
Unstoppable: A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success

individuals can appear schizophrenic, experiencing paranoia, delusions, and hallucinations. In my case, I had become extremely sensitive to caffeine, to the point that one cup would leave me feeling depressed for a week before the effects wore off. In later discussions with biohacker Dave Asprey, I would discover it might not be the caffeine or the
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and cortisol, which sets off a cascade of internal processes, including increased respiration, fast heartbeat, and blood vessel dilation in the arms and legs, which triggers our digestive system to increase our bloodstream glucose levels to deal with the emergency. Once the emergency is over, everything returns to normal.4 However, if it continues
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When the brain is weak, the output will be meek. One finding in our survey of 2,000 entrepreneurs was unexpected, but is blindingly obvious in hindsight: 57 to 65 percent of those experiencing brain fog were easily distracted, often procrastinated, lost their train of thought, and felt overwhelmed and sad, and were also experiencing food cravings.
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What’s worse is that the self-help industry looks at these same symptoms and believes an injection of motivation and an inspirational story is the answer. It’s not interested in finding out the underlying cause either. This realization led me to ask: If these are my symptoms, what is the cause? We all experience setbacks to varying degrees througho
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deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other conditions are at the extreme spectrum end of abnormally low dopamine levels. In other words, is social media addiction a result of lower dopamine levels due to stress and the modern world we now live in? Excuses, procrastination, and brain fog are possible symptoms of deficient levels of dopamine, n
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vitamin D, omega-3s, vitamin C, vitamin B12, dopamine, serotonin, or even testosterone (both women and men), you could experience mild to severe brain fog, fatigue, lethargy, anxiety, stress, and depression, all of which will severely impede your ability to remain focused and reach your goals. It’s like putting a plant in toxic soil and willing it
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comes to their mental health. How many of them will burn out before they can achieve their dreams due to biological factors? By looking more carefully, we can see that there is an underlying cause triggering these symptoms. I firmly believe we can cure ourselves of this “disease” of elusive well-being. Especially in the United States, we are seeing
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past, we’d pick up a self-help book or seek out a therapist, who might or might not address our nutritional deficiencies. These approaches might have been fine a decade ago, before the major changes to our environment and food supply, light pollution, and the psychological impact of social media began affecting our daily behavior. However, our preh
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quit? I had only ever experienced these fleetingly in the past, and they always subsided. This time they had laid roots I had to dig up. The short answer is a resounding “YES!” Diagnosing Failure The greatest problem with our old approach to success is that it fails to bridge the gap between biochemistry and psychology. The two are so intertwined t
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