Limitless Mindset

We answer your Biohacking and Lifehacking questions in this Q&A podcast...

We recorded this while I was pepped up with PEMFs administered directly to my forehead with the IC Hummer, hopefully, it makes me a perkier podcaster!

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Disclaimer

What you find on this website is NOT medical advice. I’m not a doctor. I’m an experienced, unlicensed self-experimenter practicing free speech by discussing my extensive experiences and my interpretations of published science. Please see my guide on How to Biohack Smart and Safe. You should consult a doctor about any Biohacking you’re doing and ideally, also get a second opinion.

#34 Questions

Q

Why are you interested in Biohacking? I’m a Transhumanist. I don’t want to die.Other details about your Biohacking goals or challenges? I want to stop overthinking about the future and what happens when we die. I want to be more present, more productive, have more motivation to work in projects and be able to concentrate better so I can learn more things. I usually have so many ideas but it’s hard to sit and put into practice. I get easily distracted and frustrated to be sitting down in front of the computer. I also want to communicate better and become a confident public speaker.Your Age: 30

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Recommendations

Memento Mori (“Remember death”), open-eyed meditation in a cemetery, and watch: Catastrophic cosmic impact in the next 7 days?

Watch my Transhumanism playlist - I explain why I’m a reluctant Transhumanist

Read or listen to my book review of Why Science is WRONG... About Almost Everything

Q

Hello again, I wondered what happened to you and as to whether you are sill reviewing products, have you tried Qualia ?

A

Yes, all my old product reviews (and a bunch of new ones ) can be viewed here on my Odysee/LBRY channel

See my Qualia video, Qualia (Maybe?) Problematic

Q

Responding to: Methylene Blue: A safe, effective, and affordable biohack

Greetings from Bulgaria, great podcast! Thank you very much! I laughed so hard when Mark mentioned Bulgaria. I got my hands on something call Methylene Blue Trihydrate 99% purity (C16H18N3S•Cl•3H2O) do you have an idea if it’s any different than Methylene Blue (C16H18ClN3S)? Thanks again!

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Read: Methylene Blue trihydrate (Compound) - Safety and Hazards and Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of methylene blue trihydrate

European source of safe, pharmaceutical-grade Methylene Blue

Q

Responding to: How to Stay Loyal to Your Woman - 6 steps to resilient sexual-spiritual risk mitigation

Which sex exercises hypergamy?

A

Read my book: Don’t Stick Your Dick in a Blender—How to meet a nice girl instead—from a tantric husband with a better sex life than you! About filtering and disqualification in your dating.

Q

I just read through your site and I am certainly going to make some changes from tomorrow by taking on board some of the Tsaoists strategies. However, I need a ‘quicker fix’ for my condition of premature ejaculation which has returned since ending my prescriptions of SSRI medication due to wanting to cure this with noots & naturally.As you can probably guess I’ve tried multiple combinations over the last few years since coming off the antidepressant medication, but I can’t seem to get the right formula. Any advice/guidance for a stack would be fabulous?

A

Recommendations

Do Kegels, increase testosterone, no porn, and meditative masturbation - as prescribed in my book and detailed in my course for men, Master Mind Master Body Master Her

Q

Hi i am writing to ask if you ever tried Meldonium Mildronate® ?I seems like there is a lot of good this can do any feedback or thoughts on Meldonium Mildronate®I would like to try using this before my workouts to increase the pump.

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Learn more about Mildronate

Also consider Yohimbine, HMB, and Creatine.

Lean Life Coaching Biohacking Consulting

As mentioned in the podcast, this is a very lean biohacking consulting/life coaching program. Here’s how this would work...

* The Biohacking Consultation is 1 hour and 45 minutes total - which is actually two consulting calls.

* First Call 1 hour - Discovery & Strategizing call, I need to ask you some questions, we’ll discuss your history, and outline a biohacking strategy and action plan to overcome your issues.

* Second Call 45 minutes - Follow-up call in 30 or 60 days to see how you’re doing with the plan we outlined; how you’ve improved, what you’re struggling with, etc

There are a few important reasons we split the time up into two calls

* It’s a significant motivation hack for you to follow through on the Biohacking habits and plan we’ll outline because you’re accountable to me in 30 or 60 days.

* I’m incentivized to come up with an effective biohacking strategy for you because I have to talk to you after you’ve been following it for a month or two.

* It timeboxes us with a deadline in 30 or 60 days for you to make improvements and accomplish your goals.

PLEASE fill out this form

Take a few minutes to answer a few questions. If your issues are far outside my areas of expertise, I’ll decline the consultation. My time is finite and very valuable, so I only want to spend it consulting the people I can really help. Thanks in advance for your understanding!

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Disclaimer

What you find on this website is NOT medical advice. I’m not a doctor. I’m just an experienced unlicensed self-experimenter practicing free speech in talking about my own extensive experiences and my interpretations of published science. Please see my guide on How to Biohack Smart and Safe. You should consult a doctor about any biohacking you’re doing and ideally also get a second opinion.

