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Optimizing Your Life

Mahdi Yusuf
February 27, 2018
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Optimizing Your Life

Talk around QS and Biohacking to optimize your life.

Mahdi Yusuf

February 27, 2018
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  1. Heart Rate • Good measure of heart rate health, generally

    lower is better. •Most RHR is between 60-100 beats per minute • Some endurance for very fit athletes can have RHRs as low as 40 bpm. 9
  2. Heart Rate Variability • Good indicator of stress both physical

    and mental • This allows us to adjust training for physical stress as well as monitor mental stress triggers • This varies from person to person and its best to get a good baseline. 15
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  4. Blood Sugar “I’m already tracking my blood sugar using a

    continuous glucose monitor, and it’s been frustrating to have that data be segregated from other trackable data.”
  5. Its all about efficiency • You have a finite of

    time in a day, working longer hours is actually more wasteful than productive. • Only way to increase “productivity” is to work cleaner. • I noticed there were huge chunks of wasted time context switching between tasks, or same task for small chunks of time. •Grouping together chunks of “unproductive” time really helped cutdown on inefficiencies. 25
  6. Stop Letting Your Dreams be Dreams • Incremental Short Term

    Goals • Lead to Long Term Wins • Quantified Goals are always clear cut and lead to better results.
  7. Brief Aside: Sitting Disease. Time to stand up • 1.5-2.4

    Times Like to Develop Heart Disease. • 30-50% Greater Risk of High Blood Pressure. • Literally Slows Metabolism. • Imagine the productivity loss.