Limitless Mindset

You can learn a lot about marriage from the way at least half of them end and this book, by a practicing New York divorce attorney, should be required reading for committed couples.

Given the author's 20-year professional experience, it's a how-NOT-to book; in an engaging storytelling format, it illustrates how once madly-in-love couples royally screw the pooch when it comes to their marriages and then pay the price ($600 an hour to Sexton's law firm for counsel is just the start!)

I've been married for seven years now to my wife; a few of those years were pretty rocky, but we're now more committed than ever to each other (and very happy together) because we've continued to treat our marriage like (this isn't going to sound terribly romantic) a project. More like a beautiful high-performance automobile deserving of regular maintenance, instead of a painting that sits on a wall.

* We have certain daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly to-dos that go into habit-tracking software.

* I maintain a rather large notes file on our marriage; enumerating challenges and goals along with brainstorming solutions and summaries of compromises reached after disagreements.

* We stack a bunch of different Biohacks and lifehacks; we're always looking for a smart way to do things.

* And every year I read a book or two about marriage, relationships, women, or sex - from which I always learn a new thing or two that makes us a happier, healthier couple.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES hire an attractive nanny

The funniest chapter of the book is about the "Nanny Fascination" - apparently a lot of divorce cases involve a nanny (as do a lot of high-profile cases of rich, powerful men cheating on their wives). Oscar Wilde cynically wrote 

“Everything in life is about sex, except for sex, which is about power.”

And there's some truth in it. So many husbands cheat (or try to cheat) with the nanny because the power dynamic is kind of the best of both worlds. From an evolutionary psychology perspective, it just flips a lot of the attraction switches for both the husband and nanny. Sexton writes... 

The power component of the Nanny Fascination cannot be discounted. The power differential between the husband and the nanny is huge. The nanny is subordinate to the husband, who is, in that dynamic, the boss of her. She follows his directions, and his decision-making authority is generally not open to questioning. There’s also no reciprocity required in the relationship: The transaction is simple. The nanny cares for the children and the husband gives her money. The husband isn’t required to fulfill her emotional or familial needs as he would be with a spouse, nor is he required to indulge her complaints or moods unless he feels like it.

In the book, he bends at least half over to be politically correct (which I suppose is to be expected from a New York lawyer), but in regards to the Nanny Fascination, he reluctantly advises wives to maybe be a little more like a nanny. To retain a bit of their allure by having a life outside of being a wife and mother. Also, it sounds like many of Sexton's clients are New York "power couples" committed to their demanding careers - I can imagine that many of these wives are far outside of their traditional (and undeniably appealing) gender roles (hence the need to hire a nanny that husbands become fascinated by).

But the more important takeaway is obvious, don't hire an attractive nanny (especially if she's younger, single, exotically foreign, and going to be living under your roof).

Define, express, or get divorced

Marriages and other committed relationships fail for two fundamental reasons, according to the book...

1. You don’t know what you want. 2. You can’t express what you want.

Reason #1 is why I wrote a book for single men about how to avoid "sticking your dick in a blend" by getting entangled with the wrong kind of woman. Too many unmarried men fail to disqualify the women; they have little more criteria for the women they date (and ultimately marry) than 1) She's attractive enough to give me a boner and 2) She's willing to sleep with me. While it may seem unromantic; I urge single people to itemize what exactly they want (and don't want) in a girlfriend or boyfriend. Define what you want or else it will be defined for you by your selfish genes, your lower impulses, culture, or the impositions of others. My book gives single a good place to start.

I think a big part of the reason so many relationships fail in modernity is "love." From my article, Musings on the inadequacy of our favorite word...

The problem I have with love is that it’s universally held in very high esteem and universally thought of as good. In fact, most people regard love as the most good thing. I blame pop culture mostly for this. The lyrics of most of the songs that we listen to and the themes of most of the movies that play on the silver screen reinforce this idiotic idea that doing whatever feels right in the moment results in true love and love always results in a happy and meaningful life.

In the past love was a word that signified an intense emotional commitment to something greater than oneself expressed through acts of service. Now love just means this intoxicated feeling, that you fall into and fall out of randomly, that makes you act stupid. It’s this insatiable desire for someone or something that makes you irrational. It’s this thing that people say to each other for our own emotional validation. I think modern-day love, does more harm than good.

If you asked a hundred modern couples why they got married, about 98 of them would tell you that it was first and foremost because they were in love. I'd wager most of them are referring to the emotionally intoxicated kind of love. I was also very in love with my wife when we married but I also had several very rational and pragmatic reasons for choosing her.

To address the second fundamental reason for failure, the author suggests...

Hit Send Now - a marriage hack

If your partner does something during the day that bothers you even a little, within a couple of hours—or minutes—write him or her an email or text about it. Don’t censor yourself. Don’t obsessively read and reread the email or text. And then, against all your instincts as a human being who, like most human beings, has a people-pleasing streak, just press Send.

It’s a way to address and resolve small problems immediately, before they mushroom. It says, “This is exactly how I feel right now.” You can express your feelings in an email or text, maybe a phone call. I advocate for email, because the format allows the recipient to digest what’s being communicated and to reread it as the content sinks in; even better, you can make the subject header “Hit Send Now,” to give your partner a little emotional preparation—a little advance warning that this is one of “those emails,”

A sit-down discussion is often not the best venue to express your feelings fully. My wife and I write each other love letters a couple of times a year, but sometimes we also write not-so-lovey letters about something that needs to be addressed.

