Biohacking involves lifestyle tweaks to optimize health and improve mental wellness.

Biohacking aims to strengthen the body through epigenetic modifications, focusing on nutrition, fasting, and sleep quality.

Popular biohacking methods include intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, and cold-water therapy, which may have benefits such as weight loss, improved cognitive function, and reduced inflammation.

However, these methods may also have unintended consequences, such as "keto flu" symptoms like headaches and fatigue, and constipation due to low fiber intake.

Certain groups, including pregnant women, diabetics, and those with eating disorders, should avoid or approach intermittent fasting with caution due to individual health and genetic factors.

Combining intermittent fasting with a ketogenic diet may aid in weight loss, but it is crucial to consult a doctor first, especially if you have certain health conditions.

Intermittent fasting has far-reaching effects, including improved cognitive function, reduced inflammation, and increased longevity.

Cold-water therapy can boost the immune system, improve mental health, and aid in weight loss by increasing metabolism.

Some studies suggest intermittent fasting may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Genetic and individual factors, such as weight and cholesterol, influence the effects of diets, including intermittent fasting, on life expectancy and blood pressure.

Further research is needed to understand the effects of combining intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, and cold-water therapy on physical and mental health, considering individual factors like genetics and health status.

Biohacking requires careful consideration of individual factors and critical evaluation of evidence.

The effectiveness and safety of biohacking techniques depend on individual factors like genetics, health, and lifestyle.

Supplements should complement, not replace, a healthy diet, a fundamental principle of biohacking.

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Biohacking & Toxic Masculinity: How Women Dismantled The Boys Club

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Take a quick search for “biohacker” on TikTok (a tag with over 137 million views), and you’ll discover a slew of men discussing their muscle gains, testosterone levels, and cold plunge routines. You’ll see some women on the page, but the space is undoubtedly dominated by male energy. And think of the outspoken biohackers you may listen to on podcasts—chances are most of them are men, too.

This gendered approach to biohacking, while pervasive, is simply misguided. But now, women are asserting their authority in health optimization, and we expect their emphasis to soar in the year ahead.

Meet the experts

Molly Maloof. M.D.

Molly Maloof. M.D. provides health optimization and personalized medicine to high-achieving entrepreneurs, investors, and technology executives. Since 2012, she has worked as an advisor or consultant to more than 50 companies in the digital health, consumer health, and biotechnology industries. Her company, Adamo Bioscience, is working on sexual health optimization.

Gabrielle Lyon, D.O.

Gabrielle Lyon, D.O. is a board-certified family physician leading a disruption in modern medicine that focuses on the largest organ in the body: skeletal muscle. With a background that includes a combined research and clinical fellowship in geriatrics and nutritional sciences at Washington University and undergraduate training in nutritional sciences at the University of Illinois, she is a subject-matter expert on protein for health, performance, aging, and disease prevention.

Stacy Salvi

Stacy Salvi is the vice president of product and strategy at the medical device company Movano Health—the creator of the Evie Ring, the first medical-grade health wearable designed for women.

Mona Vand, PharmD

Mona Vand, PharmD studied pharmacy at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences before developing her platform that shares holistic wellness advice.

Why biohacking isn’t just for “bros”

“Women are the original biohackers,” declares family physician, Molly Maloof, M.D. “Our hormones change throughout our lives, and this requires us to adapt accordingly.” Our biology means that women often need to constantly edit their health routines and experiment with lifestyle habits as time goes on. Isn’t that the very definition of biohacking?

Let's back up: Here at mindbodygreen, we think of “biohacking” as the practice of making lifestyle tweaks to optimize health and promote longevity. Not shortcuts—contrary to popular belief—but low-lift, everyday habits that complement and enhance an existing well-being routine. Think: optimizing your exercise regimen using tools and techniques (the “biohacks”) to enhance muscle growth. It’s essentially all about advancing health with “do it yourself” biology—a topic that can pique anyone’s interest, regardless of gender.

“[Women] have a most complex physiological lifecycle that requires us to track and manage fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding, sexuality, perimenopause, and menopause. So we should be looking at biohacking as a path to even greater health and owning the opportunity to improve our lives,” says Maloof.

Yet many women feel intimidated to enter the biohacking scene as it exists today, turned off by the male-dominated energy in the room.

Women are the original biohackers

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“Biohacking has always grabbed my attention, and I want to learn, but it sometimes makes me really stressed out, because I go into this state of perfectionism where I have to do all the things,” says doctor of pharmacy and wellness practitioner Mona Vand, PharmD. “The few biohackers that I followed were all males… it just doesn't really resonate with my energy.”

This male energy is not only frustrating but can potentially harm women’s health in the long run. After all, building muscle, prioritizing protein, and keeping an eye on various health metrics are crucial for longevity—in some cases, these proactive measures can save lives. When women don’t get involved, it can totally impact their well-being.

“Physical strength is nonnegotiable,” says functional medicine doctor Gabrielle Lyon, D.O. “I've been a physician since 2006, and I've never heard someone say, ‘I regret being physically strong.’” And the muscle-building space impacts more than just physiological changes, she says. “You optimize fertility, you make healthier babies, you help the epigenetics of your child,” Lyon adds. “You age better, your skin is better, you're less likely to fall and break a hip… There's nothing that doesn't get better the stronger you are.”

So let’s be clear: Dismantling the biohacking boy’s club is not just about helping women feel included; there are real health implications at stake here.

Why the biohacker space actually really needs a dose of feminine energy

I’d be remiss not to mention how biohacking culture can easily become synonymous with hustle culture (some experts don’t even like to use the term, as it implies you can achieve optimal health with quick fixes). But as more women enter the biohacking space, we expect it to become more intuitive and less about hitting every single benchmark. From there, we predict women will focus more on sustainable changes long-term instead of a gazillion quick hacks.

“I used to think it was a flex to do a million things at the same time and habit stack,” Vand recounts. “I now carve out time for doing things that have no efficiency to them, that are strictly for joy or rest and relaxation, versus benefiting my longevity or health. It can be a little bit obsessive when you get into this thought pattern, and I just don't resonate with it.”

This doesn’t mean biohacking will become “softer” as it embraces feminine energy. But there’s an opportunity here for women to introduce some much-needed flexibility into a space that has long felt needlessly rigid.

How the biohacker game is changing — and where it’s headed next

Thanks to a growing awareness that healthcare protocols should not be gendered, more women are now starting to pay attention to markers of performance like lean muscle, hormetic stressors, VO2 max, HRV, zone 2 training, etc. “Cold plunging, saunas, and harder, more physical activities are not just for the boys anymore,” adds Lyon—and we expect an even bigger shift to come in 2024.

“I think it’s super exciting to see biohacking become more mainstream and more women joining the conversation,” adds Maloof. She praises apps like Wild.AI, for women who aim to make lifestyle adjustments based on their menstrual cycle, and Zero, for women who want to dabble in time-restricted eating, both of which have helped to herald the shift.

Other existing health optimization companies are now inviting women into the conversation by introducing specific features informed by their unique physiology. WHOOP, for example, is currently working on upgrades to their popular health-tracking band: “We did a study recently where we learned a lot about how a woman's body changes during pregnancy and how her heart rate variability (HRV) will evolve. It'll decrease, and then about seven weeks before she gives birth, it will increase sharply,” explains Will Ahmed, WHOOP founder and CEO, on the mindbodygreen podcast

If a woman didn’t know that this was supposed to happen, she might look at this stark increase with a critical (or anxious) eye. “We've been able to take population-level data on pregnant women and now have a feature in the app, where a woman can see how her body is evolving alongside what other pregnant women are experiencing,” he adds.

Similarly, creatine supplements—from the ingredients to the packaging—are no longer marketed toward dudes looking to bulk up, and we are certainly here for it. After all, muscle mass is a predictor of longevity and healthspan, so supplements that promote it can help all of us “hack” our health in a big way.

And as Lyon notes, women have lower endogenous creatine stores compared to men (meaning, they have less available). And the amino acid has been associated with significantly increased muscle mass1 in both men and women, without increasing the risk of adverse outcomes2, like weight gain. “Most of the women in my practice will go on creatine, and they find anecdotally that it really improves both anaerobic and aerobic exercise performance,” Lyon shares.

Not to mention the supplement’s brain health perks: Taking creatine has been shown to benefit both working memory and processing speed3 as well as cognitive longevity4. “It is above and beyond simply sport performance,” adds Lyon, who has certainly seen an uptick in women curious about creatine.

As women feel intimidated (or even restricted) by biohacking spaces, some experts have taken it upon themselves to create new ones that center the feminine. For example, neuropsychophysiologist Kayla Osterhoff, MPH, offers a Women's Biohacking Mini Course, consisting of lifestyle routines and tips aligned with female physiology.

Osterhoff also recently presented at the 2023 Dragonfly Live Conference—among other female biohackers—to discuss the latest advancements in women's well-being and the “health revolution” that’s sweeping the mainstream. This conference aims to gather the “who's-who” in the health space to discuss cutting-edge strategies and innovations that optimize well-being—by having women biohackers at the forefront of the conversation, we can expect them to hit the main stage in a broader sense.

Or take the brand new Evie Ring, the first medical-grade health wearable designed for women, created by medical device company Movano Health. The technology ties hormonal information to a woman’s sleep, activity, and heart health data (among other metrics).

