What is Biohacking?
Do-it-yourself biology aimed at improving your health and well-being and performance.
The first step of biohacking is to know your physiology as a human being and how your nervous system reacts in a predictable way for your evolutionary survival. To learn how your body reacts to events and inputs is to learn HOW to hack it.
Without our conscious intervention, your brain only cares about your survival for the next 20 minutes. Under even a small amount of stress it cannot look to the future, which is why you feel tired and overwhelmed but still struggle to decide what task to complete on your never-ending list.
If you learn how your autonomic nervous system functions, then you can apply this knowledge to anything in life. Do you want to reduce stress? Do you want to try cold water therapy and maximise results? Do you exercise but never see results? Do you want to try fasting but don’t know when or how? Do you want to sleep and recover better and improve your physical and cognitive performance? First learn to take control of your own physiology.
All this is without implants, tracking devices or spending your money on diet or supplements!
Your biology affects your emotions, thoughts and concentration. Learning about your autonomic nervous system is empowering.
How do you react to an unexpected event in life? A car driving towards your family or someone trying to steal your handbag? An argument at home or at work?
Are you happy to let your body react to these events for simple survival, or would you rather have control and respond to these events in an optimal way?
To learn how your body functions is to learn how to recognise and take control. To calm when required and to focus when you need to, to deregulate and relax and recover when you want to.