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PHYSICAL HACKS

“Man is to technology what the bee is to the flower. It’s man’s intervention that allows technology to expand and evolve itself and in return, technology offers man convenience, wealth and the lessening burden of physical labor via its automated systems” –  James Scott

You might have come across the term biohackers, claimed to have been coined by Dave Asprey. I see this as a term provided to people who pursue ways to optimise their biology efficiently, often testing various biomarkers and essential vitals. They might use technology to reproduce what is naturally found in nature. Ultimately, Nature holds the keys to our health and Vitality, but it’s not always easy for us to get into Nature. If we could all get back to basics and Nature, with being active for much of the day, plenty of sunlight on our naked skin, consuming the purest and cleanest of water and food, detoxifying our bodies naturally, sleeping well, connected to the ground, then we could likely eliminate most chronic / lifestyle illnesses.

That isn’t very likely in our current world. A lot of us are indoors most of the time under artificial light, in front of blue light, with little to no sunlight (the ultimate nutrient), hardly moving, neglecting most of our lungs, eating convenience food, a lot of which is inflammatory, getting a happy high, not sleeping well and wearing rubber and plastic on our feet to separate us from the ground! Apart from that, we’re golden.

Vitality biohacks are methods and devices with which you can accelerate your body’s healing mechanisms, optimise your body, energise, perform at your best, using technology to mimic Nature, or otherwise.

In This section of Vitality Hacks, I want to share with you some of my favourite methods and inventions that fit within the Physical Pillar of Vitality.  I wanted to separate these across the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic Pillars of Vitality, but as you’ll see here, they normally cover several of the pillars in one, so I’ve listed them all in one long chapter.

 

PHOTOTHERAPY BY LIFEWAVE

First up: LifeWave. This was going to be in the “Energy” Hacks, but I decided to bring it to the Physical Pillar, too. This is, almost certainly,  the best product I have seen in 10 years of working in holistic health.  They use Light to activate copper peptides, which then activate stem cells across your whole body. You wear a patch for 12 hours a day, 12 hours off, and within days you can notice a difference. Although, also 90 days, to really notice the changes. I have been on them for 4 months now. My skin on my face has improved in terms of wrinkles. I haven’t used moisturisers on my neck or face for 2 months (a first in… most of my life.)  With someone like me, who is not inflamed, it’s harder to tell – but I am. You can find evidence of extraordinary results across the spectrum of labels of diagnosis with a little research into this company. Lifewave have been around for 19 years. The founder, David Schmitt, has about 100 patents, and is pioneering the space of Stem Cell Patches. One video I will share, right now, is below.

Please email me at neil@vitalitysecret.com and use the subject heading “stem cell patches” or, if you’re happy with what you see, head to LifeWave.com/vitalitysecret to purchase. I would also go to www.startx39.com for a longer 18 minute explainer video. And you can find. product guide, here: LIFEWAVE PRODUCT GUIDE.

COLD THERAPY

Cold Therapy with The Wim Hof Method

The Wim Hof Method involves cold therapy, breathing and commitment as you saw in the Oxygen chapter.  I won’t repeat the benefits of Wim Hof Breathing here, as it was featured already. That, in of itself, is a powerful Vitality hack. The combination of breathing and cold therapy is phenomenal and each on their own are also powerful. Breathing is free, as are cold showers (kinda), and cold plunges can be a minimal investment. Cold therapy alone is  highly anti-inflammatory and improves circulation considerably. It´s also a mind game when you submerge into water at temperatures just over freezing. I´ve been taking cold showers since the start of Covid, together with Wim Hof breathing, but I must admit, the water does not get that cold here in Mexico. It was a little cooler in LA. In England, I certainly notice a difference with it being just that little more challenging, but it is truly rejuvenating. In the words of Wim Hof, a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away. Breathing and cold can be superbly powerful for a myriad of reasons. People have adopted the Wim Hof Method for mental and emotional reasons as well as physiological reasons, such as reversing severe depression. In February, about 20 of us Wim Hof breathers gathered at Big Bear Lake for an “Ice Plunge”. The initial 1-2 minutes were pretty painful, but somehow I managed to make it until 14 minutes. Check out our video here if you’re interested.