“Custodial rotation” - a marriage hack

Why can’t parents in a happy or stable marriage leverage this idea? “This is my weekend with the kids, so you go be someone who doesn’t have a spouse or kids—go to a museum or the movies or get away, or if you want to hang around the house reading a book, then do that, knowing that I’m the parent in charge and the kids are okay and you’re on your own.” Suppose you suggested that to your partner. Then the next weekend, or one weekend a month—however often you agree on—you switch. “Custodial rotation” forces people alternately to see themselves as adult parents and as just plain adults. I can’t think of any good reason why divorced people should have all the fun. How many married partners would be happier, or actually happy, with such an arrangement? If you tried a custodial rotation for a …

You don’t have to be a millionaire to live in marvelous health for a long time (and look good while doing so!)

The pharmaceutical-hospital industrial complex would prefer that you took their overpriced drugs daily, regularly spent time in their $2000/night hospital rooms, and then died, after suffering for a decade or two, of a chronic (and preventable) disease. No thanks!

It’s important to understand that anti-aging is not about being kept alive well past your expiration date in a decrepit state of health. It’s about elongating youth and healthspan, it’s about being able to go hiking with your great-grandchildren one day and maybe even beating them in whatever sort of mindblowing virtual reality videogames they’ll love playing. What follows are some biohacking safe bets for anti-aging, longevity, and prevention of the chronic health conditions statistically most likely to knock you off.

Fasting

We don’t often think about how biologically abnormal it is that we are eating all the time. For many thousands of years, your ancestors spent a lot of their generally unpleasant lives hungry. They would often go for days without a full, satiating meal. When you give your body regular breaks from the metabolic load of processing food into energy, your body can divert its energies toward healing and maintenance. There are two fasting strategies well worth habituating 1) Intermittent daily fast - Skip breakfast and do all your eating and snacking in an 8-hour daily window 2) 24-hour fasting - Once or twice monthly fast from lunch to lunch, giving your body a full day of restorative maintenance.

Adaptogenic Herbs

It’s a really smart idea to regularly consume organic herbal medicines which have been used historically since time immemorial by different cultures around the world. They are called “Adaptogens” because they feed your body what it needs to adapt to handle stressors, both internal and external. The most notable effects of the adaptogens are stress management, they will make you very cool under fire, and fortifying immunity, making you all the more resilient from and resistant to disease.

The best Adaptogen is probably Rhodiola Rosea, but there’s a whole spectrum of herbs, each with different effects worthy of your consideration.

Toxin-Free Coffee

Coffee can be one of the most healthy things you consume daily if it’s good stuff. Coffee is a powerful natural antioxidant. Reasonable amounts of caffeine (less than 5 cups daily of coffee) will empower your health and morning productivity. The problem is that most coffee is crap, it’s rife with mycotoxins that harm your health and cause anxiety. These toxins also make coffee taste bad, which is why most people have to add so many sugary additives to stomach the stuff. Drink the best organic, toxin-free stuff that you can afford daily, this simple pleasure can also be one of the healthiest.

Sleep Hacking

Bad sleep kills. If you awake and spend your first hour of the day feeling groggy and sleepy, you’re getting bad sleep. After a night of real sleep, you should awake feeling rejuvenated and ready to take on the day. In the hours before bedtime, a few lifehacks will make a big difference in your sleep quality...

* Avoid bright screens, install screen dimmer apps.

* Turn off your lights, use candles for illumination.

* Put your phone in airplane mode and switch off your wifi router.

* Do some mindfulness meditation to soothe your nervous system.

* Take some safe sleep supplements; Magnesium, Ashwagandha, CBD, etc.

Vitamin C and D

These two Vitamins make a huge difference in health long term. Unless you eat hundreds of dollars a week in the highest quality organic food you’re probably not getting enough of them. Take ample Vitamin C and D, and up the dosage in the cold winter months when your immune system needs some extra. Vitamin D has a crucial cofactor that you need daily, which is discussed next...

Your “Light” Diet

Just like you avoid junk food, you want to avoid junk light. Your Mitochondria, the fundamental energy generation system of the body, are profoundly affected by the kind of light you’re exposed to. Especially during the evenings, avoid bright fluorescent light and especially blue light. The antidote to ubiquitous crappy light is UVB red light that mimics natural sunlight. UVB light is the crucial cofactor of Vitamin D, without sufficient quality light, your body cannot properly convert and utilize supplemental Vitamin D, which is why many get sick during the darker winter months.A red light therapy device is a smart investment, using one a couple of moments a day can improve your skin, heal achy joints, and even address chronic diseases like Diabetes.

NMN - The Epigenetic Anti-Aging Vitamin

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Nicotinamide Mononucleotide is a fancy name for a B-Vitamin derivative that converts into the crucial NAD+ molecule that your actual genes need. Perhaps you’ve implemented some of the other lifestyle biohacks listed but were disappointed in the results in overall health. This is where epigenetics comes into play, epigenetics is the capacity of our bodies to turn on and off the right genes at the right time. Especially as we age, our genes tend to get stuck turned on or off, and our health declines even while we are eating right, exercising, and implementing our doctors’ advice. NMN is the most bioavailable and absorbable form of the crucial chemical our genes need to switch on and off.

The top anti-aging scientists in the world in places like Harvard University are increasingly recognizing NAD+ and its precursors as a piece to the anti-aging puzzle. Even while top universities around the world advance exciting longevity science with NAD+ studies, you won’t see NMN advertised on television anytime soon because big pharma can’t patent it, manufacture it for $2, and mark it up to $100.

