Biohacking — 10 Simple Daily Changes + Gadgets That Will Improve EVERY Area of Your Life (Part 2)

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These are the FOUNDATION for Wealth, Energy, and Success!

In Part 1, we covered the foundations:

  1. Sleep (tips & gadgets)
  2. Real food (tips & gadgets)
  3. Sunlight (tips & gadgets)
  4. Muscle (tips & gadgets)
  5. Dopamine (tips & gadgets)

These are non-negotiables if you want more energy, focus, and long-term performance.

In this second part, I’ll show you 5 more simple daily habits and practical gadgets that make biohacking easy to apply in real life — even with a busy schedule.

No extremes.
No perfection.
Just small changes that compound fast.

If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, start there:

10 Simple Biohacking Habits That Transform Your Life

If you already have — let’s level this up.

1. Get a Journal / Planner — And WRITE!!!

I write daily.

I have a journal/planner (which I made myself), AND I also write in this blog.

my very own journal! (link)

I write because of a few reasons:

  • It relaxes me
  • It clears my mind
  • It “kickstarts” my focus before work (my dayjob)

Especially this last one is a real “lifehack” for me!

I usually write in the morning — before I start working.

And when I start, I get in some sort of flow.

This flow (concentration) continues throughout the day, so I get SO MUCH WORK DONE!!!

Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

In fact, it’s been proven that when you write, you:

  • unload mental clutter
  • think clearer
  • make better decisions

This is my daily “writing” routine:

  • I wake up, do 10 mins of bodyweight exercises
  • I prepare breakfast and grab my journal
  • I read what I planned & did yesterday, and check my planning for today.
  • I write more details in my journal about yesterday & today.

This is what a page in my journal looks like:

Millionaire’s Routine Daily Planner (Amazon)

Doing this daily helps SO much in achieving your goals.

Any goals. So:

Write daily. Write Goals. Thoughts. To-do’s. Reflections.

Your brain is for thinking — not for storing everything.

2. Hydrate (More Than You Think)

Most people walk around chronically dehydrated.

It’s a well known fact that people don’t drink enough water.

Now, a small sidenote here: Each body is different.

It’s possible that having e.g. 4 glasses of water is enough for your body, while someone else needs 8. People are different.

But in general, people don’t drink enough water.

And this causes…:

  • Low energy
  • Brain fog
  • Headaches
  • Poor performance

Here are my tips & tricks to drink enough water:

  1. I always add something to my water. A taste. This varies from ginger to lemon to kombucha.. just a small drop is often enough to make it “tastier”.
  2. I eat spicier. Makes sense, right? Spicy food makes you thirsty, so I add some extra pepper.
  3. I got myself a reusable water bottle. I personally got one of these:
Img Source: Owala FreeSip Insulated Stainless Steel Water Bottle on Amazon

Just put it on your desk. And put some taste in it.

If it’s in sight, you’ll drink more easy.

One final thing I’d like to add is: eat more salt.

I’ve noticed that if I drink a lot of water, then I need to go to the toilet SO MUCH. As a solution, a nutrition expert once told me that I should eat more salt (preferably Himalaya salt), which absorbs the water and keeps it in my body.

3. Take Care of Your Skin (It’s Health, Not Vanity)

Did you ever realize that you skin is actually your largest organ??

I didn’t. Until I read it recently.

Our skin is super, super important.

Photo by Ilia on Unsplash

Our skin protects us against:

  • Bacteria
  • Pollution
  • UV damage

Neglecting it increases:

  • Inflammation
  • Aging
  • Long-term damage
Photo by Tora Chu on Unsplash

Needless to say, we don’t want this — Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this either.

So, how do we take “good” care of our skin?

I’ll tell you what I do:

1) Showering routine:

I shower, but I don’t always thoroughly was my whole body with soap. I use soap, but just a little bit, and mainly only for my “intimate” places.

The reason for this, is because soap washes off the “protective” layer of natural fat that’s on your skin.

If it’s off, your skin is less resistant to bacteria, pollution etc.

So that’s why I generally use just water.

