Bio Alchemy: The Spiritual Biohacking Podcast

Dr Nick Berry is the founder of Essential Oil Wizardry (https://bit.ly/2OTjMwb) and one of the most genuine, kind, and warm human beings I've had the pleasure of interviewing on the Bio Alchemy podcast to date. He's someone who truly cares not only about his products and methodologies, but the wellbeing of those he is assisting in improving their lives via the power of natural herbs and essential oils. As a Master Herbalist myself, Dr Nick is someone I've been looking forward to interviewing for quite some time, so this was a treat for me, and I'm sure it will be for you as well. Dr Nick is a doctor of pharmacy, though someone who has transitioned from the world of pharmaceutical medication, into the world of herbs, powerful plant compounds, natural medicine, and supporting the body's own natural healing with what our planet produces for us in nature. Dr Nick is the perfect embodiment of someone who takes the best from the scientific and ancestral medicine worlds, and if you know anything about me, this is my preferred way of seeking those things that enable us to live longer, stronger, and healthier lives. In this episode we discuss plant terpenes and why these compounds are so powerful, an incredible story of how Dr Nick fended off a respiratory infection by mega dosing a specific essential oil, the essential oils I tend to use most frequently in my own life, how you can open up your respiratory system by using herbal oils, the synergy of plant compounds and how they can be used to increase the power of others, how distillation can change how certain herbs work, and so much more. All links to Dr Nick and Essential Oil Wizardry are below, and I especially encourage you to check out Dr Nick's oils, as they're seriously powerful compounds, and a far cry from the low-quality stuff you'll see peddled online by MLM companies.    ESSENTIAL OIL WIZARDRY: https://bit.ly/2OTjMwb  EOW INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/essentialoilwizardry/  EOW FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/EssentialOilWizardry/    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/   LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check it out at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Acetyl L-Carnitine is a supplement or amino acid that your body produces naturally, though has some phenomenal benefits to the human body. From assisting with focus, task management, cognition, memory retention, blood circulation, and production of the body's master antioxidant glutathione, it does an incredible range of things to keep our bodies and minds in check. And although te Our bodies tend to use our own endogenous carnitine stores faster than we can produce it, and while you can get a boost of it from meat and dairy products, those foods don't tend to fit into everyone's daily diets, which means that's not always a great solution. And failing that, supplementation is key, which is why I've been supplementing with one gram of ALCAR (one of its many names) for a couple of years now as part of my biohacking routine, to keep my biology in check the best I can. As I mention in this episode on the benefits, usage, and main reasons for using l-carnitine in your diet, ensure that as always you test the amino acid in terms of dosage, to find what works best for you. Although I personally take one gram a day as I've mentioned, you may find less is more, and need a smaller dose to see beneficial nootropic effects. The exact product I use can be found below, as well as some interesting studies on carnitine, and some of the potentially incredible benefits of getting an additional boost of this amino acid into your mind and body.   PRODUCT I USE: https://amzn.to/2FSy4Jc  CARNITINE AS AN ANTIOXIDANT: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20216464  CARNITINE FOR FAT LOSS: https://examine.com/supplements/l-carnitine/   CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/   LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check it out at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Dr James Eyerman is a pharmacologist and psychotherapist who has decades of treating people's issues of the mind, though he's especially well known as one of the world's foremost experts on holotropic breathwork. A phenomenal modality of treatment that uses nothing more than the changing of the way we breathe to activate our body's own innate healing system, it's something I've been fascinated by for years, and have been very excited to finally share this episode with the world. Just imagine if there was an all-natural, drug or medicine free, non-invasive, and virtually free method of healing your body and mind of trauma, mental, emotional, and other imbalances and illnesses, that worked in virtually every case to provide relief, and in some cases, a complete cure? That's just a taste of what holotropic breathwork can do, and is rightfully gaining steam in the health, wellness, and biohacking communities for the existing and potential healing benefits that it can offer our species. Holotropic breathwork isn't some small-batch or experimental treatment that's only being practiced on the fringes, it's being practiced by hundreds of professionals around the world, and is seeing phenomenal results in hundreds of thousands of patients in a clinical setting — in Dr Eyerman's case, he's personally treated over 11,000 people with this modality alone. For me, holotropic breathwork is an absolutely must-learn-about treatment, as it is completely natural, and doesn't rely on pumping your body and mind full of pharmaceutical drugs, and doesn't require long treatments. In fact, as Dr Eyerman will explain in this episode, he's treated people who have suffered with long-term conditions they've had for over twenty years, that they for the first time experienced relief on when they underwent a holotropic breathwork treatment.   