Biohacking

What do you know about it?

List sports or hobby sports that you have tried so far.

I need to start exercising again and for somebody who has a zero will to do it, I need some major inspiration.

I thought that my GymBeam option is too plain because I thought that popular companies will have a better cleaner product. I wanted something fancy. That went well. The absolute worst I found out there was MuscleTech. They cover all groups of things that can port me to a graveyard plus extra toxic compounds I never even heard off. Platinum medal for slow death.

- and how many calories do you eat versus how much energy you spend, if you follow that sort of a thing?

My input/output is either balance or bigger output. That is based on calculation, body in reality can use energy different.

How we age and how our metabolism behaves depends on complex factors, but usually we slow down to spare our bodies.

This topic is also connected to a previous one and this comment: https://hilariouschaos.com/comment/511

>There is this local fitnes youtuber who says that no sugar in your life = more energy overall. The mf is 46 yo, wakes up at 3-4AM and trains. He is jacked. Says doesn’t use steroids. He also eats “KETO” every two days and the other days he eats nothing. I think he is trustworthy.

Yes, I think that he may be very beneficial for me.

About his claims, he can say anything for his case - take in consideration that he is 46 ( like me), so his metabolism is different compared to a younger person. Waking up at 4am ( same here) is a sign that he is driving off a different mode. Young people usually sleep longer in the morning.

I would advise especially younger people to stop mimicking older fitness influencers down to a detail. They don't need to be honest down to a detail. They may have a significantly slower metabolism and can have very different genetics.

But, how he can do that?

As an example, I am 46, lived off 500-1000 calories per day both on keto and paleo for a very long time, rock around the clock activity 5am-11pm with family obligations, so house chores, cooking, cleaning, shopping, online gigs, my kids school, job and fitness, without any weight loss or fatigue, when I was at my worst.

BMI 21 then and now. The fact that I can't eat grains, soy and many other cultivated plants suggest that I may have a hunter-gatherer genes, which come with a slew of differences.

He looks like a beast? I guess because he is.

And note I am a woman, so I am significantly smaller, less muscles, less energy storage and with more things on a list daily, usually I can't finish all of them.

I documented everything from my food, water, activity and I was very confused. If I would do that at 35 years of age or younger I would loose significant weight and suffer acute exhaustion.

So, when I start skipping days with my present daily intake, which is around 1700 calories total on a single meal with supplements, I don't feel anything.

Supplement quality is also very important. It's not same if you take BCAA in a morning with no carb fodder to keep it rolling, and cause yourself an insulin shock and wobbly knees, and taking EAA with full meal at 2pm.

If I jump above 2000 calories because it is cold, somebody has a celebration, I forgot what time it is, I don't care, I like chocolate, aw look that holly bacon/cake/a bucket of cream/you name it..., oh-la-la, my cholesterol jumps into stratosphere, and I start gaining weight fast as a thick. So, how is that even possible when I do more things then when I was younger with less food of the same type?

Simple, my body learned that it will die if it continues burning like a torch, and switched on an economic mode.

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I had to change my entire diet two years ago - it was successful - due to a reaction to entire family of plant proteins. I didn't develop a normal allergy at a certain point of life, but an entire metabolic syndrome which I dragged from birth. So it was either stop eating all of that immediately, or a graveyard. It took me three months to adapt and almost eight months to shake off all disturbances I had.

If you changed your diet how much time you needed to get in tune with it?

I saw that Alice had something against her sleep adventures, so here is a few things I do to sleep better in case I have issues to plank immediately after I see anything resembling bed.

It can be any of the things I listed here that can affect sleeping, usually it is more than just one.

Change synthetic bedding for 100% natural, check label, if cotton sucks for you try flax or hemp. These neutralize friction and if you are already electrified synthetic will just add to annoyance. If you usually spark static electricity randomly at objects, shower or take a batch before bed. No cold water, it will make it worse. Add salt to equalize your skin electric potential.

Unplug anything that creates any sort of electromagnetic noise, kick out phones and laptops out of a room where you sleep. Lamps and fluorescent objects included. Any bigger piece of electromagnetic material like steal or iron, such as pipes, figurines or even parts included into bed's structure.

