 Alright guys, I want to talk about how you can improve or increase your IQ. Now this is actually a very interesting topic because a lot of people don't know this and they assume that your IQ, when I say IQ I mean your intelligence quota, is something that's like set in stone and you can't change it. That's not actually true. You can, with a bit of work, you know doing the right things and eating and you know eating and drinking the right things and doing the right exercises, you can actually increase your IQ by about 20 to 50 points, which is actually quite a lot. You know that's going to make a bit of a difference, that's going to make a big difference actually in terms of how available your intelligence is, how available your mental capacity is to you. So there's a few ways I want to start by doing this and what I'll do is at the end I'll explain like the, I guess you could say the instant fixes, the things that you can do sort of now that are going to make a difference now. Okay but first I want to talk about the foundations because if you don't do this stuff, if you don't get the foundations right, you're going to miss the whole point here and it's really going to be something that's difficult for you. Okay so the first thing that you need to think about when you're trying to improve your IQ, you need to realise that firstly IQ is a bit of a flawed test. It doesn't really measure things like your emotional intelligence you know or your, there are certain levels of thinking and different abilities that you can have which don't necessarily correlate with a high IQ. So although a high IQ is something to boast about you know it makes your ego feel good if you can say that your score is higher than somebody else's, in terms of your available intelligence it doesn't make that much of a difference. That being said it's still important okay and these things that I'm going to show you these things are going to help you improve your overall intelligence not just your IQ although it will affect your IQ but everything. Okay so how well you can articulate yourself, how well you can bring memories and thoughts to mind when you need them. You know all of these different things it's going to help you with that okay it's going to help you with all of those different mental acuity related performance tasks. Things the way you need to use your brain in an in an effective way. So the first thing and believe it or not this is actually probably the most important thing is what you eat and when you eat it I should say. So there are two parts to this firstly what you eat let's just talk about that. The foods that you put into your body directly relate to how well you can use your brain and body. The things that you eat literally become your whole body you've heard the phrase that you are what you eat that's so true. So literally like say if you're eating if you're pounding hamburgers and cheeseburgers and sugar and stuff every day of course your body is not going to get the nutrients it needs from that of course right and of course you're going to suffer mentally in terms of how well you can use your brain you're going to have brain fog you're going to be slow and stupid essentially. You need to think about the foods that you're essentially just consuming on a daily basis that is going to make the biggest difference combined with the second thing that I'm going to talk about. I'm not going to lecture on you know the benefits of a vegan or plant-based diet because I think deep down we all sort of know that's the right thing to do. Not from a moral point of view but just from a health perspective we inherently know if you really think about it in a quiet room when your friends aren't there to laugh at you you know that a salad is healthier than a burger you know that pounding cheeseburgers and crisps and sugar and chocolate that is less healthy than eating a varied plant-based diet like you'd have to be pretty silly to really think that the junk food fast food diet is more healthy than a plant-based diet so we sort of already know that stuff you know but let's put the science and studies aside for a second you know that there is a certain type of food that you should be eating and a certain type of food that you probably shouldn't be eating just be honest with yourself you know it doesn't have to be you don't have to label it as some sort of diet or some sort of routine or a set of rules just consider what you genuinely think is the healthiest thing to eat and then just do that now of course you do need to research it to some degree because you might think genuinely that eating loads of chips and mayonnaise and sugar is healthy you might think that for some reason it gets like a bit of uh it gets into more of a confusing topic when you talk about things like fish eggs you know dairy these things there's always a debate around these things and until you really do the research and dive into it which takes a long time you're going to be you're going to be victim to things like myths and to things like to things like these fitness magazines saying that oh this one study shows that eggs are good for you and then next week they say oh this this study shows eggs are actually bad for you forget all that for a second just try and shift your focus in terms of what you're eating shift your focus from sugary fast food junk food to how can I eat a more healthy diet whether that's eating more vegetables you know eating more greens and fiber and grains and things like that just shift to that and just from that you're going to see a huge difference now there are other things related to that of course like you could be allergic to certain foods you know you could be intolerant to certain foods the only way of really knowing what you're gonna what's going to be the best thing for you to do is to get an allergy test get a comprehensive allergy test work out exactly what type of foods you're allergic to because there's a chance like say if you're allergic to wheat or gluten or something like this if you didn't know that and it was just like a minor allergy or a minor intolerance you could be eating the foods that are inflaming your body and your digestive system every day and you don't really notice it other than oh you feel a slight brain fog or you feel like you're slightly tired or less energetic and you can't focus on something right but until you actually do that allergy test you'll never be able to say oh it's because