If you are a health-conscious individual who follows a healthy, balanced diet, these Biohacks can be great tweaks to enforce your healthy habits.

If your diet is on the unhealthy side or if you simply don’t think much about what you eat, think again and consider making some changes to get healthy and stay healthy.

Whatever your individual situation, these biohacks can help you make healthier eating changes that will last a lifetime.

This is one Biohack that so many of us neglect. A healthy digestive system reflects on our overall health and promotes the smooth functioning of the rest of our body systems.

Vitamin supplements are great but they don't come close to the powerful nutritional impact of fresh, natural foods.

This hack is simple: just eat as many fresh foods as you can every single day. Juices, salads, fruits and raw vegetables should be included in every meal – the more, the better. Some excellent suggestions for digestion-promoting foods are:

- Fresh carrots or carrot juice for enforcing mucous membranes in the intestines.

- Oranges, fresh oregano, thyme and ginger are great for reducing stomach gas.

- Celery promotes regular bowel movements and reduces constipation

- Chlorella, cranberries, blueberries, artichokes and wheatgrass support the digestive process.

Almost everyone uses foil for cooking without giving it a second thought. We use it to stew meat and poultry, we cover casseroles with it and sometimes use it to wrap and store food.

But did you know that the amount of aluminum released by foil is 6 times the daily amount that is considered safe?

Cut down on your use of foil as much as possible. Use a pressure cooker, casserole dishes with oven-resistant covers and use plastic wrap to cover or wrap food.

Quinoa is one of the best superfoods you can put into your body. Quinoa is a South American grain that is considered one of the healthiest foods in the world.

Quinoa is packed with nutrients including copper, iron, vitamin B6, thiamin, magnesium and phosphorus. It's also gluten-free.

Although quinoa is not too palatable to everybody, there are many creative ways you can incorporate it into mouth watering meals, such as adding it to stews and soups. Simply Google "Quinoa recipes" for hundreds of creative and delicious dishes.

Probiotics are the rave these days, with many health-conscious people consider them an essential health supplement. However, Pistachios are an all-natural food that contains all the properties of probiotics.

Research has found that pistachios foster and promote intestinal microbiome. They also balance cholesterol and reduce oxidative stress, leading to a healthy gut. They are also a great source of healthy fat and protein - and what's more, everybody loves pistachios!

You may actually be mildly allergic to some foods without knowing it as the symptoms are so mild. However, your body will exert more energy to flush out the allergens, which takes its toll on your overall health.

Food allergies are caused by "biogenic amines" or "histamines found in certain foods. Symptoms of intolerance include mild to strong headache, fatigue, clouded thinking and low energy.

Monitor yourself after consuming the following foods to see if you experience any of these symptoms:

- Processed meats (bacon, ham, pastrami, deli meats)

- Tomatoes

- Aged cheeses

- Eggplant

- Spinach

- Fermented foods

- Anchovies and sardines

- Alcoholic beverages and beer.

You may want to decrease or eliminate these foods from your diet for overall better health.

Isn’t it amazing how a few simple tweaks to your eating habits can make all the difference to your health and vitality? With these simple biohacks, there is no deprivation or struggling to stay on a strict diet. As long as you are eating moderately, you will see dramatic improvement with these simple diet changes. More importantly, you will have no trouble making them permanent.

Self-doubt and self-criticism can have a negative effect on your mental health if left unchecked. While a certain amount of trepidation is expected, allowing your doubts to keep you from moving forward can prevent personal growth. It is important to learn to overcome self-doubt so that you can reach your full potential in all aspects of life. If you are struggling with self-doubt, we have some effective tools that can help you push through and truly shine.

There are three main forms of self-doubt. The most common is indecisiveness or inability to execute decisions. The next most common is self-sabotage, which frequently occurs without a person's knowledge. The third is imposter syndrome in which a person feels like they don’t deserve the life they are experiencing or the accolades they receive.

It takes failure in order to excel, so it is important that you learn to be resilient. On the road to self-healing, it is critical that you anticipate setbacks. You will hit a wall and if you don't, it's because you are not putting in enough effort. Instead of letting these setbacks define your progress, remind yourself that these shortfalls will make you a more capable person. As you learn that self-doubt is nothing but baseless fear, your resilience will increase.

The mind tends to wander when it is not actively engaged. While this may not be a problem for most, those who struggle with self-doubt tend to suffer. Instead of allowing your mind to wander down negative paths, make a point of thinking about positive events to keep you engaged. If you notice your mind wandering into the land of doubts or negativity, make a point of thinking about something positive. If you have trouble suppressing your idle thoughts, keep yourself busy by reading a book or listening to a positive tinted lecture.

With social media keeping a chokehold on most people in recent years, it can be easy to follow the crowd. The disadvantage of doing so however is that it becomes hard to form a favorable opinion about yourself. Instead of paying attention to what people who don't know you have to say, focus on your own inner critic. You are the only one who knows your whole story, so write the story of your future in a positive light.

