Joseph Cohen has had a history of unfortunate genetic predispositions for chronic health problems that conventional medicine hasn’t come far enough to diagnose. Experimenting with a variety of diets and supplements programmes, he was unable to find a solution for his health problems, until he really started digging deep into research to understand what was happening in his body on a biological level. Throughout this journey, he had some personal breakthroughs with his own health, becoming symptom-free. “At the rock bottom of all of this, when I was flat broke and unable to work, I decided to get to the root of everything and really tried it all. I turned my back against the propagandized health world and read the literature for what it really was” – comments Joseph Cohen on his health journey. Biohacking himself from sickness, he became an entrepreneur, investor and writer, and founded two projects, SelfHacked.com and SelfDecode.com. At the age of 27, he finished school and decided to focus writing full time. Within three years, Self-Hacked grew thirty-fold and has become one of the most popular ‘biohacking’ sites, with content that has helps people to become optimal and heal themselves. A year later he created SelfDecode, …
Upgrading the Workplace with Authors of Biohacker’s Handbook
In the endless race of this modern age towards living our dreams, many of us end up overworked, exhausted and stressed – with little time to do what we love – or sadly, even be with those we love. Worst of all, our bodies bear the brunt and take the beating. If this scenario sounds familiar to you, then the time has come to Upgrade Your Life and Workplace! In James J. Lachard’s ‘Interview with God’, when asked: What surprises you the most about humankind? God answered: “They lose their health to make money, and then lose their money to restore their health. They live as if they will never die and die as if they had never lived.” According to Olli Sovijärvi (MD), Teemu Arina (Serial Technologist), and Jaakko Halmetoja (Nutritionist), co-authors of the bestselling Biohacker’s Handbook, “upgrading” consists of a deep look at the five key areas to living a happy, healthy and well-balanced life: Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, Mind and Work. If you have been suffering from any of the 90-95% of all illnesses which are ultimately stress-related, or even an undiagnosable illness, or any aspect of your world is not what you had imagined for yourself, try …
How to Transform Your Life With Healing Foods
Olli Posti is a perfect example of how we should think about our health and be in charge of our own lives. When he was only 10 years old he started noticing first symptoms of asthma. Later, at the age of 19, he was diagnosed with MS disease. This made him feel both scared and liberated, and soon after the unfortunate news he decided to embark on a journey to Thailand. New environment and plenty of vitamin D did the job, and little by little he started to feel better. While being abroad he also encountered positive changes in his habits, that lead him towards complete recovery. Lower stress levels and better nutrition had made him curious to explore whether lifestyle has something to do with his cure. After his return to Finland, he started to look deep into wellbeing and slowly but surely discovered a number of nutrition based remedies that proved to cure his illnesses. He abandoned processed foods, milk, wheat and other foods causing inflammation, and moved towards balanced, high nutrient and fresh foods. Positive effects were not long in coming, and in only a few months he started to feel better every day. By rethinking his …
DYI Biohacking Experiments With Quantified Bob
Blood oxygen (SPO2) and blood pressure levels, galvanic skin responses (GSR), glucose, heart, ketone, PH and sleep API’s, – Bob Troia shares these measurements and much more on his website. Over the past few years, Bob Troia, known in biohacking community as Quantified Bob, has made no secret of his biohacking adventures, documenting all of his self-tracked data via a personal API on his website, with the goal of “donating his being to data-driven citizen science”. Bob’s motivation to gather and release his data came from the difficulties of managing fragmented and siloed information, with a desire to build a more safe and permanent backup, and ultimately contributing to the biohacking community. Bob is a successful tech entrepreneur, creative technologist, musician and athlete, who has been working with emerging tech for the past 20 years. His interests have evolved into self-quantification and biohacking research, and now on his website and blog, you can also find his numerous experiments on continuous glucose monitoring, oxidative stress, vitamin D tracking, quantifying his biological age, stress management, among others. Currently, Bob has been a leading voice of the quantified self movement, with efforts in building communities where like-minded people can connect, share resources and …
Helsinki becomes the Biohacking Capital of Europe
Biohacker Summit – Helsinki becomes the Biohacking Capital of Europe Biohacker Summit, Helsinki, Finland. 13–14 October 2017 (Fri–Sat) Biohacker Summit is the largest biohacking event in Europe, organized for the 5th time, that connect wellbeing companies with medical professionals, technology experts, investors, entrepreneurs, health and nutrition enthusiasts, and other future shapers and influencers. “Helsinki is the biohacking capital of Europe. Biohacker Summit has been steadily doubling in size every year and today it is one of the largest conferences in the world dealing with optimal human performance. The ecosystem is supported with more digital health startups per capita than anywhere else in the world and the region is home to some of the world’s top companies ranging from wearables to nutrition.” explains the Main Organizer of the event, Teemu Arina. This unique biohacking conference & exhibition will teach for over 1,000 attendees everything they need to know about taking their health and wellbeing to the next level. The keynote presentations deal with achieving healthy brain, body, fitness and peak performance. The upgraded exhibition features latest in nutrition, fitness, activity trackers, body modification, biological testing and other methods to become a well functioning biological machinery. For example, the leading smart watch …
What Happens When You Attach a New Sense to Your Body?
