Bio-hack Your Skin to Health

Bio-hacking has become a popular term recently to describe the practice of using science, thinking, biology, and self-experimentation to upgrade and achieve an optimum state of self – in your mind, performance, and health.

But while the label may be new, the practice itself is recorded in ancient texts.  From the early Egyptians to the alchemists of Europe, the Taoists of China to the Native Indians of America.  People have been ”bio-hacking” throughout history in the quest of reaching a higher state of being.

Bio-hacking as a natural therapy

Bio-hacking is an enthusiast’s practice of natural health.  Where it is not enough to simply say, “I try to be healthy and look after myself.”   But demanding tangible results they can touch and feel.  They not only strive to be a walking testimony of their achievements, they strive to be a beacon of the cause.

An accomplished hacker should be reaping the rewards and be the living result of their efforts.  They should stand out in the crowd with an aura of vitality, glowing health and youthfulness, and clarity of thinking.  They are an athlete in the race of life.  And like any athlete on a quest to be exceptional, they expect to measure tangible gains from their efforts.

Bio-hacking your skin

For the sake of this conversation, we will answer the questions, “Can we bio-hack our own skin to be exceptional – to achieve the ultimate complexion – without surgery?”  Can we change our skin type?  Can we slow ageing down to crawl?  Can we look great everyday without makeup? YES!  We can show you how.  And it’s easier than you can imagined.

Change your skin type?  Yes, you can!

The skin and body you see in the mirror today, is the accumulated result of the impact your lifestyle and environmental choices have had on the genetic makeup your parents gave you.  Some things your parents blessed you with.  The rest you did to yourself.  Good or bad.

The good news is you can change your future for the better.  The secret to a better complexion lies within – it just needs to be activated.  The best news is that your body has within itself, an innate ability to repair much of the past.  These two facts alone make biohacking a worthwhile pursuit.

 

Skin Types – what’s genetic and what’s not?

When asked to describe their skin, nine out of ten use the terms oily, dry, sensitive, combination, or problem skin instead of fair, olive, Hispanic, white, black, Asian etc.   The latter terms describe genetics handed down by your ancestors and built into your DNA.  Tampering with it is a fool’s folly.

Every other term used to describe their skin is misunderstood as being part of their personal makeup.  In truth, skin types are merely temporary conditions or states of being.  They may have been inherited within your household along with other dietary or lifestyle habits that cause them, but they are not programmed into your DNA.  Armed with a little knowledge and the right tools they can all be changed back to normal.

Going back to having a "Normal" skin type - because only "Normal" means healthy.

Part of attaining a higher state of being - from a complexion perspective - means normalizing your skin.  Normal is the natural state of a healthy skin.  Anything else is unnatural and indication of an imbalance or dysfunction within the skin or body.

Most over-the-counter skincare products offer nothing to assist the biohacker in their quest for perfection.  Skincare products described as “suitable” for a particular skin type should be more accurately labeled as “disguising” the specific skin type.  Beyond the promise, once the disguise is washed off, the underlying skin condition is exposed once again.

This leaves us with two alternative approaches within the field of Cosmeceuticals or Functional skincare products.  These names come from the presence of active ingredients that are recognized as playing an active role and contributing to the health of the skin.

The first approach involves the experimenting with functional ingredients targeting specific attributes of the skin based on interpreting symptoms we can see.  This is a hit-and-miss technique that relies on both expertise and luck.  The expertise for choosing the right ingredients, and the luck to have correctly interpreted the underlying cause of the visible symptoms – which are often misleading.

The second approach is to provide the body’s innate ability to correct and heal itself with a wide ranging set of tools in the form of potent functional compounds.  By their very nature, these actives need to be of an organic origin in order to achieve symbiosis and be harmonious with the body.

This second approach is by far the easiest, safest, and most effective.  It eliminates the guesswork and luck, and allows the biohacker to rely on innate biological machinations within the body that science is yet to fully comprehend.  So while scientists study the roots, you can enjoy the fruit.

Function skincare will change your skin and save you time.

While this holistic form of functional skincare is simple, assembling the components is not.  I’ve spent over 30 years working with natural therapeutics and active ingredients from every corner of the world.

The challenge is not finding potent bioactives to biohack your skin.

The challenge is finding the right bioactives, keeping their potency from deteriorating, and combining them to work synergistically within a formula people can afford the time and money to use.

In my view, there needs to be three primary criteria to any biohack.  It needs to be effective, safe, and practical in its implementation.  I’ve seen a number of protocols and stacks (formulas) that are totally impractical and unsustainable in anything other than a clinical environment.  If biohacking is to be true to the ethic of benefiting others by paying it forward, it has to attainable and practical in its application.

