How to Become Antifragile With Siim Land

As biohackers, we are used to improving our bodies to improve health and achieve peak performance. Logically, we experiment and follow the lifestyle and dietary choices that best suit us. However, these ideal states might take us to the other side of the spectrum, by limiting our options and making us more fragile. In his talk at the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Siim Land addressed these concepts in a very accurate and practical manner. Read more to learn all the strategies to become antifragile, and also watch his great presentation on the topic.

Optimizing Productivity With Martina Johansson

Many of us struggle with optimizing productivity, especially if you are an entrepreneur. We usually complain of lack of focus, but Martina Johansson explained at the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm that it is more than that. If you want to optimize your productivity, don’t miss this article including specific tips and a video recording of her talk.

Personalizing Sleep with Hannu Kinnunen

At the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Hannu Kinnunen, Chief Scientific Officer at Oura Health, explained how to know your chronotype from your own data and use it to optimize your life. Read this article and watch the presentation to learn more about using wearables to track and optimize your sleep.

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. …

Avoiding Sickness: Biohackers Handbook on Hacking the Immune System

Biohacker’s Handbook project started in 2014 by 3 Finns – technology specialist Teemu Arina, nutrition specialist Jaakko Halmetoja and MD Olli Sovijärvi. Three friends with combined knowledge of health, nutrition and technology came together to explore what needs to be done to optimize the human condition. Biohackers Handbook answers the question of what are the 20 % of the causes that determine in 80 % of results in health and wellbeing. It started as a search for fixing health issues for good, which later became the most sold electronic knowledge book in Finland. The book consists of 5 chapters: Sleep, Exercise, Nutrition, Work and Mind. Each part dives deep into the systems that are relevant for each, the interventions and finally self quantification to figure out what works best for each individual. Immunity chapter came along as an extra chapter since good quality of life boils down to health, and good health can only be achieved by maintaining a strong immune system. “Living life as a serial entrepreneur and speaker can be extremely stressful. I eventually found myself in a trap of my own body working 25 hours a day 8 days a week. I was trying to fix my own health and ended up at Olli’s office in the process” tells Teemu Arina. “Teemu was not my average patient. He came …

Ari Meisel: Make Everything in Life Easier

Ari Meisel is an 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. He’s appeared in The New York Times, Mashable, the Huffington Post and TED. Ari had to work his way up to get where he is now. At the age of 23 he was diagnosed with an incurable chronic condition called Crohn’s disease. His work Less Doing, More Living is the result of his journey of back to health by optimizing, automating and outsourcing everything in his life. Ari says: “For any challenge, the first thing to do is optimize it.” The disease was the point when Ari started to take his health seriously. After 4 months of self-experimentation and self-tracking he was able to get off of his meds, and 3 months after he was competing for his first triathlon. The complete recovery from Crohn’s disease as well as brilliant career as a productivity coach demonstrates the power of Less Doing. Ari emphasizes 9 elements of the Less Doing system: The 80/20 rule or Pareto’s law Creating an external brain Customization Choose your own work week Stop running errands Batching Organization Finance Wellness Ari also shares some productivity hacks, that helped him to get more …