First, lets address the elephant in the room.
What the hell is biohacking?
It’s basically the short cut way to try and transform your health, fitness and mind using an evidence and science-based, pro-active approach, that can improve your brain, body, energy levels and lifestyle in as short a time as possible. Sounds great, it is, but bear with me.
In fact, I’ve even talked about certain habits such as nose breathing only, fasting, walking barefoot and hanging upside down that’s considered biohacking.
Here are some other examples of biohacking:
- Buying a red light sauna and using it daily
- Taking ‘smart drugs’ such as nootropics
- Heart Rate Variability Training (I actually like this one)
- Using products such as charcoal toothpaste
Biohacking isn’t bad. It can be highly beneficial for people.
The problem that people attempting biohacking don’t realise is biohacking will only help optimise a small percentage of your health. But to effectively apply biohacking, you need to understand when and even if you should start because people I know personally and that I have coached have spent countless hours (and loads of money) biohacking when they don’t yet have their nutrition dialed in, are sleeping like shit and don’t how how to train according to their goals.
Let’s use a simple example.
Lets say you are trying to improve your overall health.
Your doctor/coach gives you a health rating score of 45/100.
That’s not very good is it?
Anyways.
You try red light sauna for a week, some charcoal toothpaste and maybe even some smart drugs – cool.
You re-test your health score and the new score is 47/100.
Sh*t. Where did you go wrong?
Biohacking is for people who are already high optimised in areas of nutrition, sleep, training etc.
Take biohacking out of the equation. You score is back to 45/100.
This time, add veggies into your main meals, sleep an extra hour a night and go for a 20 minute run 3 times a week.
Check your health score next time and its 80/100 – boom!
My point is you should only start looking into biohacking routines once you’ve can safely say you have been eating healthy meals consistently, sleeping 7-9 hours a night every night and are in a habit of training all year round.
Then by all means enjoy that red light sauna session followed by some charcoal toothpaste!
I’m probably only just ready for biohacking.
Nutrition, sleep and movement the Big Rocks.
That’s where the majority of your effort should always go.