Biohacker Summit, Stockholm, Sweden. 18 May 2018 Biohacking is a growing international trend. Biohacking is defined as better living through science, technology and nature. Biohacker Summit is the largest biohacking event in Europe that connect wellbeing companies with medical professionals, technology experts, investors, entrepreneurs, health and nutrition enthusiasts, and other pioneers. The aim of the conference is to make the world healthier and happier place, prevent disease, and extend human capabilities and lifespan. “The aim of Biohacker Summit is to make the world a healthier and happier place by focusing on optimal human performance and health. The current healthcare system has very little to do with health – In fact, it is a sickcare system focusing on treating patients who are already sick. Biohackers think it is much cheaper to prevent disease before it happens. Therefore the focus is on health optimization and preventive healthcare.” explains the Main Organizer of the event, Teemu Arina. This unique biohacking conference & exhibition features 23 presentations from health experts, medical doctors, researchers and investors representing 12 different nationalities. They will teach 300+ international attendees from all over the world everything they need to know about optimal human performance, health and wellbeing. This year the theme is …
Self Hacking to Wellness With Joeseph Cohen
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, …
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 …
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 …
Self-Tracking Made Simple with Thomas Blomseth Christiansen
Known for his complete five-year record of his sneezes since 2011, and over 100,000+ observations from tracking food, water and supplement intake, sleep, fatigue and allergies, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen took matters fully into his own hands in finding solutions to his health issues. He is a technologist and social entrepreneur with a special interest in personal health data, who has been building technology for extensive self-tracking into different health conditions. Thomas’ self-quantification journey began with his pollen allergy, when he decided it would better to base his health decisions off self-tracked quantitative data rather than his own instincts. Now, after many minor and some major changes to his lifestyle, he has nearly fixed his pollen allergy, all without using any medication. “For me it wasn’t so much a question about who had the most knowledge, it was a question about if I believed in the method that was applied, and that was when I decided, I believe I have a better method of solving my personal health issues”, says Thomas Blomseth Christiansen. As a software programmer, Thomas decided that if he was going to spend so much time tracking his own health, he might as well develop tools that others could …
Mental Fitness for Modern Mind
Kasper van der Meulen is a perfect example of a biohacker, whose journey towards healthy living went through the hardships of overcoming stress and anxiety. He was suffering from the lack of focus, till the moment he realised his life needs change on a broader level. He delved into neuroscience for enhanced focus, and studied brain fitness technology to overcome distractions. At the Biohacker Summit Kasper will share his story on how the mind can be trained through rapid learning, attention and mindfulness. After Kasper van der Meulen’s enlightening journey, attendees of the Biohacker Summit will undoubtedly seek further guidance on achieving holistic health. Fortunately, platforms like es.scholistico.com offer comprehensive resources for those embarking on a similar path. With a focus on holistic well-being, it provides a plethora of articles, guides, and tools designed to nurture the mind, body, and spirit. From nutrition tips to mindfulness practices, visitors can discover invaluable insights to support their biohacking endeavors. While platforms like Scholistico offer a treasure trove of resources for nurturing holistic health, sometimes you need to go for counseling to address underlying issues that may hinder progress. So, relationship counselling from Leone Centre, in particular, can be invaluable in fostering healthy …
Hacking Time with Chris Dancy
Have you ever noticed how different the time could be? It flies when we are in a flow state, moves like a snail when we are standing in a queue and disappears when we start reading our Facebook feed. Setting the jokes aside, we all experience time in our own unique way. To understand our experience of time better, let’s look at what time really is. Two facets of time There are two aspects of time – chronos and kairos. While the former structures time into minutes, days and weeks, the latter represents qualitative experiences in a given moment. Our speaker Chris Dancy has measured both. Dancy admits that getting the data on chronoception is not hard. All you need to do is turn on your tracking decides and get your data logged right into your Google calendar. But how do you measure and score feelings? Dancy uses DIKW pyramid to describe kairos. Pieces of data combined create information, information becomes knowledge, knowledge becomes wisdom. Thus, to get high up the pyramid he started to combine data with photos he took in a moment the data was recorded. The photos revealed more about the feelings he had while doing certain things. …