What Are Your Favorite Biohacking Tests and Gadgets?

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What are your favorite biohacking tests and gadgets? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Alex Ask the Health Expert. Katie from the Beauty and the Biohacker podcast asks, what are your favorite biohacking tests and gadgets? Hey, it's J.J. and I've got celebrity skin expert and board certified aesthetic nurse Rachel Vargo with me to answer this question. Rachel is an accomplished international clinical trainer and academically published award winning author in the space of aesthetic medicine and nursing and also an Executive board member of the Plastic Surgery Nursing Journal. She's also one of the biggest tomboys you'll ever meet and grew up taking apart motors, riding motocross and riding horses. We'll be right back with the answer. Stay with us.

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Ooh I love this question about biohacking. It's pretty safe to say that I was one of the first to combine both beauty and biohacking together. And the way I kind of came to this conclusion was I started to work with a really beautiful subset of clients that I noticed were really taking excellent care of their health. They were tracking their sleep and looking at other types of metrics, heart rate variability, for example. And they were aging much better than those that weren't really accessing what we would consider biohacking. A quick little history on biohacking. Our good friend Dave Asprey, he's the father of biohacking. And we can actually use technologies to actually monitor our bodies and give us clues as to things we may be susceptible to, which is really great. So I'm a huge fan of utilizing biohacking gadgets like the OURA ring so that I can track the quality of my sleep. And it also gives me a readout on my readiness score. So when I wake up in the morning, I'll check out my sleep and I'll check out my readiness score for the day. So depending on how good my readiness score is, if it's really great, I'll really push that day. Maybe I'll get in a hard workout. Maybe I'll work extra hard with helping clients and in clinic and online. Or if my readiness score was a little bit low because maybe I didn't sleep sleep that great the night before or that night, or I didn't get enough exercise a couple of days leading up to that, or I had a really heavy exercise, my body's still in recovery mode. I'll actually basically plan out my day based on my readiness score. I do a ton of other things, including red light therapy. I like to do that in the bathroom and have it going when I'm doing my morning and night routine with my skincare products, doing my dermal rolling, things like that. But I also use other devices like the Soma Vedic to help structure my water and create a more coherent field around my home. And I wear something also called the art crystal, which again, is basically a little device that helps to create a more coherent field around you and again, structure water and tons of other things. I love doing gut health test kits, genetic test kits to help me understand, you know, which foods are ideal for me to eat, what lifestyle modifications I should be making, what my detox pathways are doing, how fast I metabolize things like coffee and alcohol. I have that information at my fingertips, which is so incredibly cool. One of my favorite biohacking gadgets is actually a detector that can actually measure the amount of joules or energy output of my body. And it actually helps me visualize what my human biofield is doing. So you might have thought, you know, is that the aura. Actually, the more medical. Medically accepted terminology that we can actually detect is the human biofield. And so I love checking out what my biofield is doing, looking at my biorhythms. So I actually have a really cool gadget that allows me to assess just that. I am a healthcare practitioner, so I do get access to some really cool gadgets. But what we're finding is stuff that's been available commercially or, sorry, industrially through used in things, for example, military. NASA is now being created in a way for the masses to use. So getting into more of the consumer commercial market, which is really cool. So if you can combine biohacking with your beauty, that really is golden right there. And if you want great skin, if you want to age well, you do really want to understand what's going on with your body, mind, spirit, energy. So that's why I really like biohacking gadgets and tools for that.

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