Q

Any advice to come faster? Thats my problem actually 😄

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Recommendations

No Fap/Tantric Practice -- See my Tantra course for men

Read: The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity or The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know

Increase circulating Nitric Oxide

Cut out alcohol, especially beer -- See Nyishar’s video about beer. Try Phenibut instead

Libido-promoting herbs like Horny Goat Weed and Longjack Tongkat Ali

Jason Julius recommends having your partner do Kegels along with dopamine-supporting Nootropics like Natural Stack’s Dopamine Brain Food, Catuaba, or Mucuna Pruriens.

Keep track of when you have performance issues and what the factors are.

Have unprotected sex with a virtuous woman!

Q

Will piracetam increase sex drive?

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Increased libido and hypersexuality are sometimes reported side effects of Piracetam

Read: No-BS Lifehacks for Maximizing Sexual Hedonism

Watch: Tantra & Sexhacking playlist

Q

How much they pay you for advertising their product [phenibut]?

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See my frank biohacker reviews of Nootropics

Q

Hey Hope all is well...What Nootropic you think would probably work well for Focus and communication? I tend to have alot of problems with these two since I’m a very anxious person. Especially when it comes to going for an interview. I know about phenibut but I’m looking for something else that might work better.

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Recommendations

Piracetam

Oxiracetam

Modafinil

And more described in the Social Anxiety Protocol for Biohacking Confidence...

Q

bro i just ordered adrafinil online, do you think it would help my cope up with the increasing demands of medical college? and does adrafinil differ from modafinil at any aspect other than the time to kick in?

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Recommendations

Modafinil

The Piracetam Protocol

Q

Interesting, btw i wanted to ask you what supplement do you recommend as an MAOIs or something that works like selegiline that inhibits MAO-B but at higher doses it also gets MAO-A i want something that is hybrid or that can be combined to have similar effects like selegiline?

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Recommendations

Rhodiola

Q

Those who say: “Why would God allow bad things to happen to good people?” don’t understand stoic philosophy and hormetics. Bad things make us stronger and help us progress faster. Why would God rob you of a growing event? If God didn’t allow anything bad to happen to you then it would be harder for you to progress or you wouldn’t progress at all. Which is the definition of being damned. I tend to believe what James Allen basically said in Path of Prosperity.

Evil is just an opinion based on ignorance. Everything is good. What you call evil is just a blessing and an opportunity to learn and progress. Nothing that happens to you in this life matters. What you do or don’t do in this life doesn’t matter.

The lessons you learn are all that matters. Which fits in very well with simulation theory. Ones opinion of God is a reflection of ones mentality. This is apparent in the old testament.

The legalese and constantly asking God to kill their enemies tells me that the authors are evil and are laying the framework for progression. The New Testament builds upon that and lays the framework for a higher law but you can still see the low mentality of the authors. Other books build upon the lower laws/concepts in the new testament. Belief in any higher power is not necessary. But if properly used can help you to keep things in context.

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Listen to...

Jordan Peterson Debating Sam Harris on Truth

My podcasts: Why Scientific Materialism is WRONG... About Almost Everything and Simulation Theory Legitimizes Religion?

Skin in the Game biohacking consulting/coaching

As mentioned in the podcast, this is a very lean biohacking consulting/life coaching program. Here’s how this would work...

* The Biohacking Consultation is 1 hour and 45 minutes total - which is actually two consulting calls.

* First Call 1 hour - Discovery & Strategizing call, I need to ask you some questions, we’ll discuss your history, and outline a biohacking strategy and action plan to overcome your issues.

* Second Call 45 minutes - Follow-up call in 30 or 60 days to see how you’re doing with the plan we outlined; how you’ve improved, what you’re struggling with, etc.

There are a few important reasons we split the time up into two calls

* It’s a significant motivation hack for you to follow through on the biohacking habits and plan we’ll outline because you’re accountable to me in 30 or 60 days.

* I’m incentivized to come up with a really effective biohacking strategy for you because I have to talk to you after you’ve been following it for a month or two.

* It timeboxes us with a deadline of 30 or 60 days for you to make improvements and accomplish your goals.

Your Skin in the game here is that you’re paying good money for this, and you’re accountable to me on another call in 30 or 60 days. You’ll have to explain your lack of action if you fail to follow through.

PLEASE fill out this form

Take a few minutes to answer a few questions. If your issues are far outside my areas of expertise, I’ll decline the consultation. My time is finite and very valuable, so I only want to spend it consulting the people I can help. Thanks in advance for your understanding!

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I perused hundreds of user reports and came across a statistically significant number of anecdotal accounts of people who used the Smart Drug Piracetam for a while and experienced transformative benefits to their…

* Verbal intelligence

* Long-term memory

* Working memory

* Mood and mental health

* Energy and motivation

…BUT when they discontinued the use of Piracetam, for some, there was an unmistakable deficit in their cognitive abilities, below what their baseline was BEFORE using Piracetam. This is clearly not desirable.

10%-15% of anecdotal reports mention a post-Piracetam intelligence deficit; it occurs in a minority of Piracetam users. I have a couple of explanations for this…

* In many of the cases, people reporting this used Piracetam at excessive dosages for extended periods without breaks or cycling.No Choline, ALCAR, or Potassium. Piracetam does exhaust your ACh system over time, which is why, in the Piracetam Protocol, I recommend supplementing these three cofactors to nourish the delicate ACh system that Piracetam stimulates.

