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Here we go again! After visiting the Health Optimisation Summit in London on May 28 and 29, less than one week later the Biohacker Summit was held in Helsinki. So I - Bart from team Alexfergus - took an airplane from London to Helsinki to report on the latest biohacking developments which I came acr...

So I decided to fly out to London, from the Netherlands, to attend the Health Optimisation Summit 2022. In the days after the summit, right now, I created this blog post as fast as possible so that you, as reader, can enjoy the most important findings of this summit.

Here you can see me at the summ...

In this blog post, I'll talk about my extensive experience with the Sensate vagus nerve stimulator.

Here's a general outline of all the sections of this blog post - feel free to skip ahead to a specific section or to read my very extensive 24,000-word blog post in its entirety:

• What Is The Sensa...

In this blog post, I consider the question "how much blue light does an iPhone emit". I.e., "what is the iPhone blue light exposure risk"? 

This blog post answers that question by testing my iPhone with a spectrometer. I also consider how well the iPhone lowers blue light exposure through the night...

Welcome to my first installment of a long series of red light therapy panel reviews. In this blog post, I review the LightpathLED Large Multiwave Pulsed panel, which is one of the more popular red light therapy devices on the market today. 

You can visually observe that panel here:

If you're jus...

Welcome to my red light therapy buyer's guide! As someone who has been heavily involved in the red light therapy space for over half a decade, I know how confusing it can all be.

You have fancy terms like irradiance and flicker rate, differences in wavelengths and panel size. Then you have dozens o...

Welcome to my 2021/2022 red light therapy handheld review blog post.

First things first though...

Let me give you a little background:

You probably know about my 2019 red light therapy review blog post and YouTube video.

The blog post you're currently reading is a followup to that series, specif...

Finally, you've arrived at the last part of my 3-part series on the Fitbit & Biostrap. 

In the last 3 installments I've treated the following topics:

1. Comparison of the basic features of the Biostrap and Fitbit
2. Biostrap biometrics deep dive, with topics such as the sleep analysis, pulse recordin
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Of any habit I’ve adopted in the last several years, the sauna by far has the most noticeable effect on my well-being. If I could only recommend one health hack to anyone, it would be the sauna. Sauna users are simply less likely to die. 

That risk includes dying from rom any cause.

But there's mo...

Hey again, thanks for reading my second installment in the 3-part series comparing the Fitbit and Biostrap. 

But first, before diving deep into my own topic, I want to compliment David on the excellent review of the Biostrap and Biostrap EVO that he's already accomplished. 

Please read both review...