Biohacking habits to increase your performance that you can implement today!
In this article, I want to cover the habits that help me deal with daily routines, challenges and achieve my goals. I called them biohacking, because it refers to making changes to your lifestyle to feel at your best and become a better man.
If you find hard to implement all of them or at least a few, start small. Choose one that is easier to implement into your life, and as soon as it gets a part of your life and don't require your attention to do it, proceed with another one. I am an adept of easy and minimalistic life, so to proceed you will not need any special equipment, or wait for anything to be delivered to you - all you need is your body and desire to get better.
Sitting is the new smoking, quit it
Researchers have found that prolonged sitting dramatically increases the risk of developing heart diseases, type 2 diabetes and various type of cancer. A good upgrade for your workplace would be a standing desk, which were proven to increase productivity. Google offers standing desk as a part of their employee-wellness program, Facebook has more than 250 employees using standing desks, and many other companies implemented standing desks as an alternative to the traditional sitting desks.
Although standing is proved to be the winning habit over sitting, it is inevitable to sit, and when you do you want to make sure you have a good posture. There are numerous risks associated with a poor posture:
Try avoiding sitting in same position for more than 30 minutes, take breaks and stretch.
Intermittent fasting
Intermittent fasting(IF) is one of the most popular trends in health and fitness industry. It is meant to help loose weight, improve health and simplify one's lifestyle. Numerous studies has shown that it can have strong impacts on your body and brain (1, 2, 3).
Intermittent fasting does not restrict which foods you should eat, but rather when you should eat. The two most common methods are daily 16 hour fasting, or 24 hours fasting twice per week. I personally keep the 16/8 fasting schedule. I move my breakfast to 12:30, and take my last meal at 20:30 so I have an 8 hour eating window. It is very convenient for people who have a lot of things to do in the morning. You can have some extra sleep and extra energy before your first meal.
Here are some main heath benefits of IF :
The list is incomplete, but I will cover more about intermittent fasting in a separate article as it requires more attention!
Avoid blue light before bedtime
Did you know that blue light harms your natural sleep cycle? Artificial blue light emitted from LED & LCD light bulbs are quite a problem for your sleep and health overall.
Is very important that our circadian clock is synchronized with our sleep. Studies have shown that blue light suppresses melatonin which can cause a circadian delay. Modern phones and laptops have blue light filter out of the box, which can be set to start with sunset and stop with sunrise, according to your location. If you want to go more advance, there are glasses that block blue light, which are meant to be worn in the evening.
Cold showers
For some, it might sound wild, but cold showers are a pretty good habit to adopt.
I will simply list a few benefits of a cold shower, and you make conclusions:
These are the main reasons to take cold showers, but the list goes on. A shower is something we already have implemented in our lifestyle, we just need to adjust the right temperature. You can start little, decreasing the temperature over time.
I will cover these and more healthy habits in greater depth in future series. Appologize for the use of upvoting bots, but I want to get my articles seen to the community to gain some followers, and when I will have a followers base I will not need it.
Stay hydrated and be helpful to the ones around you!
Great article. Thanks for the tips!
I can vouge for the cold showers for sure.
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Great stuff @krood! While I didn't necessarily learn anything I didn't already know, it's always great to have a friendly reminder of how many variables there are that affect your health.
Here is some new health information you may or may not have heard before.
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Lovely advice. I've already followed it for years.
Alternative on sitting; if you can squat on the floor instead in a natural position
I was thinking about an alternative to sitting all day. Is good to have some ideas to implement as soon as possible. I think that some kind of mobile table that we can move up and down depending on if we are going to be sitting or standing could be useful.
Great post. I find myself falling short in many of these areas.
Great article and I agree with all your points.
I'd like to recommend adding conscious breathing techniques to your list as it's, in my opinion, the #1 Biohacking habit.
I've been doing the Wim Hof Method breathing techniques over the last few months and it's an absolute game changer.
More energy, less stress and it can even augment your immune response! Add that with cold showers or even better, cold baths, and wow, undescribable.