* Histories of drug abuse and psychological instability seem to be correlated with those who report a deficiency of intelligence when they go off their Piracetam.

* Poor self-knowledge or lack of mindfulness is probably somewhat to blame for some of these cases. People go on Piracetam and, for several weeks or months, feel much better and are more productive, then they go off it, and their new normal subjectively feels worse than their old normal because of the new heights of brainpower they reached thanks to the Piracetam.

* There are a few edge cases where it sounds like the Biohackers used Piracetam responsibly and yet still experienced Post-Piracetam Intelligence Deficit.

So you might be asking…

So if I’ve NEVER used Piracetam before, then I probably should NOT use it because it might leave me stupider than I was when I eventually have to go off it?

No.The vast majority of Piracetam users find it a quintessential Smart Drug that improves productivity in the short term and memory in the long term.

In my case, I’ve gone on Piracetam and off Piracetam numerous times over the years. I can say confidently that my smart drug usage has improved my baseline intelligence in every domain, even when I’m off smart drugs. Most people that I talk to report something similar. The majority of the respondents to these two surveys reported…

I’m smarter than I was before I used Racetams. Racetams have permanently changed my mind for the better!

Survey on the Nootropica Facebook groupSurvey on the Longecity forum

What I suggest is that you use Piracetam responsibly and that you channel some of that extra brainpower it imbues into other activities that exercise your mind, like...

* Dual N-Back brain training

* Mindfulness practice

* Reading deep books (and writing a few books myself)

* Language learning

* Exercising

These things will improve your mind alongside Piracetam and will more than make up for any perceived or actual post-Piracetam intelligence deficit. If you assume that Piracetam is a done-for-you-wonder drug for personal development and you use it alone, in extreme dosages, you may end up complaining about an intelligence deficit like some of these people on the Biohacker forums.

If you’re into Smart Drugs and brainpower boosting shortcuts…

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In this Biohacking and Lifehacking Q&A podcast, I address questions ranging from an “honesty hack” to Nootropics for mental health...

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Disclaimer

What you find on this website is NOT medical advice. I’m not a doctor. I’m just an experienced unlicensed self-experimenter practicing free speech in talking about my own extensive experiences and my interpretations of published science. Please see my guide on How to Biohack Smart and Safe. You should consult a doctor about any biohacking you’re doing and ideally also get a second opinion.

I got married! Why...

Thanksgiving (a very special holiday for me) of 2018, I got married. My life has been a (mostly intentional) dance with risk, sometimes a reggaeton-powered bump’n grind, sometimes a rhythmic salsa step. In that adventurous spirit, I’m now embracing something new...

Marriage is risky, especially for men. If you don’t know why, I’ll encourage you to just spend a little time perusing the MGTOW corner of YouTube. I certainly don’t completely agree with these guys, but there’s an abundance of evidence that marriage is very risky, indeed, the ultimate risk a modern man can take. But...

Ultimately, singledom is the most risky.

Being single is awesome when you’re 22 years old in a nightclub at 3 AM and have boundless time and energy to socialize and make friends, but single people grow increasingly cynical, bitter, and lonely as they advance through their fourth and fifth decades of life. Loneliness is a major health factor. It’s not unrealistic to say that loneliness is the new smoking. As a biohacker, I’m all about prevention instead of cure. Somebody who stays proudly single just for the sake of being single until they are 47 is as idiotically naive as the person who eats pizza and drinks beer every day for several decades and is then shocked when they are diagnosed with chronic heart disease.

From I just took the ultimate risk. Why?

#19 Questions

Q

I must confess that I don’t really understand what drives people to announce themselves publicly and reveal their lives to the world. I know that sometimes when a person lacks confidence in themselves or has low self esteem they might seek confirmation and support or some kind of justification or recognition for how they are, but when an apparently confident ‘self-made’ person projects themselves openly I really do not know what to make of it.

A

Being a public person on the internet has a lot of downsides, but there’s one major upside - it’s an honesty lifehack. When you’re anonymous on the internet, you’ll begin to develop an online personality that’s different (sometimes starkly) from “IRL You” - you embrace more cognitive dissonance.The least complicated way to be a public online personality is to just be honest and transparent about almost everything. For me, this translates into being more honest and genuine in my offline life.

My book: How To Be Cross Eyed: Thriving Despite Your Physical Imperfection— a mémoire and lifehacking manifesto

My favorite social network: Minds.com

Q

Howzit? Well I hope my friend in consciousness.. Aeon is my name and I really just wanted to ask you this... have you ever tried or reviewed a product called Skywalk? I ask because I have been thwarted by customs in every attempt to purchase nootropics in Oz (Australia. See!? How much time We waste here on this island abbreviating things then explaining them anyway! Well just to explain since you didn’t ask and in all likelihood don’t actually even care anyway but I am a disabled (in body only) pensioner who has nothing but time unlike such a busy guy as yourself) they withhold all my packages (9 in total!) and I saw and purchased Skywalk immediately upon deducing it’s purpose instore and have found it helpful... I will attach a photo of the ingredients panel plus the labelling so you might better understand and be able to assist. Pls don’t feel obliged I just felt you were the person best qualified to help amongst all the people whose contact info I have, who have not yet blocked me in some fashion! Love your work Buddy and sincerely hope your day is just Awesome!

