#12: Dasha Maximov – How to recover from a heavy brain concussion

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 Dasha Maximov is former M&A consultant turned biohacker after six concussions. She has started a female biohacker community and is the COO of the Health Optimization Summit. Dasha shares how she has gone to dozens specialists and tried several biohacks to now finally getting her health back. She ends up with some tips for female health and what test to get as a woman to improve your health. This show notes provide a lot of scientific resources to go deeper into the proof behind some of the aspects that are often met with skepticism.

Show notes:

0.45: How Dasha got into biohacking

2.30: Six brain concussions and how that changed Dashas life

6.30: What a concussion is

8.30: Brain health hacks

9.14: Flickering light and why it is not good for you

10.20: Some of the different specialist Dasha went to

11.10. Why Dasha changed her diet from being a vegetarian to eating a lot of fish

12.13: The fish that Dasha eat

14.30: Light, grounding, and non-native EMF

16.00: The importance of light

19.50: What grounding is and why it is good for you

23.00: Non-native EMF

24.48: How being electro hypersensitive is now recognized as a condition in the UK

26.00: Whether you should sleep with your phone next to you or not

28.03: How big of a difference does EMF really do?

30.02: Dasha's setup for the bedroom

34.30: How the regulation of mobile phones was made and why that is a problem

36.15: Airtube

38.10: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

40.02: Starting a Female health community

41.20: Where to start when looking into female health

44.01: What test to get as a women

47.00: Health Optimization Summit

Final recommendations from Dasha:

1. Start getting DHA
2. Get the sunlight in the morning and block blue light
3. Stop or eliminate Non-EMF

Links to selected resources:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/biohackingwomen/ 

https://www.growthisland.io/blog/8-andy-mant-why-different-types-of-light-might-be-messing-up-your-health-what-to-do-about-it%2F

https://jackkruse.com/

https://www.healthoptimisation.com/

Erica Mallery Blythe – Researcher on EMF. She was featured in the documentary, Resonance, Beings of Frequency: https://vimeo.com/54189727

– Children & EMF: https://www.radiationresearch.org/articles/dr-erica-mallery-blythe-electromagnetic-radiation-health-and-children-2014/

– More info about Electrohypersensitivity

https://www.radiationresearch.org/images/rrt_articles/Dr_Erica_Mallery-Blythe_EHS_A_Summary_Working_Draft_Version_1_Dec_2014_for_EESC_Brussels.pdf

Reference on Grounding

– Metanalysis of Grounding from 2012: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/

– Grounding and Mood: Improved Mood after grounding for >1 hour (2015 study): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/06.PR0.116k21w5

– Analysis of Ion Flow between Human Body and the Local Ground (honor thesis explaining what grounding is; more informative rather than research, but interesting nonetheless): https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=honors

– Earthing: Health Implications of Reconnecting the Human Body to the Earth’s Surface Electrons (2012 study): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/

– Grounding improves vagal tone in preterm infants and improves resilience to stress in preterm infants (2018 study): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5542808/

Reference on Non-Native electric fields

There are loads of references I could send you, these are probably the top ones:

– Good, easy to read, and practical book about nnEMF from my friend Nick Pinaeault — The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs: https://amzn.to/2Dv20dq

– Wi-Fi – New meta-analysis paper by Prof. Martin Pall (2018) – The paper summarizes the various health effects found to be caused by WiFi. Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355?via%3Dihub

– Cancer from Cell Towers – Meta Analysis Paper- Yakymenko et al (2011) – a good summary of studies that show that wireless radiation from cell towers and radars has severe adverse effects. Long-Term Exposure to Microwave Radiation Provokes Cancer Growth: Evidence From Radars and Mobile Communication Systems: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21716201

– Reduced Sperm Count – Zilberlicht (2015) –  Dozens of studies prove beyond a doubt that wireless radiation adversely affects the sperm. Habits of Cellphone Usage: https://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(15)00300-4/fulltext

– Oxidative Stress Mechanism – Meta Analysis Paper – Yakymenko (2015) – This study shows that 93/100 studies show that wireless radiation causes oxidative stress, a mechanism that can lead to cancer, non-cancer diseases and DNA damage. This study disproves the wireless industry’s misleading statements that there is no mechanism by which non-thermal levels of wireless radiation can affect the body. Oxidative Mechanisms of Biological Activity of Low-Intensity Radiofrequency Radiation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15368378.2015.1043557?journalCode=iebm20&

Video with a meter and phone next to it where it is turned on, turned off etc.

Here is a simple video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XKNeOtzl4 

Airtube

https://emfacademy.com/best-air-tube-headset/

Note, read page 139 of the Non Tinfoil book re: bluetooth devices… specifically footnote 422 – “In one case, EMF expert Michael Neuert reports having measured levels of RF radiation emitted by a Bluetooth earpiece which were 7 times higher than the levels emitted by a cell phone. Yikes.”

Links to Dasha:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dashamaximov/

https://www.instagram.com/_dashofhealth/