As a designer and formulator, my greatest challenge was not devising a high performance protocol.  Rather a cost effective one people could afford the time to implement within a busy lifestyle.  In a high-tech world where minutes saved equate to higher productivity, high performance with time benefit is the Holy Grail for the biohacker.

This is the first most common cause of long term failure for any biohack or health program – when it becomes too complicated or takes too long to incorporate into a busy lifestyle.  It doesn’t make sense for someone to biohack their way into a higher state of being, only to get too bogged down in the process to enjoy the benefits.

The most common cause of failure of any skin biohack, is ignorance of the 70/30 rule which states that the success of EVERY skin program is determined by what you to at the beginning of the program and not by what you apply at the end.  If you don’t get the beginning right, what you apply at the end will be of little consequence to the result.  This law every therapist lives by, is in direct contrast with commercials that would have you believe all of the magic is in the moisturizer.

If you don't get the beginning right, what you apply to your skin at the end will be of little benefit.

The 70/30 refers to bias of focusing 70% of your effort in the preparation of the skin, and 30% focused on the introduction of nourishing agents at the end.  Contrary to what a sales girl at the cosmetic counter will tell you, preparation requires far more than washing with soap and water or a cleanser.

It takes a clinical therapist 30-40minutes to cleanse, detox, unblock, stimulate and increase the permeability of the skin as preparation for any transformational treatment to have any chance of working.  Just like preparing the soil for planting seeds.  There are no exceptions to achieving a healthy harvest.

This is fine as a monthly ritual, but totally impracticable on a daily basis.  For this very reason, domestic skincare will never compete with clinical programs for performance.  Does biohacking have the potential to bridge this gaping hole?  What would be the point to all this discussion and research unless we overcame the challenge with a viable solution.  That is exactly what we did.

 Bio-hacking bridges the performance gap between DIY skincare and a 40 minute spa facial treatment.

Eve Skincare is born.

Eve Skincare is the result of 30 years of biohacking using the world’s most recognized therapeutic grade natural active ingredients.  In keeping with the 70/30 law, the Eve Skin Rejuvenation Treatment is a single lotion that incorporates an ancient herbal peat comprising some 700 varieties of healing plants (a list can be found here) and other therapeutic grade organic actives (listed here) which duplicate the entire 40 minute clinical treatment - in just two minutes.   A biohack like this can only be found in nature.

And true to our criteria of any biohack, the Eve Rejuvenation treatment delivers quantifiable performance with ultimate simplicity and safety.  Despite their potency, all of the active ingredients incorporated in the treatment can be consumed.  Even the waste water after rinsing can be put onto plants to enhance their growth.

The Eve Rejuvenation Treatment is the ultimate ready-made biohack, using the purist ethics of the biohacker.  Possible only by harnessing the power and synergy of living bioactives to strengthen and empower the body’s innate healing systems to overcome deficiencies and dysfunctions to attain a higher state of being.  And because every person has different and varying needs throughout the year, this biohack yields different results depending on your unique and specific needs.

Any biohack needs to be quantifiable to be valid.  Because of the interaction between the body and therapeutic grade herbs and bioactives, the benefits can be quantified in the first 2 minute application.  Even on the hand as this demonstration video graphically shows.

Fast track bio-hack with professional grade skincare

The Skin Rejuvenation Treatment Bar is a soap free lotion base that produces 90-120 full strength treatments .  Using a liposome style technology that encapsulates the bioatives within spheres of coconut and sustainable palm extracts ensures all of the organic oils and bioactives are protected from degradation so that each application lotion is prepared fresh and at full potency from the first to last treatment.

All you need to do is simply throw away your regular soap, cleanser, and/or shaving cream.  The Treatment Lotion will replace over six regular skincare products and routines.  This includes a deep daily detox to ensure you eliminate faster than you accumulate and achieve optimum function as the body’s third kidney.

What you can expect

From the very first application, you will notice a distinct and immediate improvement in the texture and smoothness of the skin.  The skin will be feel refreshed, hydrated, with improved even skin tone.  Open pores will be greatly reduced.

Once absorbed, the active ingredients will continue working within the tissue for over 24 hours.  In particular, oily skin and hair will respond immediately to come under control.  And while the immediate effects are impressive, over the course of the following three weeks, a healthier stronger skin will start to emerge as the new skin becomes unveiled at the surface.

The best way to understand it is to try it.  You can use it on its own, or as part of your personal skincare stack.  It will work to improve the performance of other bioactive preparations by some 300% because of its ability to prepare the body to utilize other bioactives that would otherwise achieve limited absorption.

Join us for Part II in this series of Biohacking Skin as we explore Ageproofing and examine quantifiable biofeedback between the skin and bioactive ingredients.