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Recommendations

* RUPharma and MOSPharma

* Onnit.com

* https://www.optimoz.com.au/collections/nootropics

* https://www.totalnootropics.com.au/

* https://www.bulknutrients.com.au/nootropics-frequently-asked-questions/

* Pharma Nicotine in PG or VG solution from vape shops

Q

Will [Piracetam} benefit Traumatic Brain Injury to the frontal lobe from a car accident?

A

Study: [The consequences of closed traumatic brain injury and piracetam efficacy in their treatment in adolescents].

The Piracetam Protocol

Cerebrolysin -- From a 2013 Taiwanese double-blind study of 32 patients

Memantine Canon -- Study: Memantine improves outcomes after repetitive traumatic brain injury.

Q

I listened to your “whole” review about Semax.You didn’t bore me for a minute and love your dark humor. lolThanx for al the detailed info. My question isCan you dilute the 1 % Semax with water (cleaned) to make a 0.1% solution?Let’s say dilute it into a nose spray bottle so you can vaporize it in your nostrils.Can you advise me on that?

A

Recommendations

* Use Bacteriostatic water

Q

How about using grapeseed oil for frying or coconut oil? Does that make the difference?

Comment on Beating Depression

Q

Hey what do you think of inisitol for the treatment of bipolar 1 depression? Also what about Adrafinil in the treatment of DEPRESSION fatigue in IDIOTPATHIC HYPERSOMNIA and DP/dr disorder? BTW i dont take that buspbar anymore lol u answered a question way back that i asked you about it on a podcast i doubt u remember

A

Recommendations

Piracetam - Start with this smart drug to address depression

Modafinil or Armodafinil - The vigilance agents

Rhodiola and Eleuthero - Anti-fatigue herbs

Skin in the Game biohacking consulting/coaching

As mentioned in the podcast, this is a very lean biohacking consulting/life coaching program. Here’s how this would work...

* The Biohacking Consultation is 1 hour and 45 minutes total - which is actually two consulting calls.

* First Call 1 hour - Discovery & Strategizing call, I need to ask you some questions, we’ll discuss your history, and outline a biohacking strategy and action plan to overcome your issues.

* Second Call 45 minutes - Follow-up call in 30 or 60 days to see how you’re doing with the plan we outlined; how you’ve improved, what you’re struggling with, etc.

There are a few important reasons we split the time up into two calls

* It’s a significant motivation hack for you to follow through on the biohacking habits and plan we’ll outline because you’re accountable to me in 30 or 60 days.

* I’m incentivized to come up with a really effective biohacking strategy for you because I have to talk to you after you’ve been following it for a month or two.

* It timeboxes us with a deadline of 30 or 60 days for you to make improvements and accomplish your goals.

Your Skin in the game here is that you’re paying good money for this, and you’re accountable to me on another call in 30 or 60 days. You’ll have to explain your lack of action if you fail to follow through.

PLEASE fill out this form

Take a few minutes to answer a few questions. If your issues are far outside my areas of expertise, I’ll decline the consultation. My time is finite and very valuable, so I only want to spend it consulting the people I can help. Thanks in advance for your understanding!

OR

INVEST at least $300 in your own mind with these recommended sources and get a Biohacking consultation

You read all the way to the end, so YOU KNOW you want more…

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Two questions I get a lot from people who are new to Biohacking and cognitive enhancers are...

Which Smart Drugs actually work and have science behind them?Which Nootropic should I get started with?

My answer to both questions is the same: Piracetam

Something that might surprise you…

I actually don’t get paid affiliate commissions if you buy Piracetam via the credible sources I identify in the meta-analysis article, at least not currently. This is because regulation has scared away all but a few vendors of quality Piracetam. And a few of them have actually kicked me out of their affiliate programs because the empirically validated benefits of this Smart Drug are so fantastic that they put vendors in an odd position: if they are even affiliated with someone speaking frankly about Piracetam, they expose themselves to crushing regulation. The bureaucratic bullies in Big Government who ultimately serve Big Pharma and who come in and tell supplement vendors: “You’re not allowed to talk about the benefits of your product!” Welcome to Statist Absurdistan!

This 4000-word article is the result of my +10 years of using and researching Piracetam. If it compels you to try Piracetam and use it according to the protocols I describe here, and it really unleashes greatness for you (as it has for numerous other Biohackers), please send me a “Thank You” note. Or you can support my work on Substack for as little as $7/month, which helps me stay motivated to produce these deep-dive research pieces. You can make a one-time donation of $7, or sign up for a monthly or yearly membership to get sunk-cost motivation working for you!

With that preamble out of the way...

I deliver a dose of skepticism and bio-inspiration, answering the December Biohacking and lifehacking questions in this Q&A podcast.

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#9 Questions...

Q

“Antigravity” has been used and hidden from the public since the 1950’s or so. And there’s a secret space program and various human colonies in the solar system. Similar story in the medical field, I guess. But it’s slowly coming to the public now. Check out Liz Parrish.

