In this post, I want to talk about my biohacking story and basically why I decided to learn biohacking in the first place.
I know that a lot of you are going to be confused about what biohacking is, and why you should even want to learn it so stick around and get comfortable.
What is biohacking?
Biohacking is the idea of improving yourself through a number of different ways.
You can use technology, you can use habits, you can even use diet, and really the best type of biohacking is when you use all three of those different things.
Now and I’m not gonna get into grinding, because grinding is a different type of biohacking. It’s not the type that I wanna focus on, because grinding is very much un regulated and in many ways un safe.
I would argue especially when you start looking at these people that are doing gene modification using CRISPR and things like that, it can be very unsafe.
What I like to do, and what I have been doing for the last few years, is just traditional biohacking I guess you could say, things like improving my diet looking at habits finding ways of optimising what I’m doing.
Whether that’s my routine, the order I eat things in, or even just what I physically do in any given day.
So the story started for me when I was a young teenager, and I was just obsessed with the idea of what if I could become something better.
I wondered if I could improve in subtle ways, but also in big ways as well.
What if I could improve how I FEEL by changing what I’m doing, and I know this sounds a bit simple and probably a bit obvious I guess to most people, but for me it changed everything.
- I learned about things like meditation.
- I learned about things like binaural beats
- I learned about exercise and how it affects the brain.
- I learned about diet and predominantly a plant-based diet as well.
I learned about all these different things and I started to form a picture of what I wanted to become, and biohacking was a way of getting there. It was a way of actually realising that dream, and basically improving my body to the point where it was exactly what I wanted it to be.
I’m not there yet though!
I still have a load of fitness goals a lot of health goals that I want to achieve, but biohacking has enabled me to massively improve how I feel, and how I am able to focus on things throughout the day.
But also, just my life quality in general has improved by doing certain things as well. So I guess my story is a lot of trial and error.
There been a lot of times where I’ve tried something not knowing whether it’s going to work or not, and it has actually turned out to work MOST of the time, but there have also been some experiments which didn’t work.
Some simple biohacks I started with
The most obvious one I wanna start with, is just changing things about my daily routine.
Things like where do I have a things like whether I have a hot or cold shower.
Having a cold shower has been shown to do all sorts of things, you can improve your immune system, your blood pressure gets better, your health starts to improve, and you start noticing more energy as well.
On top of all of that, you actually find that it’s easier to fall asleep.
You wake up with more energy, there is a load of benefits to cold water therapy, and I’m sure you’ve seen people like Wim Hof take this to the next level, and he does things like climbing mountains without a shirt on.
What I have done, is I’ve experimented with things like cold showers, cold baths, meditation in the morning, gratitude, and all of these habits which when you do them, they really make a difference to your life.
That has been the start of my story.
I started in personal development, meditation, and motivation, and just generally trying to improve myself and my life.
All of that has let me down to where I am now, which is where I have a biohacking website, I make these articles, I generally try and share this information with as many people as possible.
So what can you expect next?
I’m gonna be making a lot more articles about biohacking and explaining more about my story.
I’ll be sharing more about the techniques I’ve been using, and just in general, I wanna give you as much information about this as possible.
I feel like biohacking still fairly new.
Not everything is known about it, there are still a lot of questions we want answered, and especially with things like medicine, supplements, and habits.
There’s a lot of research that hasn’t actually been done yet, so there’s a lot of people that are just not sure for example, what is the best DIET is.
Which things actually work, or even which habits of the most effective, and which ones are just pointless.
So I’m going to be sharing loads of tips so if you’re not already subscribed to my email list, make sure you subscribe now, because I post weekly articles about this stuff.
I’m also on all social media networks, you just need to search for ‘transcend your limits’ and look for the little blue triangle logo.
Dangers and risks of biohacking
So lastly, I just wanted to share a couple of dangers of biohacking.
I think it’s important to realise this is my biohacking story, but there are some other experiences which are not as good.
My story is generally pretty GOOD, you know, I’ve tried this for a while now, and I’ve experimented a lot.
I found the best biohacks that work really well for me, but there are lots of people who don’t have as good luck.
Especially people who do things like grinding, where they try and implant physical things into their body.
Things like RFID chips or magnets there are lots of horror stories associated with that, so luckily my story has been pretty good.
Anyway, here are some biohacking WARNINGS.
1: Always research supplements
Number one if you’re going to try a new supplement, always make sure you do your own research way before you even buy it.
You’re looking to see if it’s going to interact with anything that you’re ALREADY taking, especially if you’re taking a big nootropic stack.
You want to make sure that the new one is not going to interact badly with what you’re already taking.
This is a big one, especially if you’ve got a massive stack of nootropics, you really need to make sure that your testing each one individually.
I know, it is easy to just take everything at once, but then if you do that, you don’t know which one is actually giving you the good or bad results.
So especially when you’re testing a new nootropic or supplement, try and only take that thing for a week, and then you can see how you feel.
See what reaction you have to do it. Journal everything.
2: Keep a journal
So another way of dealing with these dangers is to start writing down what you’re actually doing and what effect it is having.
Especially with supplements, and especially with diet, journal every day. You should write down exactly what you take, whether it’s a supplement or a piece of food or whatever, and the effect it had on you.
How did you feel afterwards, and what effect does it have on your productivity, your cognitive function?
How did it affect the way you’re able to articulate thoughts and speak to other people?
How did you feel in general?
That’s really important, and that’s going to stop a lot of the negative effects of biohacking, if you actually write down what you’re doing and what effect it had on you.
Just remember this is a new field of study, this is fairly new stuff there’s not a huge amount of research that has actually gone into things like this.
The best thing to do is to stick to things you know work, for example we know from many studies that meditation works really well.
We know that gratitude works really well in bringing you into a state of positivity and optimism, we also know that cold showers are better for you than warm showers.
We know that in general you should eat more healthy foods like plants, vegetables, seeds, and nuts. We also know that getting enough sleep is KEY.
What’s the best biohack?
Getting enough sleep is really important, and actually, I would say sleep is the most important biohack you can try, and then DIET is probably the second most important. These things are easy to change, and have BIG results.
Then underneath diet, you have things like biohacking technology, sleep tracking, supplements nootropics etc.
Your first priority should be improving the way you sleep, and your second priority should be improving what you eat.
Then third, you wanna look at things like exercise, motivation, meeting and setting goals, socialising and things like that.
Then underneath all of THAT then you would look at things like nootropics, supplements sleep technology and so on.
How to start biohacking
To get started with biohacking, read the following posts: