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There's more than one way to age. How are you doing it?
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The Way We Age
Biological aging isn't just about wrinkled skin or hair loss, but a lot of other changes that the body starts to undergo.
The body's organs, genes, cells and proteins, even the bacteria inside us, start to behave differently.
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Types of Ageing
The Four Biological Ageing Pathways are different ways a person can age. These can be:
- Liver Damage (hepatic)
- Kidney functions (nephrotic)
- Immune system degradation
- Metabolic functions
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Different Signs of Getting Old
Some people can see their blood sugar levels rise, leading to diabetes, while others may experience inflammation in the body, which can lead to heart diseases or certain types of cancer.
Research into the ways we age is currently going on in detail so that we can pinpoint, and eventually stop the aging process.
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Social Jet Lag
Irregular sleep schedules and broken sleep-wake times are not just an occasional traveling phenomenon, but a wider problem due to our social lives conflicting with our sleep patterns.
Our Internal Alarm Clock
Our internal body clocks are better programmed to help us sleep and wake up, according to our unique body chemistry and energy levels.
Ignoring our internal clocks in favor of the alarm clock, and following our social obligations, sacrificing on sleep, is taking its toll on our health.
Poor Sleep
As our sleep patterns shift, leading to poor or no rest, there are a bunch of diseases that become more likely:
- Obesity
- High blood pressure
- Alzheimer's disease
- Metabolic imbalances and diabetes
- Heart disease.
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Fasting
Human studies on fasting are only just beginning to ramp up. And while we ha...
Popular types of fasting
- Intermittent fasts: eating no food or massively cutting back on calorie intake only intermittently;
- Time-restricted feeding: involves consuming calories only for a 4- to 6-hour window each day.
- Periodic fasts, the most extreme, typically last several days or longer.
- Fasting-mimicking diet, a plant-based diet that involves eating very few calories for several days each month.
Religious fasting
Many religious groups incorporate periods of fasting into their rituals, though the focus there tends to be more spiritual than health-oriented: Muslims fast from dawn until dusk during the month of Ramadan, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus who traditionally fast on designated days of the week or calendar year.
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Questions to ask before trying biohacking
- Is it scientifically sound?
- Is it logically sound? (i.e. is there a sound explanation behind the tactic?)
- Is the estimated cost (risk, money, time/energy) ...
Sleep Hygiene
Objective: Get plenty of restorative deep and REM sleep on a regular basis.
Key tactics:
- Measure the stages of your sleep
- Block blue light 3-4 hours before sleep
- Have your bedroom dark and humid
- Wake at exactly the same time each morning
- Evaluate things that seem to help or disrupt sleep.
Optimal nutrition
Objectives: Minimize insulin levels, maximize glucose disposal, optimize various growth factors towards things we want (e.g. muscle) and away from what we don’t want (e.g. cancer).
Key tactics:
- Do not eat sugar in any form. Sugar is poison
- Do not eat processed foods. Eat natural food instead
- Do not eat cheap industrially-farmed animal products
- Eat mostly plants
- Eat organic when possible, especially when discussing animal products
- Try keto diet.