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- What it is
- How it can be done
- What I do
- Discussion
Fredrik Liljegren
@fiddur
Aula Education
Finding a smarter approach.
Note: Bio - biology.
Approaching your biology, your health, even relations, with a hacker mentality.
Athletes Body builders
RFC1392 (Internet User's Glossary) defines:
A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system…
Jargon file definition #7:
One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
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- Mixup hackers crackers
- Cracking our body's code
Note: Blocking blue light a few hours before going to bed.
Note: Starting a new habit.
- Burning fat, getting energy
Note: Getting rid of something.
- Running technique
Note: Adding something.
- Teach body to burn fat
- Consistent energy through the day
Know thyself (through numbers).
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- Biohackers that don't quantify.
- Quantifiers that don't hack.
How do you measure a year in the life?
🎶 In daylights? 🎶
In sunsets?
In midnights?
In cups of coffee?
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife?
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- Health
- Productivity
- Aging
- Kicking ass
- Relationships
- Habits
- Fitness, weight
Measuring habits has its own value.
Automated measuring
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- Heart rate
- Sleep
- Movement, steps
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- Something scary - pushing the bounds of your comfort zone
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- Rescue time
- Sleep tracker
- Should measure sleep quality!
Note: Does my walking really affect my weight?
- Bring up dashboard
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- Not tracking the right thing
- No progress
- Too much chaos.
...chasing the "no"...
- Study
- Discuss
- Get a new or modified approach
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- Other correlations?
- Things to track
- Podcasts
- Bulletproof / Dave Asprey
- Mind Valley
- Blogs
Note: Pseudo-science, try it yourself!
- Snake oil, FREE snake oil!
- Morning habits
- Dietary and exercise changes
- Switching light bulbs
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- Early on:
- Weight
- Meditations per day
- Very few clear answers.
- Lots of insights about myself.
- Addicions, food changes, my mind tricks me.
- When fasting, actually easier.
- Not as healthy as I tell myself.
- Techniques and habits.
- Coffee with butter and coconut oil.
- Recently:
- Trackers: Heart rate, steps, runs/activities
- Logging: Waist, Head ache
- Occasionally: Food, body temp, supplements
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- Losing weight before wedding
- Feeling good, not looking good
- Disillusioned health, head aches!
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- Noticed high heart rate
- 9:07 - ibuprofen
- 13 - full effect
- HR going up before temp
Problem: Head aches.
Theory: My head ache is affected by sugar/insuline fluctuations.
Experiment: 2 week low carb, what happens on carb re-introduction?
Note: Inspired by Maffetone two week test. After two weeks, evaluate:
- Sleep
- Energy
- Waist
- Head aches...
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- Logging food, changes what you eat.
"Having to record "4 M&Ms" along with lunch is just kinda annoying.
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Goal: Get more consistent running without adverse health effects.
Theory: Phil Maffetone - Increasing aerobic function, reducing physical stress.
Experiment: Run with a max heart rate of 133, 3-5 times a week.
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- HR calculation
- Göteborgsvarvet
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- Snow
- No colds
- More energy after running
Jan 2019 -
- Better automated logging.
- RescueTime
- Better manual logging.
- Wear OS app…
- Transferring data
- Old logging -> Google Fit
- Data mining
Note: Show dashboards.
- Long term HR
- Transferring my steps
- Resistent starch (feeding my gut bacteria)
- Productivity logging/correlations
- What affects my focus?
- Triggering Flow
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- Using rescueTime metrics
- Rise of Superman
The key is progression, not perfection. (First heard from Charles Poliquin, used more widely.)
Biohacking is not about trying harder, it's about finding a better approach.