Adding new senses is nothing new in biohacking community. Back in 2014 Dutchman Maarten Den Braber installed a magnet at before his keynote at Biohacker Summit. He was not the first one to opt in for an idea of gaining the new body ability to sense electromagnetism. The first experiments with magnetic implants were registered in 2012. Today, what happens when people attach a new sense in their bodies is being addressed in new qualitative studies from top universities in the world. “By the end of the next decade adding new senses will be as common as having a mobile phone is today”, says Liviu Babitz, co-founder of Cyborg Nest, a company working in the field of sensory augmentation. Researchers from Ravensbourne, London School of Economics (LSE) and Central St. Martins (CSM) are taking sensory augmentation to the next level by launching a joint research project to determine the effects of adding new senses to humans. The study is based on the North Sense, non-medical semi-invasive enhancement product designed by Cyborg Nest and will address what it means to be human in a world with the opportunity of sensory augmentation. The North Sense is an exo-sense, which means that it …
Tomi Kokko Path to Becoming Lean in 5 Weeks
Tomi Kokko is a Finnish entrepreneur, a leading lifestyle change expert and development coach in Finland. He is inspirational attitude and his successful Lean In Five Weeks program has helped over 8,000 Finns to achieve a healthier lifestyle. Tomi Kokko has a history of playing a variety of different sports such as football and hockey, but his biggest achievements came in judo which he won several Finnish championships. After moving to Australia in 2007 he decided to start studies to become a personal trainer and an entrepreneur, this was a turning point which started a journey towards launching his signature Lean in Five Weeks –program. During his time in Australia, Tomi Kokko experienced constant problems with his health, like fever and dyspnoea. After consulting with coaches and doctors about his symptoms he decided to make a dramatic change in his diet. Back in the days, an average diet for athletes contained a lot of dairy and milk products. When Kokko realised that his health issues were coming from dairy, he decided to cut them off. The results were quite promising. Stronger immune system and better health made Tomi focus heavily on nutrition. Once back to Finland, Tomi Kokko influenced the …
Looking Good Naked, While Maximising Your Longevity
“Athletes are unhealthy, I’m just sayin’. Sure, on the outside we exercise enthusiasts and gym junkies may look like pristine spandex-clad Greek gods and goddesses dominating ironman events, CrossFit games, Spartan races, and ultramarathons, but on the inside, we’ve got depleted hormones, overstressed hearts and damaged gust from out physically demanding lifestyle” – writes Ben Greenfield in his book Beyond Training. Ben Greenfield considers himself to be a Guinea pig when it comes to health, nutrition, sleep and fitness. He has competed as one of the top-ranked amateur triathletes in the world, completed over 120 races and 12 Ironman triathlons. In 2013 and 2014, Ben was named as one of the world’s top 100 most influential people in health and fitness, and by 2015, Ben has also coached some of the world’s top CEO’s, chefs, biohackers, and endurance and professional athletes from the UFC, the NHL, NBA, and beyond. Ben has always been passionate about fitness and endurance. In his research he has focused on maximising endurance feats without compromising on longevity, a task harder than what most people believe. In a 2012 article published in the journal of British Medical Association, James O’Keefe* mentioned, “Evidence is accumulating to indicate …
How to Measure Biological Age with Alexander Fedintsev
“For as long as we live we must work on extending our lifespans”. This is how Alexander Fedintsev, anti-aging researcher for the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology at Russian Academy of Sciences introduces his work. His starting point to extend lifespans starts with the accurate determination of the biological age. After that we will be able to effectively apply various interventions such as geroprotectors, restrictive diets and intermittent fasting. For example, in the future it might be a therapy for the removal of senescent cells, stem cell transplantation or gene therapy. Today the most frequently used method for determining biological age is based on the study of cellular DNA and the length of telomeres. This method enables determining the biological age within three year accuracy. However, it requires expensive equipment and trained personnel, thus it is not widely used in medical practice. The methodology proposed by Fedintsev is based on markers that anyone can easily get at home or at a local clinic. Feditsev and his team discovered markers related to cardiovascular health that have a direct link to determining biological age. These markers are associated with age-related diseases. The combination of these markers reflects the integral state of the human …