For instance, “If we notice a more restless night of sleep in the luteal phase, we'll point it out and also give some strategies for how somebody may attack their day, despite having not gotten as good of a night of sleep,” says Stacy Salvi, vice president of product and strategy at Movano Health. Similarly, “We know that there are cardiovascular implications when your estrogen drops, so they would want to keep a better look on the function of their heart,” she adds. “This would be something that they would be able to do from our app.”

Even the design itself was made with women in mind: The ring features an open band meant to accommodate how women’s fingers change in size throughout the day, so it can stay comfortable.

To avoid needless stress, Evie also limits the amount of goals you can set on the app. “You can only set three at a time, because we do not want to overwhelm [users] with a bunch of different things,” says Salvi. “I mean, I'm an overachiever. I probably would set every single goal and then fail at them.” And heaven knows we don’t need yet another way for busy, overwhelmed women to feel like they’re failing in a society with unsurmountable standards.

Forecasting the future

A woman walks up to the weight rack in 2024. She sees the usual suspects—bros pounding protein shakes and grunting through their bicep curls—but now she also sees a fair amount of women on the scene. They’ve got creatine supplements! Fitness trackers! Kettlebells! (And no, they aren’t pink.)

Granted, we still have a ways to go before women feel totally embraced by the biohacking space (we’d first have to close the centuries-long gender gap in science and medicine), but it’s clear that the arena is becoming way less of a boy’s club. “And the world is ready, my friend,” says Lyon. “The world is absolutely ready for this.”

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It’s called “biohacking” and comes from Silicon Valley.

A relatively new word that comes from the union of “biology” and “hacker” and indicates the attempt to positively influence the functioning of the organism, by hacking, ie trying to “force”, one’s genetic heritage. A strategy to live better and longer launched years ago by Californian top managers and which then spread throughout the world. How to upgrade the “operating system” of the human body? No manipulation, here we are talking about “reprogramming” and new lifestyles. “Our genetic heritage has enormous unexpressed potential that can be activated,” he explains Fabio Piccinidoctor and psychoanalyst, researcher of Food Sciences of theMarche Polytechnic University, author of the book “Biohacking Techniques: how to optimize metabolism to increase health and longevity”. “Biohacking aims to activate epigenetic modifications by awakening dormant genes to enhance the body’s resources.” While genetics studies the structure of DNA, epigenetics the way genes express themselves, i.e. how much they are turned on or off. “We’re talking about a set of strategies that aim to strengthen the body from a physical and mental point of view, first of all through nutrition, sleep quality, physical activity, cognitive stimulation”. One of the pillars of biohacking and the intermittent fasting, Piccini adds, which plans to concentrate the diet in a precise time span of the day (to be followed always under medical supervision). «But it is equally important to take care of sleep, we know very well that sleep debt accelerates aging and that 30-40 percent of people sleep too little. Just as it is essential to check thehydration. Physical training must also be intermittent, with recovery periods in place to allow the muscle layers to rebuild. And then, you have to keep learning something at any age, another pillar of biohacking: studying music or a new language, for example, to counteract cognitive degeneration”.

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Sandra Milo is one of the supporters of this well-being and longevity strategy. «I’m lucky, at 90 I’m in full health and I still have a great desire to enjoy life. I don’t know if it’s a matter of genetics, nor do I think there is a “magic formula” of longevity, but I have certainly always been careful to lead a healthy life. There is nothing more beautiful than reaching old age with a smile and in full autonomy », says the actress who baptized the first Biohacking Suite in Rome. “Our mission is not so much to lengthen life but to improve its quality by lowering the rate of morbidity,” explains Dr. Claudio Urbani, specialist in regenerative medicine, neuroscience and stress therapy, head of the longevity center Umb. «Biohacking aims to modify dormant functional responses from non-use, from muscular or cardiovascular function to flexibility. It is about regaining possession of the body and the mind-body axis, starting with stress management». Diagnosing your own state of “aging” involves a series of tests. «The measurement of oxidative stress which measures the quantity of free radicals and indicates any inflammatory states, plethysmography to evaluate the functionality of the microcirculation of the legs, impedancemetry to study body composition, fat and lean mass, nutritional status and hydration level. And only after the check is a tailor-made program created for each person. Among the suggested therapies, there is also that of the cold which stimulates the metabolism and reduces inflammation ».

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Popular biohacking methods include intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, and cold-water therapy, which may have benefits such as weight loss, improved cognitive function, and reduced inflammation.

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A recent American study revealed that following the keto diet continuously and without taking breaks, may accelerate the aging of cells.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was conducted on mice and published in May in Science Advances and reported by EurekAlert.
The study showed that adhering to the keto diet for a long time may lead to the aging of cells in normal tissues, and may adversely affect the functions of the heart and kidneys in particular.
However, following this diet intermittently, with periods of rest, did not produce any infections associated with cell aging as opposed to continuing it.
These findings point to important clinical effects, confirming the positive benefits of the keto diet, but should be enhanced by including planned breaks for maximum benefit.
Lead author of the study, David Gaius, assistant dean of research and professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, said: “Let ’ s keep in mind that 13 million Americans use the keto diet, and we say you need to take breaks from this diet or there could be long-term consequences. ”
The keto diet is a high-fat, low-carb diet, which stimulates the body to produce ketones, chemicals produced by the liver when fat is broken down, which are later used as an alternative source of energy.
Although this diet is beneficial in some health conditions and is very popular for weight loss, several infections have been reported.
“Since cellular aging is a major cause of organ disease, the results of this study have important clinical implications for understanding ketogenic diet use, as with other diets, you need to take a break from keto. ”
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It is always advisable to discuss any diet with a dietitian or nutritionist because there may be many precautions necessary to follow a diet, for example, there are people who should not follow the keto diet completely, according to the Mayo Clinic, such as people with eating disorders, pancreatic diseases, liver diseases, kidney diseases, thyroid problems, gallbladder problems, or those who have had their gallbladder removed. They have it, and anyone suffering from fat malabsorption disorder.
Some preliminary studies point to a potential short-term benefit for individuals with neurological disorders, overweight, obesity, metabolic disorders, and diabetes, however, more research is needed before a general recommendation is made.
Here are some general pros and cons of following the keto diet:
Pros
• The possibility of losing weight in the short term.
• Increased satiety.
• Reduce hunger between meals.
The nature of the keto diet usually encourages eating more home-cooked meals
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Rapid weight loss at the beginning of a keto diet may come from “water loss ” and this is not a real indicator of weight loss.
• “Keto flu ” is a condition in which a person experiences flu-like symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, or other flu-like symptoms during the body ’ s transition to a ketogenic state.
• Increased risk of kidney stones, liver disease and nutrient deficiencies.
• Lack of fiber can lead to constipation.
There are concerns about the long-term effects of high-fat diets on cardiovascular health.
It is difficult to maintain a strict diet, which can often lead to weight regain.
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Intermittent fasting, a method of weight management that involves alternating periods of eating and fasting, has been the subject of numerous health and fitness discussions. A recent Chinese study on obese volunteers practicing intermittent energy restriction has brought this trending dietary regime back into the spotlight. The findings of this study suggest that intermittent fasting might be a potent weapon in the battle against obesity, with substantial influence on both mental and physical health dimensions.

Intermittent Fasting: A Tool for Weight Loss

The study participants practiced intermittent energy restriction, a form of intermittent fasting where calorie intake is managed and fasting is incorporated on certain days. The results were striking – an average weight loss of 16.8 pounds per person was noted. This significant reduction in weight underscores the effectiveness of intermittent fasting as a weight loss strategy, as the results were achieved without any additional physical exercise or dietary supplements.

Impacts Beyond Weight Loss

But the weight loss was not the only noteworthy outcome of the study. Alongside shedding pounds, the researchers noticed considerable alterations in the brain activity and gut microbiome of the subjects. These dynamic shifts signify that intermittent fasting might have far-reaching effects beyond just weight management. It could potentially influence various aspects of an individual’s health, from cognitive function to digestive health.

A Multifaceted Approach to Battling Obesity

These findings portray intermittent fasting as a multifaceted tool in the fight against obesity. It not only aids in weight reduction but also induces significant changes in the body. By affecting the brain’s activity and the gut’s microbiome, intermittent fasting could potentially foster a holistic approach to weight management, impacting both mental and physical health dimensions. While further research is needed to fully understand these implications, the current study brings a fresh perspective to the discussion around intermittent fasting and its potential benefits in the fight against obesity.

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Combining intermittent fasting with a ketogenic diet may aid in weight loss, but it is crucial to consult a doctor first, especially if you have certain health conditions.

