural connections much like the genome is the image of one’s DNA sequence. This means it encodes everything you are, do, and have experienced. Prof. Hanson is also a professor of Genetics and Multi-scale Biology at Mount Sinai. Previously he has worked at Harvard, MIT, and the Technical University of Berlin. [powerpress] 0:27 – Teemu welcomed Russell Hanson to the show 0:32 – Brain backups< 2:13 – Dr. Aubrey de Grey 2:35 – Why Russell is interested in life extension? 5:32 – You Are Not A Gadget 6:27 – Belief in chemical information 6:31– Belief in electrical information 6:53 – Electrophysiology 7:11 – Heartbeat is an electrical spiking process 7:31– Experts in measuring chemical information 7:38 – How we measure chemicals 8:35 – Long term memories 10:05 – Neural interfaces 10:24 – NESD 11:47 – telepathic …
Dr. Rhonda Patrick on Nutritional Health and the Benefits of Sauna
Biohacker’s Podcast Teemu Arina interviews one of the leading experts on nutrition aging, Dr. Rhonda Patrick on heat alteration such as swimming in ice cold water or entering a sauna. Dr. Rhonda Patrick with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences is an expert in nutrition, metabolism and aging. She has done considerable research in all of these fields, including research on cancer and the effects of mineral and vitamin supplementation on metabolism, inflammation and aging. She did her graduate research at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, where she focused on cancer, mitochondrial metabolism and apoptosis. Currently a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF-Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, she is known primarily for her studies of the mechanistic link between vitamin D and serotonin production, research that may have important implications for the understanding of autism and other disorders. [powerpress] 0:20 – Teemu welcomed Dr. Rhonda Patrick to the show 1:33 – CEO & Co-Founder of Found My Fitness 1:54 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick’s background 2:52 – The Salk Institute 4:43 – St. Jude 5:14 – Found My Fitness Blog 5:56 – Dr. Bruce Ames 6:21 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick newsletters and Podcasts 8:54 – Folate 9:04 – Why folate is important 11:26 – DNA damage 13:00 …
Sarah Turner on Becoming Super Charged
“Imagine, a mind quick as lightning, a body charged with energy. No, it’s not a fictional superhero. It’s you. SuperCharged.” Sarah began her career as a research scientist. She worked for a number of big pharma companies including 6 years at GlaxoSmithKline, where she investigated the effect of electrostatic “charge” in the human body, and how it relates to physiological function. Sarah left the pharmaceutical industry to pursue a degree in Nutritional Medicine and also earned a master ’s degree in Neuroscience/Psychophysiology of Stress. In her search for a deeper, more holistic approach to healthcare, she later became Head of Research for a bio-energetic medicine company, conducting and overseeing small-scale trials. Sarah has a special interest in the growing science of Quantum Biology – and how the learnings from this field can be applied in a practical way to ‘BioHack’ health and performance. Sarah is a now the co-producer and director of the movie “SuperCharged” and is a founder and spokesperson of SuperCharged Performance. “The film explains the science and shows how the extraordinarily diverse biohackers in the cast went from Sickly Sludge to Super Charged. Yes, we’re only human, but that doesn’t mean we can’t feel superhuman.” “The aim …
Twist, Shake and Sit Your Way to Corporate Wellness
Half the average person’s waking life is spent at work. For many people this means sitting at a desk or in some other humanly unnatural position, with little to no physical movement. This is especially alarming when the correlation between corporate wellness and company output is so staggering. In short, the happier and healthier a company’s employees, the more likely a company to succeed. These aren’t just pretty words, there are shocking numbers to back it up: “…$250 million savings in lowered health costs and a 50% reduction in high blood pressure among employees” (author of Gladiator’s Guide to Corporate Health & Wealth). Yet with all the buzz around corporate wellness and the myriad of options with difficult to keep track of long-term results it’s easy to conclude health at your desk is just another fad. However, rest assured that your well being at the office isn’t going out of style! It’s absolutely here to stay, and now technology has made it so easy, that you don’t need to spend more time or added stress figuring it out. Nowadays, you can literally “sit to be healthy”! Keeping in mind male and female genital health, your circulation, lymph flow, knee and hip joints, pelvic and back, circulation to …
Ben Greenfield on Hacking Your Body for Longevity
“Health experts might be killing their bodies.” – Ben Greenfield Ben Greenfield has been obsessed since a teenager to use the most cutting edge fitness and nutrition hacks to get the most out of the human body. Today he uses it for the benefit of his audience not only to achieve peak potential but also to feel as healthy as possible on the inside while looking as good as possible on the outside. Over the past decade he has done 10 Ironman triathlons and over 80 other races. He has put his body through the roughest challenges on the planet and figured out some of the best solutions, shortcuts and ways to achieve fitness, health and longevity. His research into the most gruelling competitions on earth have shown him that vitality, life, fitness, looking good and feeling good, and performing well, all go way beyond exercise. 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. Other topics include gut health, mental performance, maximising recovery, boosting libido, and enhancing every possible aspect of you body – rather than just working out like …
Teemu Arina on Upgrading the Workplace
“To me biohacking reduces the distance between the feedback that you get and if you are getting the results that you want. So, if you do some kind of measurements, you can become more sensitive to whats actually going on.” Teemu Arina has a professional career of over 15 years as a technology entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is one of the forefront thinkers on the intersection of the man and the machine covering topics such as quantified self, biohacking, internet of things,wearable computing, and digital health. Recently he received the Leonardo Award (under the patronage of European Parliament and UNESCO) for “Humanity in Digitization”. Mr. Arina is co-author of the forthcoming Biohacker’s Handbook for optimizing health and wellbeing with technological and biological tools. On the top he is a popular international keynote speaker who has presented in countries such as USA, UK, Japan, Russia, the Netherlands, and Germany. “I would constantly upgrade my existing biological machinery with technology. If there is an artificial eye that is better than the human eye that would do crazy things, I would immediately sign up for it.” “The whole sum of knowledge created by the mankind is now available on Wikipedia, different kind …