Have you heard of biohacking? You probably already do a version of it without even realizing it. Biohacking in the wellness world is becoming more and more popular even though it is a fairly new practice. If you are someone who thinks with their left brain mostly and love numbers and data, this is a great way for you to make getting healthy a fun experiment.

What is Biohacking

Think of your body like a system where you have inputs and outputs. The inputs would be things like food and exercise while the outputs would be things like your mood and energy levels. With biohacking, the belief is that making constant small changes to your inputs can lead to changes in the outputs. Unlike most forms of studying science, individuals who are biohacking don’t go to their peers for review, they examine their body’s response and work from there on their own.

Many people who participate in biohacking become passionate about certain treatment options that may be lacking in a scientific study because of the success they have had in their own experiments. This term is becoming trendy, and it is pretty much used anytime someone makes a change for their body to see if they will feel better from it.

How do You Biohack?

When you first start, making tiny tweaks isn’t going to make the biggest change. If you continue an unhealthy diet and don’t exercise but try treatments that promote weight loss, it isn’t likely you’ll see results. The first thing you have to do is focus on the big changes. Once you have mastered the big steps, you can start to go in and fine tune what workouts will make the biggest difference or adding certain vegetables to your diet.

Ways to Biohack

Biohacking is something that can be done at home or in a small lab where biology-crazed individuals come together to discover what works best. If you want to do some biohacking at home, here are some ways you can try to hack your body to improve your quality of life. Most of the things that are considered biohacking are also things you would find in a “Tips on How to do This to Your Body” articles.

How to Biohack Your Sleep

Whether you get an okay amount of sleep but would like to feel more rested or you are a dreaded insomniac, there are ways you can biohack your way into a good night’s sleep. There are many variables when it comes to your sleep patterns, knowing them can help you make those tweaks so you can finally catch those z’s.

Get Sunlight

Sunlight can help regulate your circadian rhythm, which is also known as your sleep cycle. If you are having trouble falling asleep at night, try going outside and getting some sun to turn them into z’s.

Enhance Comfort

If your mattress feels like cardboard and your pillow feels like a bag of lumpy coals, sleeping is going to be difficult. When you are performing an experiment and your microscope is identical to the one you used in sixth-grade science class, it is likely your results won’t be as accurate because you don’t have the best tools available. The same goes for biohacking your sleep.

Room Temperature

What feels more comfortable to you? Sleeping in a warm room without covers, or chilling your room and snuggling into the comforter? Studies have suggested that warm temperatures can disrupt the sleep cycle, which may be why so many people prefer the room to be cold even though they are just going to bundle up. Find out what temperature works best for you to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.

CBD Oil for Sleep

You can add CBD oil as a natural addition to your sleep regimen by either taking small amounts throughout the day to help regulate your sleep cycle or taking large amounts at night to help you fall asleep. CBD oil has shown in studies to help promote the REM stage which means you get a more restful and meaningful sleep.

How to Biohack Your Weight Loss

Do you try to shed the pounds but they just seem to stick to you? No matter what, those trouble spots stay flabby and the number on the scale goes unchanging. You could make some minor tweaks that can promote your weight loss.

Consider Gut Bacteria

Studies have shown that your gut bacteria plays a huge role in your heart health, mental health, immune system, and your bone health. It affects the way that you sleep, your energy levels, and how you feel throughout the day. This also plays a role in your weight because it affects how you digest your food and produces chemicals that make you feel hungry or full. Ways you can balance your gut bacteria are by eating foods with good bacteria like yogurt and reduce your intake of sugars and processed foods.

Eat to Your Blood Type

Your blood type may also play a role in how you should form your diet. While high-quality studies may be lacking in this theory, there is evidence that eating depending on what your blood type is can have beneficial effects on your health. Some tips for blood types are:

O Blood Type: high-protein foods and eat lots of meat, vegetables, fish, and fruit but limit grains, beans, and legumes

A Blood Type: fruit, vegetables, tofu, seafood, turkey, and whole grains

B Blood Type: meat, fruit, dairy, seafood, and grains

AB Blood Type: dairy, tofu, lamb, fish, grains, fruit, and vegetables

Hormone Hack

Testosterone plays a role in weight loss and muscle building regardless of your gender. By boosting your testosterone levels, you can help promote your weight loss. Ways to elevate your testosterone naturally are exercising in the morning, having sex, and restricting alcohol use.

CBD Oil and Weight Loss

CBD oil is a natural way to help promote weight loss while you are on your biohacking adventure. You have two types of fat in your body, brown fat cells, and white fat cells. White fat cells are the fat that we see, stored energy. Brown fat cells are burned into energy. When you work out, your body browns the fat cells to be burned for energy, CBD hemp oil helps with weight loss by helping to promote this process.  

How to Biohack Your Focus and Concentration

Do you feel like you just can’t get focus? The first thing you should do is talk to a doctor about ADD or another mental health issue because they can suck the motivation and focus right out of you. But if you just need to give yourself a boost to improve your own efficiency, there are ways to have your brain running new and improved.

Make Music

Music makes the world go round. Listening to it is a fun pass time, but making it can improve your cognitive abilities. You don’t have to become the next Yo-Yo Ma or Mozart, just learning elementary school level in an instrument can help. Music encourages your brain to pay attention and helps you build the skill of awareness.

Make Lists

I have always been a list maker, and this is because my parents were biohackers before me and already figured this one out. Your brain is better at thinking about what it needs to do instead of what it has done. This can cause you to become overwhelmed with being overloaded with this information, making focus and concentration difficult. Making a list and checking things off can give you a sense of accomplishment, keep your affairs in order, and free up memory space in your brain so you can put more energy towards the task at hand and not the hundreds in the future.

Hack Your Diet

There are certain foods that you can add to your diet that may be able to help you focus and concentrate. Food can be our medicine if we do it right in some cases, so it’s important to pay attention to everything you eat because that becomes all of your outputs. Foods that you can try to add to your diet to help improve your focus are:

• Oatmeal
• Eggs
• Nuts
• Fresh fruits
• Whole grains
• Fresh greens
• Dark Chocolate

CBD Oil for Concentration and Focus

CBD oil has helped many people who suffer from ADHD and ADD and it can help those who don’t suffer from mental illness who just need a brain pick-me-up. CBD oil helps you focus by reducing overactivity in your brain that can cause it to become overwhelmed. Studies also suggest it interacts with the regions of our brain that control our focus and attention.

Include Your Doctor

When you are trying to figure out what works best for you, your body, and mind, you should include your doctor in your decisions. While you may have done research and know your body pretty well, they are professionals who dedicate their lives to the human body and probably have some good ideas to help you out. Also let them know if you are interested in including CBD oil to your biohack so they can make sure that is the best route for you to take.