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BEIRUT – Cutting carbs and feeding the body fat is a common dietary strategy called the keto diet.
Intermittent fasting based on eating during limited hours is also an effective system, so some tend to mix the two systems with the aim of rapid weight loss.
Some experts, including Professor Jason Fong, author of The Obesity Code, recommend using the keto system as a basis for intermittent fasting, and said that this combination targets fat areas and is therefore useful in case of suffering from localized obesity.
What is the keto diet?
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Research shows that scientists originally designed a keto diet in the 1920s to help control seizures in children with epilepsy.
Keto is based on eating 3 to 4 grams (g) of fat per 1 gram of carbohydrates and protein.
The keto that many use for weight loss today is a little different in that it is high in fat, medium in protein, and low in carbs.
Fat makes up about 80 percent of your daily calories, and aim to consume between 20 grams and 50 grams of net carbs depending on your personal needs.
The list of keto diet foods is devoid of most carbohydrates, even healthy foods such as fiber-rich whole grains and most fruits, with priority given to fats, such as avocado and olive oil.
The idea in the keto diet is that it pushes the body towards burning fat for energy called this ketogenic state or keto.
Instead of relying on glucose and carbohydrates.
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How does intermittent fasting work?
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Intermittent fasting is a diet based on time and not the type of food, the day is divided into fasting hours and eating hours, and there are more than one plan but the months between them are to stop eating within 16 hours while eating is allowed in the remaining 8 hours of the day.
Intermittent fasting diet plays an important role in the treatment of obesity and insulin resistance (the hallmark of type 2 diabetes) and is also effective in cases of localized obesity.
Experts recommend eating between 1200 and 1800 calories between 8 am and 4 pm, or at any time you choose, and some prefer to adopt another diet during the hours of eating and to be keto to be doubly effective.
Why mixing intermittent fasting with keto has become popular for weight loss?
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A keto diet with intermittent fasting can help you lose weight in the short term, although every diet is very restrictive, so it ’ s definitely not a one-size-fits-all method.
The keto diet increases the levels of ketones in the body.
During fasting times, ketones also increase.
The brain will rely less on glucose for energy when it is in the state of dietary ketosis.
Therefore, the transition to a fasting state (ketogenic) eventually becomes smooth after eating a low carbohydrate or ketogenic intake for a few weeks.
Who should try the keto diet with intermittent fasting?
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Anyone who has been on the keto regimen for more than two weeks and wants to add intermittent fasting can do so — but only after seeing a doctor.
It may not be suitable for people who follow the keto diet as part of a diabetes treatment plan.
Asking these patients not to eat for a long time can be dangerous.
Also, if you have chronic kidney disease, have a history of eating disorders, are undergoing active cancer treatment, or are pregnant or breastfeeding, it is not advisable to follow these two diets together.
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Intermittent Fasting: A Comprehensive Look into the Multifaceted Health Benefits

In a world constantly seeking ways to optimize health and longevity, the practice of Intermittent Fasting (IF) has surged into the spotlight. Revered by nutritionists and health experts, IF, particularly when adhering to a 10-hour eating window, has shown promising results in various health domains.

IF: A Path to Weight Loss and Fat Metabolism

At the forefront of IF’s appeal is its potential as a weight loss tool. By restricting the eating schedule, the method inherently limits caloric intake. This leads to a calorie deficit, thereby reducing visceral fat. Beyond mere weight loss, IF also enhances hormone secretion, effectively facilitating fat metabolism. The result is a body that not only looks healthier but functions more efficiently too.

Energy Boost and Cellular Repair

IF’s benefits extend beyond weight management. It also promises an increase in energy levels. With the body not constantly engaged in the process of digestion, more energy is available for other bodily functions. A key beneficiary of this energy redirection is cellular repair. The body, now having resources to spare, can focus on cleansing itself of damaged cells, paving the way for the generation of new, healthier ones during fasting periods.

Longevity, Reduced Inflammation, and Mental Health Benefits

The practice of IF is also associated with an increased lifespan. This is primarily attributed to the process of autophagy, where the body cleanses itself of damaged cells, replacing them with healthier ones. Coupled with a reduction in inflammation and the activation of longevity genes, IF potentially reduces the risk of certain diseases, slowing down the aging process. Moreover, IF’s regulated eating pattern promotes stability and balance, which has been linked to improved mood and emotional well-being.

As a beacon of hope in a world grappling with health challenges, Intermittent Fasting stands tall. Its multiple benefits, backed by research and expert opinion, make it a compelling lifestyle choice for those seeking health improvement. As we step into a new year, the practice of IF, much like its practitioners, shows no signs of slowing down.

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Cold-water therapy can boost the immune system, improve mental health, and aid in weight loss by increasing metabolism.

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Content: The seven health benefits of cold showers

With growing evidence and potential risks, we speak to experts about taking the plunge

There are gentler ways to start the day than with an ice-cold shower, yet the potential health benefits – warding off illness, improving mood and helping with weight loss – could just be enough to make you consider braving the chill.

Prof Mike Tipton, a physiologist at the University of Portsmouth, has spent four decades studying how temperature affects our health. It’s a promising area of new research and, coupled with anecdotal accounts, might persuade you to turn the dial down to cold.

“For the people who say, I feel alive, awake, it sets me up for the day, I’m not going to knock it in any way. But there’s work to be done to figure out the mechanism,” he says. Read on to find out why.

1. Boosts your immune system

One of the most rigorous studies into cold showers involved 3,000 volunteers in the Netherlands turning the water to as cold as possible for the final 30, 60 or 90 seconds of their shower. A control group showered as normal.

After three months, results showed that those who included a cold water blast in their shower had taken 29 per cent fewer sick days – regardless of how long the water was cold for.

“My particular hypothesis is that the sudden change in skin temperature is driving a lot of the beneficial changes,” says Prof Tipton. “That sudden fall produces the cold shock response – a gasp, hyperventilation and increasing workload in the heart.

“Because it’s part of a fight or flight response, you’re activating the stress hormones, serotonin goes up and beta endorphins increase,” which contributes to boosting the immune system to ward off illness, he says.

Longer exposure to cold water is, of course, fatal, accounting for 60 per cent of deaths in cold water, Prof Tipton says.

“This is a very double edged sword. A minute in cold water may prime your immune system, five minutes may actually impair it. It’s the dose of cold that’s critical.”

2. Enhances mental health

Exposure to cold water may drastically improve mental health in patients, even when drugs have failed to do so, research suggests.

One study by Prof Tipton and colleagues found that weekly cold-water swimming helped to ease a 24-year-old woman’s depression. She had previously spent seven years battling the condition, during which medication failed to reduce her symptoms.

“She said that she was the happiest she could remember being. A year later, she was drug-free and open water swimming. She’d overcome a big challenge in her mind,” he says.

It’s not clear if a cold shower could have the same effect. “It may be the distraction of the cold water [that eased her depression]. When exposed to cold water, most people say all they can think about is the temperature and it takes their mind off everything else,” he says.

However, improvements in her mental health could also be down to the exercise involved in cold water swimming, overcoming the challenge of the cold, or the social inclusion of swimming with others, he noted.

“Is it the cold, or is it any one of these other things? We won’t know until there are studies that isolate cold exposure,” Prof Tipton adds.

3. Improves skin and hair health

Lukewarm water is the ideal for face washing, as it effectively removes dirt, oil and impurities without causing excessive dryness or irritation, explains Dr Anastasia Therianou, a consultant dermatologist on Harley Street and at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

However, cold water constricts blood vessels in the skin, which can reduce redness and inflammation – so can improve the appearance of skin, she says.

When it comes to hair, a cold shower can help lock in moisture. “Cold water closes the hair cuticles, so the hydration is ‘trapped’ inside the hair,” Dr Therianou says. “This is beneficial for people with thin hair that tends to break easily. However, cold water cannot fully remove the excessive oils from the scalp so it’s advisable to wash your hair in warm water and then condition and rinse using cold water – if you can bear it.”

4. Supports weight loss

A review of more than 100 studies suggested cold water immersion, such as swimming or a cold bath, can activate and expand brown adipose tissue – a “good” fat that burns calories – and also reduce “bad” white fat, and therefore aid weight loss.

“The brown fat cells develop from white fat cells and, as their energy source, they like free fatty acids which they get from the white fat cells,” explains James Mercer, a professor emeritus at The Arctic University of Norway who co-authored the review. “By reducing the content of free fatty acids in the white fat cells, theoretically, one loses weight.”

However, scientists have not yet investigated whether a cold shower would also trigger this process. “My gut feeling is no, since the development of brown fat in cold water swimmers seems to require a very strong cold stimulus which I do not think you would get from a short cold shower,” says Prof Mercer.

“A cold shower doesn’t provide the same stimulus as being immersed in cold water, as only about a third of the body is exposed to the cold,” says Prof Tipton. “As a result, the cold shock response is roughly about a third of the size it would be in an immersion. That doesn’t mean it’s not big enough to have a positive effect – but nobody’s done the study.”

5. Relieves muscle soreness and accelerates recovery

Athletes frequently turn to ice baths to aid their recovery, the idea being that the cold reduces blood flow, swelling and inflammation of the muscles.

Cold showers could have a similar effect, as the cold water is an analgesic (painkiller) and may be enough to decrease swelling, says Prof Tipton.

However, he notes that while there is “some evidence” cold water can help muscle aches, the evidence “is not convincing across the board”. For example, some studies suggest that cold water actually lowers protein generation, which is vital for building and repairing muscle.

6. Aids in pain relief and reduces migraines

There’s anecdotal evidence of cold baths and cold water swimming easing very severe migraines, Prof Tipton notes. These accounts suggest short-term exposure to the cold may ease pain, he says.

Cold receptors are located about 0.18mm below the skin surface and, when skin temperature drops quickly, these fire off an enormous amount of information to the central nervous system and the subsequent gasping changes blood flow in the brain, he explains.

A reduction in pain could be down to a combination of those two things or other factors,” he says.

7. Enhances mood and promotes emotional wellbeing

There’s anecdotal evidence from cold water swimmers that it dramatically improves their mood and wellbeing, says Prof Tipton. “I work with the Bluetits [an outdoor swimming group in Pembrokeshire] and I am overwhelmed by the accounts of people who say it has changed their life. People are in tears about it.

“The vast majority of people who report benefits, say it’s to their mental wellbeing, although the mechanism behind this effect is unclear. The cold water is clearly activating people and waking them up, which will be down to the cold shock response and the release of stress hormones.”

Health risks to consider before having a cold shower

Before stepping into a cold shower, it’s important to consider if you’re in good enough health to do so, says Prof Tipton.

