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“You only live once” is more than just a clever phrase and infamous hashtag, it is a bittersweet reminder our time on Earth is finite. Aging is a natural part of life and whether you have cracking joints, a loss of energy, or some things you simply can’t do as well anymore you may want a solution.
Can you extend your life and boost your potential?
Are the effects of aging reversible?
Can we fight aging and live longer?
Scientific developments and cultural movements continue to extend the human lifespan. At the turn of the century the human life expectancy was 46-48 years old and now it is anywhere from 77-81 years of age. While we face new issues and conditions our collective understanding of medicine and how our bodies work is naturally leading to longer lives. Can we push even further?
Biohacking is a movement that borrows from various fields of science to gain greater control over biological processes and “hack” our bodies. Biohacking can be trying to get a more youthful appearance, more energy or even a longer life.
This post has collected some subtle changes, biohacking basics and simple strategies to increase your lifespan. Many of us are health conscious, but some of these tips can help you extend your life expectancy past the average.
With our busy schedules and overwhelming commitments, sleep can often end up the lowest priority. Meanwhile, it can be the most vital for our health. Dave Asprey, the father of biohacking, calls sleep the “ultimate longevity biohack.”
He’s not wrong, adequate sleep has a whole host of health benefits. One study found beauty sleep is not a myth, not only is your skin quality better with adequate sleep, the overall perception of your health is improved.
Sleep is also vital to managing your relationship to insulin. As we age, our relationship with this hormone can change and cause diabetes later in life. Adequate sleep ensures you have proper insulin release. One study also found that a lack of sleep increased cases of diabetes in postmenopausal women.
Sleep is our body’s time to reset. It not only helps ensure healthy cell division and gives your body time to repair, it’s also vital for our mental health. A series of controlled trials found a direct connection between better sleep and improved mental health, not to mention all the cerebral processes like memory and neuron regeneration that happen while we sleep and dream.
A healthier relationship to sleep can not only preserve proper body function but boost your overall mood and attitude ensuring you have less conflict and a more increased focus. Overall, this lends itself to less stress in your life with more energy to handle life.
So much of biohacking involves optimizing your performance, schedule or health regimen. In the same way an entrepreneur may test theories to increase the output or look for multi-pronged strategies for their business, biohacking keeps an eye on the bottom line biologically. Yoga just might be the biggest bang for your biohacking buck.
Your body needs physical activity and regular exercise for your cardiovascular health and to prevent heart disease. Studies have also found that regular exercise can increase your mortality rate, decrease your cancer risk and overall add to life.
Yoga can provide this much needed physical activity while also helping with flexibility, muscle and skeletal conditioning, and proper alignment which can ensure that you retain mobility as you age. It can also lead to less wear and tear on many of your joints, and bones.
So much of yoga is about cultivating greater proprioception, which is essentially body awareness. This can be vital in cultivating a healthy mind-body connection and being more in touch with your body. This decreases your risk of falling or injuring yourself while also helping you understand your body better.
Additionally, the meditative nature of yoga just might help stall cell aging. This mediation can benefit your mental health. A regular yoga practice can improve depression, reduce stress, increase serotonin levels and also generally remind you to breathe intentionally.
We’ve all seen news stories of Europeans diving into ice water and there has been some connection found to it leading to a longer life. Cold plunges are growing in popularity because they provide a random host of health benefits. Again, these biohacking boosts often offer multiple benefits across areas of your lifespan.
Exposure to cold changes how your body processes energy. It can activate your body’s brown fat which can help you burn more calories and have more energy. It can also reduce excess body fat which can help stave off many health issues later in life like diabetes, heart disease and physical injuries.
The cold also activates mitochondria in your cells to create more energy which can lead to your cells creating more mitochondria over time. The cold can also increase your white blood cell count and the number of natural killer (NK) cells which can help your body with fighting disease.
Hormonally, cold plunges can increase your serotonin levels and by extension increase your testosterone levels which can drop as we age. Additionally, it helps your body relax tension and relieve pain which can lead to less regular pain and soreness.
There are additional mental and emotional benefits. Cold plunges can help treat PTSD by forcing people to confront discomfort and shock while also activating their parasympathetic nervous systems. As you work to regulate your mood and nervous system you gain greater control over your nervous system and reactions. It seems like a little cold just might go a long way.
We all know the value of diet and exercise, however, some diets of the world have shown to directly lead to longer lives: The Okinawan and Mediterranean diets have been found to heavily expand the lifespan of their residents.
Okinawa is considered a blue zone which is an area where people consistently live the longest. Part of that is credited to their unique diet which is ironically carb-heavy but low in calories and fat. The bulk of the diet is vegetables and soy products paired with occasional small portions of noodles, rice, pork, and fish.
The diet tends to be antioxidant rich and also includes many herbs and spices like mugwort, turmeric, and many of the popular medicinal plants of traditional chinese medicine. This tends to net a heavily nutritious low glycemic index diet that has helped people live to over 100 years old.
Two other blue zones are in Italy and Greece and the Mediterranean diet is often studied for its contribution to a longer life. The diet features fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, fish, olive oil, and even the occasional red wine.
While much of the scientific value is credited to extra virgin olive oil which has proven to be beneficial in preventing type 2 diabetes peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation and breast cancer. This is credited to the anti-inflammatory effects of polyphenols from extra-virgin olive oil.
In addition to the olive oil the diet tends to include more whole fresh foods vs. processed foods. This diet tends to be the hallmark of preventative medicine as it reduces your chances of heart disease, breast cancer, and cognitive decline. Maybe the secret to your longer life is an international cuisine.
One of the things that keeps us from resting, getting adequate sleep and cooking nutritious meals is a lack of energy. We take shortcuts like that second or third cup of coffee, fast food, or driving rather than walking. What if you could get a regular influx of pure energy that not only boosts your vitality but helps you implement these strategies?
Leela Quantum Tech has products like the Quantum Bloc which can help you charge your food, water, or space with quantum energy. Quantum energy is the purest form of energy and this subtle energy has been linked to increasing your cell’s energy( ATP) production, recovery rates and regeneration.
In addition to helping increase your vitality quantum energy can help neutralize EMF exposure. EMF exposure can actually be responsible for much of your insomnia as it decreases your melatonin production and sleep quality and EMF exposure can also increase anxiety and depression symptoms. Asprey highlights the biohacking benefits of Leela Quantum Tech in this podcast.
This new form of energy just might be the key to implementing these strategies by lifting your mood, energy levels, and helping you tackle these strategies.
We all want to live longer, more fulfilling lives, however we have to make sure we don’t put the cart before the horse. Proper planning, certain lifestyle choices, and simple switches to our routine can significantly extend your life while also boosting your energy levels and overall physical and mental health.
These are just a few of the secrets of the biohacking craze that you can easily incorporate into your life to add more years to your life while also ensuring you don’t just live your longest but your best life. Be sure to check out other posts for biohacking basics and other ways to use quantum energy.