Responding to my Mandela Effect documentary

Q

Can this reset my brain in terms of trying to control the urge to masturbate? Weird question but I seriously want to stop. Yes/No?Thank god you have answered. Since we are talking about a serious topic, I will be fully honest. I am 19 years old and I have struggled since I was 16-17. On a daily basis, I would masturbate once or twice. In the extreme, it would be thrice. When I am busy doing something, the urge disappears. I am having my winter holidays and I am all alone. I suffer from anxiety/depression. I try and refocus my sexual energy into something productive but until now I am stuck. I have tried going to the GYM for example but then I get stuck.Also, I am a Muslim. In a month, like Ramadan. I must fast but masturbating does break it. So, a whole month with me not masturbating is the best thing ever for me. Plus, one way of diverting my sexual urges is through prayer. That can be really helpful but I do procrastinate on that.

A

Recommendations

Memantine will not help with porn addiction. What smart drugs will...

Piracetam - The Godfather of Smart Drugs

Oxiracetam - The Discipline Molecule

Tantric cultivation - For becoming a multiorgasmic man

The Alpha Muslim

Q

I agree, but to ascend to a better “scientific understanding” we must first have a better universal culture, to have a better universal culture we must first have a better society, in order to have a better society, we must first be better educated psychologically for the purpose of making one a better healthier parent to develop healthier children and go from there. As a mountain is build from atomic stuff, so too humanity can be great by having healthy children as it’s foundation.

A

Responding to my documentary series on Bad Science

Audiobook: The Origins of War in Child Abuse

Join: The Limitless Mindset Secret Society

Q

Can I combine rhodiola rosea with a ssri like lexapro?

A

Recommendation: Piracetam and Rhodiola

Anecdotal reports

[The interaction of Rhodiola rosea and antidepressants. A case report]

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/30012-rhodiola-maoi-details/

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/28274-rhodiola-and-ssris/

Q

Hey Jonathan what do u do for muscle spasms? It seems that every good nootropic or smart drug I take causes this side effect...

A

Recommendations

Magnesium Sulfate and Potassium

From Longecity: Piracetam increases synaptic calcium influx, if I’m not wrong. This could cause central hyperexcitability and a magnesium/potassium deficiency, which should resolve with proper supplementation.

Q

What would you say is the best bio hack for a aging 70 year old man who is just getting older and you want to keep him sharp?

A

Recommendations

Get blood and hormonal panels done along with personal genotyping

Book: Head Strong by Dave Asprey

Q

I have a quick question that you’d be the most qualified person I know to answer.I’m getting into health tracking and personal data gathering - and doing machine learning (statistical analysis) for looking for personal trends and analysis.I’ve got most of the data sources I need, and the last piece of the puzzle is an app that allows me to enter supplements, enhancers, etc., with the dose and time of day. And then allows me to export that data into Excel.Do you know of an iPhone app that would support that?

A

Recommendations

A simple mindfulness experiment: A Self-Quantification Experiment to Do Daily

Read: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb and look for disconfirmatory evidence

Track your habits and Nootropic regime with Coach.me

Lean Life Coaching biohacking consulting

As mentioned in the podcast, this is a very lean biohacking consulting/life coaching program. Here’s how this would work...

* The Biohacking Consultation is 1 hour and 45 minutes total - which is actually two consulting calls.

* First Call 1 hour - Discovery & Strategizing call, I need to ask you some questions, we’ll discuss your history, and outline a biohacking strategy and action plan to overcome your issues.

* Second Call 45 minutes - Follow-up call in 30 - 90 days to see how you’re doing with the plan we outlined; how you’ve improved, what you’re struggling with, etc

There are a few important reasons we split the time up into two calls

* It’s a significant motivation hack for you to follow through on the biohacking habits and plan we’ll outline because you’re accountable to me in 30 - 90 days.

* I’m incentivized to come up with an effective biohacking strategy for you because I have to talk to you after you’ve been following it for a month or two.

* It timeboxes us with a deadline in 30 - 90 days for you to make improvements and accomplish your goals.

PLEASE fill out this form

Take a few minutes to answer a few questions. If your issues are far outside my areas of expertise, I’ll decline the consultation. My time is finite and very valuable, so I only want to spend it consulting the people I can help. Thanks in advance for your understanding!

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This month, we had a death in the family. My Bulgarian mother-in-law, Nadia, passed away at 79 years old from a massive cancer tumor that had broken one of her lungs. And death can be a mirror - a mirror in which our convenient self-delusions crumble. I believe that we honor the dead by speaking honestly about them, and I’ve got a few timely musings to share...

You can spare my wife and me your condolences because we’ve shed not one tear in grief. She was already dead to us. She hated life. She hated everyone around her. She was in pain, and she made damn sure to spread pain. Wherever she is now, she’s certainly happier than she was for the last couple of decades.

What you need to know about my mother-in-law is that she was the kind of woman who smoked cigarettes while pregnant, just because she liked cigarettes so much. She was a product of Bulgarian communism, and as long as I knew her, ardently anti-everything Biohacking; anti-fitness, anti-introspection, and anti-any-kind-of-personal-growth-anything. And she paid a high cost: A couple of decades of chronic pain, sarcopenia, arthritis, and lung pain from her emphysema - karma for her sins. We lived near her for most of our seven-year marriage, and the most absurd thing was watching her ongoing suffering from the health problems that could have been effectively treated or cured completely by the high-end anti-aging supplements and Biohacking products I offered her numerous times. She was too proud, too stubborn, and too closed-minded (I’m not a doctor).