“We’re a tropical animal that wants to be naked in 28C. Taking that animal and showering it with 10 or 12C water is a really stressful thing to do,” he says.

The cold triggers cold water shock, which is a gasp of breath, followed by rapid breathing and high blood pressure. While this can be beneficial for some over a short time, it will become detrimental to everyone with time, so people should stay in a cold shower for no more than one minute.

It is especially dangerous for people with cardiovascular disease, aneurysms or heart problems and they therefore shouldn’t try it, Prof Tipton says.

Other complications of cold water that could affect anyone include hypothermia and non-freezing cold injury, he warns, is damage to the small nerves and blood vessels of the hands and feets that can last for life.

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Some studies suggest intermittent fasting may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.

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Content: Tuesday 19-03-2024
Chinese study reveals long-term risk of intermittent fasting
A recent Chinese study has revealed the danger of intermittent fasting to long-term health, with researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University finding that people who eat within 8 hours a day are twice as likely to have heart attacks and strokes later in life.
Experts said this illustrates why people should be careful when following modern diets before knowing their full effects.
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The results of the study showed that people who ate only during an 8-hour period per day were 91% more likely to die from cardiovascular disease, compared to those who ate normally for more than 12 to 16 hours.
The study is set to present its findings on the impact of intermittent fasting on long-term heart health at the American Heart Association ’ s Conference on Epidemiology and Prevention in 2024.
The researchers reviewed information on dietary patterns from annual health surveys between 2003 and 2018 and compared it with mortality data over the same period.
Over an average of eight years, 2,797 people died, 840 of them from heart disease.
The observational research did not take into account other potential contributing factors, such as participants' weight and blood cholesterol, at the start of the study or during the 8-year follow-up period.
The study was based on self-reported dietary information, and other lifestyle factors, such as smoking and exercise levels, were not included in the analysis.
Intermittent fasting has gained popularity in recent years, with British Prime Minister Rishi Sonak, Elon Musk and star Jennifer Aniston asserting that it has helped them stay fit.
Previous studies have linked time-restricted eating to positive health outcomes, such as improved blood pressure and short-term blood glucose and cholesterol levels.
The latest study, to be presented at the American Heart Association ’ s Epidemiology and Prevention Conference, looked at how intermittent fasting affects long-term heart health.
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Genetic and individual factors, such as weight and cholesterol, influence the effects of diets, including intermittent fasting, on life expectancy and blood pressure.

According to the studies, how does intermittent fasting help?

It reduces the risk of lifestyle-related diseases, such as metabolic disorders.

Further research is needed to understand the effects of combining intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, and cold-water therapy on physical and mental health, considering individual factors like genetics and health status.

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Content: Why more and more people are turning towards alternative methods of healing like ice water immersion

Ice water immersion is not entirely a new thing. Athletes and fitness enthusiasts have been practicing it for quite some time now. However, recently, the audience for the same has expanded to a large extent.

It is widely prevalent among sportspersons who use it as a means of relaxing their muscles and reducing inflammation in their bodies following a rigorous exercise routine. It also aids in faster recovery and may or may not help with muscle damage and discomfort.

Ice water immersion is also a very common practice in countries that experience extremely high temperatures. People in these countries often resort to submerging themselves in ice-cold water to relieve symptoms of heat burn and heat stroke.

More recently, ice water immersion has become a popular practice among individuals who wish to work on their mental health. Josh Janis, who runs a two-hour session as part of Milwaukee's Bradford Beach's Breathe Social event, says (h/t Fox 6 Milwaukee):

"It's like going to the gym, for our minds. If we can find peace in the water, we can find peace anywhere."

What are some of the benefits of ice water immersion?

There are several known benefits of immersing oneself in ice-cold water. Some of them are:

  • Helps in recovery and reduces inflammation: Following a high-intensity workout, sometimes athletes and fitness enthusiasts may experience muscle soreness, inflammation, and minute tears. Immersing oneself in ice-cold water after a rigorous exercise routine can help alleviate these symptoms.
  • May aid in weight loss: Immersing yourself in ice-cold water may sometimes help you to reduce weight. When performed regularly, it can increase your metabolic rate up to around 16% which might eventually aid in weight reduction.
  • Helps ease out symptoms of mental health issues: ice water immersion can sometimes help in dealing with issues such as anxiety and depression. Although there is no substantial evidence to support the claim as of now, people who have practiced it have only spoken well about it. Most are of the opinion that dipping themselves in ice-cold water has helped them deal with their mental health issues in a better way.

Submerging oneself in ice-cold water may have a range of benefits, although, at times, it may cause some adverse effects. Therefore, it is usually advisable that you seek expert opinion before practicing it.

One of the most common associated risks of ice water immersion is hypothermia, which can send the body into a state of shock and may sometimes lead to death. Therefore, to avoid situations such as this, it is best to dip yourself in water for no more than 15- 20 minutes.

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Content: TAMPA (BLOOM) – Join us as we explore strategies—from mindful living to emerging technologies—and discover how every choice can lead to a longer and healthier life. Welcome to the science of aging, where the pursuit of health and happiness is the entire goal.

The Biological Basis of Aging

Cellular Aging and Its Impact

At its core of getting older is cellular aging, a complex interplay of molecular processes that inevitably influences our overall health. Dr. David Sinclair, a luminary in the field of genetics at Harvard Medical School, serves as our guide through this labyrinth, elucidating the mechanisms that govern the gradual deterioration of our cells over time. His insights underscore the fundamental role that cellular aging plays in shaping the trajectory of our lifespan.

Genetics and Aging

While our genetic code contributes to the narrative of aging, it doesn’t dictate an inevitable fate. Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, says that contrary to the notion that our genes are the sole architects of our aging process, they only account for about 20-30% of our lifespan. This discovery shows that lifestyle choices and environmental factors can play a significant role, allowing us a degree of agency in charting the course of our aging journey.

Key Factors Contributing to Cellular Damage

Oxidative stress and inflammation, as elucidated by Nobel laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, emerge as formidable foes in this aging saga. These factors, if left unchecked, contribute to cellular damage, forming the basis of the aging process. Dr. Blackburn’s groundbreaking work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies emphasizes the need to understand and address these factors to slow down the relentless march of time.

Strategies for a Longer Life

Healthy Diet Choices

The journey toward a longer and healthier life begins with the fuel we provide to our bodies. Dr. Valter Longo, a trailblazer in the field of longevity as the director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California, advocates for a diet rich in antioxidants and essential nutrients. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins become the keystones of this anti-aging culinary palette. Longo’s research emphasizes the profound impact of these dietary choices, not only on cellular health but on the holistic well-being that contributes to an extended lifespan.

Regular Exercise and Physical Activity

Exercise emerges as a potent elixir for a prolonged existence. Dr. Ellen Langer, a distinguished professor of psychology at Harvard University, encourages a holistic approach to exercise. Both aerobic activities and strength training find their place in the anti-aging repertoire, contributing not only to physical fitness but also to cognitive vitality. Dr. Langer’s insights underscore the interconnectedness of body and mind in the pursuit of a longer, healthier life.

Mind-Body Connection

The intricate dance between mind and body takes center stage in the quest for longevity. Dr. Deepak Chopra, a luminary in integrative medicine, guides us through the significance of stress management, mindfulness, and meditation. These practices, often relegated to the realm of mental well-being, reveal their potent effects on the aging process. Dr. Chopra’s teachings illuminate the path toward a harmonious mind-body connection, where the reduction of stress becomes a crucial strategy for slowing down the biological clock.

Adequate Sleep

Dr. Matthew Walker, a distinguished sleep scientist and author, underscores the importance of quality sleep in cellular repair and overall health. The recommended seven to nine hours of nightly sleep isn’t just a prescription for avoiding grogginess—it’s a fundamental strategy for promoting longevity. Dr. Walker’s research elucidates the profound effects of restorative sleep on cognitive function, emotional well-being, and immune health.

Lifestyle Habits for Longevity

Avoiding Harmful Substances

In the pursuit of a longer, healthier life, steering clear of harmful substances is an obvious decision. Dr. Claudia Kawas, a distinguished neurologist at the University of California, Irvine, sounds the alarm on two major culprits: smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. Smoking, known for its detrimental effects on respiratory health, also accelerates the aging process by causing oxidative stress and inflammation. Similarly, excessive alcohol intake not only poses immediate health risks but also contributes to cellular damage over time. Dr. Kawas emphasizes the critical need to limit exposure to these harmful substances, considering them not merely as lifestyle choices but as pivotal determinants of our overall well-being and longevity.

Social Connections

The profound impact of social connections on longevity becomes apparent through the work of Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a distinguished psychologist at Brigham Young University. Human beings, inherently social creatures, thrive on meaningful relationships. Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s research reveals that individuals with strong social bonds tend to live longer, healthier lives. Engaging in positive social interactions, cultivating friendships, and maintaining familial connections contribute not only to emotional well-being but also to a robust physiological response that supports longevity. As we navigate the complexities of modern life, acknowledging and prioritizing social connections emerge as not just lifestyle choices but as essential habits for promoting enduring health.

In the pursuit of a longer, healthier life, understanding the science of aging is crucial. As ongoing research continues to unravel the mysteries of aging, adopting these habits becomes an investment in a fulfilling and vibrant future.