NMN is not an unproven “research chemical”, while it’s a newer anti-aging tool it’s been used by thousands in the biohacker community online, here’s just what some are reporting...

57 going on 30 years old - D. Speight

“I may be the "youngest looking" 57 year old in Florida, but my body rarely feels like the 30 year old it resembles. When I read a few of the reviews about how quickly one could feel the results, I was skeptical. Not anymore! So the supplement option was already appealing to me. While I don't expect this to be an instant "fountain of youth," I'm optimistic it might come close in the long term.”

Fantastic Product, Great Effects - Logan Tibbetts

“I have many years of experience trying a broad range of supplements, and so I have a lot of experience testing for effects and avoiding placebo, as well as many points for comparison. When starting, I was expecting a slight increase in energy or mild effects on my cognition. Instead, I have felt a substantial boost of (non-stimulating) energy, meaningfully improved clarity and quality of my thoughts, brightened mood, and most surprising to me, a pretty noticeable reduction in the day-to-day aches and pains that I, unfortunately, live with. Overall, I have been pleasantly surprised and impressed with Infinite Age's NMN.”

Didn’t expect it to work so quickly!! - Eric G

“I have tried many supplements over the years and have yet to come across something as profound as this!!! Within about 1 hour out of nowhere, I felt this sense of positivity and just overall felt great. Something I couldn't explain as I never just felt "good" without being able to point out exactly why of how. I feel naturally energetic and the normal nagging pain in my neck isn’t there.”

Daniel Jones

“I’m only halfway through the bottle and I can already say that I have improved energy in the gym, more energy throughout my day, reduced stiffness and pain in my joints, as well as an increase in endurance and stamina. I’m excited to see how I feel after finishing the bottle and I look forward to stay looking young after continuing this superior supplement.”

Want to feel younger with a boost of energy? - Angelo

“Infinite Age's PUR…

Is personal growth "toxic" as some popular Youtube documentaries suggest?

We address that in the June Biohacking and lifehacking questions in this Q&A podcast...

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.

#30 Questions

Q

Responding to The Toxic World of Self Help: Hustle Culture, Toxic Positivity, Addiction, and Fake Gurus.

Well...! I myself didn't find that this particular video had any well-thought-out nor well-researched arguments nor points, as he merely was detailing and explaining about those people who *think* they have accomplished constantly something - i.e. reading self-help books over and over again and never really doing actually something concrete and fulfilling. The critic he made was NOT about "toxic world of self help" (as he thinks he's saying here in this video), but rather, the inane unending loophole of those who THINK that by reading books is the only formative action needed towards bettering oneself. But I have to agree with you sir Roseland - I too have found immense help from helping myself via taking massive action towards myself for these past 5years - for past 2years in particular. I actually literally would've died and ended up in the gutter if I wouldn't have straighten my life by forcing myself to it. I had help from few extremely genuine mentors aswell. From there - I've mostly focused to help myself actually BE better and better every year because that is one of the fundamental purposes of living life as human - or at least should be, IF you were to aim to live the most healthy life you could.

Q

Responding to By 2021 we will know if Western Civilization is Doomed

We are a little over half a year until 2021 and we have full blown chaos all over the USA. I would love to hear from the author as to his opinion on this point if he feels that western civilization is still doomed. If I had to put the dots together based on this article, I would assume it’s a pretty sure sign at this point that it is indeed doomed?

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Recommended Reading

Read the book: At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future or my review of it Why You Can’t Fly on The Concorde [Book Review of At Our Wits’ End]

Q

Hey Jonathan I got a question I got to ask you, are there any European or American nootropics companies that do not import from China. How do you find the quality of the Russian nootropics? I really want to stay away from Chinese Imports because of their poor business practices. Just a simple couple of sentences I would really appreciate that you have a great day. Greetings from Michigan.

A

Recommended Vendors

* Double Wood Supplements (USA)

* The Health Ranger Store (USA)

* Indigo Herbs (UK)

* Focus Supplements (UK)

Q

1) What is the optimal dosage for piracetam and how many times a day?2) What is the cycling schedule for piracetam? How many weeks should people take off and in between how many weeks?If there aren't exact numbers, numbers for the minimums and the optimals would be great. Thank you.

A

Recommendation

The Piracetam Protocol

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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 develop 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 in 30 or 60 days for you to make improvements and accomplish your goals.

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In this livestream, I lead a group in hacking mindset on the epigenetic level using a highly proven advanced meditation technique, followed by some discussion. About the guided meditation: You’ll need to block out 50–60 minutes for the guided meditation and discussion — good things take time. The guided meditation itself will take about 50 minutes. The more focused attention you can devote to this, the more profound the epigenetic transformation you’ll experience. The replay recording here does not capture the sublime audio quality of the guided meditation, I produced and offer a version of epigenetic mindset transformation mediation here in the Limitless Mindset store.

A 51-minute meditation track, guided by Jonathan Roseland, for powerfully reprogramming a limiting belief or self-perception. In this guided meditation you'll meet the future you. A better you. A happier you. You, liberated from the pain and patterns of the past. The recommended reading to accompany this meditation is You Are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza.

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Food can be one of life's sublimest pleasures but shouldn’t come at the cost of digestive disorder.

Luckily, you’re not sentenced to a life of living with a leaky gut or irritable bowel syndrome. All manner of gastrointestinal dysfunction can be made right with a multi-pronged approach which brings your gut biome into a state of tranquility and optimizes the gut-brain connection.

