DNAWeek — #biotracking

Continue my weekly posts about health and so called biohacking routines and insights i’m getting from mindful approach to my health

Disclaimer #1: purpose of this post series is fist of all to create a weekly routine of self-reflection for myself. Secondly it also might be seen as a way of sharing insights i’m getting from following longevity and biohacking routines with my friends. I’m practicing mindful approach to my health for a while already and recently realised a need in tracking and capturing insights as well as some mean of sharing it

Disclaimer #2: I’m not an medical doctor and all my practices, insights and recommendations should be taken with a bit of scepticism and even suspicion ;)

Disclaimer #3: Each post in this serious consists of 2 parts: (i) 3 insights from the last week (ii) 3 actions for the coming week

(i) Weekly insights:

• (a) DNA insights: This week I finally had my first out of two DNA sequencing results. First was Genoplan (Local Singapore company). For the reasonable price they provide quite comprehensive report in 3 formats: app, web side and quite thick pdf book of 200+ pages. Whole report is structured around 3 main areas: cancer, general diseases and traits. My first impression — quite impressive and absolute must have for all who is interested in biotracking and longevity. Quite a few insights on all dimension, nothing particularly mind-blowing for health-conscious person but very helpful confirmation and help to focus effort: e.g. metabolism level for particular foods, effectiveness of drugs, fitness characteristics, diseases and off course cancer risks. Also had some discoveries: low caffeine and alcohol metabolism, low resting metabolism and risk of all types of oral and lung cancer. Very interesting to see if that will align with second test i’m expecting before the end of the year (from Nebula).
• (b) Challenging HVR despite good sleep and some rest: Despite good sleep (regular 7 hours of sleep total with 1,5 of both deep and REM sleep) and good RHR (round 45–55) i have quite a low HRV with average way below 40 which in last few weeks. Really worrying as soon as HVR is a strong indicator of stress and ageing. Stabilising HRV on 50+ level will be high on my priority list going forward.
• (c ) Food struggles: Had good fasting protocol the whole week (20 hours daily). But on the weekends had several cheat foods in a raw that put me on glucose roller coster — not a pleasant feeling. Still struggling to find sustainable food protocol.

(iii) Next week commitments

• (a) Food: switch to vegi protocol with double click on green vegetable and some fruits inclusion. Also sticking to 20/4 fasting protocol
• (b) Matcha switch: replace coffee with matcha for the entire week to see how that would be reflected
• (c ) Supplements: cut supplements from Fating time not to break my fasts with supplements (which you are eventually doing with majority of supplements)