Do we really need to hack anything ?
- Frederik
- Oct 24, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 21, 2024
In the world of performance optimisation, biohacking has become a thing.
Everybody talk about biohacking as a mean to optimise their longevity, health, energy, inflammation levels, cravings for things they believe are unhealthy, and so on.
Especially fasting or intermitted fasting has gained a strong follow-ship in the high adrenaline and high cortisol community. AKA the high performers.
Somehow adding more fuel to the fire is considered a good thing.
And it is easy to see why they get so exited. A high cortisol state will feel like a performance kick. A physiological survival system designed to help us overcome lifes dangers in the form of fight or flight.
It´s job is to free up glucose from the liver to help us when food are scares.
To raise our heart rhythm so we can get the freed energy transported to the muscles and brain fast.
But how do you create energy when you do not eat ? The short answer is, you break down your own tissues to free up amino acids to create glucose. Muscles and bone will get broken down and used as an energy resource.
It´s pretty well established that high cortisol is the underlying factor in most chronic diseases.
High cortisol also impacts our ability to show empathy.
Often the argument for starving the body - and increasing cortisol and slowing our metabolism - is that it stimulates autophagy. By speeding up the programmed cell death and getting rid of old cells.
Well - Autophagy happens regardless - if you fast or eat. You may speed it up but why would you ?
Some studies have shown that the absence of specific amino acids can create the same results. So the question is what is the specific underlying course of the longer life span seen in some animal studies ?
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