In the fast-paced society, you need to be at the top of your energy level to deal with the many challenges that you face during the day. However, many factors can leave you feeling like you're running on empty. The more you push yourself beyond your energy reserves, the more you are putting your health at risk. If you want to be at your highest level of performance, here are five pitfalls to avoid.

Even mild dehydration will slow down circulation in your body, depriving your muscles of much-needed oxygen. This can, in turn, significantly deplete your energy reserves. Severe dehydration can leave you feeling nauseous and entirely out of commission. To keep from becoming too dehydrated, be sure to drink plenty of water throughout the day.

Sugar is an incredibly addictive substance and can be found in just about every processed food. While it can make you feel energetic shortly after consuming it, it also makes your insulin levels rise before quickly dropping off. This sudden dip in your blood sugar will leave you struggling to concentrate and stay on your feet. To avoid a sugar crash, try to stick with eating unprocessed foods and avoid foods with added sugar.

When you don’t get enough sleep, you can’t be at your best. Sleep deprivation can impair your memory, alter your mood, increase your risk of chronic illnesses, like heart disease and diabetes, and cause you to gain weight. Try going to bed an hour earlier at night if you find that you are sleep-deprived.

One of the leading causes of depleted energy is stress. When your body responds to stress, adrenaline courses through your body, and cortisol levels spike. When you have ongoing stress, all of your body’s systems are affected including your cardiovascular system and immune system, leading to your energy reserves becoming chronically depleted.

Being cooped up inside all day, without sunlight and fresh air, you will likely find yourself fatigued. Often the air indoor is stuffy and infused with toxins like chemicals from synthetic materials and air fresheners. Artificial lighting can also deplete your energy and may cause you to have trouble falling asleep, and wake up still drained.

Many things in your life could be affecting your energy levels. However, starting with the above five areas is a great way for you to start feeling more alert and refreshed and ready for the day.

Stress tends to be the crutch of humanity. While most other creatures out there would most likely use stress to their advantage in order to pull through any serious life threatening situations, we tend to take a different approach when it comes to facing off against stressful situations. We usually either freeze up, leaving us completely vulnerable against any danger whatsoever, or we end up running away with our tails between our legs.

This is the sad truth behind humanity as a whole, we don’t usually know how to deal with stress or what even causes it in the first place. For example, did you know that stress used to be like a sort of spider sense for us, allowing us to foresee dangerous situations approaching us, telling us that we need to either fight it out or flee with our lives? Yes, that’s right, we used to be dependent on feelings such as stress and fear, since they would force us to pull through inhumane conditions and increase the chances of our survival as a species. Regardless of the past though, we no longer require stress as a tool in order to fight it out for our survival.

Nowadays we are taught that our survivability is already conferred to us, and instead we should concentrate on our passions and hobbies. Although this sounds good at first, this has caused us to become fragile, unwilling to be able to deal with emotions such as stress and fear.

So, despite the fact that stress is meant to help us pull through hard to deal with situations, nowadays stress seems to be nothing more than a bothersome anchor that’s holding us down. Sure, there are plenty of people that can still use stress to their advantage, but alas, too much stress can break anyone, regardless of how powerful they may be mentally or physically. This is why we’ve decided to create this short article for you in which we basically describe how you can prevent stress, deal with it and make sure that you manage it properly by the end of the day. So, without further ado, let’s start with the basics:

Pills can do a lot of good things, but they should never be used to deal with stress problems. This is because stress should not be considered a disease. We need to consider it as it is: A signal pointing out that we’re in over our heads. This basically means that we need to use mind numbing techniques such as meditation in order to pull through any stressful situation.

Yoga helps a lot; just spend your time concentrating on your form and such instead of working on things that you can’t do anything about. Meditate for a good hour and a half a day and we can assure you that your mind will be way clearer than before which will cause your stress levels to lower almost instantaneously.

This might be hard to do at first, but it’ll be worth it in the long run. Unless you’re a psychopath that’s devoid of all emotions you should be able to maintain a positive mindset on a daily basis. Sure, it might sound a bit fake at first, but that doesn’t really matter when the fact is that you will most likely improve your mental state this way over a relatively short period of time.

This is a sort of a “fake it until you make it” type of an ordeal, but if you do remind yourself to keep a positive mindset at all times then you should be able to avoid any stress build-up over the course of the day. In order to help you maintain that happiness level up and that stress level down you can also use media to your advantage. Turn off that depressing news station and instead how about you turn to some childish cartoons? Listen to happy-go-lucky music for once, try some Swing music from the 50s and relax. Life is good; there is no reason to pollute your mind with negativity and stress.

Your mental state is usually affected by what you see around you. If you see some homeless people begging at the side of the road and then you hear that your girlfriend/boyfriend has had to deal with a lot of stress that day then you’ll most likely become quite stressed as a result of that too. In order to avoid this from happening you need to make sure that you help those around you. The more people you help improve their lifestyles the better since you’ll also feel better as a result of that.

