Thread by @startupdaemon

GET SMART: How to Raise Your So-Called IQ

Don't believe the online hacks & the clueless quackademics.

>>> Intellect is NOT fixed, how you use it even less so. <<<

Don't believe me either.

Make an effort to level up and see for yourself.

This is what you CAN do. Your choice.

This are all the techniques to improve cognitive performance.

Short-term and long-term.

Some of these things will give immediate results.
Others will take months and years.

I didn't read this in a book.
I tried every single thing myself.

And I don't care about your excuses.

1) Drink a lot of water.

Most people are dehydrated AF. Chronically.

If you drink coffee, smoke or eat a lot of processed food products, you're almost certainly dehydrated.

Invest in getting a mineral water filter - NOT bottled water.

2) Don't eat processed food products.

They contain synthetic chemicals which fuck with your dopamine and serotonin receptors; toxify and dehydrate; sabotage your gut fauna - and so your gut neurons.

I can keep going forever.

You just stahp.

3) Eat SALT and supplement with minerals you lack.

Sodium is an essential neurotransmitter and your body - if healthy - has the capacity to remove any excess.

Eat as much salt as you want & make sure you have other essential minerals: potassium, zinc, magnesium, selenium etc.

4) Don't eat breakfast.

Breakfast signals to your brain it can kick back. Your gut neurons go in digestion mode instead of hunting/focus mode.

Skip breakfast, lose weight and jack up your energy level and productivity.

5) Avoid drinking coffee.

I love coffee. For the bitter taste, not for the caffeine.

Coffee dehydrates you because it's a diuretic, which means you also lose vitamins and minerals faster.

Coffee is often toxic because additives and burnt when roasted.

But there's much worse.

Coffee messes up your dopamine receptors and adrenal balance.

Dopamine and adrenaline are essential to maintaining focus and your capacity for DIRECTED ATTENTION.

Most importantly, coffee depletes serotonin - a neurotransmitter critical to emotional control and self-awareness.

6) Do half an hour of HIIT cardio every day.

Alternating sprinting and walking is the fastest way to improve cognition through exercise - FASTER than strength training.

It improves memory, mood, emotional and hormonal regulation, aerobic capacity etc. etc.

DO IT DAILY!

7) Muscle up with HIIT strength training.

Muscle tissue boosts your overall energy level because it's rich in mitochondria - the power plants of the body.

HIIT strength training has proven effects on mood and hormonal self-regulation & aerobic capacity. Huge long-term benefits.

8) Fast 1-3 days a week.

Fasting water-only allows your body to digest dead tissue & expel dead fauna from your gut.

Regular practice triggers your brain into hunting mode and improves hormonal signaling.

It wards off and even heals neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

9) Avoid eating refined carbohydrates.

Insulin resistance is just the tip of the fuckberg as to how high-glycemic-load foods mess up your hormones.

Glucose spikes inflict direct damage on nerve tissue & throw your entire endocrine system into the orchestra.

Sugar is POISON. ☠️

Ditching carbs which lead to blood-sugar spikes yields positive effects within a week.

The improvement compounds for up to 3 months forward as your internal glands, neurons & gut fauna recover from the damage.

You'll have so much energy, you won't need to sleep more than 6 h.

10) Drink lots of tea, especially herbal tea.

Tea is a tonic (even when caffeine-free) that allows you to hydrate & replenish minerals at the same time and naturally.

+ Immunity.
+ Focus.
+ Detox.
+ Energy.

Study and use clean teas to maximize health & cognitive performance.

11) Write for an hour every day.

Not obvious, but essential for long-term cognitive gains.

You get a bag of side benefits like better emotional regulation, improved focus etc.

Critical: improves your ability to operate semantics. (Hint: everything social works on semantics.)

12) Practice a new language daily.

Every language is a different semantic system and opens new ways to see the world - and manipulate it.

With every new language you add Power of Mind.

You can just be copying a foreign book daily - still works. INFINITE room for improvement.

Language learning (including computer languages!) improves your neuroplasticity - and your mind's flexibility.

It literally makes your brain regenerate & grow nerve tissue - it's the brain equivalent of dead-lifts.

The more disparate the languages, the faster your gainz.

13) Read books.

Reading isn't as beneficial as you'd be led to believe. It's just a way to expand your vocabulary, so any effect is really that of language learning - and fizzles out quickly.

But you can use reading to improve cognition in a way that you were never told before.

How do you maximize cognitive gains from reading books?

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