DR JAMES EYERMAN: http://www.jameseyerman.com/  STANISLAV GROF: http://www.stanislavgrof.com/  GROF TRANSPERSONAL TRAINING: http://www.holotropic.com/  MORE ON HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK: https://bit.ly/2YMrlt9    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/   LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check it out at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/ 

Bulletproof-style coffee has long been seen by many in the biohacking community as the best way to start the day, and has been a staple of my morning routine for quite some time now. However, I wouldn't be staying true to my name of Leon The Alchemist if I didn't have the desire to tinker, or science the hell out of this tried-and-true biohacker's coffee, and over time I've improved it to become something that I think not only tastes better, but also works much better in my opinion. Over the years I've refined my own recipe for biohacking coffee for additional mineral content, nootropic benefits, and taste, which I now call "The Alchemist's Brew". Not that you have to call it that, but my ego wouldn't let me pass up the chance to give it my own title. It's in this form that I've been taking my morning coffee for at least the last year, and although I have experimented with other recipes, I almost always end up going right back to making it in the form you'll hear about in this episode. So even if you do decide to make your own changes, I recommend you test it the way it's made here first, to see what all the fuss is about. You'll find the full recipe for my bastardised version of Bulletproof Coffee below, as well as an in-depth overview and discussion of all the ingredients I use in this episode, and why I use them. If there's one thing that I will stress here again as I do in the episode, it's that you are intentional that you use the highest quality coffee you can afford, if there's one thing you don't skimp on. Not only is the coffee itself the base of the entire recipe and will dictate a great deal of the health benefits, nootropic effects, as well as the general taste profile of the brew, but buy purchasing the best you can afford, you're also avoiding any potential toxin, mould, and other contaminants that may be found in lower quality coffees. Just on the above, I always buy Kion coffee (https://amzn.to/2HRFrEl) whenever I can get it locally or have it shipped to me, and there are many reasons why. As you can read and listen to in three independent lab tests (https://bit.ly/2K0qwcY) it excelled over all other health brands of coffee in antioxidant content and many other factors, and for me getting the best coffee I can find into my body is important. Although I tend to take my mushroom supplements (lion's mane, reishi, and chaga) in the morning separately (see episode #17 for how I take them), you could also blend one gram of one or all of these mushroom powders into your coffee as well for an additional health and nootropic boost. However, the taste will change considerably, so I prefer to take them separately and not as part of my coffee. Just be aware that if you are supplementing with any kind of mushrooms that you are getting high-quality products and not myceliated grain, which you can learn more about in episode #1 of this podcast. Make sure you hit me up on Instagram (@leonthealchemist) to let me know if you like my biohacking coffee recipe, or if you have your own variation!   PRODUCTS I USE Kion Coffee: https://amzn.to/2HRFrEl  Bulletproof Brain Octane Oil:https://amzn.to/2IbLFOV  Unsalted grass-fed butter: https://amzn.to/2UtRNby  Organic almond butter: https://amzn.to/2WF52DS  Raw honey: No preferred brand — I get mine from my parents! L-Theanine: https://amzn.to/2WGa2bb  Himalayan pink salt: https://amzn.to/2X2MuhX    THE RECIPE Blend all ingredients together for the ultimate biohacker's morning coffee. - Approx 300ml of fresh-brewed organic black coffee - 1T grass-fed butter - 1T MCT oil - 1/2T organic almond butter - 1/2T organic raw unfiltered honey - 200mg l-theanine - Pinch of Himalayan pink salt   STUDIES/INFO Why I use Kion coffee: https://bit.ly/2K0qwcY  L-theanine and caffeine: https://bit.ly/2zhfbNE  Coffee and longevity: https://nyti.ms/2KHljTe  Coffee and lowering mortality risk: https://bit.ly/2Kt3Lyb    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, l

