Four Bio-Hacking Ideas to Improve Your Health

by David Brown

One of the buzzwords being used today for many things besides breaking into computers is "hacking". The term implies tweaking, manipulating, using shortcuts, avoidance strategies, cutting edge methods, and "secrets" to produce a result, an effect, or a goal. We can hack content marketing, the stock market, better parenting, lovemaking, brainpower, and our health.

Bio-hacking in general - for personal use - is integrating any type of nutrient, or method, app, idea, or experience to improve our physical and/or mental health.

You are already doing this to some extent. Every time you use a vitamin, or do a workout, or a mind exercise, it can be seen as adding something to enhance your health. Of course if you drink too much or abuse drugs that is a different type of bio-hacking, not recommended. 

The focus here is to enhance your health and well being with bio hacking methods. It may not be termed bio-hacking, yet it has the same goal.

Technology is an important area of bio-hacking. For starters, here are a few hacks that seem to have a lot of value, and that I am using personally for my health.

1) Heartmath - The Research is Fascinating and the Time to Use it is Minimal
I use the Inner Balance for IOS
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Research Behind Heartmath > also recommended

2) SleepCycle - An App That Monitors Your Sleep and Gives You an Analysis of Quality

Since we sleep many hours during the every day, it's important that we make sure that we are getting the quality of sleep we need and SleepCycle provides that for a small price. The app is added to your cell phone and the phone becomes a monitoring device while you sleep. Great technology.
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3) The Bulletproof Diet - How to Bio-Hack Your Way to Better Health and Weight Loss

Dave Asprey, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, spent over $300,000 researching methods to lose weight and improve health. There's a lot of information in this link below:
The "Roadmap" - The Book - The Podcasts - The Blog > 

4) Body by Science - A Research-Based Program for Strength Training

I am reading this now and the introduction alone is worth the price of the book.

"This book will challenge everything you knew about exercise and takes you deep inside your body's workings - all the way down to the single cell - to explain what science now knows about the role of exercise in human health." Explore the positive effects of high intensity, low frequency weight training, and learn why the traditional aerobic-centric exercise may have negative effects that you are unaware of.

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