#261 Optimizing Physical and Mental Performance - Olli Sovijärvi, Teemu Arina and Siim Land Live Q&A

Teemu Arina (0:00)

Hi there, this is Teemu Arina from BiOcar's handbook. Welcome after our little summer break to our series of BiOcar's live shows.

Today, we are talking about how to optimize performance and function and all of those important factors. All of those important factors when it comes to just having a more successful day.

Today, we have in the studio Dr. Olli Sovijärvi and also we have a guest, Siim Land, our resident guest, sharing their views on an optimized day. We will be diving into technologies and supplements and different methodologies to make sure that you have all the everything you need to stay focused and get things done. Now, of course, it's not only about doing the work, but it's also everything that goes in preparation.

You optimize sleep the previous night or, for example, how do you get back, how do you recover from a long day that you perhaps had. And there's many different techniques and tools that we can use. And we actually have right now at biacarecenter.com, which is our online store, a discount campaign, Back to School. Because at least here in Finland, people are back to school. I don't know if it's possible everywhere in Europe, but at least we have that. So we have Back to School campaign. And there is a lot of things that will help you when it comes to cognitive performance and work in general. I see a lot of parents are also returning to work from summer break. Actually, if you really want to get the best material we have, condensed into an online course, we have the optimized work life course available at biocorcentre.com. It is a discount right now, 78 euros. And you actually get 10% extra discount with the Back to School, Back to School written together discount code when you use that during checkout. It also applies to all the great supplements and all the great tools that we have. So, if you take a look at the optimized work life course on the landing page, it was called Upgrade Workplace, but we realized that it is more about work life. It's not really about workplace, it's about work life. It's the life that surrounds, you know, your work, wherever it happens, remotely or wherever your laptop is, in a way. It's very good for knowledge workers.

Now, I would love to hear, Dr. Olli Sovijärvi, what your kind of typical ideal day would look like. If you would consider some of the routines that you deploy for your day to make sure that you're going to have all the attention you need to get things done. So what usually happens? What do you do?

Olli Sovijärvi (3:16)

Yeah, this is always the kind of question I get and many people want to know.

I guess I could say that it begins even like the previous evening and night to ensure that I get like a good night of sleep. I usually go to sleep at the same time and wake up at the same time without clock if possible.

Morning wise, the routines are highly critical to me. We actually made a podcast with Ben Greenfield about these different kind of routines and stacks. So you should definitely check that out. I think it was two years ago. But for me, what I like currently do and what I've been doing like multiple years is that when I wake up, I usually first thing I do, I go outside. Or I might actually brush my teeth first on the vibration plates to get some like vibration done with the vibrating toothbrush. So like I like to combine like different kind of things. So I usually like brush my teeth, get somebody moving, then some hydration with like some salt, good quality water. And then I head like outdoors. So I go there barefoot. I usually do some kind of movement or I sit on a bench or even on the grass and I do 10 rounds of Wim Hof breathing. 10 rounds. So that has been my routine for that maybe like the past few five months. So I get like fresh oxygen and I improve my mental state, activate my nervous system and actually practice it and practice my breathing and getting the oxygen inside the body. And also this is kind of shifting me into a different kind of mental state. Just to go this like pretty quickly, then I usually go inside, have some more water, maybe some mineral water or some salt.

I head to my Beamer mat, get eight minutes of PMF therapy and then I go to the infrared shower for some sweat. Usually it's like 20 minutes. I use that for meditation and then I take a cold shower. So this takes maybe like 40, 45 minutes. If I'm lazy, it might take an hour. And after that, I usually make this upgraded.