Cryotherapy (not to be confused with cryogenic freezing 😊)

How would you like to stand in a chamber at -130 °C for one to 3 minutes? It sounds unbearable. The experience is actually pretty amazing.  Your body will be inside the chamber while your head remains outside the top at room temperature.

Why would you do this? Ultimately, by a number of processes, this increases fat burning, strengthens the immune system, improves recovery time, reduces pain, and causes your body to release endorphins. You might also notice better sleep, and more energy and Vitality.

Whole Body Cryotherapy causes a reduction of tissue temperature which causes a shock to the body and, in turn, activates the nervous system. This increases blood pressure and heart rate.  During this extreme cold, blood vessels constrict and blood flow is reduced. When you leave the chamber, your blood vessels expand and blood rushes to areas where it is needed, reduces inflammation and anti-inflammatory proteins are released.

Muscle and tissue repair is increased with reduced inflammation from enriched, oxygenated blood, improved circulation and also lymphatic detoxification.

Cryotherapy is an effective treatment for pain overall wellness and vitality via three main processes:

1) Local and systemic inflammation is reduced

2) The release of pain-relieving endorphins.

3) The feeling of pain is reduced because cold sensors in the skin travel to the brain faster than other pain sensors. This essentially “closes the gate” to the feeling of pain.

If you are located in and around London, I highly recommend checking out London Cryo, founded by a friend of mine, Maria. She and her husband have created a wonderful business and they offer many other services as well. https://www.londoncryo.com/ 

BEMER PEMF

Healthy Blood Flow Is Essential For A Healthy Body. It is our river of life. Improves blood flow by up to 30%

PEMF stands for Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field. This particular frequency activates the micro capillaries in the body – that occupy about 74% of the blood circulatory system.

Healthy blood flow is everything; our river of life delivers oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body and also detoxifies the body. I would say this is most suitable to those who aren’t very active or if you’re suffering from any kind of chronic illness. Really, anyone can benefit from these as healthy blood flow supports every function in the body. I recommended this to my parents as my father is sedentary and my mother is recovering from various surgeries.

BEMER is used by professional athletes and they have a contract with NASA to use them in their spacesuits.

• Our blood delivers oxygen and nutrients and hormones, to every cell in our body. It removes waste and toxins. It manages blood pressure.
• Without healthy blood flow every part of our body suffers – including our organs / tissue / muscles / bones etc.
• What if there was a device that you lie on for 8 minutes , that can increase blood circulation by up 29% for 12 hours. This is huge.
• The BEMER PEMF (Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field) device reduces inflammation and stimulates healing throughout the body like virtually nothing else.

Go to VitalitySecret.com/BEMER to view my interview with head of international sales for BEMER.

OTHER PEMF

PEMF therapy helps you to energise, speed up recovery, heal your body and perform at your best. It stimulates better energy production in your cells, leading to improved immune health, detoxification, alleviation of pain related to injury, can stimulate optimal organ function, and overall, increase your cells and body’s innate abilities to heal itself. There are many of these on the market. It is worth doing your own research to find one that suits your needs and budget.

A device I have recently become acquainted with, that might have even superseded BEMER, is Centropix. I have a good friend here in Baja, in her 60s, who bought one of these 6 months ago and it’s been transformative for her. Email me at neil@vitalitysecret.com with subject “PEMF” if you would like me to connect you with this company, or with my friend who is a distributor.

https://centropix.us/pematherapy

OXYGEN

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)

Knowing that oxygen is our #1 cell fuel, and that the under oxygenation of cells is the ultimate cause of illness, might help you understand how effective this therapy can be.

HBOT is oxygen in a pressurised environment. Increased pressure allows for oxygen to dissolve and saturate the blood plasma, which yields a broad variety of positive physiological, biochemical and cellular effects. This noninvasive therapy is the most trusted way to increase oxygen levels to all organs of the body. Therapy / treatment typically lasts for 60-90 minutes. It involves lying down in a pressurised container and breathing normally.

Clinical studies have shown how HBOT enhances the body’s innate ability to repair and regenerate.  When under pressure, oxygen molecules decrease in size and dissolve into blood plasma. This exponentially increases oxygen delivery throughout the body and makes it possible for oxygen to reach inflamed tissue and support optimal cellular and organ functionality. HBOT actually dates back to the 1600sand have been used in the military since the 1940’s to treat deep-sea divers who suffered from decompression sickness.