Listen to Your Tummy

Firstly, often your digestive dysfunction is your body trying to tell you something; stop eating toxic crap! Processed, toxic, gluten-rife foods are infamous for causing unpleasant acid reflux and bloating. This is your body’s way of telling you That’s not food! Please feed me real food!

Say NO to Supermarket Antacids

For decades the mainstream solution to digestion issues was just to drop a few antacid tablets. These are really just a bandaid solution, that suppresses symptoms and there’s some serious concern about them actually causing cancer. In 2019 the popular antacid Zantac made by GlaxoSmithKline was pulled from store shelves by authorities when it was found to contain the toxic nitrosamine NDMA, largely recognized as a cancer-causing carcinogen.

Cut out Sweets and Booze

Sweet, sugary processed foods and especially booze feed the bad bacteria in your gut causing things like candida overgrowth.

Activated Charcoal

If you’re going to indulge in a bit of gluttony, enjoying a cheat meal occasionally, you can make atonement by taking a tablet or two of activated charcoal which cleans up gastrointestinal disease-causing endotoxins.

Kick the Cruciferous Creatins

Raw broccoli, spinach, and kale are marvelously nutritious, right? Actually, cruciferous greens can be a part of the problem, especially when they aren’t cooked. Try cutting these greens from your diet (or at least cutting back on them) for a week and monitor how your gut responds.

Digest like a Pro with Probiotic Foods

While you’re starving the bad bacteria in your gut you want to feed the good guys down with probiotic foods; probiotic yogurt, pickles, sauerkraut, sip on some tasty Turkish kefir, or Russian Kvass.Get some more prebiotic fiber sources in your diet; sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, asparagus, and tummy-lovin’ pumpkin. And, do DIY the delicious Coconut Kefir Rosewater "Dragon's Blood" Probiotic Cocktail, here...

With Coconut water, Rosewater, Kefir grains, Cinnamon, and Cayenne pepper - it's one of the tastiest things I've ever had the pleasure of sipping!

Be Discriminating with Dairy

The very pedestrian pasteurized dairy products on offer at your grocery store are problematic. Industrially produced milk, cheese, and most butter are not doing your gut any favors. The flip side to eating, for example, too much tasty probiotic yogurt is that you may run into some dairy intolerance. Everybody has their own level of intolerance to dairy, try cutting it out totally and see how your digestion does.

BPC-157 - A Gut-Brain Axis Biohack for Total Gut Health

BPC-157 can do wonders for a cantankerous gut and gastrointestinal system. If you suffer from leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, or digestion issues it's a safe bet solution.

* It’s a gastric pentadecapeptide that is produced in the gut naturally. But sometimes we don’t have enough of it.

* BPC-157 assuages gut inflammation, a 2017 Croatian paper identified its mechanism in addressing our stress response which manifests in all sorts of digestion dysfunction.

* An earlier paper explored the evidence for its anti-ulcerative effects and therapeutic value in addressing inflammatory bowel disease.It may counter the gut-lining-destroying effects of NSAIDs like Advil and Ibuprofen.

* It’s side-effect-free. In the clinical studies done thus far, no toxicity or negative side effects have been noted. Encouragingly, online there’s an abundance of meticulous BPC-157 user reports that align with the studies - there’s a stark lack of people reporting side effects.

What biohackers are saying...

Jeff Robinson

“I’ve been using BPC 157 and TB 500 for over a month now and have seen significant improvement in gut problems. Initially started for some lingering muscular injuries but was aware of gut-healing potential with BPC. I’ve been blown away with the benefits I’ve seen. Typical food sensitivities I’ve been dealing with for years have pretty much vanished.”

Drew Wittler

“I’ve had great success with the oral supplement and quite honestly have found it to be easier on my gut/digestion opposed to injection...”

Ben Greenfield

“I've had great success with the oral supplement and quite honestly have found it to be easier on my gut/digestion opposed to injection”

Kevin Brown

“I also had some gut issues and minor hemorrhoid problems... In the first 4 days [of BPC-157 use] my gut seemed to have returned to being cast iron. I no longer have problems with foods that were causing me distress. Less gas and almost no annoying problems that come with hemorrhoids almost no blood when wiping and just a totally calm gut and normal output.”

A London Biohacker

“[BPC-157] has already worked perfectly for my gut issues and depression...”

Get capsuled BPC-157

Around the internet, you’ll find BPC-157 sold as an injectable peptide. This involves using a needle and going through the tricky process of mixing the powdered peptides in bacteriostatic water very carefully to avoid compromising the very molecularly fragile peptides. When buying peptides online you also have to be wary about Chinese-sourced peptides, which are sometimes not the real thing. Demand pure pharmaceutical-grade BPC-157.

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Did you know that in Brazil 33% of people over the age of 25 have Osteoarthritis?

In America, we do a little better, according to conservative estimates 54 million of us have Arthritis, that’s 16%

We’ve long thought of arthritis as an annoyance to the elderly, just a part of aging. But, increasingly younger people suffer from it too. So I’ll suggest to you that it’s NOT just an inevitable part of getting older.

Arthritis, like so many health problems, is not a cause, but a symptom of deeper dysfunction that can be addressed by a holistic lifestyle approach.

This protocol is a multi-pronged approach to bringing your body back into balance. The goal of this protocol is not coping, not a masking of symptoms, nor a minor mitigation of Arthritis but instead effective elimination of this painful condition. The steps...