Peter Joosten is a transhumanist, keynote speaker, and somewhat of a forward-thinking philosopher, as someone who discusses where our species may be heading in the not-too-distant-future. An expert on biohacking, quantified self, advances in health technology, and so much more, Peter shares information on his website Superhuman Talks (https://superhumantalks.com), and has said his goal is to eventually become a superhuman himself, with extreme advances in technology that are on the horizon. The topic of transhumanism is an interesting one, and something I've been pondering ever since I first played the PC game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which is based around a hypothetical future timeline where there's become a growing divide in humanity between those who are cybernetically enhanced — or "upgraded" to be something beyond human — and tho, se who are not. And as this topic is something that our species may have to tackle over the next few decades, it's worthwhile discussing these concepts now while we still can. In one of my favourite recorded episodes to date, I discuss some incredibly crazy concepts, from humans replacing perfectly good parts of themselves with bionic implants, DIY gene editing that's currently going on around the world in people's kitchens, bedrooms, and basements, the first gene-edited children to be born, the ethics of humans becoming superhuman or immortal, experimenting with nootropics like psilocybin, LSD, and modafinil, and just about everything in between. We also discuss some of Peter's daily biohacking routines, his meditation practice, some supplements and nootropics that are in his current toolkit. Of special importance, I talk about my previous desire to replace and augment my own body with cybernetics when they become available, some of the challenges that may result from this, as well as what my current views on this are. After all, my body had been doing a fairly good job of keeping me alive so far, and maybe I've outgrown my Deus Ex fantasies — at least for now. All books that Peter mentions in this episode can be found below:   DEEP WORK BOOK: https://amzn.to/2I1j8vf  OUR GRANDCHILDREN REDESIGNED BOOK: https://amzn.to/2WvBmc4  BRAVE NEW WORLD BOOK: https://amzn.to/2UexG1d    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Siim Land is a true biohacker in every sense of the word. Someone who not only delves deep into the fundamental learnings of how the human body operates and how to optimise it, but who goes above and beyond to make that information digestible and accessible to thousands around the world via his books, YouTube channel, Instagram, and website (https://siimland.com/). Hailing from Estonia — a stunning country I was fortunate enough to visit for the very first time last year— Siim is one of the few biohackers that almost always hits the nail on the head when it comes to providing information that you need to know, with out all the fluff and filler. I've been following Siim for a couple of years now, initially discovering him via his website, where he shares a ton of in-depth material on how to get more out of your body and mind, biohack your metabolism, uncover the truths and untruths when it comes to fasting, how to perform better via ketosis, and so much more. In this episode, Siim and I will discuss a range of topics, including information from his book Metabolic Autophagy, what his morning routine looks like, the routines he implements into his life that have the most effect, why meditation is so important for cutting through the mental noise that we're bombarded with in today's modern world, cold therapy and how it can benefit your immune system, medicinal mushrooms, and a ton more. As I mentioned in this episode, I recommend you seek out Siim on his social media presences — especially YouTube — as he extremely regularly creates phenomenal biohacking content that will upgrade your life, enhance your performance, and grow your skills as a biohacker, regardless of where you are in your journey of learning right now. Find Siim's latest book Metabolic Autophagy below, as well as links to his major social media presences as well.   METABOLIC AUTOPHAGY BOOK: https://amzn.to/2WB7SKb  SIIM LAND ON YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/2lajy7d  SIIM LAND ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/siimland/  SIIM LAND ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/iamsiimland  SIIM LAND ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thesiimland/    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Honey doesn't seem like it would be considered a tool in a biohacker's toolkit, especially if you're following any kind of paleo or ketogenic diet. Let's face it, we all need less sugar in our diet, and telling you to eat honey isn't exactly helping you to achieve this with any kind of ease. However, in today's episode of the podcast, I'm going to share with you an extremely simple biohack to increase your sleep quality, and assist you in getting more restorative sleep, and wake up being more refreshed, relaxed, and rejuvenated. In today's episode, I talk about how you can hack your liver glycogen stores to keep your brain functioning optimally while you're asleep, why this is important, what happens if you don't have enough liver glycogen to keep your brain happy during the evening, the kinds of results you can see by implementing this simple biohacking secret in your evening routine, the kind of honey you should seek out, and the scientifically-backed difference in using raw honey when compared to other honey you might find on a supermarket shelf. This is the kind of content that I love delivering and sending out in to the ether, because regardless of whether you're the most zealous biohacking geek, or just someone who wants to take better care of their health, this is something that anyone of any skill level, or regardless of your understanding can implement to biohack your health to get more out of your life. If you want to learn more about my super-special sleep tea I also reference in this episode, please seek out episode number 19, called "Biohacking Your Evening Routine: Blue Light Exposure, Powerful Sleep Tea, Caffeine Restriction, Supplementation, And More", where I talk about this in more detail and why it's more important.   CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Maneesh Sethi is the founder and CEO of Pavlok (https://pavlok.com/), an incredibly interesting behavioural modification tool that's been used by thousands to quit bad habits like smoking, biting fingernails, over-eating, getting out of bed late, and so much more. Based on the theory of Pavlovian Conditioning put forward by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, it works on the principle that some of our deeply conditioned behaviours can be quite easily changed with a mild shock, or tap to the wrist, where the Pavlok device is worn. For biohackers, changing our behaviour is a big deal, and something that most high-performers want to implement more in our lives, to override old programming, negative habits, and everything in between. And like a dog being trained to know when it's dinner time by the ringing of a bell as Ivan Pavlov demonstrated, it's extremely easy to modify some of these behaviours in a very sort timeframe, by having a device like the Pavlok remind us when we're slipping into old modes of conditioning. In this episode, Maneesh talks about how he was inspired to create Pavlok, his story of hiring a "slapper" to slap him in the face in order to be more productive, info about the Pavlok device itself, why you shouldn't be scared of being shocked by the device, the most common behaviours that people use the Pavlok to change, an interesting case study of one Pavlok customer who multiplied his business many times over and changed the way he was productive, some weird behaviours that Pavlok customers have used the device for, and so much more. If you've found it hard to change some of your learned habits over the last few years, or simply have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning with your first alarm, then Pavlok may be the device that can help you. As some have said, it's shockingly effective.   PAVLOK WEBSITE: https://pavlok.com/ PAVLOK COACHING: https://pavlok.com/pavlok-coaching-call/  IVAN PAVLOV STUDY: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html  MANEESH ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/maneesh    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

High antioxidant foods are important to everyone, regardless of whether you're a biohacker, or just someone who wants to take better care of their body and eliminate free radical damage as best as possible. And although many of us have been suckered by food marketing to buy certain things like goji berries, blueberries, and everything in between due to their supposedly high antioxidant content, the fact is that these foods are nowhere near as powerful in fighting free radicals as we've been lead to believe. Food marketing aside, in this episode I'm cutting through the crap and teaching you about some of the worlds highest antioxidant superfoods, which in one way or another come in the form of herbs and spices — yes, those dried, ground, powdered flavour enhancers in your cupboard that you hesitantly sprinkle on your food to make them taste a little better, are sometimes hundreds of times more powerful when it comes to antioxidant content than berries or other so-called superfoods. I'll take you through how we rank antioxidant content in foods in terms of their Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) score, a baseline to compare some common foods against herbs and spices in terms of their own ORAC scores, how simple things like black pepper and thyme can be giving your body a significant protective boost, where to find the internet's most comprehensive list of estimated ORAC values, why not all antioxidants are the same, and what are the highest antioxidant foods that we know of today, including sumac, dragon's blood, clove, and many others. I reference a list of ORAC/antioxidant values on Superfoodly, which you can check out below to get some idea of the phenomenal antioxidant values of herbs, spices, and other foods you may not expect, so you can better make choices on how to get more of these free radical destroying compounds in your life.   