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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Train smart and measure your muscle activity with Mpower
Do you want to optimize your workouts? Are you serious about strength training? Forget the guesswork and let the muscle tell you what it needs. A Finnish company called Fibrux has just launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund their upcoming product Mpower. Mpower measures your muscle activation levels, but that’s not all. It actually separates the activation between fast and slow-twitch muscle fibers. Fast-twitch muscle fibers produce explosive strength and speed but they tire quickly. Slow-twitch fibers are responsible for the slow, endurance based activities. It is also important to remember, that fast-twitch muscle fibers are the biggest muscle fibers in the body. This means, that no matter if you train for strength or size, you want to maximize the activation of fast-twitch muscles. Up to this point it has been very difficult to analyze muscle activation without professional-grade laboratory equipment. Maximizing gains also involves a lot of mysticism and so-called broscience. Everybody gives you contradicting advice. There’s one thing that everybody agrees though: For the best results, you need to work hard AND smart. This is where the Mpower shines. It consists of an app and up to four wearable sensors. The electrodes work dry so there’s no need …
Ben Greenfield: How to Find Balance in Biohacking
Biohacker Summit 2015 opens with Ben Greenfield’s “Biohacking vs Nature”, Ben 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”. Ben starts his presentation with a Warrior breathing technique, which he practices every day to boost his energy. This technique involves hyperoxygenating the body with fast and deep nasal inhale followed by a quick exhale in sets of 50-40-30-20 and deep breath in and out in between. The technique apparently works as Ben receives a burst of applause. According to Ben it is essential to find a balance between living in nature and biohacking. See below his 10 ways to get most out of biohacking without losing the connection with nature: Quantified self. Ben is not convinced that constantly tracking the body with various wearable devices is healthy because the signal they emit may disrupt the blood brain barrier and cause low-level radiation. Ben poses a question whether one really needs data from various devices. Nevertheless, he agrees that these are great tools to look at how different habits affect different aspects of life. He spends only 5 minutes a day to track his heart-rate variability – the …
#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 …