For more info I highly recommend visiting: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/
I'm just getting into it, and I don't have much personal experience with breathing techniques. I am freediving now, therefore I do CO2 tables to train static apnea.
I definitely think it's beneficial for free diving. After doing a couple of rounds of the Wim Hof Method I feel like I can hold my breath forever.
That's really interesting. Makes sense though. Oxygen feeds the brain, after all.
wim hof is a bit crazy but there is so much reason to his madness.
His cold therapy is also so powerful. Brown fat production is so beneficial.
Yes, agreed, he's crazy, but the gold baths and breathing techniques are not crazy, they work!! He has even proved it on many occasions.
Incredible human being.
Great post. Didn't know about the cold showers or blue light... def gonna start taking cold showers.
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I agree with your last sentence. "Stay hydrated", that is great advice.
I would also like to add that butter is healthier than margarine.
the fasting is a cool thing, I do absolute fasting(dry fasting) once in a few months for about 36 hours, super beneficial
Most experts don't agree on dry fasting. Water fasting is much better you actually need fluids to remove toxins..
Yeah, that sounds risky to me. Water is nothing but beneficial to the body, being dehydrated is really damaging.
Apparently, one dry fast day is equal to three water fasting days!
Check this guy explaining some benefits.
I never tried dry fasting, but I will give it a shot
Wow, and I thought I new it all, I am aware of the benefits of autophagy, intermittent fasting and water fasts and went through it a couple of times, but soft dry fasting and hard dry fasting was a new for me. I knew from Mustafa Mohammad who attended Mr. Olympia a couple of times that he dry fasted before every competition for 3 days and told me how crazy you get, but I thought it was just to loose the remaining water in the skin. Thank you so much for this eye opening video, this was my missing link! If i knew earlier I wouldn't go for a 7.5 day water fast but for a 3 day dry fast which would be equivalent to a 9 day water fast!
Saw the ads of this guy for his program on instagram, didn't know he had such an informative youtube channel too.
Yes actually
I'm guilty of sitting down too much. I really ought to get up and walk around every hour or so.
Good post bro!!!
Keep it up👍
Great post, and have incorporated all into my life for the last few years except the cold showers. Sorry but just cannot make myself do it! LOL - just a big wuss, I know. But IF is great, and was easy for me since my body seems to like food after 11am anyway. Used to drive my mom crazy when I was a kid because she always wanted to fix me a big breakfast before I went to school, and my body just did not deal well with early morning meals.
As an adult, I have never followed the usual eating habits of certain foods for certain meals, either. I tend to eat what my body seems to want, and it keeps me from overeating since I am pretty much always eating what I find satisfying at the moment.
I've tried cold showers many times. It's just too much. I can get over it if I'm camping and don't have a choice if I want to be clean, but it's not easy.
Icebaths are easier for me, I also don't like cold showers
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ice baths too
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It doesn't look nice without blue light all day. Both android and iOS have a blue filter setting, all native, no third party
never knew they had an inbuilt filter!
yes it doesnt look nice
and i guess looking nice Vs developing eye/neck problems in the future
is upto the individual!
gonna be interesting to see the new neck and eye problems in about 20 years
anyway nice post im gonna keep following you, as im interested about your views on nutrition living in thailand like me
In recent years, numerous studies have suggested that intermittent fasting - abstaining or reducing food and drink intake periodically - can be good for us, making it one of the most popular diet trends worldwide.
being a muslim i have always enjoyed the benefits of fasting
Thanks. Staying hydrated on the job is not always easy when you are being watched by your boss and questioned as to where you are going.
Just hold a bottle of water close to you, easy :)
If your boss don't allow you, change the job
I certainly believe it's valuable with the expectation of complimentary jumping. Subsequent to completing two or three rounds of the Wim Hof Method I have an inclination that I can hold my breath until the end of time.@alirazaamjad
Wow! I'm having a call at the moment to be a hacker, going by this. Most are thing I just started on
Thanks for sharing your valuable article with us.
