RedlightWeek — #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) Red light arrived: This week I finally get my red light panels. After some market research i’ve ordered from Rough. That was a good value for money combination given that i need to ship it to Singapore. I’ve got 2 small panels for the price of 1 medium. That gives opportunity to use it as one (they are modular so you may put together like on photo) or separately for differentness body part at once. I’ll not be lecturing about benefits of red light therapy. My goal to use it for hair health (quite proved efficiency) and for overall mitochondria stimulation. Really looking for some results ;)
• (b) Breath work and HRV: started using WHM breathing exercises before sleep. 3 round of standard exercise for about 15 min in the evening gave me impressive impact on HRV (more than 50) and RHR (below 50). Plan to continue to check consistency of results
• (c ) Dining out cheat: Had 2 dinning-out cheat days this week. Even thought i tried to stick to keto protocol on this dinners overall experience and impact on metrics is not good (blood sugar up, metabolic rate and sleep quality down). As the result realised that dinning out is a very bad habit as such for multipole reasons: restaurant food is generally less healthy, late evening is bad for sleep, social setting force bad food choice and overeating because of decision budget deficiency and stress by end of the day — so this is smth to cut out from my life going forward

(iii) Next week commitments

• (a) Red light testing week: eager to keep 2 times a day routine — 20 min each. Morning during mediation, evening during breathing exercises.
• (b) Coffee: add back coffee as it gives strong mental boost so the plan is to have 1 cup a day + 1 cup of matcha per day. That should give enough mental energy and does not mess up with my sleep
• (c ) Back to keto: plan to get back to keto which in the end was the best fit for the last several month of switching on and off
• (d) Full avoidance of dinners