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Powerful Routines Of A Biohacker: Metabolic Autophagy, Cold Shock Therapy, Intermittent Fasting, Meditation, And Biohacking Your Morning Routine — Siim Land | #029 Mar 29, 2019

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Siim Land is a true biohacker in every sense of the word. Someone who not only delves deep into the fundamental learnings of how the human body operates and how to optimise it, but who goes above and beyond to make that information digestible and accessible to thousands around the world via his books, YouTube channel, Instagram, and website (https://siimland.com/).

Hailing from Estonia — a stunning country I was fortunate enough to visit for the very first time last year— Siim is one of the few biohackers that almost always hits the nail on the head when it comes to providing information that you need to know, with out all the fluff and filler. I've been following Siim for a couple of years now, initially discovering him via his website, where he shares a ton of in-depth material on how to get more out of your body and mind, biohack your metabolism, uncover the truths and untruths when it comes to fasting, how to perform better via ketosis, and so much more.

In this episode, Siim and I will discuss a range of topics, including information from his book Metabolic Autophagy, what his morning routine looks like, the routines he implements into his life that have the most effect, why meditation is so important for cutting through the mental noise that we're bombarded with in today's modern world, cold therapy and how it can benefit your immune system, medicinal mushrooms, and a ton more.

As I mentioned in this episode, I recommend you seek out Siim on his social media presences — especially YouTube — as he extremely regularly creates phenomenal biohacking content that will upgrade your life, enhance your performance, and grow your skills as a biohacker, regardless of where you are in your journey of learning right now. Find Siim's latest book Metabolic Autophagy below, as well as links to his major social media presences as well.

METABOLIC AUTOPHAGY BOOK: https://amzn.to/2WB7SKb

SIIM LAND ON YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/2lajy7d

SIIM LAND ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/siimland/

SIIM LAND ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/iamsiimland

SIIM LAND ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thesiimland/

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Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/

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Biohacking With Honey: How To Increase Sleep Quality, Control Liver Glycogen, And Supercharge Evening Restoration — #028 Mar 28, 2019

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Honey doesn't seem like it would be considered a tool in a biohacker's toolkit, especially if you're following any kind of paleo or ketogenic diet. Let's face it, we all need less sugar in our diet, and telling you to eat honey isn't exactly helping you to achieve this with any kind of ease. However, in today's episode of the podcast, I'm going to share with you an extremely simple biohack to increase your sleep quality, and assist you in getting more restorative sleep, and wake up being more refreshed, relaxed, and rejuvenated.

In today's episode, I talk about how you can hack your liver glycogen stores to keep your brain functioning optimally while you're asleep, why this is important, what happens if you don't have enough liver glycogen to keep your brain happy during the evening, the kinds of results you can see by implementing this simple biohacking secret in your evening routine, the kind of honey you should seek out, and the scientifically-backed difference in using raw honey when compared to other honey you might find on a supermarket shelf.

This is the kind of content that I love delivering and sending out in to the ether, because regardless of whether you're the most zealous biohacking geek, or just someone who wants to take better care of their health, this is something that anyone of any skill level, or regardless of your understanding can implement to biohack your health to get more out of your life.

If you want to learn more about my super-special sleep tea I also reference in this episode, please seek out episode number 19, called "Biohacking Your Evening Routine: Blue Light Exposure, Powerful Sleep Tea, Caffeine Restriction, Supplementation, And More", where I talk about this in more detail and why it's more important.

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Electrocuting Bad Habits To Death: How To Biohack Behaviour, Productivity, Increase Output And Change Your Life By Shocking Yourself — Maneesh Sethi | #027 Mar 27, 2019

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Maneesh Sethi is the founder and CEO of Pavlok (https://pavlok.com/), an incredibly interesting behavioural modification tool that's been used by thousands to quit bad habits like smoking, biting fingernails, over-eating, getting out of bed late, and so much more. Based on the theory of Pavlovian Conditioning put forward by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, it works on the principle that some of our deeply conditioned behaviours can be quite easily changed with a mild shock, or tap to the wrist, where the Pavlok device is worn.