You covered habits that helped you deal with daily routines, challenges and achieve your goals. Which you called biohacking,
It's make changes our lifestyle.
They are:
2)Intermittent fasting
4)Cold showers
Long time sitting is bad as long time standing, we need to move and don't spend to much time in one position literately...
Yeah, that's a good point. Having a treadmill by your computer would be ideal!
for sure, but it's hard to work online while moving, so we have to choose between two evils, the least bad one
Thank you for this lovely posting since healthy life style is my priority to keep my head cool and feet warm. I’ve been practicing a few regularly such as:
Intermittent fasting (no breakfast, one day fasting every week, ..), and 1-minute cold and hot bath in turn similarly to Finish sauna. They definitely work. Thanks again! ^^
You have breakfast, you just postpone it :)
good suggestion for slothful men
Would simply being cold and being underdressed suffice? Cold showers, i feel, don't get as cold as i think they should at my place O_O And for the short time i spend there...it seems just too weird it could work? I do it anyway, but i see no benefits so far.
What do you think?
I would get an energy boost from being really cold, but I've never noticed it lasts for a long time or anything.
Yeah, being cold has also benefits. Russian powerlifters were exposing themselves to cold temperatures right before championships to get a boost
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Thanks for benefits.
Some of the them I have new. Example, about shower.
But I have friends who doing this Intermitten fasting and they also eat 8 hours and 16 hours live without food.
And it is working.
Actually, about this phone light before you go bed...this is also true.
Fasting is one of the easiest and most beneficial things you can implement right away
Thanks for the replay. But how is it right and good to start? You try it, but only this 16/8 hours intermitten fasting?
If it's hard for you, try 14/10. You should choose the hours according to your daily schedule and your eating preferences. Some might eat a lot in the evening, so they finish later, but move the breakfast further, to 2pm for example.
Okey, thank you for recommendation. If I need to, I can ask your help?
In these hours, when you don’t eat- what I can to do?...I think about water or some juice?
Yes, right, your article is the truth.
Long sitting while working is bad, if you do not have a desk, then get up regularly and take a few steps.
If you want to read before going to sleep, the kindle fire has a sleep function that restricts the blue light.
If you do not want to take a cold shower, then you can fill a tub with cold water and put your feet in it, and then walk on the spot so that there is always a foot of water (in german called "Kneipen"), which is good for the immune power
Nice post my mentor ...hoping to be like you some day
thanks for sharing.
Excellent post I did not know the concept of "standing desk". I am an engineer and I do a lot of work in front of the computer every day, I will invest more on the subject.
Thanks for the info.
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Great article and I agree with all your points.
I'd like to recommend adding conscious breathing techniques to your list as it's, in my opinion, the #1 Biohacking habit.
I've been doing the Wim Hof Method breathing techniques over the last few months and it's an absolute game changer.
More energy, less stress and it can even augment your immune response! Add that with cold showers or even better, cold baths, and wow, undescribable.
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It takes a good balance to run this management. Every time is precious. This article adds my insight to this issue. It just still needs training and self-discipline. thank you for this knowledge. Regards.
Am happy to read this ,i have been on it for long time now.
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Would simply being cold and being underdressed suffice? Cold showers, i feel, don't get as cold as i think they should at my place O_O And for the short time i spend there...it seems just too weird it could work? I do it anyway, but i see no benefits so far.
What do you think?
Russian powerlifters stay cold one day before the competition to give it a boost. It's good to stay cold overall.
eskiomos wash their children in snow/ice
I'm afraid it would not suffice.
From the recent best selling book Head Strong
The cold water is an acute stressor that does good. General cold weather doesn't exactly do the same thing.
Nicely done!
Me, I'm doing all of them. Guess I'm a hacker!
There's more to it, I will write soon
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Sitting is the new smoking, quit it..
I didn't know this. Thanks for such wonderful information
Nice and helpful post.
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