Biohack Your Brain to Boost Intelligence

Tricks for Increasing Brain Power

What is biohacking?
 The Basic Idea
The domesticated human body does not get the same kind of environmental
stimulation that it used to get when it was exposed to the elements out in the
wild. Many of nature’s signals--even the stressful ones--promote robust
health, but they are largely absent today from our sheltered indoor lifestyle.
Biohacking involves simulating those environmental signals to prod the body
back into a state of robust health...

...which, of course, includes improved brain function.

These “signals” include heat and cold, light and darkness, color, sound,
feasting and fasting, electricity, nutrition, exercise and rest, scent triggers,
acute stress and relaxation, breath-holding and hyperventilation, natural
and artificial drugs, sleeping patterns, and so on.
If you wish to experiment with biohacking, there is a
risk. You must take full responsibility for the
outcomes you get. If you are not careful, some
biohacks can hurt you. And none of them is fully
understood.

Do. Your. Research.

Some items in these slides link to research. Other

items you can simply use as key words in your own
research.
Control your light exposure Breathe in negative ions

Sleep in complete darkness Expose yourself to heat and cold

Avoid sugar Smell a tree

Use fat for fuel Conjure demons

Hold your breath Take smart drugs?

Meditate Move!

Reclaim your dopamine Avoid fluoride

Imagine Eat bacteria

Touch the Earth Brain-boosting supplements

Control Your Light Exposure
Get morning sun (human photosynthesis).

The effects of blue light

Put on blue-blocking glasses at 8 p.m.

Limit exposure to fluorescent and LED light bulbs.

Use full-spectrum, halogen, or incandescent light bulbs only during the day.

Use amber LED light bulbs at night.

Heal and relax yourself with red light.

The effects of candlelight and firelight

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 Sleep in Complete Darkness
There is no such thing as a night person.

Benefits of sleeping in the dark

Turn off all electric light at 8 p.m. (except for amber, orange, and red colors)

Be asleep by 10 p.m.

Use blackout curtains in the bedroom.

Sleep in two shifts?

Cover light-emitting indicators with electrician’s tape

Put a red or orange night light in the bathroom.

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 Avoid Sugar
How much carbohydrate do you need?

The blood-sugar roller coaster

Sugar and dopamine

Advanced glycation end-products

Low-grade inflammation

Mitochondrial damage

Cancer

Increased stress hormones

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Use Fat for Fuel
The healthy ketosis diet

How to do it

What to expect

Escaping the sugar rollercoaster

GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)

Intermittent fasting

Why we go nuts over sugar

Healthy fats

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Hold Your Breath
Stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system

You are probably hyperventilating right now.

What causes us to breath too much?

Resetting the brain’s respiratory center

Benefits of carbon dioxide

Hypoxic training

Pramayana

Buteyko breathing method

The Wim Hof method

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 Meditate
The parasympathetic nervous system

Stress and the subject-object relationship

Using compassion to wake up the brain

Formless practices

Form practices

Dopamine
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Reclaim Your Dopamine
What is dopamine?

Dopamine stimulating substances

Using checklists

Drug addiction

Social media addiction

Video game addiction

Create your own victories

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 Imagine
Memory palaces

Exercising the hippocampus

Abstract visualization

Imagery, emotion, and memory

The WOH strategy

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 Touch the Earth
The Earth’s negative electric charge

The benefits of earthing

Earthing devices

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Breathe in Negative Ions
The health benefits of negative ions

The brain benefits of negative ions

Ion generators

Ozone danger?
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Expose Yourself to Heat and Cold
Benefits of cold exposure

Cold-shock proteins

Mitochondrial biogenesis (brown adipose tissue)

Benefits of heat exposure

Heat-shock proteins

Acute stress and stress relief

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 Smell a Tree

Aromatherapy

Volatilization of oils in nature

Scents that improve brain function

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Conjure Demons
Trigger warning!

Emotional trauma

Evolutionary trauma

Where do phobias come from?

Limbic revision

Keeping a journal
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Take Smart Drugs?
Modafinil

Ritalin

Adderall

Aniracetam

Huperzine A

Nicotine

Theacrine

L-theanine
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 Move!
Benefits of HIIT training

Benefits of resistance training

Benefits of steady-state cardio

Should I get a standing desk?

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 Avoid Fluoride
Does it really protect teeth?

Effects on the brain and I.Q.

Historic use of fluoride as a neurotoxin

Fluoride and the pineal gland

Natural versus artificial fluoride

How to filter fluoride from drinking water

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 Eat Bacteria

The gut and the brain

Psychobiotics

Bacteria that produce brain-healthy substances

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Brain-Boosting Supplements
Resveratrol Creatine

Asian Ginseng Cacao (raw chocolate)

Eleuthero Lion’s mane

Ashwagandha MCT Oil

Chaga Gotu Kola

Fish oil (DHA) Reishi mushrooms

Turmeric Bacopa

Alpha GPC choline Ginkgo Biloba Menu