In the 1950’s, physicians first employed HBOT during heart and lung surgery. More than 10,000 clinical trials have been completed for numerous other health-related applications with the vast majority of results reporting phenomenal success.

Go to VitalitySecret.com/HBOT for an interview with Dr Scott Sherr and for where to invest if you’d like one of these in your own home.

CARDIO & OXYGEN

BionicGym – Passive Calorie Burning And Cardiovascular Results

I was introduced to this company by a friend of mine who is part owner in the company. This is a very ingenious device.

“BionicGym is an “App and a Wrap” that delivers vigorous exercise as you watch TV – or easy calorie-burn as you work. The wraps go around your thighs and impulses contract your leg muscles. You control it from your phone.

“At high intensity it increases your heart rate, you sweat, you become breathless. You can even get a runner’s high. The only device in the world capable of doing this – it is genuinely revolutionary – read how…”

We use Nature’s hack for burning calories…

Dr Louis, inventor of BionicGym, explains it from a medical perspective: What happens is that more muscle fibers contract and relax at this “biologically special” rate. And that’s where the BionicGym “magic” comes in. Impulses through the BionicGym wraps stimulate the motor-neurons (nerves-to-muscles) in the legs and gluteal muscles (bum), telling them to contract repeatedly. (The muscles relax or lengthen by themselves).

This underlying technology, Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) – also known as EMS and TENS – has been around for 60-70 years. It was thought that this technology could not provide aerobic exercise. (Even the FDA thought it wasn’t possible.) BionicGym has changed all that.

By inducing enough muscles to actively contract at optimal rates, they shout out for blood to supply oxygen and energy. When that happens, your heart pumps harder and faster to deliver this blood.

The result is that BionicGym trains both your cardio system and your muscles. You become more breathless and in time heat up – even sweat. After all, shivering is nature’s way of warming you up.

Go to VitalitySecret.com/BionicGym for more details and discounts.

Infrared Sauna – Heat & Light

A couple of years ago, I interviewed a friend of mine who founded a company called SaunaSpace. This is infrared heat and light. I was blown away by his story and how their invention is healing people to heal from a variety of different things. A reminder of some principles looked at in this book, which we covered in our interview, too:

• Sunlight is ofter regarded as the ultimate nutrient.
• Heat is detoxifying, light is re-optimising
• Light can feed the cells without glucose.
• Anti-inflammatory effects
• Light is the ultimate healer
• Importance of near infrared light
• Reduces oxidative Stress from exposure
• We are made of cells. We need to feed them with 4 crucial fuels
• Superb for the lymphatic system – waste disposal and toxin elimination
• ”Light is the ultimate nutrient” – mitochondria activation.
• Light is eaten by the cells directly. Activates healing systems
• Cell is designed to get heat every day – detoxification. Heat gets toxins out of the cell.
• Cells go to work when you’re in a rested state
• Modern light sources remove the healing part of the light. Too much blue, too little infrared
• The practical way to get infrared light into your life
• Sun emits full spectrum curve
• Old school incandescent lamp technology
• Sauna Space and what they have to offer
• Cell studies and organ studies – accelerated muscle recovery
• Witnessing recovery with all things!
• Near Infrared Light – penetrates the ideal wavelength that stimulates mitochondrial-healing systems.
• This is nature’s design

Go to VitalitySecret.com/SaunaSpace to listen to our interview, for a discount, and more information.

Upgrade Labs – Dave Asprey 

Based in California, founded by Dave Asprey, “father of biohacking”, and Bulletproof. Although this location might not be accessible to you, you can at least see what they offer, and then see what is available in your area with a little searching. Here is an example of what to sample.

Atmospheric Cell Trainer

Similar to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), this futuristic pod creates a change in air pressure to stimulate a workout for your cells. This leads to improved cellular energy, better detoxification and enhanced production of stem cells.