If you have a limited living space, for example you are renting a room or you keep your electronic devices at the work desk in a bedroom, leave enough space between your work station and your bed, and separate these two spaces with an obstruction, either a fake wall or just pull a wardrobe, if it's big enough, in between.

Check your bed orientation. If you fall asleep easier in living room than in bedroom, mimic conditions - so bed position, fabrics, light. Anything you find more pleasant than in your bedroom.

Change matrass. If it's too expensive buy a topper. In case your bed is exposed to any sort of vibrations, and it doesn't deal well with it, a topper will absorb it.

Toss away that ancient pillow filled with chicken plumage. Your brain may not appreciate it.

Air the room hard core until icepicks form on the ceiling, cold is great for sleeping and you maybe just lack oxygen.

Medications and medical conditions can obstruct sleep. This includes 'mental' aka chemical imbalance conditions such as depression, anxiety and stress. This requires longer time to deal with, and usually doesn't result in sudden occasional lack of sleep. It is happening frequently or almost every night.

Lifters such as coffee, energy drinks - but you would also need to have a high blood pressure for that to take any significant effect. People with stable low blood pressure do not go under that category. Those are nuts who drink coffee in 9pm and sleep in 10pm, like me.

Try not to gobble anything at least 2-3 hours before you crash. I stop eating around 4pm, so there is nothing in a tank anyways. If you have to eat something, add Magnesium malate, it's good for anything including solid sleep. Magnesium malate is specially designed to relax muscles.

Booze can disturb sleep same as sugar, or a nice portion of fat. Some people drink 1dcl or less of red wine with dinner, and sleep like a pile of rocks.

For women, it can be also hormones. Progesterone surge is a total shit and it starts messing with our system even a week before the 'overhaul'. I drink sage against that crap, but a strong dose. Plain one bag doesn't do much. Add sweetener or sugar, taste is a livid disaster. Guys don't need this in their diet, it contains plant estrogens, stay away from it.

Light. If you have a source of light from a street it can occasionally disturb you enough to stay awake longer than you planned. Same affect has a bright computer screen. Move to nigh mode websites and use red light on a phone/laptop for 10-20 minutes before you decide to go to sleep. It will switch your day mode off.

Some things you can't affect.

Moon. Moon is always there, but reflection from any phase of it that is very bright at the moment and clearly visible can do the same thing as a full moon. No treatment available for that one, just binge something.

Being a night owl. Self-explanatory. There is a little you can do about it, except change your lifestyle and socialize with people who have the same bio-rhythm like you. It's very hard to live if you are a dead plank of wood while all of your friends are hopping around in 8am. Or go to work and you just want to lie down and die. If your day starts in 2pm, it starts in 2pm. That's it.

Growth hormone. Most of older teens, 14-15 and up, experience this phase. Wake until 4am, sleeps till 2pm. That's normal, because of the growth hormone. But that phase in some people can last up to 25 years of age.

Sudden weather change. Atmospheric pressure changing rapidly disturbs anyone and anything. You will see it coming in meteo maps, prepare food and movies.

Bugs. If your body is getting into a fight, that metabolic skirmish has to happen, you will feel restless, and you can't prevent it. You can make it lesser by providing a body with instant minerals, water and amino acids. Vitamin C is good during the day, but it will make you wide awake if you take it in the evening. So take some salty food, water, EAA and magnesium malate if you suspect the viral armed robbery.

If you feel you are not in shape, and at the same time you stopped sleeping well, try doing some light exercise before bed. Long term lack of activity, usually months, in some people, can result in lesser sleep.

Now a stranger things.

Empathy. You may feel a condition of your family member, friend or even a folk at work that you are attached to or maybe worried about. This is not excluded, or exclusive. If it's combined with a recent weird dreams, call or meet with a suspect. Spends quality time, talk, have a beer, have fun.

Negatively charged energies, of whatever origin, - woolen blanket. It has to be natural raw wool. From a sheep, not yours, not from a yak, don't sheer your cat. Wool keeps a body temperature in a thermal comfort zone, and works are a thermal and electrical insulation due to material structure. It doesn't absorb electromagnetic waves and has a very low magnetic permeability.

There are stranger things, but that would require an additional post.