* Reduce Inflammation

* Address Autoimmune Dysfunction

* Chelate Toxins

* Support Epigenetic Function

Before your doctor prescribes you pharmaceutical drugs, toxic NSAIDs, or steroidal injections (yikes!) the protocol is worth trying in whole or in part, as it’s affordable and side-effect-free.

Elimination Diet - Start Removing Inflammatory Foods

If you’re in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. Get the foods out of your diet that are causing inflammation. Which is sometimes easier said than done. The foods towards the top of this list are the worst, the ones towards the bottom you’ll need to self-experiment with as they may or may not be hurting you, eliminate them for a week and see what happens...

* Processed packaged foods - Especially sugary, fatty junk foods.

* Processed meat - Put that hot dog down!

* Fried foods

* Alcohol

* Dairy products

* Bread - Especially white flour-based and refined carbohydrates. Even healthier whole-grain bread can be problematic.

* Red meat

* Probiotic fermented foods - Probiotic foods are all the rage in the biohacking sphere, and Probiotics are important but they can cause inflammation for some. If you eat a lot of probiotic foods, try taking a week off them and see if it affects your Arthritis.

Try your best to eat organic, if the listed ingredients on the packaging contain a lot of weird, hard-to-pronounce chemicals, pass on it!

Eat Anti-Inflammatory Foods

Replace the foods above with these inflammation-fighting ones...

* Colorful fruits and vegetables - Get some blueberries on your plate!

* Wild Salmon - Salmon is the superfood of the sea. Eat the best salmon you can afford once or twice weekly.

* Quality coffee - Coffee can be an amazing anti-inflammatory if you’re drinking the good stuff without a bunch of additives in it. Drink organic, toxin-free coffee daily.

Use anti-inflammatory spices

* Turmeric - Is recognized by cutting-edge nutrition science as one of the best anti-inflammatory foods. Liberally sprinkle on the highest quality organic Turmeric that you can afford with a bit of black pepper for absorption.

* Cayenne

* Rosemary

* Sage

* Holy basil

Drink anti-inflammatory herbal tea

Along with good coffee, drink herbal tea daily. Ginger, Cinnamon, and Ashwaghanda. Tip: It’s a whole lot more economical to buy powdered, organic herbs and mix your own tea than buying pre-packaged herbal teas.

Replace the foods above with these inflammation-fighting ones...

* Colorful fruits and vegetables - Get some blueberries on your plate!

* Wild Salmon - Salmon is the superfood of the sea. Eat the best salmon you can afford once or twice weekly.

* Quality coffee - Coffee can be an amazing anti-inflammatory if you’re drinking the good stuff without a bunch of additives in it. Drink organic, toxin-free coffee daily.

Take Krill Oil

A Canadian double-blind, placebo-controlled study demonstrated that 300 milligrams daily of pure Krill fish oil significantly inhibits inflammation and reduces arthritic symptoms surprisingly fast, in one to two weeks.

Address Autoimmunity

As you’re probably aware, Arthritis is often due to (not so) friendly fire from the immune system. The pharmaceutical solutions to Arthritis, often systemically turn down the immune system which provides some relief, but in the long term leaves you vulnerable to disease and illness. Luckily, there are some natural solutions to making your immune system smarter.

* Red Reishi - Is an Adaptogenic mushroom that powerfully modulates the immune system.

* Glutathione - The master antioxidant, either take a Glutathione supplement or N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC).

* Get your Vitamin D right - Vitamin D is crucial to your immune system doing its thing. Supplement Vitamin D (especially during the wintertime) along with Vitamin K and make sure to get 15 minutes of sunlight daily so that your body actually uses the Vitamin D.

Red Light Therapy

At least 5 placebo-controlled clinical trials found red light therapy surprisingly effective in mitigating rheumatoid arthritis. Pick up the highest quality red light therapy device or lamp that you can afford. Daily you would want to shine red light on your problematic joints for about 30 seconds.

Chelate Toxins and Heavy Metals

Arthritis can be symptomatic of inflammation caused by toxins which are all too common in our environment. Chela is the Latin word for claw, so you want to take some natural chelators that will claw these toxins out of your system; Quercetin, Chlorella, Spirulina, Astaxanthin, or at least at a strawberry or two a day - it’s one of the best chelating fruits. Ask your doctor to run a heavy metals blood panel test, if you’re rife with mercury, aluminum, lead, or cadmium you’ll want to use more aggressive chelation agents like EDTA (calcium disodium edetate) which was demonstrated in an Italian clinical case study to make a big difference mitigating the symptom of arthritis.

Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) - An Epigenetic Vitamin that Turns Off Arthritis

This is a special form of Vitamin B3, which has been the subject of Harvard anti-aging clinical trials because of its remarkable capacity to modulate epigenetic function.

* NMN is a natural molecule that our bodies use to turn on and off the right genes at the right times but as we age it declines, our genome gets dumber, resulting in disease and dysfunction.

* NMN is a precursor to the NAD+ molecule that tunes your immune system like a master tuner tuning a grand piano.

* It turns off the Slc12a8 Arthritis Gene.

* It’s side-effect-free as it doesn’t hack or stimulate our hormones nor does it create dependency. It just feeds our bodies what they need for our genome to do what it does naturally.

NMN stands out because consistently, it provides total relief fast, in a matter of a few weeks or months, even for those who have suffered from Arthritis for years or decades...

Lawrence

“When I was on NMN, the arthritis in my knuckles began to clear in the 3rd week. By the 3rd month, all of the arthritis in every joint in my body had cleared... NMN had cleared the arthritis from every joint in my body... even after the full year of no NMN, my arthritis had not returned to its pre-NMN level.”

