There are several natural tricks that can help you benefit from bio-hacking—this is anything that can improve your energy and mental performance, and “hacks” your genetic makeup to give you improved health.

The techniques used will allow you to “hack” the body’s natural processes to propel you towards better health. Bio-hacking techniques will lead to increased energy, reduced inflammation, weight loss, better skin, and more. What’s more? You can easily include them in your everyday life.

Below we’ll look at some techniques you can use to hack your life. Here goes!

1. Fasting

Intermittent fasting has in the recent past gained much popularity. This hacking method helps normalize your sensitivity to insulin which can help prevent chronic diseases like diabetes. Also, this can help you correct ghrelin levels ( the hunger hormone which signals the brain each time you are hungry), and leptin, that’s produced whenever the stomach is full.

The good thing with fasting is that there are many ways to do it. An example is alternate-day fasting where you reduce your calorie consumption to 25% of your usual carb intake during the fasting days. Then on non-fasting days, you may consume the normal calorie portion. Though you’ll need time for the body to adjust to intermittent fasting, this is a good way to hack yourself.

2. Go Dark

The only way you can hack your sleep is by getting more of it. And to help you achieve this, consider following a sleep schedule every day, including on weekends. Doing so will help you maintain your circadian rhythms.

Once you hack your sleep process, you will able to take less time falling asleep and increase the amount of sleep you get each night. Look at keeping your bedroom dark and cool – 18 – 20°C (have on a sleep mask or use blackout curtains). Switch off electronics and disconnect from Wi-Fi about an hour before bedtime. Also, have your mobile devices on flight mode.

Remember to keep all electronics away from your bed as lights from smartphones can disrupt your sleep pattern. And if insomnia persists, try using essential oil sleep aid to help you fall asleep.

3. Hack your Brain

Meditation is the ultimate hack for the brain and its benefits are manifold: from increased quality of sleep and pain reduction to reduced inflammation and high productivity level. If you suffer from stress and anxiety, meditation can be very effective in naturally dealing with the symptoms. And by practicing meditation daily, you get to improve your physical and mental health.

To help slow down your mental chatter, guided meditation can come in handy. Furthermore, there are several smartphone apps that you can use for this. Set an alert at the same time every day to remind you to meditate or you can choose specific meditations for your different needs like for relaxing and unwind.

4. Stand Up

Today, more and more people spend their days between sitting in their vehicles to some more sitting at a desk. It’s amazing how much time in our lives is spend seated. As a result, our health suffers a great deal.

Luckily, for a quick fix: stand more. That easy, right? You don’t have to invest on a standing desk (though helpful!). However, the emphasis is on how many times you stand, not the time spent standing. To help you with this — simply start avoiding elevators and take the stairs, instead of hitting that send button, walk to your colleague desk; pace around during phone calls or better yet set a reminder on your mobile device every 60 – 90 minutes for a quick lap around the office.

5. Grounding as a Bio-hack

Better-known as earthing, grounding is when you let your feet directly contact the surface below them which offers you powerful energy. When we walk barefoot, the electrical charges that occur naturally from the earth can flow to the whole body through our feet. Benefits of grounding include improved sleep and reduced inflammation. In addition, you are able to enjoy nature more and get lots of vitamin D — and it’s free!

Take short walks barefoot or strolls on the beach or remove your shoes when barbecuing. And in the cold weather minimalist shoes will help keep you grounded.

In Closing

By hacking yourself, you are now able to improve your energy and mental performance. And this can help increase your energy levels, lose weight, have better skin, and many more benefits. Though it sounds complex, the above-mentioned technique shows that bio-hacking is rather easy to do thus giving you a vibrant life.