Today, we try to optimize ourselves in many areas of life. How to improve your life with biohacking, you will learn here.
Biohacking: What’s that?
Biohacking is about systematic and individual self-optimization . The aim is to trim body and mind with appropriate methods, so-called hacks, more efficiently.
The origin of biohacking lies in top American sport . There, topics such as diet, sleep or exercise were optimized on the basis of physical measurements, such as blood or body fat .
You can simply see biohacking as a kind of self-coaching, where it’s about using sensible measures to control your human organism to make it more sustainable and better .
Biohacking: 4 practical tips for your diet
- Health check: With a blood test at the family doctor you can get to know you and your body better. Among other things, you can analyze values such as cholesterol, vitamin D and B12 as well as potassium / magnesium.
- Interval fasting: If you concentrate on a six to eight hour time window when taking your diet, your body can dispose of and regenerate toxins the rest of the time. If you do not want to switch completely to interval fasting, try it on selected days.
- Healthy fats and vegetables: focus on vegetables in rich colors and fruits, plus high-quality meat and fish. We’ll show you how to make a nutrition plan . Above all, try to live as sugar free as possible and rely on high quality, natural fats ( MCT oil, preferably pure C8 ). Also Omega 3 , z. Krill oil, for example, is important to give your brain enough daily thinking power.
- Hydrogenating Cells: Human beings are mostly made up of water and our organs need water every day to be able to work without disruption. Fitness author Wolfgang Unsöld therefore recommends starting the day with a special glass of water. If you mix the water with a quarter teaspoon of Himalayan salt (important for kidneys) and a tablespoon of lime juice (increasing the overnight dropped in pH), your body can optimally absorb this mixture, as it is more similar to our blood than simple water.
Biohacking: 5 practical tips for mental freshness
- Digital Detox: Make it a habit to live a day or specific time frames without your smartphone. The extreme use of digital devices makes us tired and depressed. Instead, read books or go outside.
- Proper choice of words: Replaced the word “but” with “and” and “must” with “must” . As a result, you are much more positive in your actions and do not think so much in restrictions, but more in possibilities.
- Lighting conditions: Especially in the evening, blue light from electronic devices is anything but pleasant for our eyes. With appropriate programs and glasses, the blue light can be filtered, so you can relax much more relaxed.
- Sleep Optimization: Adequate, deep sleep is a prerequisite for mental freshness during the day. This includes darkening the room well and possibly using a sleep mask . Also, you should turn off your Wi-Fi and banish electronic devices from the bedroom. The supplementation of the sleep hormone melatonin may be helpful depending on the quality of sleep and consultation with your doctor. Incidentally, blue light also reduces melatonin production.
- Cold shower: Cold shower helps you to fall asleep and your recovery. It also boosts fat burning and counteracts inflammation. Slowly approach with short sections and gradually expand them.
Biohacking: 4 tips for physical fitness
- Exercise: If you sit all day, your metabolism slows down and the blood sugar level is pushed up. So take care every hour to get up and move you something. In addition, you should also go outside regularly. Fresh air and sun give us energy and are important for our cells.
- Relieve tension: With a roller ( black roll ) you can improve your blood circulation and loosen knots in the musculature. This helps you to get through the day without pain or in the evening before falling asleep. AcroYoga is also a great way to train with a partner to let go while stretching the body.
- Meditation: meditating daily for a few minutes will help you both in your thinking and in your body as it strengthens your immune system. Just a few minutes a day is enough to recharge your batteries and switch off. How to learn meditation is explained here.
- Workout: In fitness we want to train as effectively as possible in a short time. These are, for example, Tabata or High-Intensity Interval Training ( HIIT ).
Tips for a break in the monastery can be found here. You will also get tips for a Vipassana meditation . A good breathing technique you learn with the Wim Hof method .