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Content: HEALTH
Lifestyle Changes May Reduce Heart Disease
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A recent study has confirmed that lifestyle modification can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, especially in individuals with a high genetic susceptibility.
The study, published by News Medical, highlighted the complex interaction between genetic predisposition and lifestyle choices in determining cardiovascular disease risk among young people.
While rates of cardiovascular disease have stabilized or recently declined among the elderly, there has been an alarming rise in the incidence of these diseases among individuals aged 15 – 49.
This demographic shift highlights the urgent need to address early cardiovascular health problems, which are influenced by genetic and environmental factors.
Genetic risk assessment through PRS scores derived from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been useful in predicting exposure to diseases such as coronary artery disease (CAD) in European populations, but the applicability to East Asian populations remains limited.
The study, conducted with participants from China ’ s Cadory Biology Bank, focused on assessing how lifestyle factors interact with genetic predisposition to influence cardiovascular disease outcomes.
The group included more than 100,000 Chinese adults aged 30 to 79, who were selected based on their genetic profiles and the absence of a history of heart attack or previous stroke.
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On average, high-risk individuals experience these conditions years earlier than their low-risk counterparts.
Importantly, while the study did not find any significant multiplier interaction between lifestyle and genetic risk factors, the additional interactions showed that improving from an inappropriate lifestyle to an appropriate lifestyle significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The findings underscore the pivotal role of lifestyle modifications in mitigating cardiovascular disease risk, particularly among individuals with a genetic predisposition.
The transition to a healthier lifestyle has been associated with a significant reduction in the incidence of early coronary artery disease, and cases of late coronary artery disease for at-risk groups, highlighting the potential of personalized prevention strategies.
Strengths of the study included large sample size, comprehensive genetic data, and an intensive follow-up period.
However, limitations such as the low incidence of cardiovascular disease among young people, and reliance on self-reported lifestyle data, require careful interpretation.
Future research methods could explore the gender-specific effects of genetic predisposition and longitudinal updates of lifestyle data to enhance accuracy in cardiovascular disease prevention strategies.
The study ’ s insights also confirm the integration of genetic testing and lifestyle interventions as critical components in cardiovascular disease prevention efforts.
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Content: Do not destroy your heart.
Cardiologist 's advice
The unexpected death of Yuri Shatunov, who was in good physical shape, watched his weight shocked everyone, the legendary singer of the 1990s, the favorite of the public left, not living up to 50 years.
In a month, he gave more than 10 concerts throughout the country and no one guessed that the resources of his heart, which, although it could withstand enormous loads, are not endless.
PhD, doctor-therapist, cardiologist Azizkhon Askarov and doctor-therapist Anna Vilesova for the publication aif.ru gave advice and recommendations on how not to destroy your heart ahead of time.
“In nature, everything is created with intelligence and uniqueness, including the human body.
The heart of a healthy person withstands enormous loads throughout life, and its resource depends on how much we care for it.
If you lead a healthy lifestyle, have a normal (without congenital anomalies of development) heart structure and be optimistic, then the cardiovascular system will be strong and healthy, and the person himself will be active even in old age, ” says Azizkhon Askarov.
Harmful factors
Therapist Vilesova notes that today it has already been proven that human health is determined by genetics, lifestyle, ecology and perception of the surrounding world (psychosocial factors).
The following factors adversely affect the state of the heart:
• bad habits (smoking, alcohol, abuse of prohibited substances);
• overweight and obesity;
• hypodynamia;
• malnutrition, when the diet is dominated by fast food, red meat, salt, there is a deficiency of B and C vitamins and trace elements (iodine, selenium, magnesium, iron), the drinking regime is not observed;
• chronic stress;
• lack of sleep;
• metabolic disorders, in which high cholesterol, blood sugar, uric acid are detected, anemia is present;
• ecology – polluted air, lack of sunlight, extreme temperatures.
Therefore, it is so important to understand the root of evil and take care of your own health from a young age, emphasizes Anna Vilesova.
Smoking and alcohol have a direct toxic effect on the heart and blood vessels, causing inflammation, thrombosis and atherosclerosis.
Excess weight and obesity lead to increased stress on the heart, causing hypertension, thickening and expansion of the heart chambers and, in fact, heart failure, which is manifested by heartbeat, rapid fatigue, shortness of breath and edema.
Hypodynamia (low physical activity) causes dehydration of the heart muscle, and therefore fat and calcium are deposited in its vessels and valves.
Against this background, the process of atherosclerosis, thrombosis, which leads to myocardial infarction, arrhythmias (heart rhythm disturbances with its possible stop), warns the therapist Vilesova.
Improper nutrition, and this has long been proven, adversely affects the cardiovascular system, since the heart needs oxygen and nutrients, such as glucose, potassium, magnesium, iron, fatty acids.
“However, if you abuse salt, simple carbohydrates, including sugar, carbonated drinks, sweets, and fats of animal origin, that is, red meat, sausages, by-products, then inflammation of the endothelium (the inner layer of the arteries) and early aggressive atherosclerosis also occurs, ” warns Anna Vilesova.
"Stress is a powerful factor in organ and system damage, and the heart is no exception.
The system of “stress ”, the so-called sympathoadrenal, is activated, and hormones of the adrenal cortex are synthesized - cortisol, adrenaline and norepinephrine, causing a rapid heartbeat, spasm of all vessels and their inflammation.
As a result, thrombosis and common atherosclerosis, ” adds Azizkhon Askarov.
Sleep (primarily night, for 7-9 hours) is absolutely necessary to restore energy reserves and recharge the nervous system, advises cardiologist Askarov.
“With chronic lack of sleep for more than 1-2 months, the entire body, including the heart, is maladjusted, which is manifested by pain and interruptions with the risk of myocardial infarction and brain strokes, ” Azizkhon Askarov says.
It is important to know about the level of your laboratory indicators (regular medical examination will help in this).
These include:
• total cholesterol, which should normally be less than 5.0;
blood glucose - the norm is less than 5.5 from the finger and less than 6.0 from the vein;
• uric acid - less than 360 μmol / l;
Hemoglobin: more than 120 in women and more than 130 in men.
"If there is a violation of one or more of these indicators, then there are serious heart pathologies - hypertension, atherosclerosis and dystrophy (malnutrition) of the heart muscle," says cardiologist Askarov.
Poor ecology also adversely affects the heart, causing its ischemia (decreased blood flow with hypoxia), says the cardiologist.
How to strengthen the heart?
Therapist Anna Vilesova says that there are a number of rules for strengthening the heart so that negative factors do not affect it so actively.
These include:
• absence of bad habits - smoking, alcohol consumption;
• regular aerobic exercise: recommended walking for at least 30-40 minutes 5 times a week; swimming, gymnastics, fitness;
• proper nutrition: in the diet must be present 300-400 g of fresh vegetables and fruits, clean water for 1-1.5 liters per day, bitter chocolate, sea fish, vegetable oils (olive, linseed), nuts;
• sleep for 7-9 hours;
• Maintaining a healthy weight when the body mass index is ideally between 18.5 and 25;
• Optimism.
“The human heart is a unique organ that provides blood supply to the entire body.
Its main diseases, which include hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart defects and arrhythmias, significantly reduce its resource and worsen the quality of life.
If you take care of the state of the heart from a young age, you can be healthy and able-bodied until the very old age, ” Azizkhon Askarov summarizes.
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Content: New superhuman brains.
About drugs that make you smarter and more miserable!
Entrepreneur and programmer Dave Asbury ’ s mornings may not seem different at first glance than anyone else ’ s.
Dave wakes up and takes his young children to school, then comes home and makes himself a breakfast of coffee and butter.
Then, he walks into his office, reaches out to a corner, pulls several capsules out of boxes that look like medicine, and then starts working.
[1] Here it is.
Everything is normal, until we discover that the capsules he takes are not really drugs, but drugs.
Dave ’ s use of these drugs cannot be considered strange: throughout human history, before civilizations even existed, drugs accompanied humans.
For the damage that may lead the individual to death, some found in them an escape from the worries and burdens of life, although the price they will pay for this is high.
What is really strange is that what Dave, and many others, want from taking a certain type of drug is the complete opposite of all this; he doesn ’ t want to get away with it every morning; he wants to indulge more in it and manipulate it to his advantage; he wants to become smarter, more productive, richer.
Dave ’ s drugs are neither weed nor opioid, nor are they similar to any other familiar drug, Dave taking nootropics, or “smart ” drugs.
The chemist C.C. didn't have a clue.
Giragia Yuma said that the word he invented as the name for the drug Pristam, which he installed in his laboratory one day in 1964, would become so popular 60 years later.
The name of this compound came from the combination of the Greek words "nos", which means brain, and "tropin", which means "me," and created in his laboratory the first drug that he hopes will succeed in bending the brain of those who use it.
[2] Like any medicine.
Another, Gergea designed the prestam as a treatment, and he hoped it would help patients with brain and cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer ’ s in the elderly and speech disorders in children.
But most Nutrobix users now are often completely healthy individuals with no brain abnormality, and do not aim to cure themselves of a disease.
[3]
Smart drug users are also different from any other type of drug users: they are not marginalized groups or young Magna people who dose drugs in dark dens or raucous parties; nootropics are some of the world ’ s finest college students and some of the brightest tech minds in Silicon Valley, the tech heartland of San Francisco.
By taking drugs that are mostly made for people with cognitive disorders as a result of mental illness, these brilliant students and programmers want to enhance their ability to learn, focus and think creatively to become smarter, which seems to be happening under the influence of these drugs.
Phoebe, a history student at a prestigious university in England, describes the impact of nootropics on her in an interview with The Guardian: “These drugs help you work, so you can study longer without distractions.
You feel like going to the library on your own, and you don ’ t even want to take a lunch break.
You look at the clock and it ’ s 7: 00 p.m., but you can still keep going. ”
Johnny, a student at the same university, describes his first experience with drugs: "I had a strange feeling, I remember sitting in the exam and thinking, 'This is terrible!
Oh, my God!
I feel as if I ’ m going to lose consciousness, ” but at the same time I could remember everything, whole paragraphs remembered word for word.
That was great. "[4]
It all sounds really cool, taking a few pills in the morning gives you an incredible ability to work and think.
But, as anyone who has ever taken a drug knows, every drug has side effects that range in severity, from mild things like a headache to symptoms as severe as the disease for which you took it, and additional drugs have to be taken to treat it.
So what are the side effects of entropy?
There aren ’ t enough studies to answer this question, but many people ’ s long-term experience with Nutrobox has never been promising.
Writer and journalist Kate Miller tells her story with those drugs that she started taking after a student in her final year of university, continuing with her after entering her career.
At first, everything seemed great, she found that she could concentrate for long hours and work tirelessly until late at night, and with all this, she was able to maintain a good social life.
But not long after, the ugly face of Nootropics revealed itself to her: Kate became an addict.
In her New York Times article, Kate recounts what she went through: “I was fooling myself when I thought I could stay balanced while taking these drugs, when I thought the benefits outweighed the harm.
I started to increase the doses I was taking, and then, I found myself spending long nights flipping over in bed and falling asleep, my mind racing and my heart beating violently.
When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was reach out to take the pills again.
My body started getting used to these drugs, and then I lost their effect, so I started to increase the dose.
I would take it if I found myself yawning after I turned off the alarm.
I turned into a wreck, always angry and lost my ability to connect with the world. ”
Kate reached the point where she found her life was falling apart on all levels, and here came her decision to stop taking those drugs once and for all.
But what no one has told her is that stopping itself will be difficult, as nitrobix, like other drugs, leaves its users at the beginning of quitting defenseless in front of a barrage of painful withdrawal symptoms.
“I found myself sleeping during meetings and I couldn ’ t finish my work before the deadline.
I also began to feel very hungry and began to eat heavily.
This disorder left me with a very fragile and sensitive brain chemistry, and my weight gain and late work only made matters worse.
It was hard for me to understand at the time that what I was going through was withdrawal symptoms; no one had warned me about the side effects of these drugs. ”
Phoebe and Jonny, students who had been helped by Nootropics during the exam period, soon noticed the bad effect on them; Phoebe began to feel severe pain in her stomach, and Jimmy felt that he was becoming too dependent on her for everything, and he ate it every morning without really needing it.
Fortunately, before they went through Kate ’ s bad experience, the Taliban gave up Nutropics altogether.
Even Dave Asbury, an entrepreneur who takes huge amounts of nootropics every morning and founded a company that makes coffee mixed with the drugs, has developed a severe allergy to certain foods that he has been eating normally throughout his life.
In a paper in the journal Clinical Neuroscience, researchers Farid Taleh and Jane Aglotti found that many Nutrobix drugs cause side effects ranging in severity from diarrhea, headaches, dizziness and insomnia, to memory loss, identity disorders and motor system deficiencies.
The research also included a case study of four individuals between the ages of 17 and 28 who were taken to the hospital emergency room after a nervous breakdown. [6] Here, we find ourselves faced with a more important question: Why would people with high levels of intelligence resort to drugs that may add to their intelligence even deeper, but they may also have side effects that no one knows are serious?
[7]
Tim Farris, an entrepreneur and renowned author of human development books, has no real qualms about the long-term side effects of nootropics.
Speaking to CNN, after he started talking about the amount of pressure entrepreneurs are under today, he concluded: “Just like an Olympian who is willing to do anything, even if he reduces his age to five years, to win a gold medal, you ’ ll think about any drugs you take to become smarter. ”
[8]
Jeff Wu, a software engineer who set up a company that specializes in manufacturing nootropics, goes on to say, “Creativity and high mental performance are the only ways you can succeed in Silicon Valley.
I liken tech and finance to professional athletes, so the only way for your team, product or project to be successful is to have a comparative advantage over competitors. ”
It ’ s not just the tech industry, Wu adds: “To become smarter and more productive is to meet modern day standards of success. ”
If some people seem willing to swallow poorly researched drugs without suffering from a real disease just to increase their ability to produce something strange, you ’ ve never heard of the term and the practices that these drugs and many other strange practices include: body hacking, or “biohacking. ”
As a programmer or engineer might look at a computer looking for ways to develop it, biohackers are trying through methods that vary in extremes, from intermittent fasting to injecting themselves with stem cells, to make their bodies and brains better, stronger, healthier.
At first glance, this may not seem like a bad thing, so who wouldn ’ t want to be the best possible version of themselves?
But what ’ s interesting about this is that their desire to develop their bodies and brains stops at the point where these bodies and brains are more productive, and does not go beyond them to other areas of life, where none of the body hackers, for example, thought about creating a drug that by taking it more willing to help others in their distress.
Faced with the large number of people who are willing to take Nutropics to increase their production capacity, neuroscientist Anders Sandberg found in a study that only 9% of people are willing to take a drug that makes them more empathetic or kinder.
This increased use of nootropics and the willingness to manipulate the very composition of the body in order to increase production is itself a symptom of a civilizational disease that envelops our world today: the obsession with success at any cost.
The Guardian ’ s Carol Gadwallar says of this: “In the 1960s, sedatives were known as the little helper of mothers.
Today, however, Futropics is a small aid to capitalism.
“It ’ s just another symptom of a world dominated by competition where everyone is looking for a comparative advantage that puts them above others. ”
[10] Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee says: "Today, from the moment of their birth until their death, people only know about running in a rat race.
We are overwhelmed by the feeling that there are a limited number of prizes on the horizon and that everyone is competing for them.
It ’ s hard and you ’ re willing to do anything to win. ”
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In this world governed by machines and numbers, we are also expected to become machines: machines that wake up in the morning and work tirelessly until evening falls, and everything is ultimately governed by numbers.
How successful you are depends on how much you produce each day, which at the end of the month will translate into how much you make.
Your salary or wealth is no longer just a means to provide you with a decent life, but has become a kind of obsession, everyone wants to be successful in a modern culture that values only material values, and defies those who fail the test of making money.
In such a culture, it is not surprising to find people willing to swallow drugs with unknown side effects in order to be better.
Isn ’ t that, in one way or another, what modern culture imposes on us all today, working to burn and losing some of life ’ s simplest pleasures just to live properly and escape the stigma of failure?
The question remains: Is there then a relentless pursuit of success, what kind of happiness?
Or is the summit nothing more than a glittering image of something really empty and cold and lonely?
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Content: TV legend Davinia Taylor has revealed how well she is feeling after undertaking a new lifestyle that involves biohacking.