In the last year...

My wife managed to finally (almost completely) disentangle herself from the awful, toxic relationship they had for decades. Nadia was a classic narcissistic parent: verbally abusive, gaslighting, emotionally selfish, financially manipulative, and melodramatic. It’s a small miracle that my wife turned out as well-adjusted as she is. This probably has something to do with her grandmother, an angelic woman according to my wife, pictured together here...

There’s a faint hue of silver lining to her death: this year, my wife and I gave her the one thing that made her truly happy. She got to behold and hold, a few times, her beautiful grandson.

And yet, that happiness and pride she took in finally being able to identify as a “baba” didn’t motivate her to do any baba stuff. She couldn’t be troubled to come over and help my wife bathe him or take him to the park in the stroller.

Flashback to when I first met her...

I met my future mother-in-law in nearly the most awkward way possible. My then-girlfriend and I had been dating for about a month and would go at it like rabbits at every opportunity. She texted me…

“Hey Jonathan, Tuesday is my dog’s birthday. You can come over to our place, we can have a coffee, and celebrate.”

I responded…

“Sure, but don’t you live with your mom…?”

She assured me that her mother would be at work during the day. Not one to turn down pussy, I went over to her place around noon. She greeted me at the door with a smile and a big kiss, assuring me again that her mother would not be coming home anytime soon. We had coffee, gave the dog a special treat, and didn’t waste much time going to her bedroom, where we got right down to business. A few moments after our mid-afternoon romp, both still naked and intertwined with each other on her tiny bed, we heard a most unwanted click of the flat’s door being opened. Mom was home from work early. I jumped up and pulled my underwear and pants on in a tremendous hurry as her mother began hollering from the hallway. When her daughter had let me into the flat, she’d suspiciously closed the second door, and Mom knew that something was going on. Her mom would have just barged into her lock-less room, so she jumped in front of the door, barricading it with her naked body. For several minutes, they yelled at each other through the door until her mom agreed to give her enough time to get dressed. “Jonathan, she’s gone in the kitchen. I’ll deal with her later. It’s best that we just leave now…” she told me, but I found the whole situation hilarious, and I figured that this was as good a time as any to meet her mother, as she had told her that I was her boyfriend. I knocked on the kitchen door and saw the most grouchy-looking, yet surprised, old woman of my life. In my broken Bulgarian, I introduced myself, apologized, and left her to her cigarette.

I share the story in my book for men.

My last week has been consumed with a tremendous task: clearing the family home my wife has inherited of decades of their accumulated stuff. Nadia was always a shop-a-holic and in the last few years became even more of a “hoarder.” I’ve had to dispense with an excess of cutsey decorative stuff (that my wife doesn’t want around because it has her “bad energy”), unnecessary kitchen appliances, piles and piles of once-stylish clothes that I never saw her wear, along with ugly, old, creaky furniture. Her husband was also a shop-a-holic who accumulated mountains of now useless and outdated electronics, gadgets, and clothing accessories. But here’s what’s struck me: she had hundreds and hundreds of unread books.

I remarked to my wife, “How was your mother as ignorant as she was with this many books?”

She responded, “She didn’t read them. She would buy them, intending to read them, but never would...”

I quipped, “She was one of the dullest conversationalists I’ve ever met. If she had read only 10% of these, she would have been the most interesting conversationalist!”

In the nearly 8 years I knew her, I NEVER saw her reading a book. Why? The television, of course. Always on, always blaring, the news or some vapid soap opera. Then she got a smartphone, discovered YouTube Shorts, and her books gathered more dust.

I can’t bring myself to throw away books; it’s been a challenge to find storage space for her library. I write this eulogy over Black Friday Weekend, and I hope this gives some pause amidst the annual orgy of consumerism. My in-laws’ vapid consumerism was probably an overcompensation for the destitute state of communism they were raised in (although my family on the other side of the Atlantic is just as bad a consumer hoarders), and it didn’t make them happy. What would have made them happy, I think, would have been investing in...

* Their relationship with their daughter (my wife),

* Keeping their marriage alive,

* Having a hobby other than watching television (or porn, in the case of my father-in-law) every day.

* Cultivating a spiritual life (something more than attending Eastern Orthodox service a few times a decade),

* Staying healthy: with exercise, preparing traditional Bulgarian meals (this is one of the easiest countries to eat healthy), or taking a few of the excellent health products I would have happily given them from my massive bio-prepper stash of biohacking stuff.

But they were utterly uninterested in these things. Too blinded by the comfort of consumerism, they were, and as I pile yet another load of their old things into the dumpster here, I’m struck by the emptiness of that consumerism.

Hopefully, that motivates you to spend less money this holiday season on meaningless things and spend more time and attention on your relationships.

That all said, today in particular and in the next couple of weeks, you can get some of the best values on the investments that you make in your health and personal growth. I’ve organized a 2025 Biohacker/Lifehacker gift guide here with some pretty sweet savings (some expiring today - sorry to get this to you so late!)

