11 Health and fitness biohacks

There are four main tactics to employ when trying to lose weight: eating well, movement, quality sleep, and managing stress.  But if you’re looking to find some incremental advantages, you can add some health and fitness biohacks.  These practices/foods won’t move the needle, but they may be something for you to consider as you go on your health and fitness journey.

Health and Fitness Biohacks:

1. Cold – Submerging the body in cold water boosts the metabolism and helps to reduce body fat and inflammation.
2. High-intensity interval training – HIIT builds endurance and enhances your metabolism. Be sure to fully recover during recovery periods and between workouts.
3. Intermittent fasting –This keeps the body in fat burning mode for longer. One method involves eating during an eight-hour period and fasting for the other 16 hours each day.
4. Ketosis – Ketones in the blood can be used to fuel the body’s energy, which leads to fat loss.
5. Hormone management – Aging often leads to a lowering of estrogen or testosterone, which causes the body to store fat in different ways. Maintain good hormone levels through diet, exercise, and possibly supplementation under a physician’s care.
6. Treadmill desk – Do normal work while walking one to two miles per hour. This increases your activity level and improves core strength and balance.
7. Warm lemon water – Consuming this in the morning jumpstarts the metabolism, digestive track, and energy levels.
8. Apple cider vinegar – One tablespoon before bed each night can have a positive effect on lowering blood sugar.
9. Elimination diets – Added weight can be caused by inflammation from certain foods. Elimination diets will help you determine which foods cause you inflammation and should be removed from your diet permanently.
10. Manage your water – Flushing water from the body is one way to drop a few pounds fairly quickly.
11. Long, slow distance – This stress-reducing exercise keeps the metabolism going and allows you to stay in a fat burning mode.

While these health and fitness biohacks should not be used as a primary method of weight loss, they may be able to supplement the main four tactics.

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