Biohacker Summit, Helsinki, Finland. 13–14 October 2017 (Fri–Sat) Biohacker Summit is the largest biohacking event in Europe, organized for the 6th 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 manufacturer Suunto is providing the Movesense motion sensing platform for …
Ryan Munsey on Breakfast as the Most Important Meal of the Day
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 …
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 …
Lullaby and Quantify Your Sleep
The old saying is true: Sleep fixes most things. Yet in a world where there are more things to do than time to do them, it is becoming increasingly easy to sleep less than our bodies need for healthy functioning. Scientists may continue to debate and discover what sleep or the lack of it does for as long as our planet exists, but one thing they all agree on, is the damaging effect of too little sleep on the brain’s ability to function. We know the drill: eat right, sleep right, play right, love right = a happy healthy life! However, many of us continue to float through life neither fully awake or asleep. You see, it’s not just enough to sleep. Because of the overcharged, fast-paced, intensely stimulated environment of our modern society, it can be surprising to learn that even when we do lie in bed for 8 hours, many of us are not getting the recovery our bodies need for a variety of complex reasons. Most of us don’t think twice before spending the hours and minutes before we go to bed finishing work emails or texting those far and dear, reading ebooks or browsing Facebook. Yet these …
Comprehensive analysis and hacks for male testosterone optimization
“I have to first treat myself and understand the physiology and the mind, and put it all together. For me it was the culmination point when I worked over 100 hours per week at an intensive care job for 5 years. I realized it is not going to take me anywhere. I can’t treat people if I just do the prescription and 5 minutes of consultation.” -MD Olli Sovijärvi Olli Sovijärvi is a Licensed General Practitioner at Helsinki Antioxidant Clinic and co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook. He is one of the pioneers in holistic medicine in Finland and the only Finnish medical doctor with a psychologic-philosophical Integral Theory degree from John F. Kennedy University. Sovijärvi graduated 2006 as a licensed physician from University of Helsinki. He has pioneered health podcasts in Finland with Helsinki Paleo Podcast and Biohacker’s Podcast. Sovijärvi has also consulted many natural health brands and organizations. As Ben Greenfield put it, first, he is a beast of a powerlifter. Second, he is a medical doctor. That’s right: he works at his clinic with patients day in and day out, and on his free time he is deep into applying research and practice to himself. He’s not some kid with …
Maximilian Gotzler and Getting Into the Flow State
“Biochemical state of flow is the state when prefrontal cortex shuts off, time dilates, performance skyrockets and you feel as present as you can ever be.” Maximilian Gotzler, the founder and CEO of Biotrakr and Flowgrade, is one of the leading influencers in the German Quantified Self and Biohacking scene. Being a former professional athlete, he started tracking different biomarkers and connecting them to his diet, fitness level, sleep and other parameters. “… I was really fascinated by this tracking aspect. And I noticed that just the fact that I tracked something already helped me improve because it made me aware, it motivated me to keep going, it showed me progress. And that’s how I got into the quantified-self scene.” Now, he is pursuing his vision to use the power of cutting-edge diagnostics to enhance human performance and to offer tools and actionable guidelines to everyone who wants to upgrade his or her physical and mental capacities. He explains that flow state is the ultimate state of being human. According to him, “flow is a measurable state of mind, in which one is so focused that everything around falls away, action and awareness merge, time dilutes, ego vanishes and performance skyrockets.” His …
Jaakko Halmetoja and Plants as Natural Chemists
“Lets say the baseline has moved more towards stronger plants, stronger, bitter compounds, bitter plants and if you do that you do not need to eat so much.” Jaakko Halmetoja is well known in Finland and considered to be the man who popularised Chaga mushroom to the public after writing a best selling book on the topic Pakurikääpä – opas lääkinnällisten sienten maailmaan. Extending seminars around Finland about radiant health, superfoods, adaptogens, medicinal mushrooms, biohacking, sports nutrition, wild foods and food trends he is a nutrition specialist and a wellness entrepreneur and a co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook. One of his focuses has been popularising health benefits and unique uses of mushrooms, chocolate, wild foods, various berries and medicinal herbs, even going to the extent of having old texts translated from Russian about medicinal uses. Being part of the first flush of paleo-dieters he has had the privilege of testing many ideas in length and illuminating from his many years of experimenting. The man is all about mushroom, the medical kind, how to improve your mental and physical performance and a highly interesting individual who hacks himself everyday. “Trees are the best natural chemists.” “When everything is at least organic or wild it is really good at purifying your body and …