Cjacek

“My mom's arthritis pain cleared up... She pulled a muscle recently pretty bad, nearest the attachment to her knee, with swelling and couldn't walk but, within less than a week, she made a complete recovery... Now I'm not sure this is due to NMN but I have no reason to doubt it. Overall it seems she's slowly reversing her biological aging, at least from these observations.”

Cathy Leibel

“Very good for arthritis pain! Noticed a big difference on the 7th day...”

“JoeSixPack”

“I do get a benefit from the 125 [milligram] dose. Far less pain from arthritis, feel sharper mentally and a few other things. So I take the lower dose. I think at some point I may be able to increase the dose, but I am fine with the effects I am getting.”

You might say...

This NMN stuff sounds fantastic. Why the heck haven’t I heard about it before?

It’s a non-patentable natural form of Vitamin B3, big pharma can’t manufacture it for $2 a pill and then mark it up to $700 a pill, so you won’t see it advertised on TV and your doctor probably won’t be pushing it (unless they r…

I did a high dosage of 650 milligrams, two in the late morning and two in the afternoon. I had a quite productive day but even at that high dosage, the Nootropic effect was subtle. I did not feel particularly energized. In the mid-afternoon I laid down to do my meditation, it was a pretty normal meditation session, and I did quite well with the breath-counting focus exercise. However, the high dosage had little to no noticeable performance-enhancing effect. The recommended dosage is two capsules a day, so I think I'll stick with that.

I stacked it with...

Noopept - The Piracetam-derived, cognitive-capital-multiplying, loved-by-biohackers smart drug

Vitamin B-12 - The neuroplasticity-sparking, depression-vanquishing brain vitamin

Alpha GPC + Uridine

Uridine and Alpha GPC, a potent choline source, support and modulate your acetylcholine system.

* It's a cognitive enhancer that will likely make you a better programmer, designer, or student. From a 2003 Dutch study  A combination of uridine and choline administration improved selective attention and spatial learning...

* The combination promotes Neuroplasticity; building and repairing synaptic connections and grey matter to correspond to new skills we are trying to cultivate or meaningful personal development.

* Want good genes? Uridine is an essential cog in the RNA encoding mechanism.

* Fish oil (DHA specifically) is a potent Nootropic cofactor, known as Mr Happy Stack.

From a University of Utah, placebo-controlled 2010 spectroscopy study that gave 2 grams of Uridine daily to healthy males

This is the first study to report a direct effect of uridine on membrane phospholipid precursors in healthy adults using [magnetic resonance spectroscopy]. Sustained administration of uridine appears to increase [phosphomonoesters] in healthy subjects.

This indicates strongly that it may be beneficial for treating bipolar depression.

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With Adrian in London, I discuss the nuances of biohacking motivation, wakefulness, and working memory for high-leverage skillset acquisition.

Mentioned

Memoir from Antproof Case - my favorite novel

Modafinil - A hardcore motivational smart drug

Dual N-Back - the best tool for sharpening the short-term working memory

Mnemonic memory systems - for long-term memory

Oxiracetam + Piracetam - the dream team discipline stack

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While so many in society are concerned with making everything fair and equal, elite Entrepreneurs are giving themselves a stark unfair advantage by embracing biohacking.

While so many in society are concerned with making everything fair and equal, elite Entrepreneurs are giving themselves a stark unfair advantage by embracing biohacking. We all have natural limits of how hard and smart we can work. The high-leverage, high-return-on-investment measure is to unleash the mind; enhancing cognition, training working memory, cultivating greater focus, and improving long-term memory. While mitigating and managing the downsides of a life lived intensely; stress and aging.

Who is biohacking...

Tim Ferriss - The 4-Hour guy, salsa dancer, author, and digital nomad turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He created the slow-carb diet.Jack Dorsey - Founder and CEO of Twitter, spends up to 2 hours daily meditating.Dave Asprey - The godfather of biohacking. Author of five books. Populizer of orange-tinted blue light blocking sleep hacking glasses.Ben Greenfield - Elite athlete, author, and family man. Professional obstacle course berserker and bow hunter.Joe Rogan - The world’s most famous podcaster. A psychedelic psychonaut.Serge Faguet - A Russian tech entrepreneur. An extreme lifestyle experimenter, who has spent over $200,000 on biohacking.Mike Adams - Time-of-flight lab operator, scientist, author, inventor, and alt-tech free speech innovator.

The sport of entrepreneurship is a high-impact one, like with a high-performance sports car that’s tearing up the track at over 100MPH every weekend, an entrepreneur must pay special attention to maintaining their machinery.Entrepreneurship is an overclocking of our hardware and software, our body and mind, which will cause burn-out and depression inevitably in entrepreneurs who fail to employ a multi-pronged defensive strategy for resilience, rejuvenation, and repair.

1. Meditation Tech

It’s no secret that daily mindfulness practice is a commonality among high performers, entrepreneurs are using biohacking-mindfulness tech to shortcut the years that it typically takes to master meditation. Notably, Heartmath’s HRV devices, which train you in about 10 minutes a day to reach a state of coherence between your heart and autonomic nervous system, and the Muse brainwave-sensing headband which gives you real-time feedback, training you to play your own brainwaves like a master musician playing an instrument. Entrepreneurship educator extraordinaire Pat Flynn starts his days with a Muse session.

