Over the weekend I attended the first of its kind in London, the Health Optimisation Summit. It was founded by Tim Gray, who is also behind the London Biohackers Meet Up group. This is a rapidly expanding group as more and more people are realising that there are superior methods to approach wellness and illness, and optimise their bodies, than Western Medication.
Tim and his COO, Dasha Maximov, curated an outstanding line-up of speakers and ‘biohacking’ companies, devices and gadgetry, and hosted quite a spectacular event. They had a solid support team and plenty of volunteers to whom they obviously gave great credit. Tim and Dasha both have pretty impressive healing stories; Tim reversed a plethora of symptoms for which Western Medication would have him on medications, and Dasha has had tremendous results healing a kite surfing brain injury.
Whether it’s an illness you want to heal or reverse, or you want to become pain-free, or optimise your body in any way, shape or form, biohacking is here to help you to do that. Although Tim has been called ‘the UK’s number one biohacker,’ this term is not widely used in the UK, and he prefers the term health optimisation – it’s clearer, hence the name. I agree, as over in the UK, where I’m currently residing (although I was in LA for 4.5 years), the term ‘hacking’ has negative connotations. That said, what it really implies is bringing into the Western world and Western way of living, what is naturally occurring in nature. Whether it’s as basic as switching to an anti-inflammatory diet, such as paleo or ketosis, grain-free vegan, or cutting down the hours in the gym, to an hour a week with more results, to understanding the impacts of red light and heat therapy on your body, or understanding how frequency therapy can re-balance the electrical charge in your body, health optimisation has it covered.
I was so impressed with the calibre of speakers over the weekend. The ‘father of biohacking,’ Dave Asprey, delivered a few sterling talks, including his daughter who was present on occasions. John Gray, author of Beyond Mars And Venus, did a superbly hilarious and informative talk on male and female hormones, and how we can optimise our performances both emotionally and physically in the bedroom and beyond.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll explain a few gems I picked up from the following talks:
Dr Nasha Winters who wrote ‘The Metabolic Approach to Cancer’ did a wonderful talk about her experience with cancer having been given the 3 month to live prognosis by her oncologist, and how she went about healing her body, to be here years later helping others to do the same. She talked about eight pathways to detoxify in order to be cancer-free, or reverse it. It was a nice reminder to hear that we all have cancer within us, it’s just a matter of whether or not it develops into something that is a potential hazard.
Dave Asprey did an entertaining and informative talk on his background, healing journey, weight loss results, brain transformation and how he got into the world of biohacking from being in the tech space.
I’ll share my experience on breathwork with Richie Bostock aka ‘the breath guy’ – and how this type of experience can give you an accelerated meditative experience, that can take years to reach with usual meditative practices.
Shaman Durek did a hilarious talk on ‘the subtle energy’ – and talked about ‘spirit hacking’. He demonstrated how anyone can create shifts in the body, extremely fast, by understand our access to Source energy. What makes this so exciting is these spiritual practices are no longer ‘woo woo’ – they’re scientifically proven! In fact, with the emergence of quantum physics in the 40s, it’s been around for some time – only now, it’s really reaching the forefront. Dr Joe Dispenza and Bruce Lipton, are actively reporting on how we can all tap into this ‘field of intelligence’ for a complete healing. And it’s magic – when we tune into it. This is an area that fascinates me more than anything right now. Understanding that we really are non-physical energy in physical bodies is such an empowering, fear-destroying, life-enhancing, body-optimising, complete body-healing and energising point to know.
Luke Storey did a great talk on Practical Spirituality – metaphysical principles for complete healing. He talked about his journey with biohacking and having all kinds of biohacking gadgets. And how he combines this with his spiritual practices. Fascinating stuff.