SUPERFOODLY ORAC LIST: https://www.superfoodly.com/orac-values/    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Dr Sanni Raju is the chairman and CEO of Natreon Inc. (https://natreoninc.com/), a company dedicated to bringing powerful medicinal compounds to the world, most of them hailing from the ancient Ayurvedic tradition from India. One such compound is shilajit, a phenomenal fulvic mineral compound that I've been using to biohack my joint health, bone health, collagen production, and testosterone for around 15 years, so I can personally attest to just how incredible this stuff is. Although not yet incredibly well-known to the average health enthusiast, shilajit is gaining steam in the biohacking and natural medicine world, not just due to its thousands of years of use on the Indian subcontinent and beyond, but because of the growing body of research that backs its efficacy as an adaptogen, bio-booster, and healing tool, that shows it is responsible for considerable positive increases in many biomarkers. And as you'll hear in this episode, there are many reasons I've been taking shilajit for so long, and I consider it one of the key ingredients I would not want to give up out of my biohacking toolkit. In this episode, Dr Sanni Raju discusses many of the benefits of shilajit, a few of the studies that show just how effective shilajit can be on your body, the dose you should be taking of shilajit to see positive effects, how some shilajit can become contaminated by heavy metals and other toxic impurities, as well as the kind of shilajit you should not be taking — which is something I needed to hear, due to me making a few mistakes in how I was getting it into my body. Shilajit it also not the greatest tasting substance in the world, so we talk about how to get it into your body, without suffering from the cigarette ash taste that I always relate this powerful product to. One issue with getting shilajit into your life, is that with many supplement companies who peddle it to the masses, more often than not you're buying a low-quality product that contains filler, or extremely small amounts of the actual active ingredient. This is one problem that Natreon are trying to tackle with the pure shilajit they supply to the biohacking and health industry, and to make things easy for you, I've listed a number of shilajit supplements below that you can trust for purity and effectiveness, due to them containing Natreon's PrimaVie shilajit.   TESTOSTERONE STUDY: https://natreoninc.com/primavie-purified-shilajit-study/ SKELETAL MUSCLE STUDY: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02026414  SHILAJIT AND COLLAGEN: http://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/science/shilajit-extract-may-upregulate-genes-responsible-collagen-synthesis   SHILAJIT I NOW USE: https://amzn.to/2JNF8Mq    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking",

Dr Thomas Cowan is a leading expert on the link between vaccinations and autoimmune disease, and the author of the book Vaccines, Autoimmunity, And The Changing Nature Of Childhood Illness (https://amzn.to/2OkZKdD), and the founder of Fourfold Healing (https://fourfoldhealing.com/), a medical practice that has been built on the principle of allowing our body to heal naturally, using the powerful holistic tools that our bodies have inbuilt into them. This episode is likely to be a divisive one to some, as I know most people who care about their health seem to have a fairly concrete view on whether vaccines are either all-good or all-bad, due to what they've heard online or in the media. My view is not so partisan, as the research I've delved into on vaccines seems to show their benefit to society, as well as some negative effects on our own natural immune system, as well as a detriment to autoimmune disease, which is what Dr Cowan and I discuss in this episode. An extremely important episode for biohackers and everyday people alike, as due to all of us having an immune system, which is our body's frontline defence against the outside world, we all need to be aware and informed on anything that could be hindering it to do what it's been designed to do over millennia of evolution. As I mention in this episode, I urge all of you not to take everything in this episode as the final word on autoimmune disease or vaccinations, as this is just the tip of the iceberg, and to check out Dr Thomas Cowan's book below, and other resources mentioned in this episode.   DR COWAN'S BOOK: https://amzn.to/2OkZKdD  NIH STUDY - "Vaccination and autoimmune diseases: is prevention of adverse effects on the horizon?": https://bit.ly/2U1PJHI    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Celebrities may have more recognisable faces and swelling bank balances (also maybe egos), but they definitely don't have all the answers. However, the Hoffman Process is currently receiving an increase in popularity with names like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Sienna Miller, and many more touting the incredible benefits this life-changing week-long transformative therapy it can offer in terms of clearing away a lifetime of trauma. As a biohacker, I believe most of what holds us back starts in the mind, and the Hoffman Process was created decades ago as a way to help humans overcome base programming that's been with us from childhood, that may be causing us a lifetime of pain, anguish, and holding us back from our true potential. In today's episode, I chat to Volker Krohn, psychotherapist and the director of the Australian arm of the Hoffman Institute (https://www.hoffmanprocess.com.au/), whose mission it is to use this method of facing one's historical baggage, and using that confrontation to change your life for the better, once and for all. As I mentioned above, while the Hoffman Process has been around for decades, its starting to see an incredible boost in popularity due to its effectiveness, as well as the celebrity influence that's sharing it with the world. Of special interest in this episode are why the Hoffman Process seems to work so well for many people, the kinds of issues people tackle with this therapy, where most of our life-altering issues stem from, as well as some interesting discussion on anger, and how it can possibly benefit human beings as a whole.   THE HOFFMAN PROCESS BOOK: https://amzn.to/2OlWWxa    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