2. Modafinil

Using this anti-narcolepsy drug is kind of like dabbling with the Dark Side of the Force, it gives you incredible powers of focus and will keep you very awake for 8-12 hours, but self-aware biohackers agree that it’s an anti-empathy drug, it may turn you into a benign psychopath for about half a day. There are several other downsides to using it but many Entrepreneurs still use it regularly because it’s such a potent productivity drug. A successful entrepreneur friend of mine (who prefers to remain anonymous) once confided in me that he makes about an extra $50K annually thanks to the 20-odd extra hours of work and focus a week that Modafinil empowers.

3. Nicotine

This addictive little molecule is for some elite health gurus, like Aubrey Marcus of Onnit, a secret weapon for unleashing formidable focus and creativity. It’s no coincidence that Ayn Rand, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Tolkien, and many other great novelists were voracious smokers, Nicotine is a creativity smart drug.

* Of course, you shouldn’t smoke (vaping is also probably not a great idea) - the safest way to consume nicotine is in a 5% or 7% liquid solution. It doesn’t taste great, but a few drops of the stuff will really light up your prefrontal cortex.It’s a fast-burning Nootropic, its effect lasts only about 90 minutes, for this reason, it’s the Nootropic I reach for to stimulate my productivity in the waning hours of the day. After 5 PM I don’t take stimulating Nootropics that might mess with my sleep. I can safely do a hit of Nicotine around 7 PM or 8 PM without it interfering with my sleep.

* Nicotine is cheap. Nicotine in PG or VG liquid solution ends up being about a $3/week habit.

* Nicotine is addictive. You’ll get hooked on the stuff, there’s a tendency to develop tolerance and increase the dose. But in my experience, it’s not that addictive, I take regular breaks from Nicotine, I’ll use it for a month and then go off it for a week or two. I never get any nasty withdrawal symptoms from quitting and the cravings are very manageable, as long as the little dropper bottle is out of sight, it’s surprisingly easy to resist. In my experience, coffee is more addictive than Nicotine, although, I drink great coffee...

4. Caffeine

Entrepreneurs have, since time immemorial, relied on coffee - caffeine is a hell of a productivity drug. The good news is that caffeine is healthy if you’re consuming reasonable amounts of it, less than five cups of coffee a day. The bad news is that most coffee you find on store shelves or served by a friendly barista is toxin-ridden crap; the processing and production of most coffee results in mycotoxins which cause brain fog, anxiety, and a myriad of health problems.

* Choose an organic toxin-free brand, toxin-free stuff tastes better and imbues a clear-headed buzz. If you go to cafes and coffee shops, say no to Starbucks, and choose local cafes that take some pride in their product. Chat with the baristas, and ask them what the highest quality bean they offer is.

* Drink your coffee WITHOUT tasty sugary additives. Healthy coffee tastes good, if you need to add spoonfuls of additives to make it palatable you probably shouldn’t be eating it.

* I drink a delicious bulletproof-style coffee daily with Kerrygold butter blended to make it a little creamier beverage, with a healthy shake of anti-inflammatory cinnamon.

5. Sleep Hacking

Sleep really matters; the cost of bad sleep cannot be understated; lack of focus, poor decision-making, diminished immunity, increased risk of disease, and declining health. Yet entrepreneurs often make this losing deal with themselves; stay up late at night working on the computer, robbing themselves of precious sleep, then take stimulants and force themselves to work long hours the next day to make up for their low quality of attention and focus. I instead urge you to choose quality over quantity, if you work fewer hours but get awesome sleep, you’ll ultimately get higher quality work done. Some sleep hacks to implement...

* Try to give yourself 60-90 minutes of downtime before bed. Time away from your computer or smartphone doing something that soothes your autonomic nervous and pulls it out of fight or flight chronic stress mode like reading, writing (the old-fashioned way with pen and paper), meditation, conversation, or making love.

* Avoid junk light for 2-3 hours before bed, bright light, especially blue light is the enemy of sleep. Your laptop screen, your tablet and smartphone screens, the light in your bathroom, and the streetlights outside your window are all sending problematic photons of blue light your way that you want to avoid to optimize sleep quality. Install a screen dimmer app, go to the bathroom in the dark, change the lights in your house to soft yellow or red light bulbs, wear orange-tinted glasses that filter out blue light, turn off the lights at night, and use candles to illuminate your room.

* Take an anxiolytic pre-bedtime cocktail. I like tea, here’s what I mix to make a hearty sleepytime tea: Ashwagandha (powdered), Chamomile, raw honey, and organic apple cider vinegar. To take my sleep quality to the next level, on top of this I’ll take several hundred milligrams of magnesium and a CBD supplement.

6. Dual N-Back Brain Training

You’ve probably seen brain training games and apps advertised and wondered if they actually work, if they actually make you smarter or better at problem-solving. I’ve used almost all of them exten…

Biohacking can be confusing. A Biohacker is essentially a self-scientist, running N of 1 personal experiments. Science is complicated and even professionals make mistakes all the time. Biohacking can also be expensive and time-consuming.

This article will break down common mistakes that both seasoned and rookie biohackers make costing them money, time, and sometimes even health and wellbeing.

Impulsive purchasing

The biggest mistake that biohackers or the health-conscious make is buying stuff rashly without sufficient research and making naive assumptions about product quality.

* Sellers of Nootropics and health supplements often employ very aggressive and clever marketing. Too many Biohackers are convinced by a few enthusiastic headlines or anecdotes and press the buy button without doing due diligence.

* Biohackers will often buy from the first source that they find or the first company in the Google search results.

* Biohackers will often buy a Nootropic ingredient that is wrong for their health goals or challenges.

