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Guess what? I just traveled to Helsinki under a week ago to cover the Biohacker Summit 2020 taking place there.

The Biohacker Summit is a yearly event in which biohackers from all over the world come together to share ideas and products and connect.

Getting to Helsinki from where I live - the Neth...

Are you shopping for your first blue-blocking glasses? Or maybe you are looking for another pair? This is the ultimate guide to help you select the perfect blue-blocking glasses for your unique needs!

I, Andrew Latour, guest writer for Alexfergus.com, have been wearing blue-blocking glasses for ove...

You know about noise (pollution) right?

If not, you would probably not be reading here...

Screaming neighbors. Fighting cats. Traffic. Overflying airplanes.

Or maybe there's just a specific sound that's really irritating for you. Perhaps you don't like listening to Britney Spears - even at a low ...

Many great sleep supplements have emerged on the market lately. 

The supplement I'm talking about in this blog post, moreover, called "Mind:Restore", is not just aimed at improving sleep quality but also cognitive performance.

In fact, Awakened Alchemy has told me the supplement should be paired w...

In this blog post, I'll do a deep dive in using red light therapy for the brain. I'll specifically look at what studies state so far about red light therapy for cognitive performance, mood enhancement, overall brain health, and more.

But guess what?

One big issue many people have is that they don'...

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” - author Peter Drucker

It’s undeniable that more and more people around the world are paying more attention to their physical well-being. At-home workouts, gym memberships, subscription-based nutrition programs have all seen growth in recent ye...

Finally...

Here it is!

The last installment of my 3-part series on stress. The first installment gave a definition of stress and the second treated the topic of biological stress (hormesis). More on those blogs in a second.

This third installment talks about psychological stress. You probably kno...

I know a thing or two about saunas.  

If I could only keep one habit I’ve adopted from the sources I’ve studied, the sauna would be it - in this blog post, I explain why.

As you probably know, we've extensively talked about the topic of infrared saunas on this website. Examples of articles are:

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"Hormesis"? 

Difficult word?

Let me take a detour before defining that word:

This is part 2 of a series on chronic stress. The previous part of this series explained what stress is and how to understand stress within the human body and brain. 

The third installment, which will be published soon,...

Covering the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) for alexfergus.com in early January of this year I encountered one of the most interesting bits of wearable technology I’ve seen called “Apollo” (clicking THAT link and using code EVERGREEN gives you 15% off!)

While most of the technology in the weara...