For biohackers, changing our behaviour is a big deal, and something that most high-performers want to implement more in our lives, to override old programming, negative habits, and everything in between. And like a dog being trained to know when it's dinner time by the ringing of a bell as Ivan Pavlov demonstrated, it's extremely easy to modify some of these behaviours in a very sort timeframe, by having a device like the Pavlok remind us when we're slipping into old modes of conditioning.

In this episode, Maneesh talks about how he was inspired to create Pavlok, his story of hiring a "slapper" to slap him in the face in order to be more productive, info about the Pavlok device itself, why you shouldn't be scared of being shocked by the device, the most common behaviours that people use the Pavlok to change, an interesting case study of one Pavlok customer who multiplied his business many times over and changed the way he was productive, some weird behaviours that Pavlok customers have used the device for, and so much more.

If you've found it hard to change some of your learned habits over the last few years, or simply have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning with your first alarm, then Pavlok may be the device that can help you. As some have said, it's shockingly effective.

PAVLOK WEBSITE: https://pavlok.com/

PAVLOK COACHING: https://pavlok.com/pavlok-coaching-call/

IVAN PAVLOV STUDY: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html

MANEESH ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/maneesh

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Biohack Your Food With Spices: The World's Highest Antioxidant Superfoods, ORAC Scores, Free Radical Damage, And More — #026 Mar 26, 2019

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High antioxidant foods are important to everyone, regardless of whether you're a biohacker, or just someone who wants to take better care of their body and eliminate free radical damage as best as possible. And although many of us have been suckered by food marketing to buy certain things like goji berries, blueberries, and everything in between due to their supposedly high antioxidant content, the fact is that these foods are nowhere near as powerful in fighting free radicals as we've been lead to believe.

Food marketing aside, in this episode I'm cutting through the crap and teaching you about some of the worlds highest antioxidant superfoods, which in one way or another come in the form of herbs and spices — yes, those dried, ground, powdered flavour enhancers in your cupboard that you hesitantly sprinkle on your food to make them taste a little better, are sometimes hundreds of times more powerful when it comes to antioxidant content than berries or other so-called superfoods.

I'll take you through how we rank antioxidant content in foods in terms of their Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) score, a baseline to compare some common foods against herbs and spices in terms of their own ORAC scores, how simple things like black pepper and thyme can be giving your body a significant protective boost, where to find the internet's most comprehensive list of estimated ORAC values, why not all antioxidants are the same, and what are the highest antioxidant foods that we know of today, including sumac, dragon's blood, clove, and many others.

I reference a list of ORAC/antioxidant values on Superfoodly, which you can check out below to get some idea of the phenomenal antioxidant values of herbs, spices, and other foods you may not expect, so you can better make choices on how to get more of these free radical destroying compounds in your life.

SUPERFOODLY ORAC LIST: https://www.superfoodly.com/orac-values/

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Shilajit: The Insanely Powerful Tar-Like Himalayan Substance From Ayurveda That Will Biohack Your Bones, Skin, Joints, And Testosterone — Dr Sanni Raju | #025 Mar 25, 2019

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Dr Sanni Raju is the chairman and CEO of Natreon Inc. (https://natreoninc.com/), a company dedicated to bringing powerful medicinal compounds to the world, most of them hailing from the ancient Ayurvedic tradition from India. One such compound is shilajit, a phenomenal fulvic mineral compound that I've been using to biohack my joint health, bone health, collagen production, and testosterone for around 15 years, so I can personally attest to just how incredible this stuff is.

Although not yet incredibly well-known to the average health enthusiast, shilajit is gaining steam in the biohacking and natural medicine world, not just due to its thousands of years of use on the Indian subcontinent and beyond, but because of the growing body of research that backs its efficacy as an adaptogen, bio-booster, and healing tool, that shows it is responsible for considerable positive increases in many biomarkers. And as you'll hear in this episode, there are many reasons I've been taking shilajit for so long, and I consider it one of the key ingredients I would not want to give up out of my biohacking toolkit.