* Biohackers will sometimes buy a product just because it’s pitched by some kind of internet celebrity whom they like.

Taking Modafinil (or worse Adrafinil)

Modafinil is an anti-narcolepsy drug that is extremely popular among Biohackers, perhaps thanks to the movie Limitless with Bradly Cooper. New Biohackers will often order it with Bitcoin because they hear it described in really hyperbolic terms by some blog or YouTube. But Modafinil is a problematic drug and far from where people should start their Biohacking...

* It’s a hardcore focus and cognitive enhancer. But there are a lot safer more reliable Biohacking tools for focus and cognition.It has a steep tolerance curve; you shouldn’t use it daily. Your first day on Modafinil will probably be awesomely productive, but dosing on multiple days you’ll run into diminishing returns.

* Modafinil releases a lot of dopamine and histamine which often results in undesired side effects. About a 3rd of Biohackers have some kind of bad experience with Modafinil.

Even worse than Modafinil is Adrafinil, which is the inferior older (and cheaper) version of the drug, developed back in the 1970s.

* It’s less effective than Modafinil, it’s not nearly as potent a cognitive enhancer.

* Repeated usage of it (likely) causes liver damage.

* And it tastes absolutely horrible.

I’m baffled at how many new Biohackers order and take Adrafinil...

Years ago, when I was a digital nomad, I had just arrived in a brand new (exotic to me) country. I was interested in seducing women there (and I succeeded, I got married to a girl there later) and I knew nobody so I went onto a local pickup artist Facebook group and found a wingman for the night. I met my wingman, a friendly young guy and he announced that he recognized me from my YouTube videos about Nootropics. I asked him if he had tried any Nootropics, and he revealed that he indeed ordered Adrafinil and had it shipped all the way to Eastern Europe. This was just a bit frustrating because, in my videos and articles, I make it clear that Adrafinil is a mediocre drug.

Buying on price

The instinct of almost any consumer is to buy the cheapest offering, they assume it’s the best value. Unfortunately, with health supplements, the cheapest product offered in a plastic bottle is often at best of substandard quality and at worst expired and rife with toxins.

* With a common health supplement like the herb Rhodiola Rosea, not all sources produce an equal product, there’s a quality spectrum. Some sources offer organic pure, high potency Rhodiola and some sources offer suspiciously cheap Rhodiola from China that has probably been sitting in a giant warehouse for years.

* Whereas I wouldn’t be quite so suspicious of cheap Vitamin D, for example. It’s a molecularly consistent supplement, that’s the same from almost any source.

But the cheapest product is not always the worst and the most expensive is not necessarily the best. There are other factors that should be evaluated...

Not verifying purity

Perhaps the most important thing to do before buying or consuming a supplement is to verify that it contains the advertised ingredients. If you’re buying a Lexus, you don’t need to verify that it’s actually a Lexus and not a Kia. But you can’t be so trustful of supplements, unfortunately, there are a lot of bad actors in the industry who create attractive websites, print fake product labels, and sell fake supplements labeled as CoQ10, CBD, collagen, or whatever.

Ask to see a COA (certificate of analysis) for whatever you’re consuming that shows purity above 97% and an acceptably low amount of toxic heavy metals - it’s virtually impossible to get supplements that don’t contain a single atom of aluminum, but you can choose supplements with an acceptable scarcity of manufacturing byproducts.

Choosing a poorly absorbed form

So you’ve got a Biohacking goal, like supporting your NAD+ levels for longevity.Vitamin B3 is the natural precursor of NAD+, but you would need to take a lot of it to make an impact on NAD+ levels and it results in an unpleasant skin flush. NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) is a highly efficacious form of Vitamin B3, it has high oral bioavailability that makes a difference in NAD+ levels and a number of other markers of aging.As you’re researching health and anti-aging you want to delve a little further into the science and find out which form is best.If you’re going to take Vitamin B12 take Methylcobalamin.If you’re going to take CoQ10, take water-soluble (solubilized) Ubiquinol.If you’re going to take Magnesium take Magnesium L-Threonate.Usually, you can figure out the best form with a Google search or by cross-referencing the ingredient on Pubmed with “bioavailability” or “absorption”A credible supplement should describe on its website which form of a given ingredient it contains. If it doesn’t, you can often assume it’s just the cheapest form.

Stacking before self-quantifying

Stacking is combining different Nootropic ingredients or supplements and stacking can unleash your mind and empower your health. But a rigorous Biohacker will want to take ingredients individually and evaluate how they objectively and subjectively affect them.

* Do brain training or measure your HRV on a supplement and see how it affects your cognition and stress response.

* How are you sleeping on a particular supplement? It can be measured with something like the Sleep Cycle app.

* Does an ingredient cause any undesirable side effects for you? Does it make you sweat more? Dry mouth? Achy muscles? Low libido? Do you get any kind of autoimmune response (itchiness, rashes, etc) to it?

* How do you feel on a particular supplement? Stressed? Relaxed? Energetic? Happy?

When you stack or take a pre-made stack you don’t know which ingredients are having which effect. When I used Vinpocetine, for example, on its own, I discovered that it had an anti-Nootropic effect for me, it gave me the dopamine blues. So I know to avoid Nootropic stack products that combine Vinpocetine with other things.So you want to start with one or two credible Nootropics or anti-aging agents; evaluate them for a week or two and record how they affect you. Then add something else, record the results, and see if they are synergistic in your body. Over the course of several months, you can formulate an individualized stack that is copacetic with your neurobiology.

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