The Biohacking, health, self-care, and personal growth stuff we are into can sometimes seem self-indulgent or selfish. (I’m sure you’ve had friends and family who hand-waived it away as such.)

It’s not, and those who think it is damn themselves to a couple of miserable decades. Really, it’s the greatest gift to our future selves and those we love. It’s not a luxury, it’s the …

My whole life, I’ve been told that the first year of parenthood will be the hardest year of one’s life...

That you’ll be badly underslept all the time.That the hectic overwhelm will devour every spare moment.That you get not a spare second of “me time” to devote to staying sane.That you get “new mom” or “new dad” brain: happy yet forgetful, irritable, and foggy.That your productivity in your career or extra-curricular pursuits drops off a cliff as you muddle through each day.But with almost four months under my belt as a brand new 40-year-old dad, my experience has been very different. Being a parent is easier than I expected.This year, I’ve managed to write two books, my income has increased while my working hours have decreased, and I manage to work out and make love to my wife a few times a week.This has got a lot to do with the productivity hacks I’ve had in place for years, but it’s also due to my stack of health habits and the Nootropics almost constantly flowing in my blood. The obsessive Biohacking and self-care stuff that can seem, perhaps, self-indulgent becomes a 1000% validated when one embarks on the grand adventure of parenthood.

And this should have you questioning the other thing you’ve been told a thousand times: that with advancing age comes inevitable decline. Might that also be something that was once the non-negotiable human condition, but now - hackable?

I think so, and today, I’m talking to a man who has made that his mission, Edward Van Harmelen of Youth and Earth.

About Youth and Earth

Some of you have told me you are sick of taking pills and capsules. The Nootropic/longevity stack I’m currently on has almost none, thanks to Youth and Earth’s powdered adaptogenic herbal mixes...

* In the mornings, I drink their AM Blend

* In the midday, I drink their V14 longevity mix with 14 powerful anti-aging agents (tastes - kinda/sorta - like a girly cocktail)

* Before bed, I sip their Sleep Dust

They take the flavor engineering seriously. Everything I’ve tried from them has been a flavorful pleasure to consume. Check out my recent unboxing video of their stuff.

Y&E serves Biohackers from distribution centers in both the US and EU/UK, so there’s no shipping or import brain damage to deal with. Pick up $300 worth of their stuff, and you can get a free Biohacking consultation with me.

Mentioned in the interview

Supplements and anti-aging

Nicotinamide Mononucleotide: The epigenetic vitamin for smarter genes - from Youth and Earth. Case report: This man biologically aged BACKWARDS from 70 to 44-years-old in 8 months, here’s how...

Adaptogens for fatigue: Eleuthero, Rhodiola, Schisandra

Piracetam - A gram or two outperforms most of the Nootropics stacks out there

Nicotine - My favorite addictive smart drug

Self-quantification

Whole genome sequencing - more expensive, gives you an ocean of data about yourself, but only needs to be done once

HRV tracking (best explained by Dr. Torkil in this Limitless podcast interview and his book, The Pulse Cure)

Gut-microbiome testing via Viome - I haven’t tried this yet

Books & informational resources

You Are The Placebo - Explaining Dr. Joe Dispenza’s approach to reprogramming your story on an epigenetic level

EMF*D by Dr. Mercola - Breaks down what you need to know about the toxicity of EMFs and how to hack it.

Ed’s recent article on Melatonin and MELATONIN MIRACLE by Walter Pierpaoli - About mega-dosing Melatonin

Jonathan’s new books: Hourglass and its sequel, The Trident, The Tachyon & The Temptress

Scott Carney’s investigation of AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens)

Nomad resources

My article about living in Berlin, Germany

My $1 Diet Lifehack: Coconuts

OptimallyMe - Ed’s practitioner-facing AI platform

Support me on Substack? For $7/monthly?

I recently re-released the second edition of my book for men. In it, I make the bold claim: Gents, this might be the most important book you ever read.

Here’s why...

Your choice to pursue beauty and seduce women or your choice to succumb to the pixel-powered pleasure world that beckons you with its siren song from every glowing screen, and your choice of who to intertwine your body with have a massively outsized impact on the trajectory of your life.You can make all the right choices when it comes to your career, what you study, how you spend your time, your health, and your friends, but if you invite the wrong kind of woman into your bed, she can ruin your life. While the right kind of woman by your side will enrich your life in ways you can’t even imagine and propel you to new heights. Your entanglements with women are the ultimate high-risk/high-reward game. And this book will imbue the savvy seducer with the wisdom and tools to win that game with every thrust into the future.

I’m proud to present - updated and improved - Don’t Stick Your Dick in a Blender—How to meet a nice girl instead—from a tantric husband with a better sex life than you!

I chose to update and re-release it since the intervening years since its publication in 2020 have massively validated the wisdom men can glean from these pages...

We recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy to our household, and have remained happily married for nearly seven years despite facing more than a few significant challenges together, which included the heartbreaking loss of a child whose face I will never see. The foundation that I laid - first with the superlative seduction of my woman, then with Tantric practice, frame control, leadership, negotiation, Biohacking, and other tools described here - gave us the fortitude to navigate the choppy waters of life together.

Single men NEED to read this: You might not be one, but I bet you know one.

