“Start with your foundation. Get your health in order. Start fueling your body. When you have more energy, when you have more clarity and your body is in better shape, that carries over and you get more creativity and you’re able to put in more productive hours. It affects your relationships. You’re a happier person; you’re able to better connect. Work hard. Build your foundation. It is the basis of everything that you do and all the success that you want, deserve and can have.” Anthony DiClementi (CNS, NCSF-CPT) is an author, trainer and biohacker and the founder of The Health Blueprint. Besides being one of the leading executive wellness coaches specializing in nutritional science and functional medicine that helps CEOs, professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities, he aims to transform lives of men and women from all around the world who are willing to take their physical and mental performance to the next level. Anthony has developed uncommon methods to rapidly upgrade their energy, transform their bodies and enhance mental clarity based on the knowledge he gained over a decade of studying the human body and extensive self-experimentation. Biohacker Summit curator Teemu Arina had a call with Anthony DiClementi for the …
Jesse Lawler on Nootropics and Smart Drugs
“Get inspired by what really smart people can talk like, and think about… When I hear one of these guys, their brain is just, flowing out of the screen, it makes me want to push my own brain as far as it can go.” Jesse Lawler is an entrepreneur, media producer, long-distance cyclist, and personal-optimization fiend. He founded the mobile app company Evil Genius Technologies, hosts the Smart Drug Smarts podcast and is the co-founder of the smart drug company Axon Labs. In his own words, he has dabbled in software engineering, the biological sciences, Hollywood filmmaking, travel fotography, and more. A plethora of diets, sleep hacks, and exercise regimens have led his less-experimental peers to describe him as a “high-functioning guinea pig.” “The effect I got was really, really strong. It kind of felt like I was trying to run too much power through my voltage cables.” “Stop drinking alcohol. It’s a cheap and easy hack… I know everybody likes alcohol, but dude… it is not worth the trouble!” “I think building up a skill for napping is just an amazing hack.” Jesse’s aim these days is to seek out the best information to educate himself and others so …
Maximilian Gotzler On the Flow State
Teemu Arina interviews Maximilian Gotzler, the founder of Flowgrade on the flow state. What is the flow state and how can we access it for higher performance? Maximilian Gotzler is the Founder and CEO of Flowgrade, a leading brand for cutting-edge Performance Nutrition. As a biohacker, former professional athlete, blogger, and organizer of the Quantified Self group in Berlin, Maximilian’s work has been covered by prominent media outlets including ZEIT ONLINE, Brand Eins, ARD, ZDF, and Bloomberg. Based in Berlin, Maximilian and his team are working to offer the highest-quality nutritional products to the European biohacking community. Maximilian holds an MSc in Economics from Sorbonne University in Paris and a BA in Psychology from Boston University. [powerpress] Transcript of the show: 0:53 – Teemu welcomed Maximilian Gotzler to the show 1:20 – Background on Flowgrade 4:45 – Biotrackr – the first platform to track blood work 7:00 – Max discussed his shop that offered products for target groups (self-optimizers and self-healers) 8:17- Max became a reseller for Bulletproof Coffee which lead to starting his own products 9:58 – Flowgrade 10:30 – Definition of flow 12:00 – In the flow state there is a sense of immediate feedback 12:50 – Max explained …
Tiina Hoffman On Measuring and Biohacking Stress
Teemu Arina interviews Exercise Physiologist Tiina Hoffman from Firstbeat about measuring stress and goes through his own data. What can we learn from the heart? [powerpress] Below are some highlights from the podcast. Normal person can suffer from overtrainning just because of chronic stress. Work can easily carry to your free time. The most common causes of sick leaves in Finland: chronic fatigue, flu and backpain. It’s important to remember, that even with proper sitting ergonomics, you can risk back pain if you don’t exercise. Stress is OK and and normal, unless it’s chronic. Untreated chronic stress can easily lead to physical problems. We often schedule exercise. Why we don’t schedule recovery the same way? Tiina Hoffman used to be the head coach of UAA (University of Alaska, Anchorage) Nordic SKi Team. There are parallels between athletes and normal people. We all need ample time for recovery, or we risk overtrainning. Firstbeat has 150 000 days of stress and recovery data from it’s customers. Some trends that have emerged: Saturdays are the most stressful days for Finns. Christmas is the most stressful time of the year. People are really charged up right after summer. Stress can be positive (sometimes called eustress). Stress is a part …
Andrew Steele on Using Genetic Data For Fitness and Nutrition
Andrew Steele is an Olympic athlete, running the 400m and 4x400m for Great Britain. Having competed internationally for over 12 years Andrew is one of the most experienced athletes on Team GB, having been part of national teams at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic level. Alongside his training for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Andrew is also one of the founding members and Head of Product for personal genetics company DNAFit, specialising in DNA testing for fitness and nutrition, to create genetically-guided training and dietary interventions. [powerpress] Here is an example infographic from a DNAFit test: Below are some highlights from the podcast. Andrew speaks about his path towards the gold medal and shares some tips on how to train like an Olympic athlete. “Genetics is not for talent identification. It is not going to tell you whether you can or can be good at anything, neither will it suggest you what sports you should do. What you can do with your genetic data is to adjust your training methods to reach your fitness and nutrition goals in more efficient way.“ “Developments in sports science has pushed forward both coaching and training in the last decades. The reason why Olympic records from the past 2–3 years are so different from …
#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 …
#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 …
#2 Dr Cathal Gurrin on Lifelogging and Quantified Self
In the second episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Dr Cathal Gurrin. Cathal Gurrin is a lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, Ireland and he is an investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics where he leads a research group of 10 people. He is also a visiting scientist at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Cathal Gurrin’s research interest is personal analytics and lifelogging (a search engine for the self). He is especially interested in how wearable sensors can be used to infer knowledge about the real-world activities of the individual and how such sensor data can be used to enhance the performance and health of the individual. Cathal has developed WWW search algorithms, multimedia content mining tools and he has gathered a digital memory since 2006 (incl. over 15 million wearable camera images) and hundreds of millions of other sensor readings. He regularly speaks at Quantified Self events and is the author of Lifelogging: Personal Big Data (PDF available), published in 2014 in the FNTIR series. [powerpress] Watch on video: Check out some of the highlights of the interview with Dr. Cathal Gurrin: “What happens if you want to find a bottle …
#1 Dr Max More on Transhumanism
Biohacker’s Podcast is here! We have been working on this podcast in Finnish for over a year and have been delighted to become the number one podcast in Finland regarding health. To celebrate Biohacker Summit and upcoming Biohacker’s Handbook in English, now it is time to start producing the podcast in English. In the first episode Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Dr Max More. Max is a strategic philosopher recognized for his thinking on the philosophical and cultural implications of emerging technologies. More’s contributions include founding the philosophy of transhumanism, developing the Proactionary Principle, and co-founding Extropy Institute, an organization crucial in building the transhumanist movement since 1990. At the start of 2011, he became President and CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world’s leading cryonics organization. [powerpress] Watch on video: “It was almost as if I was born transhumanist. From the earliest ages I can think of I was always fascinated by the idea of overcoming limits.” The other things Dr Max More developed interest in were living longer (well before he stopped growing he was taking supplements and thinking about life extension) and overcoming biological limits, because fragility of the human body was not satisfactory for him. …