Black Friday: The day after American thanksgiving whereby throngs of patriotic citizens line-up at the earliest hours of the morning, despite their turkey hangovers to fight tooth and nail to get the best deals at commercial retailers. This day is a success if you do any of the following: 1. Find a bargain 2. Purchase a Christmas gift early 3. Buy yourself an electronic device that you've always needed 4. Survive the day unscathed, having narrowly avoided death by trampling B

Weight loss diets are constantly evolving and reiterating themselves in different forms. The Paleo diet, which derives its name from the era in which we started to use stone tools extensively and start to become more spiritual and artistic, has emerged and become so popular that the dichotomy of "paleo hunter-gatherers vs grain-eating, non-carnivorous modern beings" separates the masses. Like every trend, the uptake was slow (the Paleo diet has been around for a while), but h

This will be the first of my weekly Mobility Monday posts, where I will examine various practitioners and the warm-up/mobility routines they use before they start their respective activities. I'll try to keep these short and not overly complicated. The goal of movement preparation is not just to increase joint mobility and get the nerves firing the muscles, but also the readying of the mind. We'll start with Matt Wichlinski. Strength and conditioning coach and former football

The title of this blog makes reference to the commonly used term to describe self-experimentation. n refers to the sample size of an experiment or study. If your n is 1, then you only have one test subject, which in scientific methods is poor, as the accuracy of your study is questionable. However, in the biohacking community, n=1 is a good thing, because if you treat yourself as an individual with specific needs that differ from anyone else, then you will ultimately find wha

Life in the time of "Big Data" has led to the rise of specialists and a wide spread overwhelming confusion due to the amount of information that bombards us. We are able to learn anything, buy the most exotic and/or esoteric items, and eat food from any culture. This is the globalized world we were warning each other about, and it's not too bad. The problem is that having too much to choose from and too many details to resolve has led us to a constant state of angst. Who is a

This is an article I wrote over two years ago, but I wish to revive it, as the epidemic of poor movement capacity and related pathology continues, despite attempts to improve ergonomics. Perhaps laptops and smart phones are exacerbating the issue. Here it is: Welcome to the daily grind: 9:00am to 5:00pm in the cubicle, the professional desk jockey practices his craft. If stress from your job is not an issue, or occupational hazards don't pose enough of a threat to your life

Have you always wanted to: 1. Boost your immunity. 2. Increase your sex drive and performance. 3. Alleviate pain and inflammation. 4. Be happier. 5. Improve your memory. 6. Lose fat and gain muscle. 7. Improve your focus and concentration. 8. Live longer. 9. Acquire skills faster. 10. Recover quicker from phyical activity. 11. Reduce stress. Maybe you've wanted all of them, or just a few. Either way, the simple method is sleep. And no, rationalizing your 4-6hr sleep schedule

They're your connection to the ground, your means of transportation, and based on all the nerve endings located there, your tactile sensors for your environment. Your feet are like the essential spice in a recipe, you only notice when they're not working properly. The problem is, your feet buffer against a lot of damage, but once you've suffered an injury, it could be too late. Heel spurs, plantar fasciitis, stress fractures, and hammertoes are but a few of the ailments that

Once anything has been deemed important, the deconstruction of that very topic and subsequent analysis can often strip it of meaning and context. For humans, breathing has always been critical, yet it is so ordinary and autonomic that it loses its credit as a life force, except when it proves a struggle for an individual. In recent years, with the advent of yoga and mindfulness practices, breathing has been resurrected, beautified, codified and scientifically dissected. We kn

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who s