The Big Squeeze

Along with lymphatic drainage (imperative in healing), this provides a full body detox massage. This slowly eliminates excess water, slims the body and helps to expel toxins for improved immune health and function. This helps to fight infection and be more resilient in general for the likes of bugs and viruses. It can also help appearance. It can be combined with a cry-facial or red light therapy to higher and tone skin.

Breathe EZ

This ties in closely with 4^th Phase of Water. When you breathe exclusion zone water this reduces oxidative stress and improves performance by up to 20%. This is essentially energy-infused water that stimulates and accentuates your body’s natural cellular repair systems. This improves cell function to produce energy more effectively.

Ozone Sauna

Ozone is the what is created when you add an extra molecule to O2 (Oxygen). This is also known as O3. This hyper-oxygenates the body while surrounding you with Ozone from the neck down. Ozone is effective for combating viruses and bacteria, strengthening the immune system, and through circulation helps to increase muscle and arthritic tension.

AI Adaptive Bike

Using artificial intelligence, this bike enables you to experience the benefits of a 40 minutes job in 40 seconds of effort on a bike. The AI system learns your body and automatically adapts to give you a perfect enhancement each time. Maximum results, minimal effort.

The Cheat Machine

This is a form of resistance training – with a difference. Using computer software, this motorised resistance help you to push harder than you could every push yourself, enabling you to experience results of a week’s worth of weightlifting in less than 15 minutes.

Cold HIIT

High intensity Interval training is combined with compression and cooling technology to provide dynamic cardiovascular gains and strength gains, and also accelerates recovery. This involves 21 minutes of  a working with 10 minutes of a cooling bed.

Oxygen Trainer

As you work out on a stationary cycle, you’ll breathe oxygen to maximise how your body uses oxygen to to enter your tissues, detoxify your body, heal faster, strengthen immunity, and enhance athletic performance.

Head to UpGradeLabs.com to see more of what they offer in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and if you are not located near there, you might see what they have to offer, to see if you can find it locally to you.

Ozone Therapy

If you were to search in Google (which is effectively a pharmaceutical company),^[1] for “ozone therapy” you’d come across words like “controversial” and “dangerous” and “not approved for medical use” from various forms of Medical (drug) media. Or Wikipedia, you’ll see this: “Ozone therapy is an alternative medical treatment that introduces ozone or ozonides to the body. In April 2003, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibited all medical uses of ozone, “In any medical condition for which there is no proof of safety and effectiveness”.

 

Side note and a quick point on Wikipedia, that too, is not an unbiased source. Where there is funding, there is influence. Funding does not just come from punters. The co-creator of, Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, told the Independent in an article entitled “Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia:

“Wikipedia is known now by everyone to have a lot of influence in the world. So there’s a very big, nasty, complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say.”^[2]

AND when you do you your own research of Ozone Therapy, into peer-reviewed medical research that has not be quashed, you’ll see it’s been used for hundreds of years.

“Ozone therapy has been utilised and extensively studied for many decades altogether. Its effects are proven, consistent and with minimal side effects. Medical O3, used to disinfect and treat disease, has been around for over 150 years. Used to treat infections, wounds and multiple diseases, O3’s effectiveness has been well-documented. It has been used to disinfect drinking water before the turn of the last century. Ozone was known to treat as many as 114 diseases.[11] Ozone therapy has been in use since the 1800s and in 1896 the genius Nikola Tesla patented the first O3 generator in the US, later forming the “Tesla Ozone Company.”[12] During the first world war (1914-18) doctors familiar with O3’s antibacterial properties, and with few other medical resources available to them applied it topically to infected wounds and discovered O3 not only remedied infection, but also had hemodynamic and anti-inflammatory properties.”

 

They also provide a table as to what it has been used with:

