Summary List Placement In 2012, I was working in consulting and wanted to start a sports blog. There were enough blogs about watching sports, so I became really interested in things like smart watches and how they can help athletes improve. After about three years, my blog gained traction and I started getting questions from healthcare organizations about what patients can do with data and what wearables are useful in managing health. In time, I was lucky enough to turn my hobby into my work. I give a lot of webinars and keynotes to businesses and governments on human augmentation — how we ca ..read more

Summary List Placement Iterable CEO Justin Zhu was recently fired for "micro-dosing" LSD, a psychedelic drug, to improve his focus, he told Bloomberg last week. Micro-dosing, or taking small amounts of psychedelic substances, has gained popularity in recent years among entrepreneurs as a way to boost their creativity. Plenty of other CEOs and founders who want to improve productivity and prevent burn out turn to so-called "biohacks," a broad term that encompasses everything from enzyme injections to fasting days. Here are seven biohacks executives have used, along with the science — or lack o ..read more

Dr. Cameron Sepah wrote about dopamine fasting, or abstaining from over-stimulation for a period of time. I interviewed him and learned how it works, and how some people are taking it to extremes. My editor asked me to test dopamine fasting for five days, so I gave it a try. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.  In his viral LinkedIn article, Dr. Cameron Sepah proposed dopamine fasting as an "antidote to our overstimulated age." To practice this method, the faster abstains from "behaviors that trigger strong amounts of dopamine release," such as browsing through Facebook, or ..read more

Americans spend more time than ever consuming media. Some Silicon Valley VCs and executives are responded by 'dopamine fasting,' as the answer to over-stimulation. Dopamine fasting is a trend along the lines of intermittent fasting from food that Silicon Valley execs have been popularizing for years. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. We live in an addictive attention economy, according to San Francisco psychologist Dr. Cameron Sepah.  Americans spend over 11 hours per day consuming media, on average, and for some, it's much more. Sepah works primarily with tech executives ..read more

A Silicon Valley startup known for chewable coffee and human "superfuel" is updating its product lineup with fresh ingredients informed by the latest science. Last year, the company (called HVMN) teamed up with Oxford University to create a ketone drink used by elite cyclist Vittoria Bussi to break a global cycling record. HVMN told Business Insider that the science behind that work also informed their refreshed line of so-called "smart drugs" — pills designed to help with focus, energy, and sleep. A tech startup whose employees chew their coffee, regularly abstain from food for up to 36 hour ..read more

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he starts his day with "salt juice," a mixture of Himalayan salt, water, and lemon. Salt juice is reportedly dispensed at Twitter offices around the world. The average person can get their daily salt intake met with normal eating, but if someone has low blood pressure, is very active, or is malnourished, they may need to supplement salt in their diet. Dorsey said he does a fasting-style diet where he eats one meal per day and eats nothing on weekends. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey likes to advertise his many regimente ..read more

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been known for living a stoic lifestyle, such as going on meditation retreats and experimenting with intermittent fasting. Dorsey said in a recent podcast appearance that he eats only one meal a day — dinner — during the workweek, then fasts on weekends. His habits have many online concerned that his diet sounds like an eating disorder. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been very open about his unusual eating habits. In the past, Dorsey has experimented with everything from the more mainstream vegan and Paleo fads to a more ri ..read more

Silicon Valley tech elites are adopting some of the latest and most extreme techniques for performance enhancement. These techniques include immersion in freezing water, fasting, and attending camps that have participants crawl through snake-filled boxes. The basic idea is to learn techniques for coping with mental and physical stress. From athletics to business, learning to deal with stress is an essential key to improving performance. That's because stress can push people to perform at their best — or cause them to shut down. So it's no surprise that in the metrics-obsessed world of Silico ..read more

Bilal Hafeez says he's tapped into a lifestyle shift happening in the financial industry. The London-based Nomura currency analyst sends wellness newsletters — tips and tricks for shaping up, eating better, and maximizing brain and body potential. "I like to write on something other than the minutiae of markets." There's a lifestyle shift happening on trading floors. And Bilal Hafeez says he's tapped into it. Almost daily, the London-based Nomura currency analyst sends wellness newsletters — tips and tricks for shaping up, eating better, and maximizing brain and body potential. He somehow als ..read more

Eating well and maintaining a healthy body weight can be challenging for many people, in part because nutrition advice changes so often. Fitbit, Apple, and Google are investing in continuous glucose monitors that let people track their blood sugar and see how food affects their body. Usually used only by diabetics, the devices could provide key insight to other people who want to eat better, lose weight, and even improve athletic performance. Recently, Fitbit gave $6 million to a San Francisco startup called Sano, which is creating a CGM without a needle. Geoffrey Woo hasn't gone back to Bu ..read more