My Top 5 BioHacks I Still Do (From Experiments)

Red light has absolutely been one of my top five biohacks so far and there's more but you gotta focus. Reason being based on my own personal experience is because I feel like red light helps my old achy injury areas feel better. Only five minutes in the red light directed on any of those old injury spots and within a couple of hours it's it's interesting it doesn't seem to happen immediately it seems to happen a little bit later in the day but I notice like what feels like almost a 50 improvement sometimes on the feeling of like that ache. Why do I believe that's coming from the red light treatment? Well that's because I've been using red light now for about two years and it's always correlated with those old injuries feeling better which is why I continue to use it. Now with that being said has it cured any of my old injuries? Not necessarily. I still have all of those old injuries but hey maybe it's making micro improvements slowly over time. I don't know I'm only one person I'm not a control and variable group. Other areas of subtle improvement that I noticed that has been correlated with using red light that I'm not certain is due to the red light but definitely correlated is it feels like after using this my skin always seems like it has better blood flow and I feel like my skin has been consistently looking healthier. It doesn't always look healthier always there's some days I wake up I'm like dude bro you look like a football but it definitely seems correlated. Another subtle benefit I noticed is a slight mood boost when using this whether it has to do with something on a cellular level that's boosting my mood or it has to do with the lights being nice and warm that's just making me feel like I'm in the sun that's causing me to have a mood boost on a cloudy gloomy day or if it's a combination of all that. Okay what about side effects? In my personal experience I've had no side effects using red light. That's not to say there aren't side effects and some people won't react in a negative way. Looking at the studies forums etc it seems like the most common side effect out there is some kind of skin irritation so if someone has sensitive skin it might not be the best thing for you but personally from my experience I've noticed what feels like almost like a skin improvement. So if you are going to decide to give red light therapy a try read through all the precautions talk to your doctor etc. Now would you like to possibly experience the benefits of red light without spending any money? Well something you could try is getting some of that early morning sun. So actually last year in the summer I was trying to do this consistently I'd get about five minutes of that sunrise sun coming up over the horizon that orange red sun and I noticed it really did help set my circadian rhythm similar to if I did red light early in the morning. Also I felt like it gave me that slight mood boost and like that little bit of energy bump for the day. That early morning sunlight in my opinion from my experience is something that is very nice. All right honorable mention that's right I'm actually probably going to talk about over 10 biohacks in this video it's just not all of them made the top five. Well this next one that I'm talking about bonus here pulling this out of my bed no this isn't something that shocks me if I accidentally wet the bed no this is a grounding mat. So I've actually been using this sleeping on this every single day for the last about six months now. Wow but the reason it's an honorable mention and not one of my top five biohacks is because personally I have noticed nothing. Yeah I'm just being honest I can't say I've noticed any benefit that I can specifically say is absolutely correlated when using this thing I actually use it underneath my sheet and before you think oh that's why it's not working well technically I am still getting a ground that's right I tested it with the grounding detector when it's under my sheet absolutely still working still getting a ground so ha it really takes no effort for me so sleeping on it whether I'm getting a benefit not or maybe what I'm really hoping for is some kind of subtle long-term benefit that will stack up over time I don't know maybe one day okay makes yeah back to my current top five biohacks and in no specific order by the way but number two my day relief prime so I discovered this device when I was doing my video on vagal nerve stimulation essentially it's like a portable tens unit that is made to stimulate nerves specifically in my case the vagal nerve branch in the neck like this but the idea is at least how it's been working in my case is by stimulating the vagal nerve it can help get one in a more rest and digest state but anyways I've been keeping this by my nightstand right here because I typically use this right before going to bed pretty much I've been using this every single day and I've noticed it's been correlated with me being able to go to bed what feels like better at the least I noticed right after I do use it I do feel calmer especially on those nights where my mind's just like racing I'm thinking about stuff and all over the place and it's like oh man there's no way I can go to sleep but then I use this and it I notice it really helps bring me down now I have also used this you may have seen in my previous videos before post workout meals especially if the workout was just so like wired you know what I mean and it's like oh man I'm not going to digest this properly I feel like this helps you know bring me a little bit more into that rest and digest state now getting away from all the feels and a little more scientific actually taking data in my video that I'm in a vagal nerve stimulation I found this was correlated with improving my HRV immediately after use which was quite fascinating with that being said not everyone will react positively to a vagal nerve stimulation the side effects that I've came across online throughout my research have been exactly the opposite of going into a rest and digest state but have been like it actually made people feel worse so you know everyone reacts differently for me this has worked also hey if you don't want to spend any money and you want to bring yourself into a more rest and digest state just with your own body try coherent breathing six second inhale six second exhale do that for about a minute if you're feeling like you know a little wired or something and it can really help just bring it down and in fact I've done it and I've seen improvements in HRV when taking HRV measurements just by doing coherent breathing so it's like that that's a great biohack in itself but you know I like I like devices and I feel like this is just a little thing that amps it up to the next level sometimes but yeah definitely a top five biohack I've been using personally recently because I can I notice it absolutely working within the time frame I use it and it's working a very important part of recovery a biohack I've tried out a couple of times now made a couple of videos on that ice baths my biggest improvement I've experienced when taking ice baths is what felt like a temporary improvement in inflammation or just sore muscles that felt like they were less sore after