2) Morning routine

  1. Wash my face with water
  2. Put the Medik8 C-Tetra Day Cream
  3. Put Relief Sun Organic Sunscreen to protect my skin from sun damage

3) Evening routine

  1. Wash my face with Sesderma Foamy Soap face wash — to clean my face from all the “dirt” that stuck to it during the day. Note: this washes off the PH of your skin.
  2. Put the NEEDLY — Crossbarrier Toner: this one restores the PH of your skin after washing.
  3. (optionally) Then, I put:
    OR Timeless Skin Care Matrixyl 3000 Serum (Peptides),
    OR Medik8 Crystal Retinal Night Serum (Retinol).
    (I switch between them every other day).
  4. Finally, I use Medik8 Advanced Night (Signature Anti Aging Night Cream for Face)

FYI — the difference between Peptides & Retinol:

  • PEPTIDES act as messengers, telling skin to produce more collagen, firming and plumping it.
  • RETINOL accelerates skin cell turnover and stimulates collagen production, resurfacing the skin.

P.S. be careful when using peptides or retinol. I recommend consulting a skincare expert before using these. It also depends on your skin.

Every skin is different, so you might need a different routine than I do.

Image Source: Medik8 Advanced NightMedik8 C-Tetra Day CreamTimeless Skin Care Matrixyl 3000 Serum on Amazon

The results:

  • Healthy skin = lower inflammation = better aging.
  • Looking better, more “fresh”, energetic
  • Better looks = better social activity & confidence = better life quality.

4. Control Your Food Windows

In the previous article I’ve explained WHAT to eat (whole foods, not ultra-processed crap).

But…

WHEN you eat, ALSO matters!

Perhaps it matters even more than WHAT you eat!

A simple rule that works for most people:

  • Have a big breakfast
  • Have a big lunch
  • Have a small dinner
Photo by Rachel Park on Unsplash

Let me tell you WHY this is SO important.

In the morning, your body NEEDS food, because it:

  • Refills energy after “fasting” overnight
  • Improves focus and mood in the morning
  • Reduces cravings later in the day

Then, having a nice (healthy) lunch…:

  • Fuels productivity and focus
  • Prevents afternoon crashes
  • Reduces overeating at night

But most importantly — having a small dinner:

  • Improves sleep quality
  • Reduces fat storage
  • Lowers nighttime insulin spikes
  • Helps your body recover instead of digest

Late heavy dinners keep your body busy (with digesting food) when it should be resting instead.

Especially your evenings are super super important.

At night, your body wants to:

  • Slow down
  • Repair
  • Recover
  • Sleep

But if you feed it a lot of food, it will struggle with doing the above.

When you get your food windows under control, there are SO MANY BENEFITS:

  • Energy stays stable all day
  • Focus improves
  • Sleep gets deeper
  • Digestion improves
  • Weight regulation becomes easier

You stop fighting your body/biology — and start working with it!

No diet needed. Just better timing.

Here is a small tip & tool that helps me with my food windows:

  1. Planning my meals in the weekend and cooking A LOT for the rest of the week
  2. Store them in these Glass Meal Prep Containers
Source: Glass Meal Prep Containers on Amazon

Structure beats willpower.

5. Redesign Your Environment to Support Health

The might be the most important one of all.

Your environment shapes your behavior.

If your environment promotes:

  • Junk food
  • Distraction
  • Laziness
  • Bad habits

You’ll struggle — no matter how motivated you are.

Everything that I wrote above — I do these things. This is my life, these are my habits. And I designed my life that way.

However, I know so many people that struggle with it, for various reasons. Here are some common ones:

  • Heavy job doesn’t allow healthy lunches, no time
  • Family obligations don’t allow only 3 meals per day, or exercise
  • Eating and living healthy costs MORE MONEY than living unhealthy
  • My partner doesn’t want to join with this

I know everyone’s life is hard, and everyone is busy…

SO, I advise you set up your life in such a way that healthy choices become easy choices.

But how? Here are my tips:

1. Change what you see first: What’s visible gets used.

  • Put fruit on the counter
  • Put that water bottle on your desk
  • Put a journal on your nightstand
  • Workout gear ready for a short morning workout
  • Dumbbells visible
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

And hide (or better yet — don’t even buy):

  • Snacks
  • Junk food
  • Distractions

Out of sight = out of mind.

2. Plan & Prepare Once, Decide Less

When food and workouts are pre-decided, you don’t have to “be strong”.

You don’t rise to the level of motivation. You fall to the level of your environment.

Design your life so that health becomes the default — not a constant fight.

That’s how change sticks.

Final Thoughts

Al the things above aren’t big changes, but they compound fast.

If you take care of:

  • Your body
  • Your brain
  • Your habits
  • Your environment

Your life will get a boost like crazy.

Guaranteed.

Fix yourself first. Everything else follows. Your career. Your social life. Your bank account.

Let’s go!

Thanks for reading!

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