Bio Alchemy: The Daily Biohacking Podcast

Maneesh Sethi is the founder and CEO of Pavlok (https://pavlok.com/), an incredibly interesting behavioural modification tool that's been used by thousands to quit bad habits like smoking, biting fingernails, over-eating, getting out of bed late, and so much more. Based on the theory of Pavlovian Conditioning put forward by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, it works on the principle that some of our deeply conditioned behaviours can be quite easily changed with a mild shock, or tap to the wrist, where the Pavlok device is worn. For biohackers, changing our behaviour is a big deal, and something that most high-performers want to implement more in our lives, to override old programming, negative habits, and everything in between. And like a dog being trained to know when it's dinner time by the ringing of a bell as Ivan Pavlov demonstrated, it's extremely easy to modify some of these behaviours in a very sort timeframe, by having a device like the Pavlok remind us when we're slipping into old modes of condition