In this episode, Dr Sanni Raju discusses many of the benefits of shilajit, a few of the studies that show just how effective shilajit can be on your body, the dose you should be taking of shilajit to see positive effects, how some shilajit can become contaminated by heavy metals and other toxic impurities, as well as the kind of shilajit you should not be taking — which is something I needed to hear, due to me making a few mistakes in how I was getting it into my body. Shilajit it also not the greatest tasting substance in the world, so we talk about how to get it into your body, without suffering from the cigarette ash taste that I always relate this powerful product to.

One issue with getting shilajit into your life, is that with many supplement companies who peddle it to the masses, more often than not you're buying a low-quality product that contains filler, or extremely small amounts of the actual active ingredient. This is one problem that Natreon are trying to tackle with the pure shilajit they supply to the biohacking and health industry, and to make things easy for you, I've listed a number of shilajit supplements below that you can trust for purity and effectiveness, due to them containing Natreon's PrimaVie shilajit.

TESTOSTERONE STUDY: https://natreoninc.com/primavie-purified-shilajit-study/

SKELETAL MUSCLE STUDY: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02026414

SHILAJIT AND COLLAGEN: http://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/science/shilajit-extract-may-upregulate-genes-responsible-collagen-synthesis

SHILAJIT I NOW USE: https://amzn.to/2JNF8Mq

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How Vaccines May Destroy Your Body's Natural Immune System: Autoimmune Disease, Childhood Vaccination, Biohacking Immunity And More — Dr Thomas Cowan | #024 Mar 22, 2019

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Dr Thomas Cowan is a leading expert on the link between vaccinations and autoimmune disease, and the author of the book Vaccines, Autoimmunity, And The Changing Nature Of Childhood Illness (https://amzn.to/2OkZKdD), and the founder of Fourfold Healing (https://fourfoldhealing.com/), a medical practice that has been built on the principle of allowing our body to heal naturally, using the powerful holistic tools that our bodies have inbuilt into them.

This episode is likely to be a divisive one to some, as I know most people who care about their health seem to have a fairly concrete view on whether vaccines are either all-good or all-bad, due to what they've heard online or in the media. My view is not so partisan, as the research I've delved into on vaccines seems to show their benefit to society, as well as some negative effects on our own natural immune system, as well as a detriment to autoimmune disease, which is what Dr Cowan and I discuss in this episode.

An extremely important episode for biohackers and everyday people alike, as due to all of us having an immune system, which is our body's frontline defence against the outside world, we all need to be aware and informed on anything that could be hindering it to do what it's been designed to do over millennia of evolution.

As I mention in this episode, I urge all of you not to take everything in this episode as the final word on autoimmune disease or vaccinations, as this is just the tip of the iceberg, and to check out Dr Thomas Cowan's book below, and other resources mentioned in this episode.

DR COWAN'S BOOK: https://amzn.to/2OkZKdD

NIH STUDY - "Vaccination and autoimmune diseases: is prevention of adverse effects on the horizon?": https://bit.ly/2U1PJHI

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The Celebrity Treatment For Anger, Release, And Conquering The Past: Biohacking A Lifetime Of Trauma With The Hoffman Process — Volker Krohn | #023 Mar 21, 2019

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Celebrities may have more recognisable faces and swelling bank balances (also maybe egos), but they definitely don't have all the answers. However, the Hoffman Process is currently receiving an increase in popularity with names like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Sienna Miller, and many more touting the incredible benefits this life-changing week-long transformative therapy it can offer in terms of clearing away a lifetime of trauma.

As a biohacker, I believe most of what holds us back starts in the mind, and the Hoffman Process was created decades ago as a way to help humans overcome base programming that's been with us from childhood, that may be causing us a lifetime of pain, anguish, and holding us back from our true potential.

In today's episode, I chat to Volker Krohn, psychotherapist and the director of the Australian arm of the Hoffman Institute (https://www.hoffmanprocess.com.au/), whose mission it is to use this method of facing one's historical baggage, and using that confrontation to change your life for the better, once and for all. As I mentioned above, while the Hoffman Process has been around for decades, its starting to see an incredible boost in popularity due to its effectiveness, as well as the celebrity influence that's sharing it with the world.

Of special interest in this episode are why the Hoffman Process seems to work so well for many people, the kinds of issues people tackle with this therapy, where most of our life-altering issues stem from, as well as some interesting discussion on anger, and how it can possibly benefit human beings as a whole.