Ivan Rybjanski talked about frequency-therapy technologies for improved HRV (Heart Rate Variability), enhanced recovery and water restructuring. What his company has created is phenomenal. Did you know about the Dr Emoto Experiments with water and crystals? Dr Emoto reported on how different emotions, that carry different frequencies, create different types of water crystals. At the bottom end of the frequency scale, with hate and shame, no crystals are formed. When exposed to high vibrational emotions like love and appreciation very different crystals are created – like snowflakes. This speaker has created a device that puts this ‘energy’ into water – given we’re 70% water, can you see the power of this? And more of us are drinking dead water, intoxicated with chemicals / plastic. Water is our #2 life fuel after oxygen.
Ben Pakulsky did a brilliant talk on how to use exercise and strength training to shift our consciousness and grow our mind.
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Dr Barry Morguelan presented on Source Energy and how to use it for healing and creating an extraordinary life. Dr B’s story is fascinating. He’s a Western-trained medical doctor and Grand Master of a 5,000 year old Chinese Source Energy discipline.
Dave Asprey did a wonderful Q & A after this with audiences asking excellent questions such as ‘how can I help my children with their hormones when they’re surrounded by so much toxicity?’ – His response was something to the effect of “those children’s menus in restaurants – they should only be used for colouring in, not for choosing food. There is no food on those menus (typically)” – among many other useful insights.
Martin Tobias presented on some powerful methods for boosting testosterone for guys, how he reversed his biological age using a number of different indicators, how he got his testosterone from less than 500 at age 54 to 1098 – in 2 weeks. I took notes avidly – and I already know a lot about this topic! I wrote a book called Mojo Multiplier – which is all about increasing testosterone.
Dr Mark Atkinson talked about Physical Fitness in a way I’d never heard psychology explained when talking about physical fitness to a mass audience. His system was spiritually-focused – and he talked about going from victim consciousness, to victor consciousness – to ultimately being a vessel. A vessel for what I hear you say? I LOVED this. It’s a level of consciousness I’m very familiar with from my research, and is one I adopt, so hearing this at this event was refreshing and enlightening.
John Gray presented a phenomenal talk on male and female hormone optimisation, how to reduce stress for each gender, and also how to optimise our sex life. He was hilarious, and delivered super high quality content. He had the audience in stitches. John Gray wrote Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. His latest book is Beyond Mars And Venus. I left with a few tricks up my sleeve.
Dr Scott Sherr, a friend of mine, presented on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and how it can be used as a super powerful ‘biohack’ to skyrocket healing, injury recovery, immune system bolstering and so much more. This is a method of using oxygen under pressure to deliver much more oxygen to cells throughout your body. It’s a powerful took to use in combination with cancer treatment.
Dr Amy Killen spoke about optimising sexual performance and sexual longevity. As you may know, challenges with sexual function are not isolated. She gave a ton of examples of people going to see her with such challenges, and after some quick testing, discovered they were experiencing various health challenge – such as chronic inflammation (what my book, The Vitality Secret is all about, and what I focus on with my one to one coaching), acid blockers, SSRI’s and Mouth Wash – how they all interfere with sexual function in both men and women. Brilliant. She also discussed stem cells and presented examples of people in their late 70s returning to a normal sex life.
Dr David Rabin presented on psychedelic medicine – another topic close to my heart. I’ve had some PROFOUND experiences with plant medicines that have been both healing and mentally transformative. We’re seeing more studies brought to the surface about how powerful these currently illegal substances are for extremely fast results, particularly for PTSD, other forms of trauma, depression and anxiety.
In addition to all of the above, there were all kinds of gadgets including the bio charger that uses frequency to regenerate cell health, using Rife frequencies and more. We had Cryo therapy, red light therapy (from Red Light Rising), Comosystems which protect your body from EMFs (a VERY hot topic right now with 5G being launched with no biological safety testing, when current levels of EMFs have already been proven to cause cellular and DNA damage. We must look out for ourselves as the government isn’t, and the media isn’t either – it’s full of false information.). Brain wave technology, neuro feedback, Pranic Healing, Somavedic Frequency gadgets anti-cancer skin therapies and SO MUCH MORE.
So…watch this space. A few more detailed write ups are to come! Early bird tickets are for sale now. https://summit.healthoptimisation.com
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