Objective: Discover your bugs and fix them if possible. Key tactics:<ul><li>Blood testing.</li><li>Genetic testing.</li><li>Other (fat %, CIMT, heart tests, CGM, Toxins, microbiome, allergies). </li></ul>

Medical Testing

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:<ul><li>Do not eat sugar in any form. Sugar is poison</li><li>Do not eat processed foods. Eat natural food instead</li><li>Do not eat cheap industrially-farmed animal products</li><li>Eat mostly plants</li><li>Eat organic when possible, especially when discussing animal products</li><li>Try keto diet.</li></ul>

Optimal nutrition

Objective: Maximize metabolic benefits (hormones, insulin sensitivity). Minimize time spent and risk of injury.Key tactics:<ul><li>Warmup</li><li>Spend majority of your gym time on hip-hinge exercises — deadlift, squat, leg press.</li><li>HIIT - high-intensity intervals: they deliver greater metabolic results.</li><li>Minimize sitting. Get a standing desk for e.g. </li></ul>

Optimal Exercise

Objective: Get plenty of restorative deep and REM sleep on a regular basis.Key tactics: <ul><li>Measure the stages of your sleep</li><li>Block blue light 3-4 hours before sleep</li><li>Have your bedroom dark and humid</li><li>Wake at exactly the same time each morning</li><li>Evaluate things that seem to help or disrupt sleep.</li></ul>

Sleep Hygiene

<ul><li>Is it scientifically sound?</li><li>Is it logically sound? (i.e. is there a sound explanation behind the tactic?)</li><li>Is the estimated cost (risk, money, time/energy) worth the estimated benefit?</li><li>Do independent smart experts (e.g. doctors) agree with the approach? Do they actually practice the approach themselves and with their families?</li><li>Do I track my objective/subjective </li></ul>

Questions to ask before trying biohacking

Objective: Maximize stress resilience, social support, sense of purpose. Eliminate bad moods.Key tactics:<ul><li>Daily meditation</li><li>Psychotherapy</li><li>Never, ever lie about anything to anyone.</li><li>Have more sex.</li></ul>

Mental Health

This post is about how to use modern science and personalized medicine to make yourself healthier, more productive and happier. Every day. Executive Summary (key points): I am a tech CEO who wanted to have better energy, mood, focus, happiness, confidence, willpower, intelligence, health and longevity.