Biohacking occurs when someone changes their nutrition and lifestyle in order to make themselves healthier. Each person who biohacks does so in a different way whether it’s cutting out alcohol, taking supplements, or engaging in anti-ageing procedures.

Davinia – who starred in Hollyoaks – has explained that her biohacking involves cold-water therapy and removing inflammatory foods from her diet.

As a result of her new lifestyle, which also includes the use of saunas and supplements, Davinia has said that she now feels healthier than she ever has before.

Speaking to Hello! Davinia said that she entered a difficult period of poor mental health after the death of her mother when she was 35.

She added: “Boredom drove me to drink and then to eat unhealthily. I don’t want to go into my 50s feeling bored, so I had to find another way to get the dopamine I crave.”

On the techniques she uses for her biohacking, Davinia reveals that one of her routine acts is taking supplements from a company she founded. Known as WillPowders which contain collagen, protein, bone broth, and MCT (a healthy form of saturated fat) they have become an essential part of her routine.

Davinia explained: “If I don’t have my morning keto creamer and collagen, I’m going to end up binging on croissants or brownies. It’s how I’m wired after my 1980s upbringing.”

This isn’t the first time Davinia has spoken about biohacking. Earlier this year she told the Evening Standard that it wasn’t a case of taking big measures to improve one’s health.

She said: “There's so much doom and gloom… There's so much doom and gloom…There are so many little hacks you can do just to make yourself feel mentally better.”

Davinia highlighted the benefits of cold-water therapy, a method she said can be cheap to access: “The water’s freezing in this country two-thirds of the time. And on the few months a year when it’s not, just go to the supermarket, buy some ice bags and empty them into the bath.”

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Content: I’m 58 but have a biological age of 21 – this is how I did it

After eight rounds of failed fertility treatments and a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, Leslie Kenny changed her lifestyle with the aim of reducing inflammation – the results, she says, were dramatic

Leslie Kenny was 39 and had endured eight rounds of failed fertility treatments, including IVF using a donor egg, when her doctor delivered even more bad news: the pain she’d been feeling in her wrists and fingers was rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and her blood tests showed signs of the disabling autoimmune condition lupus.

“The doctor prescribed me immunosuppressants and said, ‘You have five good years left’,” Kenny says. “I don’t know what that meant but I took it as ‘that’s all you’ve got’ – that this was the end. I was crushed.”

Lupus is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues and causes inflammation that can cause permanent damage to the skin, joints, heart, lungs, kidneys and even the brain. There is no known cure, although it may relapse and remit. RA, another autoimmune condition, affects the joints leading to inflammation and thickening in the joints, which causes pain and reduced mobility. Again, there are treatments available, but it cannot be cured.