So, why not call your mother or father? Ask them how they are, tell them that you love them, that you miss them, tell them that you should hang out more, buy them flowers or whatever might make them happy, etc. Whatever it is, just remember to always respect those around you since mistreating those around you will cause you to look back more, which will in turn make you more stressed.

Instead of complaining about how you look or how you act, you need to make sure that you’re always improving yourself with every mistake. Sure, that mistake you made probably cost you a lot more than you wanted it to, but alas, as long as you learn from it and make sure that it never happens again that is no longer categorized as a mistake anymore. It is a stone that you can use to propel yourself even higher, becoming a better version of yourself as a whole.

Stop disapproving yourself and comparing yourself to everyone around you. You have your positives and they have theirs, you have your high points and so do they, and at the end of the day we all know what being overstressed feels like and not one of us likes it. So, instead of overreacting to every issue you come across, how about you analyze it carefully and move forward with a new strategy in order to avoid those circumstances from ever repeating in the first place.

When’s the last time that you decided that you needed a break? When’s the last time that you treated yourself to some alone time, in which you enjoy your own company and treat yourself to whatever you want to get? If you’re dealing with a lot of stress then the answer to that is probably “not for a long time now”. That’s one of the reasons as to why we are so stressed most of the time. We all need a break every now and then, and that’s a fact. We are not robots, we can’t work for months and months and only see to it that those around us have everything that they need to enjoy themselves. We deserve our breaks just as much as everyone else does, which is why this is so important for our mental states.

So, how about you take a much needed vacation somewhere this weekend? If you have the budget for it then you can always go for the classic “throw dart at a world map and see where it hits”, but if you prefer something more casual how about you instead just go to a local forest and enjoy nature for a bit? Pick up a book, take your dog out for a walk, go jogging, go to the local park and eat an ice cream in the blazing sun. You choose whatever makes you happy, regardless of how costly it may or may not be. You’re doing this for yourself, remember that. You’re not doing this for Jim from management, you’re not doing this for your snobby sibling or your obnoxious boss. You’re the target of this experiment and you earned this, so you might as well enjoy it.

If somebody asked you why you eat, you'd think they were pretty silly. We eat because we feel hungry, right? In most cases that's true but sometimes, we eat when we're not hungry. We think we are but we're actually responding to a mental trigger or thought.

Triggers are one of the key causes of overeating and weight gain. Once you recognize that they're mental stimuli not related to real hunger, you can easily diffuse them. The following 5 triggers are the most common ones that most people experience:

You have a horrendous day at work. You miss an important deadline and your boss gives you a dressing down. Your teammates misunderstood communication and work has to be redone. The whole day is a crazy dash to pull everything together. This is a familiar scenario for most of us.

You get home feeling miserable and sorry for yourself. "What the hell," you think, "I'm gonna order a big pizza with everything on it. I deserve it…" Then maybe you gorge on ice cream after the pizza.

Comfort triggers are associated with feeling down and depressed and finding comfort in food. Bad days, breakups, arguments and setbacks are all triggers that cause you to seek comfort in food and oftentimes, rich, calorie-packed food. This is where the term 'comfort food' comes from.

Anxiety and worry work in the same way as comfort triggers to calm fears. Worrying about finances, health, job security and other issues in your life can cause you to reach for food to dull the fear.

Boredom can cause you to reach for food absentmindedly just because you have nothing better to do. The COVID lockdowns are a clear example of this.

Many people complained that being stuck at home has caused them to gain weight. Nor because of inactivity but because they eat more out of boredom.

What do we usually do when we get a promotion or achieve big success? We treat our friends or family to a big dinner out. Food becomes associated with reward and celebration.

We often reward ourselves with food because we feel we deserve a treat. And typically, that food is not a salad or light snack but something rich and calorie-packed.

Some people can't resist the smell of baking. They just have to walk onto the bakery store and buy something rich and sweet. Likewise, other people are triggered to eat snacks if frying or certain spices.

Another example is a sudden feeling of hunger when we see an appealing food ad or are attracted by the packaging of certain foods. From experience, we know the food's not going to be as good as it looks in the photo, but we buy it anyway. Usually, that particular food is packed with calories, sugar or unhealthy fats.

Identifying your personal eating triggers can be a big breakthrough for you. Knowing that they originate in your head and not in your stomach, you can stay alert for them.

You can either avoid situations or places where you'll be exposed to these triggers or diffuse them by immediately distracting yourself. A short distraction is all you need to make them disappear.

The next time you feel a comfort, reward or boredom trigger for example, go for a walk, take a shower or dance to your favorite pop tune! Over time, your brain will recognize that you no longer respond to triggers by eating and they will become very rare. That way when you eat, it's going to be because you really are hungry!