Can gratitude make you a happier human being? According to religious texts, and maybe even something your parents may have told you as a kid, the answer is yes. However, as biohackers, many of us need more than spiritual dogma to confirm whether this is actually the case, and thankfully, it's science to the rescue yet again. But the science aside, being grateful is something that's talked about in just about every religious manual in history, from Christianity, to Buddhism, in Islam, and everywhere else in between. It's something that many humans innately know to be something of importance, or a practice which brings more abundance into one's life.However, with study that's gone on in this field, we now know that gratitude can not only benefit your mood, wellbeing, and happiness, but can actually rewire your brain in terms of changing the very nature of how you see the world. Some of the studies that reflect this can be found below, which are some of the resources I mention in this episode. I've personally observed a gratitude practice in my life for almost a decade and a half now, and although it's something I saw benefit from right from the start, it wasn't always something that I could quantify was working scientifically. And more than almost any daily practice I have implemented in my daily routine, it's one of the few I can say I would never want to give up, that I urge all of you to try, if it's something you haven't yet experienced.   MORE ON GRATITUDE: https://bit.ly/2TjELsO STUDY ON GRATITUDE: https://bit.ly/2HxES2e    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

This episode is not like the others, and is something of a public service announcement (PSA). But in saying that, I need your help. To celebrate the Bio Alchemy podcast hitting the one month mark, I'm asking all of you for feedback, advice, criticism, and what you want to see more of in future. I want nothing more than to make this podcast even more epic, and in this episode you can help me do just that. Apart from that, I want to thank all of you for making the podcast so incredible so far, and for helping it succeed beyond anything I expected in the first month alone. We hit over 25,000 downloads in the first month, and I'm expecting month two to be more than 50,000 downloads alone, which puts the Bio Alchemy biohacking podcast in a special category of podcasts that don't achieve these kinds of numbers early on. And for that, I can't thank all of you enough, as it's all of you who have helped me succeed, hit goals I set myself, as well as help me share this information with the world. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Regular episodes will resume as normal tomorrow with TWO episodes dropping as a thank you for listening to today's abnormal episode, so stay tuned for that. But again, thank you all for making the podcast what it has so far become.   CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/  

Let's face it: sex is great. But what if it could become better via biohacking? Today I'm chatting to Kiana Reeves of Foria (https://foriapleasure.com/), which is a company that produces and distributes incredible sexual health and wellness products made using the cannabinoids THC and CBD, which I can personally vouch that are unbelievably epic in upgrading your sex life, especially for the ladies out there. And if you've never considered that you can biohack your sex life, this is definitely an episode for you to tune in to. Cannabis has been used for centuries — possibly even millennia — as a natural compound to assist with a ton of the human race's ills, and there's also some evidence that it's been used as a sexual aid in this respect as well. And from personal experience as I discuss in this episode, something I've also used in my own life to make sex better, though not necessarily using a CBD or THC product like Foria until more recently in my life's journey. Kiana and I chat about some of the uses of Foria's products, some misconceptions about cannabis products in general, the kinds of things you can expect when adding some cannabis into your sex life, and so much more. And for the ladies out there, just know that although men can definitely see some benefit in cannabis products in conjunction with sex, you'll be happy to know that those of you with a vagina tend to definitely see more pleasurable results than guys, so this episode will especially be one of interest to you. Unfortunately though, due to a large part of the planet's nations having negative views on cannabis on a legal front, not all of you will be able to enjoy Foria's products legally, or use cannabis as a biohacking tool in your sex life, but let's just hope that this won't be an issue for much longer.     CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/