THE HOFFMAN PROCESS BOOK: https://amzn.to/2OlWWxa

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The Scientific Secret To Biohacking Happiness: How A Daily Gratitude Practice Can Transform Your Life, Rewire Your Brain, And Destroy Negativity — #022 Mar 20, 2019

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Can gratitude make you a happier human being? According to religious texts, and maybe even something your parents may have told you as a kid, the answer is yes. However, as biohackers, many of us need more than spiritual dogma to confirm whether this is actually the case, and thankfully, it's science to the rescue yet again.

But the science aside, being grateful is something that's talked about in just about every religious manual in history, from Christianity, to Buddhism, in Islam, and everywhere else in between. It's something that many humans innately know to be something of importance, or a practice which brings more abundance into one's life.However, with study that's gone on in this field, we now know that gratitude can not only benefit your mood, wellbeing, and happiness, but can actually rewire your brain in terms of changing the very nature of how you see the world. Some of the studies that reflect this can be found below, which are some of the resources I mention in this episode.

I've personally observed a gratitude practice in my life for almost a decade and a half now, and although it's something I saw benefit from right from the start, it wasn't always something that I could quantify was working scientifically. And more than almost any daily practice I have implemented in my daily routine, it's one of the few I can say I would never want to give up, that I urge all of you to try, if it's something you haven't yet experienced.

MORE ON GRATITUDE: https://bit.ly/2TjELsO

STUDY ON GRATITUDE: https://bit.ly/2HxES2e

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PSA: I Need Your Help To Make This Biohacking Podcast Even More Epic (Also, Thank You All For Your Support!) Mar 19, 2019

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This episode is not like the others, and is something of a public service announcement (PSA). But in saying that, I need your help. To celebrate the Bio Alchemy podcast hitting the one month mark, I'm asking all of you for feedback, advice, criticism, and what you want to see more of in future. I want nothing more than to make this podcast even more epic, and in this episode you can help me do just that.

Apart from that, I want to thank all of you for making the podcast so incredible so far, and for helping it succeed beyond anything I expected in the first month alone. We hit over 25,000 downloads in the first month, and I'm expecting month two to be more than 50,000 downloads alone, which puts the Bio Alchemy biohacking podcast in a special category of podcasts that don't achieve these kinds of numbers early on. And for that, I can't thank all of you enough, as it's all of you who have helped me succeed, hit goals I set myself, as well as help me share this information with the world. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Regular episodes will resume as normal tomorrow with TWO episodes dropping as a thank you for listening to today's abnormal episode, so stay tuned for that. But again, thank you all for making the podcast what it has so far become.

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Biohacking Your Sex Life With Weed: Using The Cannabinoids THC And CBD To Upgrade Your Sexual Pleasure — Kiana Reeves | #021 Mar 18, 2019

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Let's face it: sex is great. But what if it could become better via biohacking? Today I'm chatting to Kiana Reeves of Foria (https://foriapleasure.com/), which is a company that produces and distributes incredible sexual health and wellness products made using the cannabinoids THC and CBD, which I can personally vouch that are unbelievably epic in upgrading your sex life, especially for the ladies out there. And if you've never considered that you can biohack your sex life, this is definitely an episode for you to tune in to.

Cannabis has been used for centuries — possibly even millennia — as a natural compound to assist with a ton of the human race's ills, and there's also some evidence that it's been used as a sexual aid in this respect as well. And from personal experience as I discuss in this episode, something I've also used in my own life to make sex better, though not necessarily using a CBD or THC product like Foria until more recently in my life's journey.

Kiana and I chat about some of the uses of Foria's products, some misconceptions about cannabis products in general, the kinds of things you can expect when adding some cannabis into your sex life, and so much more. And for the ladies out there, just know that although men can definitely see some benefit in cannabis products in conjunction with sex, you'll be happy to know that those of you with a vagina tend to definitely see more pleasurable results than guys, so this episode will especially be one of interest to you.

Unfortunately though, due to a large part of the planet's nations having negative views on cannabis on a legal front, not all of you will be able to enjoy Foria's products legally, or use cannabis as a biohacking tool in your sex life, but let's just hope that this won't be an issue for much longer.

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