Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. What are the top sleep hacks? How to influence circadian rythms and chronobiology? Why shoud you sleep with your socks on? What are the top sleep promoting supplements and herbs? How eating at night influences blood sugar levels? What is the role of fasting in promoting a good night sleep? All this and more in this episode of Biohacker’s LIVE Show. Greg Potter recently handed in his PhD at the University of Leeds where his research focused on sleep, diet, and metabolism. His work has been featured in Reuters, TIME magazine, The Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, and many other major media outlets. In addition to his PhD, Greg also holds BSc and MSc degrees in exercise physiology from Loughborough University. Currently Greg serves as Content Director at Humanos.me which is an online platform designed to help people improve their health and performance. These are also values Greg lives by as his goal …
Extreme Biohacking With Serge Faguet (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)
Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Serge Faguet is a serial entrepreneur, extreme biohacker and CEO of Mirror AI. Previously he founded Ostrovok, Russia’s largest online travel company with $500m in turnover. While there he raised >$50m in capital and led the company to EBITDA profitability and >300 employees. Before that, he founded TokBox, a leading B2B video communication company with ~$50m ARR, funded by Sequoia Capital. He has also worked at Google and studied at Cornell and Stanford GSB. In addition to being a tech CEO, Serge is a diehard biohacker who is keen on having better energy, mood, focus, happiness, confidence, willpower, intelligence, health, and longevity. His hobby for the past 5-6 years has been to achieve the above-mentioned attributes by hacking the body and mind through science. As a part of that journey Serge has optimized sleep, nutrition, and exercise, taken thousands of tests, meditated > 1000 times, and worked with some amazing doctors. He wrote two very …
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 …
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 …
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. …
5 Things You Can Do To Boost Your Genital Health
2-3 time a week. That’s how often average couples have sex. The numbers of course differ from person to person, but the truth is sex is not a numbers game. When we are sexually aroused, our dopamine levels rise up and at the time of orgasm we have a dopamine whirlwind, which some researchers compare to the effects of heroin on the brain. Unfortunately, just like you can’t perform well at work if you are tired and stressed, you can’t get that same level of dopamine boost joy with your partner, if you are not healthy. Let’s all agree nothing can be more frustrating than lack of spark or vitality in your sex life. Here are some tips on how to make sure your partner will always ask for more: Reduce stress levels. Although this sounds like a very basic statement, there are in fact a lot of studies that prove the link between stress and sexual performance. Stress disrupts the work of our hormones thus creating both physical and psychological problems in both men and women. There is a number of biohacks you can use to reduce stress. Some of the most apparent ones are sleep and meditation. Get yourself …
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 …
Anthony DiClementi On Strategies To Improve Energy, Mood, and Health
“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 …
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 …