A historical timeline of Ozone Therapy

I found this and decided it was a fascinating history to include, excerpted from:

https://en.ateramex.com/post/15-fun-facts-about-ozone-therapy

• In 1857 the first ozone generators were developed by Werner Siemens.
• In 1885 the book “Medical applications of Ozone” was published by the Florida Medical Association and written by Dr. Charles J. Kenworthy, M. D.
• In September 1896 the Nobel Prize winner Nikola Tesla patented the first ozone generator and in 1900 he founded the “Tesla Ozone Company” for medical use.
• Nikola Tesla was the first to ozonate olive oil.
• In 1898 the “Institute for Ozone Therapy Healing” was founded in Berlin by Thauerkauf and Luth.
• In 1902 in the practical dictionary of “London Materia Medica” by J.H. Clarke, describes the successful use of ozonated water that he called “Oxygenium” in the treatment of anemia, cancer, diabetes, influenza, morphine poisoning, thrush, and whooping cough.
• In 1904 the book by Charles Marchand, New York chemist, “Medicinal uses of hydrozon” (ozonated water) and “glicozon” (ozonated olive oil) was published. This book is kept in the library of the United States Congress and in it you can see the seal of approval by the Association of Surgeons General of this country.
• In 1910 N. Tesla generators are marketed in the US under different brands, one of which is promoted in the Sears catalog.
• In 1913 the first German ozone therapy society was created under the name of the Eastern Association for Oxygen Therapy, under the direction of Dr. Eugene Blass.
• In 1915 it was Dr. Albert Wolf of Berlin who used ozone to treat pressure ulcers and cervical cancer.
• Between 1914 and 1918 in World War I Dr. Wolf, chief surgeon of the German army medical services, extended the use of ozone to treat infected war wounds.
• In 1926, Dr. Otto Warbug of the Kaiser Institute in Berlin announced that the cause of cancer lies in the deficiency of oxygen at the cellular level. In 1931 he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In 1944 he receives another Nobel Prize, being the only doctor awarded 2 times to date.
• In 1929 the book “Ozone and Its Therapeutic Action” was published in the United States. Written in 400 pages by Heads of Department of Research Centers and hospitals in various countries that use it, it lists 114 diseases and how to treat them with ozone.
• In 1932 in the United States, Dr. Simmons, president of the American Medical Association (AMA), proposed the elimination of therapies that compete with the use of drugs, including ozone. Granting an exclusive benefit to the monopoly of the pharmaceutical companies.
• In 1940 Dr. H. Wolff’s “Medical Ozone” was published, a book considered the “Bible” of Ozone Therapy.

As discussed on Dr Mark Hyman´s podcast, The Doctors Farmacy, Ozone Therapy has been used in Europe since the start of the Covid pandemic with great results. Dr Paolo Tordiglione in Italy, with a PhD in Ozone has been using it in his practice since 2000. Ozone is germicidal so it can kill the virus and it can regulate the immune system. It inhibits the inflammatory system and improves the anti-inflammatory system. It improves ability to use oxygen in our tissues, it activates antioxidant defence mechanisms. It improves nitric oxide production, and endothelial systems. It also reduces blood clotting.

Dr Mark Hyman´s The Doctor´s Farmacy hhttps://youtu.be/G_cvrcx_7m8?t=1096

I suggest doing your own research, and finding out where you can access this treatment if you’re intrigued.

Network Spinal Analysis

“The physician of the future will educate his patients on diet, prevention of disease and care of the human frame.” – Thomas Edison.

By frame, Mr Edison refers to the spine, and how we are held together.  It´s not a biological norm to lose shape as we age, nor shrink and disappear into the ground! A form of chiropractor treatment I love is called Network Spinal Analysis and I featured this in The Vitality Secret. Imagine how much better your life would be when your body is in alignment. No more pain when you bend down, no lower back pain, limbs all working as they should.. and being nimble and flexible, which can help every area of your life. The spine is referred to as the hard drive for the human body – every part of it, each vertebrae is connected to organs, limbs, joints and all aspects of the human body. And that it just the physical component. This goes into the energetics of the body, that influences your mind and emotions and outlook on life.

 Network Spinal Analysis was founded by Donnie Epstein and is one of Tony Robbins´ favourite practitioners. It is non-invasive, and doesn’t involve twisting or “cracking” the spine. It is gentle, and highly effective. It is safe for all types of people.

Through a system of precise gentle touch, a personalized spinal healing wave develops that is as unique as one’s fingerprint. This wave and development of specific “Spinal Gateways” suspend unhealthy patterns and allow the body to reach new levels of energy and information efficiency. Check out my short interview on NSA on my website here: VitalitySecret.com/NSA.

^[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/google-pharma-startup-investments/

^[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/wikipedia-founder-larry-sanger-democrats-b1885138.html