If you’ve got a brother, cousin, uncle, or friend who is single, divorced, frustrated with their dating and love life (or has questionable taste in women), get them this book. The holidays are coming up, and handing them this book in print, as a gift, cuts through the online noise and distraction we’re all drowning in. Don’t Stick Your Dick in a Blender in paperback is a great value at $26, as it includes a QR code at the back, which gets you a download of the 18-hour audiobook and other transformative resources. I chose Lulu bookstore for distributing it because they actually print books in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, and India - so you can get your hands on it fast with no international shipping brain damage.

Or

You can get it as a digital+audio book package

For $8.99 via my own store here (the best way to support me as an author). Or, through the link below, you can get it on Google Play Books, the audiobook on Spotify, or the print edition.

Not shockingly, this book was banned by Amazon. They blacklisted me as an author without a cogent explanation of what in my work was unacceptable. The book before you is uncensored. I make no effort here to appease the nonsensical and vague sensitivities of our big tech overlords!

Or

Support me on Substack and get the digital + audio book

A MAJOR value add for my paid Substack supporters - your support of my work on Substack (from $7/monthly) NOW includes my three books (and a fourth dropping in about a month) in well-formatted digital and audio form...

* Hourglass: A science fiction novel - Not For Sex Addicts - about seduction, biohacking & philosophy

* Don’t Stick Your Dick in a Blender—How to meet a nice girl instead—from a tantric husband with a better sex life than you!

* How to Be Cross Eyed: Thriving Despite Your Physical Imperfection

Here’s my reasoning behind this: I don’t write books to make money - I write books for impact. Books are a really odd market from a pricing perspective; it’s the one product category that costs $10-$20, you spend 10-30 hours consuming them, and they may dramatically change your life - for less than the cost of a meal at a mediocre restaurant! As a banned-on-Amazon indie author, I have little hope that my books will ever become NYT bestsellers. So my goal is to get my books in front of as many readers as possible (counterintuitively, giving them away for free is NOT the best way to achieve that - tried it, already) and invite a continued conversation about recapturing free will via Biohacking.

Substack is one of the best tools I have to achieve that impact. It’s one of my favorite places to interact with my audience. Its well-designed app (advertising and distraction-free) is a seamless medium for you to be edified by my content. Substack is a pro-free-speech platform; I get to shoot straight with you there without fear of being censored for trespassing nonsensical rules. And the subscription revenue provides my small, growing family the financial security we need. Thanks!

If you appreciate my work and have gotten something out of it, get sunk cost motivation working for you at $7/monthly. And you’ll get a welcome email from me with direct download links for the three books in both digital and audio format.

If you’re not already convinced that this deserves to be moved to the top of your reading list, check out the first chapter: The Inevitable Uncondoming

Oscar Wilde wrote, “I can resist all things, except temptation,” and THAT is why there’s no such thing as promiscuous “safe sex.” With salacious storytelling, red pill wisdom, along with tools, tactics, and “relationship hacks” for the savvy seducer, I break down what to do about THAT in the first audio chapter...

You may not need to read this book, but you know a single guy who does. Share this with him…

Let’s get wildly hypothetical and utopian...

Imagine an Anarcho-libertarian future wherein philosophy, reason, and science prevail.

The cathedrals of corruption looming over every nation, governments have been replaced by direct democracy on an unhackable blockchain. And with the absence of the state, perverse economic incentives, monopolies, and dogma in healthcare.

In that future, will traditional allopathic medicine and healthcare be relegated to the dustbin of history and replaced entirely by frequency medicine?

That’s the question I explore with Dr. Zulia Frost. I interview the woman behind the FlexBeam, my favorite red light therapy device, and Clinical Director of Recharge Health.

She is a world-renowned expert in neuromodulation and photobiomodulation. Her professional profile is distinguished by three decades of direct patient care - blending Western medicine with traditional modalities (Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture) and rigorous academic training, providing an authoritative lens through which to examine the burgeoning field of wearable photobiomodulation.

Mentioned here

My Biohacker review of The FlexBeam: Photobiomodulation is a game-changer for workout recovery, heart health, digestion & more

Confused by Biohacking? Start your health transformation journey with red light therapy and adaptogenic herbs

Methylene Blue - A red light therapy cofactor?

2022 meta-analysis on Acupuncture as an infertility treatment, referenced in my deep-dive on genomics and fertility optimization

Recent red light therapy science done on Myopia in children and photodynamic therapy vs depression

My article: 69 Red Light Therapy Benefits

The Recharge Health community membership

Dr. Frost’s webinars - available to all Recharge.Health customers

More musing on an Anarcho-libertarian future: Decriminalize Everything: The Case for Abolishing Crime and Why I’m “white-pilled” about the future...

Oh, and here’s the silly AI song I made about Dr. Frost: FUTURELIGHT WITH DOC FROST

Next 4 Days: Get $100 OFF The FlexBeam

By the way, Dr. Frost’s company, Recharge Health, is currently running a pretty good Black Friday special that I urge you to take advantage of here...

A quality red light therapy device is one of the best investments you can make - buy it once (no subscription service attached to its function and features) and it will empower your health for years.

For more deep-dive interviews (never interrupted by a dumb mid-roll ad) delving into health, longevity, and advanced personal growth…