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Teemu Arina<\/a> speaking at Proekspert\u2019s internal conference<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cWanna learn some Jedi sh*t?\u201d biohacker Teemu Arina<\/a> prods the audience from the stage.<\/p>\n Dressed entirely in black, Arina could be Neo from The Matrix or Locutus of Borg (when wearing a microphone). His appearance suggests he\u2019s of another planet or a parallel universe. But the reality is that he\u2019s visiting us from the future.<\/p>\n Arina may be the world\u2019s ultimate biohacker<\/a>. With every breath he gathers data. He sleeps with a headset to track sleep patterns. Upon awakening he dons a biometric shirt. His morning coffee is a concoction of ten ingredients designed for an optimal start. His kitchen resembles a chemistry lab, allowing him complete control of what enters his body.<\/p>\n The air in his home is humidified, purified, and ionized. Its lighting adjusts automatically to harvest daylight, and he is sensitive to the fact that LEDs block melatonin production by a factor of five when compared to incandescents. When on alien terrain he often wears yellow glasses to protect against toxic lighting.<\/p>\n Arina\u2019s entire day \u2014 his entire life \u2014 is committed to optimization: diet, biology, even posture. He knows that if a Homo sapien dips his head at a 60-degree angle to strike the Homo mobilephonus pose, it puts 27 kilograms of stress on the neck.<\/p>\n He regularly visits Estonia\u2019s SynLab to track 100 blood markers. His blood analysis is snapshot of his health at a given moment which, coupled with real-time data, allows him to monitor change and to predict his medical future.<\/p>\n Thanks to data, Arina knows that at 7:30 a.m. his melatonin secretion will stop. At 8:30 a bowel movement is likely. At 5 p.m. he will enjoy his greatest cardiovascular efficiency and muscle strength. And it is this very same data that told him he\u2019d get the flu.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw the trend change,\u201d he said, speaking at Proekspert\u2019s 2017 internal conference. \u201cMy sleep data showed that my nervous system was not recovering from the day. I had not been sick in four years, but in seven days I had contracted the flu.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re stressed you\u2019re not creative. You play it safe and do the things you know work. You also lose your immune system.\u201d His solution was to lie low for a month, allowing his parasympathetic nerve system to fully recover. He\u2019s been healthy since.<\/p>\n Why does Arina do it? Is he a Borg driven by the need for perfection?<\/p>\n In 2012, Arina developed an ulcer from overworking. His doctor gave him the standard prescription but it didn\u2019t work. \u201cSo I studied medication and food. I built a new diet from the bottom up and showed my doctor what I was planning to do.\u201d<\/p>\n The doctor felt Arina\u2019s program was promising, but cautioned him that people rarely change their behavior. But Arina changed. His ulcer healed, his allergies vanished, and he began to feel better every day. \u201cYou are what you repeat,\u201d he says. \u201cSelf-tracking tools helped me change. I want to show that with data we can move from a reactive way to a proactive way of living.\u201d<\/p>\n To Arina, data is a source of productivity and well being. A quantified self enables him to constantly upgrade himself. He\u2019ll live longer and perform at his peak. But what more could he do? What if cutting-edge manufacturing technology were applied to biohacking? What else could technology then offer? Proekspert Software Development Engineer Kadri-Liis Kusmin says manufacturing technologies are ripe to be applied to biohacking. \u201cThis is entirely doable using the concept of the digital twin, a computerized companion of a physical asset that enables real-time monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics of that asset.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t sci-fi dreaming,\u201d says Kusmin. \u201cThanks to the internet of things, the use of digital twins is the here and now and it\u2019s very cost-effective. Kusmin grants that the manufacturing industry has more resources at its disposal than individual hackers like Arina, but says it\u2019s only a matter of time before digital twins find their way into Arina\u2019s world.<\/p>\n \u201cWith this kind of technology available,\u201d she says, \u201cwe can all be Jedis.\u201d<\/p>\n Teemu Arina spoke at Proekspert\u2019s internal conference. Proekspert specializes in data science and embedded analytics to make devices, machines, and robots smart.<\/p>\n First published in Director.<\/p>\n If you would like to discuss it further, contact us<\/a> or join our newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If a biohacker can use data to predict when he\u2019ll get the flu, then what are the possibilities for society? \u201cWanna learn some Jedi sh*t?\u201d biohacker Teemu Arina prods the audience from the stage. Dressed entirely in black, Arina could be Neo from The Matrix or Locutus of Borg (when wearing a microphone). His appearance suggests he\u2019s of another planet or a parallel universe. But the reality is that he\u2019s visiting us from the future. Data speakers Arina may be the world\u2019s ultimate biohacker. With every breath he gathers data. He sleeps with a headset to track sleep patterns. Upon awakening he dons a biometric shirt. His morning coffee is a concoction of ten ingredients designed for an optimal start. His kitchen resembles a chemistry lab, allowing him complete control of what enters his body. The air in his home is humidified, purified, and ionized. Its lighting adjusts automatically to harvest daylight, and he is sensitive to the fact that LEDs block melatonin production by a factor of five when compared to incandescents. When on alien terrain he often wears yellow glasses to protect against toxic lighting. Arina\u2019s entire day \u2014 his entire life \u2014 is committed to optimization: diet,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-data-analytics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12021,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/12021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clients.triloogia.ee\/proekspert\/wp-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Data speakers<\/h3>\n
Predicting the flu<\/h3>\n
You are what you repeat<\/h3>\n
Biohacking: beyond Arina – the digital twin<\/h3>\n
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