taking the ice bath now I never had any drastic negative side effects when taking an ice bath but I did notice that whenever I did take them well it kind of made me tired the rest of the day like it took all my energy away perhaps maybe even like stressed me out more but yeah for me that's why it's not making the top five I noticed some areas of benefit but overall I don't do it consistently and I yeah I just personally from my experience just not the best for me all right top five biohack number three this one's a supplement let's see if you can guess Tongkat Ali so I discovered this one over a year ago and yeah it's absolutely one of my top five because of the way it makes me feel regarding that like young man vitality or getting that like young man energy back so I feel like this has been helping me get that like oomph back that I felt was kind of fading over the last couple of years now when it does come to side effects personally me I haven't noticed any significant side effects I did say in one of my videos I noticed it seemed like my hair was falling out a little bit more rapidly when on this as compared to when off this but that was kind of inconclusive and I don't feel like my hairline has significantly gotten worse but also I have been doing some biohacks that could potentially help my hairline like red light and then some other ones that I will be hopefully posting results on in a couple of weeks or so so what I'm saying is maybe those hairline beneficial biohacks have counteracted the Tongkat negative effect on hairline or maybe this actually doesn't have any effect on hairline whatsoever in my case I don't know just trying to give you guys as much data as possible so you guys can make your own conclusions now there is one more downside at least in my case that I've noticed when it comes to taking Tongkat Ali and that is after taking it for about two to three months consistently every day the effect seems to diminish it seems like I build a tolerance to it or something like that so more recently what I've been doing to kind of get around that is I've been doing four days on three days off so I'll take this Monday through Thursday and then take Friday through Sunday not taking any and I've noticed at least for the past couple of months now over three months I've been able to do four days on three days off consistently so I haven't had to take that whole month off anymore but that's at the cost of taking three days off every week and I do have to say it does feel like my strength energy and stuff has increased but it's like it never gets the peak of where it did before but I've been able to have it higher for longer without taking the month off does that make any sense but regardless when it works I feel like it works and that's why I've been consistently taking it now and it's definitely making my top five some honorable mentions here ashwagandha and cistanche I actually made videos on both of these I would say they're pretty close to making the top five but I had to give them to some of those other things for various reasons and some potential side effects I've noticed with at least one of these definitely check out the videos I already made on these if you're interested okay next and this one's absolutely making the top five biohack list nose breathing just breathing through my nose now I know this one sounds kind of basic but coming from being a chronic mouth breather I was someone who used to always chronically breathe through the mouth the jaw slack like this switching to trying to be more of a nose breather over the last couple of years I've noticed better mental clarity mental acuity better more consistent work focus at like this consistent focus level if that makes any sense and then also by switching to being more of a nose breather while it was actually very difficult at first to get used to this I feel like I've gotten a lot better at it and well it's been more easy to breathe through my nose and hold my mouth and jaw in this position called mewing which I feel like is playing over into enhancing and strengthening my jawline slowly over time and I made a couple of videos on this whole mewing technique talking about the potential benefits and stuff like that it's like a positive feedback loop to nose breathing you mew it might make it easier to breathe through your nose make it easier to mew you might get the benefits from there to there to there blah blah blah but yeah with all of that maybe a potentially stronger jawline and in fact maybe a potentially more like a like an even close to my to my teeth if that makes any sense from that positive feedback loop there very subtly though very subtly and over time and that's just my feeling on my personal experience all right the final biohack to make my top five list is actually not adding something in but getting rid of something it just shows you sometimes it's not the stuff you need to add in but it's the stuff you need to just take out and that is getting rid of the phone or any other stimulatory device at least 30 minutes before bedtime ideally an hour to two hours before bedtime and i know you might be thinking that's not a hack well in my opinion it definitely is because these have become so intertwined in our lives that they have almost become a part of us and in doing this it's almost like you're doing a mini cleanse before bed and yeah i was definitely down the rabbit hole of always being on my phone right before bed i thought it made me relax but holy crap i'd be laying there in bed with my eyes wide open like what am i missing out on but yeah not looking at that at least 30 minutes before but i know that's not even that long ideally it'd be like an hour to two hours but just at least 30 minutes i've noticed it's been easier to go to bed especially when combined with vns now also in addition to that if my wife and i are maybe watching like later night tv and it's kind of closing in on bedtime i will choose to wear these blue light blocking glasses and the idea is at least in my case wearing these will kind of filter out some of that harsher blue light coming from the tv or electronic device it kind of helped me be able to get into a more relaxed state but i found in my case at least 30 minutes before bed not looking at any electronic device seems to be correlated with the best sleep results now there are some other biohack supplements etc that i have used and experienced benefits from that aren't going to be in this category because they aren't something new that i discovered over the last three years in doing these experiments but i could definitely make a solo video on any one of these topics especially some of these that i've been using for well over 10 years now so these are the top five biohacks i still am doing on a consistent basis that i've discovered from doing one of these biohacking experiments very interesting stuff in my opinion and always remember everybody reacts differently so do your own research and don't expect just because something is working out well for me it's going to work out similar for you with that being said i hope you all enjoy this video more experiments coming so more new biohacks coming so stay tuned but with that being said i hope you all have a great day peace i will see you all in the next video