That bombshell diagnosis came in 2004. Today, Kenny is 58 and a slim, healthy woman with boundless energy. Her arthritis and lupus – a diagnosis she now questions – have gone into remission. But more than that, she appears to have beat the ageing process: recent blood tests show her biological age is just 21.

She took the “GlycanAge” blood test while attending a conference on longevity in the US. It is offered by a London-based bioinformatics company and measures levels of inflammation in your body. The results are based on determining the process of ageing as an accumulation of damage to your body over time by over-activation of the immune system, leading to inflammation of the tissues and cells. The result generates an estimated “biological age” depending on the average level of inflammation observed in the body at various points during a normal lifespan.

“Inflammation is the thing that I have been paying attention to for the last 19 years, so I suppose it’s not a surprise,” Kenny says.

Kenny is likely one of only a handful of people who could achieve such results. She is one of a breed of ‘biohacking’ devotees who swear by putting cutting-edge research into cell rejuvenation into practice in their own lives to keep their bodies and minds young, and to fight off the common causes of ageing, including inflammation, high blood sugar and cardiovascular degeneration.

The most well known of these biohackers is Bryan Johnson, the American multi-millionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. At 46, he spends $2m (£1.5m) a year on treatments and techniques – including restricting calories, taking large amounts of daily supplements, a strict sleep schedule that involves early nights and very early mornings, and blood transfusions – in an attempt to stop the ageing process.

He claims to have reversed his heart age by five years and has the lung capacity of an 18-year-old. Of his particular quest, Kenny reflects: “That very British saying ‘horses for courses’ comes to mind… but he is biohacking for immortality, whereas I prefer to think of myself as ‘bioharmonising’ for a healthy lifespan.”

Kenny is the co-founder of a not-for-profit group, the Oxford Longevity Project, whose aim is to get the latest groundbreaking ideas and research findings on anti-ageing and longevity to the widest possible audience – and she’s testing them out on her own body.

She set up the organisation with Oxford biologist Professor Denis Noble; Dr Paul Ch’en, a GP with a special interest in the ageing process; and academic and multiple marathon runner Sir Christopher Ball. Kenny brings lived experience as a patient who has seen her own health transformed by putting the latest academic findings into practice.

It was the shock of such a devastating diagnosis at such a young age that prompted Kenny to start doing her own research into autoimmune conditions and inflammation. It encouraged her to turn away from the pharmaceutical answers given by her doctors and find a new approach.

“I did try immunosuppressants and I really hated them. You had to jab yourself in the tummy. There are lots of bruises and it hurts. I just felt I shouldn’t be doing this,” she explains. “I have more of an Asian philosophical orientation, of the idea of bringing the body into balance rather than ‘let’s squash this symptom’. What I wanted to do was bring the body back into harmony.”

Back in 2004 the internet was still in its relative infancy, but patient groups had already started forming to share information on common health conditions. Kenny searched for anything she could find about the link between autoimmune disorders and inflammation in the body. She found there were common causes of inflammation including poor diet, lack of sleep, stress and undiagnosed allergies.

Kenny quit her job (she was, at the time, running a matchmaking agency) to reduce stress and improve sleep, and then overhauled her diet. Allergy testing found she was reacting to wheat and dairy, so she cut both out, and also reduced her sugar intake.

“At the time the idea that sugar was bad for you was kind of a new thing, but I removed sugar from my diet as much as I could and then took lots of foods that were anti-inflammatory,” she says. This involved a largely plant-based diet, also including oily fish such as salmon, lots of extra virgin olive oil and plant milks. She followed guidance from Dr Barry Sears, whose bestselling book The Zone Anti-Inflammatory Diet, had been recently released.

Then, after much discussion with autoimmune sufferers in the US, Kenny took a very radical – and expensive – step: online patient networks in the US were recommending intravenous immunoglobulin, a treatment that resets the immune system by replacing antibodies in your blood but was not recommended on the NHS. Kenny underwent two eight-hour blood transfusions at a hospital in Denver, Colorado in the United States, costing £24,000 and funded by health insurance provided by her then-husband’s employer. It is offered as a treatment for some conditions on the NHS, but not for lupus or RA.

Six months later her blood results had been reversed. The three readings her doctor was monitoring – C Reactive Protein, cytokines and TNFalpha, all of which measure inflammation and the function of the immune system – had reduced rapidly. Her doctor reported that her lupus appeared to be in full remission and she was free of disease and in control of her arthritis symptoms.

Kenny’s rapid success at improving her health kicked off a passion for self-management of illness and ageing that has defined her last two decades. “I really feel that patients need to have a chance of a fair fight,” she says, adding that not everyone can afford expensive blood infusions, but there are many things we can all do cheaply to improve our health.

Living in Oxford and surrounded by academics, Kenny began discussing her results with local friends and neighbours, including Lachlan MacKinnon, who was working on commercialising biotechnology for the Oxford Science Enterprise. He introduced her to Prof Katja Simon and Dr Ghada Alsaleh, who were both working at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology at Oxford University at the time, who had discovered something quite surprising – spermidine. “He [Lachlan] said, ‘It’s a terrible name, but it’s really interesting because it seems to be helping with the immune system’.”

In mice, spermidine – a polyamine found in high levels in plants such as mushrooms and fermented foods – was able to boost antibody levels in elderly subjects, keeping the immune system strong, and activate the process of autophagy: a natural cell rejuvenation process that usually happens during periods of fasting.

You may have heard the word recently due to Rishi Sunak’s commitment to a 48-hour fast every week. Consuming spermidine is believed to make the same cellular process happen, but without the inconvenience of starvation. Studies are ongoing but the first published papers also show the same effect in humans as mice.

Kenny has been taking a spermidine supplement ever since, and now promotes these findings alongside other new research through the Oxford Longevity Project.

Kenny also follows a ketogenic diet, very low in carbohydrate and higher in protein, which some academic research shows can help to preventing and treat diabetes, controlling blood sugar spikes and reducing inflammation.

Kenny’s daily routine also includes supplements of collagen, antioxidant-rich raw cacao, and glutathione, which helps repair tissues. She takes HRT to manage her body’s transition through the menopause and says the progesterone helps with restful sleep.

Two days a week she fasts for 16 hours, but she admits “I’m not slavish about it”. More important is the foods you do eat. “The Japanese drink and smoke like chimneys but they only lose four years of life to this, but in the UK we lose 10. It’s because they’re microdosing every day with green tea, they’re eating natto, which is full of spermidine; they’re eating fish full of Omega 3, and lots of fermented foods.”

Kenny walks her dog for at least 30 minutes a day and has an active life. She uses katsu bands, a product from Japan similar to a blood pressure cuff, which pulls the blood into one limb for 30 seconds then when it releases “the blood hits the pituitary gland and says ‘I’ve been lifting heavy weights’, and sends hormones to repair the body,” she explains.

She also uses an inversion chair – a small stool that makes doing a headstand easy for anyone, whatever their age – that trains the core and stimulates the vagus nerve, responsible for the regulation of organ functions such as digestion, heart rate and respiratory rate.

The efforts of figures like Kenny are being watched by experts. Vasa Curcin, professor of health informatics at King’s College London, says the “exciting work” going on among the global community of biohackers is “a huge opportunity to raise awareness and identify challenges for novel therapies and lifestyle tech interventions”.

But he adds: “We need to start considering pragmatic methods that would allow for these efforts to stop being just anecdotal evidence and start contributing to larger knowledge bases to support scientifically rigorous validation studies.”

So what is Kenny’s advice to the rest of us? “The most important thing is to get started and just do one thing. Whether that’s diet or putting a weight by the kettle and doing a bicep curl while you boil it. Just ask yourself to do it once a week, and the next week do it twice a week. Do it slowly and then it becomes a habit.”

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Content: Biohacking is a controversial practice, but Lepht Anonym accepts its risks. More than once he has ended up in the ER, leaving doctors perplexed by inserting chips and even boxes with connectors into his body.

Centuries ago, when a doctor wanted to try a new vaccine or a new drug that he had created … he tested it on himself. Many died while developing new medicines.

Some biohackers they see themselves as those pioneering doctors of the Middle Ages: they test on their own body biotechnologies that aspire to improve the human being, cure diseases, and evolve the human condition, to achieve the desired happiness. And some have also died trying.

The biohacking, also known by the name of DIY biology or DIYbio, has as purpose improve our human condition making nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and technological implants available to everyone. You have more information on this card:

From its origins, Humanity pursues immortality and eternal youth. Biohacking seeks to improve our human condition with cybernetic implants. We explain who biohackers are, and why chips are installed inside the body.

Biohackers implant chips, sensors, machines and other mechanisms with the aim of overcoming physical and intellectual limits.

There is an ethical branch o legal of biohacking that only experiments with implants that do not pose a health hazard, for example chips under the skin.

But another trend is committed to not setting limits, even at the cost of putting your health at risk. Its objective is to defeat all diseases, aging and even death, with the help of technology. Then we will stop being human to become transhumans.

A first step towards posthumanism, where Humanity could dispense with its own body and live eternally as data in a neurological network.

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Within these biohackers, grinders they are the most extreme version. It is the case of Lepht Anonym, a British biohacker that, as he tells us Business Insider, more than 50 chips, antennas and other devices have been implanted in the body.

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As only professionals can use anesthesia, all Lepht Anonym implants have been inserted into your body by volunteers, to live. Your goal is “improve our quality of life through technology“.

Lepth explains on his blog that inserts its own chips because “there is no other easy way to do it. I will not wait for someone with a research laboratory to endorse this search.“.

The first chip that this biohacker was implanted under the skin, it allowed pay in stores simply by touching the card reader.

