Biohacking your body involves making strategic, science-backed changes to optimize physical and mental performance.
Exercise: Incorporating regular strength training, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), and recovery practices like working on one’s mobility by stretching and practising yoga to improve overall health and longevity.
Sleep: Aim for 7-9 hours of quality sleep each night. Create a sleep-friendly routine by limiting screen time before bed and considering practices like meditation or a bedtime routine to enhance rest.
Practice mindfulness, deep breathing exercises, or meditation to reduce stress and improve focus. Mental health is key to biohacking, and finding time to manage stress is essential.
Wearable Technology & Supplements: optimum use of technology to your advantage by Tracking your activity and sleep with wearable devices. Experiment with supplements like magnesium that can help with sleep and for relaxation but always consult with a professional.
It is very important to take a holistic approach towards health, by focusing on consistency and personalization, and ensuring any changes align with your unique goals and health needs.
Today, the most exciting form of biohacking is genetics based personalized lifestyle changes, which is most effective for prevention, anti-aging, and peak performance.
The first step in biohacking is your decision to take charge of your health. This is important because neither your family doctor nor your executive health check-up program is going to proactively suggest anything to improve your health, immunity, or performance. The second step is to check whether you are following the so-called basic pillars of health – nutritious diet, sound sleep, enough exercise, stress management and restraint from substance addictions like smoking or excessive drinking. But you will see only modest improvements from such steps, as none of these are personalized as per your DNA or genes. Hence, you should move on to a truly personalized biohacking solution like Eplimo which is based on a genetic test, and suggests personalised changes that make all the difference.
This is the approach we have taken at Vieroots – staying with science by deploying medical and wellness professionals. Secondly, genetic solutions can sometimes throw up false negatives, which we eliminate by combining genetic inferences with a detailed metabolic analysis. It is also important to go for solutions that address all dimensions of lifestyle – diet, supplements, exercise, yoga, meditation, breathwork, stress management etc.
Biohacking can be used for prevention of lifestyle diseases, for achieving peak physical and cognitive performance, for longevity and anti-aging, and for achieving specific life goals like, say, weight loss. For example, we have a DNA Based Weight Loss Program, which is the first such solution in the country. Instead of providing generic diet and exercise tips for weight loss, this program focuses on identifying 360 degree lifestyle modifications that are based on each client’s specific genetic and metabolic traits. The result is that individuals who have failed with all other weight loss programs are able to find success here. This is delivered through doctor managed Vieroots Biohack Centres.
Read the full story that first appeared in The Free Press Journal dated 25 May, 2025 here:
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