It was also implanted some magnets under the fingers, which detected external sensors to feel the distance between hands and objects. This could help blind people to move without hitting obstacles.

Hackers and the computer world are increasingly present in television fictions. Surely at the moment we can think of a series that deals with these topics, but if you can only think of one or two, we have selected a few about hackers that we find interesting.

His latest experiment, last year, has been his most troublesome. A box several centimeters long, with antennas, USB storage and connectors, was inserted under the arm. All went well until he hit his arm in a taxi, and began to swell. He had to go to the emergency room:

There the doctors told me that I was fatal, that they did not understand why I had put a box in my arm“.

In the end, he gave up: “They kept insisting that I take it off. I let them do it because they discovered that a hole had opened in one corner of the device and a large amount of a viscous substance was coming out“.

After that incident, Lepht Anonym has not updated his blog again.

The biohacking it is a practice that is just beginning. But without a doubt, it will go further. There are already medical biohackers, and the goal is to incorporate this branch of technology into medicine.

Put it in the hands of experts, because people’s health is at stake.

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CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Cracking the code to wellness is now costing Americans $1.8 trillion annually.

For the average American, that breaks down to more than $5,300 per year.

Those numbers come from the Global Wellness Summit's 2024 trends report.

The report also shows that the global wellness economy, which generated $5.6 trillion in 2022, will continue to surge and reach $8.5 trillion within the next three years.

A driver of those staggering stats is ‘biohacking,’ which is the term for do-it-yourself biology.

It has generated 951 million views on TikTok and over on Google, there's been a 900% increase in searches for ‘biohacking.’

"The way that i like to describe it is using what we know about biology to help us become better versions of ourselves," said Britney Cirillo with Alternative Therapeutics.

‘Biohacking’ can be anything from using a smartwatch to track our heart rate to jumping in an ice bath and neuro-feedback therapy.

The idea behind neuro-feedback therapy is that we can essentially re-train our brain to tackle mental health issues like depression, anxiety, trauma, and OCD, which Emily Dean suffered from for about a decade.

"Was pretty afraid to even leave my house alone. At my worst, I was unable to care for my physical health," said Dean.

Dean ultimately needed to check into the hospital as her mental health declined.

After being discharged, she discovered neurofeedback therapy.

"It completely changed my life," said Dean.

Dean said the sessions at Alternative Therapeutics in Cuyahoga Falls provided relief that medications and traditional therapies could not.

"We're not your average counseling practice," said Cirillo.

Cirillo uses neurofeedback therapy to balance electrical activity in a patient's brain, regulating delta, theta, alpha, and beta levels.

"If any of those brainwaves are being overproduced or underproduced, that will correlate with symptoms that the client is experiencing," said Cirillo.

The goal is to essentially retrain the brain using operant conditioning, a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are rewarded.

"We tell the brain to do a certain thing when it does that certain thing, they're rewarded instantly by that video game that they're playing," Cirillo.

I was so interested in how it works that Cirillo gave me a taste of a typical session.

My goal was to keep the flames of a fire burning bright and the sound of the crackling strong while playing a game on a tablet.

Cirillo was checking to make sure my brain was in an ideal zone.

I only sat there with the tablet for a short time, but a typical therapy session lasts about 20 minutes.

"And so, with more and more practice, the brain starts to recognize what it's supposed to do and it reinforces that pathway, strengthens it to the point that that's their new normal," said Cirillo.

Despite gaining popularity during this ‘biohacking craze,’ neurofeedback therapy is still considered experimental.

"I think it's an interesting phenomenon," said Dr. Robert Lufkin with the USC School of Medicine.

Lufkin said regulating the brain could give people better outcomes when it comes to their mental health.

"I think in my opinion, this can have beneficial effects on an individual," said Lufkin.

Lufkin said regardless of what form of ‘biohacking’ people choose, it's shifting the balance of the doctor-patient relationship.

"It's certainly exploding in recent years, and I think it reflects the fact that all of us as, as patients are taking control of our own health," said Lufkin.

Dean is beyond grateful she gained control.

"Neurofeedback therapy and Alternative Therapeutics saved my life," said Dean.

After completing 20 sessions five years ago, Dean has been able to maintain her progress with a few booster sessions, along with some tools to help her navigate the world.

A world that, for years, Dean navigated with crippling fear.

"Before neurofeedback I was afraid to go to the grocery store alone. Last year, I went to California alone. That is something that I never thought would be possible for me," said Dean.

With insurance companies still considering neurofeedback therapy experimental it is not covered.

However, Cirillo said many of her clients have success when they submit for out of network reimbursement.

On average, people will need about 20 sessions to get the end results they're looking for.

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Content: The idea of precision medicine is a disruptive approach to healthcare, with care and wellness tailored to the individual genetic makeup, lifestyle and environmental factors of each person. It is an approach recognizing the uniqueness of each person, and that treatment should vary depending on an individual's specific characteristics. Since the mapping of the human genome 20 years ago in April 2003, genomic data has been used to determine predisposition to diseases and predict the efficacy of different forms of treatment, and to develop drugs targeting the basic biology of diseases. It is guiding the development of new drugs, therapies, and delivery mechanisms. By tailoring treatment to the specific needs of each patient, the promise of precision medicine is no less than to improve the quality of care, the efficacy of prevention, reduce the risk of adverse outcomes, and to improve the economy of healthcare delivery.

The growth of digital health technologies, and big data and AI in particular, are shaping the predictive, diagnostic and clinical aspects of precision medicine. A significant part of the future growth of precision medicine will come from emerging digital technologies and data-driven strategies. Some key trends and developments to keep watch on include:

  • The increasing developmental pace of AI technologies and computational methods are accelerating the development of digital and precision medicine technologies. In many ways, precision medicine is only possible with the work that can be done by AI. The collection and synthesis of a vast amount of genomic, clinical, lifestyle, social and environmental data will provide unprecedented insights and opportunities not available to human researchers to develop a whole new level of precision. This will be especially true with drug research and development, where AI can be deployed to reduce the significant time and cost of bringing new treatments to market. And diagnostic equipment such as ultrasound and x-ray machines will see great benefits with the infusion of AI.
  • A growing trend in precision medicine will be a focus on preventive medicine, with a particular focus on mental health and well-being. The impact on lifestyle, and changes to diet and exercise, with a growing emphasis on mental well-being, are areas of intervention primed for continued technological advancement. In the mental health field, for example, AI algorithms can create insights from range of sources, including social media, online forums, and wearable devices, to identify patterns that could be associated with specific mental health conditions.
  • Patient portals and other digital health applications and tools focusing on patient-provider experience are creating platforms for patients to interact with their medical and health provides to access personalized health information. Connecting patients with their treatment providers (which itself will become a much broader concept) through digital technologies will help people connect with their genetic test results, understand the implications of findings, and provide opportunities for deep engagement with health care professionals should improve their health outcomes. Digital health tools that assist both the provider of care and the patient to make sense of that complexity and provide patients, family members, and health care professionals with a platform to contextualize genetic information could help improve the patient experience, support shared decision-making, and support patient-centred care based on their unique needs, preferences and values.
  • Regulatory frameworks for the development of precision medicine technologies and AI and digital technologies cannot stifle innovation. The research and venture capital communities must come together with policymakers, and there must be harmonization across the globe. Certainly, the legal, ethical and social issues facing AI will be challenging, and there is a complicated landscape with layers of involvement by multiple levels of government and overlapping government agencies, regulated health professionals, health institutions. Nevertheless, the regulatory pathways that allow for innovation and commercialization at the intersection of technology and medicine.

Longstanding concerns about access to and equity of precision medicine technologies may become more pronounced with digital and precision health technologies. The high cost of accessing gene testing, for example, or the absence of some populations in health data, will be challenged with the trustworthiness and bias of AI systems for precision medicine technologies.

Short term funding challenges will persist with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the worries of wider implications for start-up and early growth stage companies. Beyond this, however, the headwinds for precision medicine technologies look to clear up, and the intersection of digital health technologies and AI has the potential to allow precision medicine to live up to its promises.

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Elham Aboul Fath
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General Supervision
Elham Aboul Fath
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Thank you for your patience.
The dangers of consuming dietary supplements in a large amount.
Dr. Abdulrahman Shams, a nutritionist, said that consuming supplements in large quantities can pose health risks.
Risks of consuming dietary supplements in a large amount
Shams explained through special statements to Echo El Balad, some of the risks that can result from consuming dietary supplements in excess quantities:
Vitamin and mineral toxicity: Some vitamins and minerals if taken in excess may be toxic to the body.
For example, consuming large amounts of vitamin A can lead to vitamin A poisoning and cause symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting.
Drug interactions: Some supplements may interact with other medications taken, consuming excessive amounts of some supplements with medications may lead to unwanted interactions and side effects.
Increased risk of diseases: In some cases, consuming supplements in large quantities may increase the risk of certain diseases.
For example, consuming excessive amounts of antioxidants such as vitamin E and vitamin C may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Negative effects on the digestive system: Some supplements in large quantities can irritate the digestive system and cause symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea, and bloating.
Fungal poisoning: Some supplements that contain natural ingredients such as mushrooms can be toxic if consumed in excess quantities or if unsafe types of mushrooms are used.
It is crucial that you follow the guidelines and recommended dosages for dietary supplement use and consult with a dietitian or doctor if you intend to take large amounts of them, dietary supplements should be used as a supplement to a healthy diet and not a substitute for it, and you should choose supplements from reliable and approved sources.