of this food I'm eating because unless it has like a really vital unless it has a really aggressive reaction in your body you're just going to ignore it and you're just going to assume that that is normal you're going to assume that that brain fog caused by whatever food is the normal state and you're just tired because that's who you are not true you shouldn't be feeling tired you shouldn't feel brain fog you should be feeling clear and alert almost all day that's something I really do believe you know if you don't feel like that then there's something wrong at some point you know whether that's with your diet you're sleeping your mindset your whatever it is but there is there is normally a cause to how you're feeling so if you're not feeling alert all day it's probably because of your diet and you know to go micro within that it's probably because of a certain type of food within your diet that you've been eating for a long time that you don't know you're allergic to or intolerant of so that's that's the food side of things right I almost forgot to say there's one very important thing about the foods you eat and that is this when you eat foods whatever the food is right you're going to get a surge of insulin this is your body's reaction to the sugar in the food most foods contain sugar okay of some degree when you eat these foods and your body reacts in this way you feel at least to some degree sluggish you feel slow you feel tired okay fatigued I would advise actually not eating anything and just getting all of your energy from water no I'm joking no what I would advise is not eating anything from when you wake up until about one or two in the afternoon this is known as intermittent fasting you've probably heard this on various other podcasts and things it's a very healthy and useful way of getting you've got to understand that when you eat a meal your digestive system activates you start digesting it you start feeling tired and feeling like you need to rest etc right but if you don't eat a meal your mental powers are pretty much doubled now I've tested this myself and I've I find that if I compare my mental performance before eating a meal to after eating a meal it's it's halved so what I would suggest to do is just don't eat anything from when you wake up until about one or two in the afternoon and then from then on from one or two p.m you can then eat until you go to bed or until you know dinner time whatever just having that mental energy in the morning is so so useful I like to do they say you do your best work within the first say six hours of waking up it's so true really is so true and that's why I like to wake up early between five and seven a.m sometimes it varies a bit depending on where I am but I like to wake up early and just do the hardest part of my day's work straight away without eating if you wake up and then you do a little routine and then you have breakfast by the time you start working your body's just starting to digest the food and your mental powers are just gone you know and I'm sure you've found this for yourself we're all familiar with how how bad that slump is in the middle of the day when you just finished lunch normally happens between two and three in the afternoon and your body's just digesting that big lunch you've had and you find that you can't focus on anything you can't work properly you can't concentrate and it's because firstly because of the food you are eating it probably isn't the best you know maybe it's not the healthiest food you could be eating but secondly even if it is there is always some degree of fatigue after eating a meal the bigger the meal the more the fatigue usually for that reason I like to at the very very most I will have a small smoothie in the morning just enough so that when I take my multivitamin I'm not going to feel nauseous because it's on an empty stomach that is it most and probably eight or nine times out of 10 probably eight or nine times out of 10 I don't even do that I just wait until lunchtime and that has given me so much mental energy like the work I've done and how much more productive I've been just by doing that is far far more important to me than feeling a little bit hungry during the morning and to be honest you don't once you've done it a few days you don't even notice it like you don't even feel like you need to have breakfast it's only in your mind next thing and this is something that I speak a lot about on my lucid dreaming channel is your sleep the way you sleep how often and with what quality makes a huge difference to how you feel and what energy you have during the day so and I'm just going to simplify this because this is going to be a huge video otherwise I'm going to simplify this we are essentially mammals okay we are mammals that operate in terms of biology and systems so the systems in our body specifically the hormonal systems associated with sleeping and waking up are known it's known as your circadian rhythm so when you when the sun rises in the morning and the light enters our retinas and shines on our bodies our bodies produce something called serotonin which is a hormone designed to wake you up give you energy and make you feel alive and give you the strength and energy you need to go about your day okay this is when the sun shines into you or onto you or into you conversely when it's dark when the sun goes down at night so you need to turn the lights on and all that stuff your body produces something called melatonin which is the sleep hormone the hormone of darkness when this is in your bloodstream you feel tired you feel like you want to sleep you feel like your system starts shutting down and you literally have less energy and you're able to focus less because your brain is starting to go to sleep this happens whether we like it or not this is who we are this is how we're coded as human beings this happens to all of us but what happens in modern civilization in today's society what happens when the sun goes down it gets dark we turn the light on and so what that's doing is that's keeping us in this awake state of course right we want to stay awake but it's making sure that the serotonin keeps being produced by our bodies and our bodies can't produce the melatonin which is essential for falling asleep right our bodies are designed to produce a certain level of melatonin when it gets dark and that's designed to peak up to a point here where you feel so tired that you fall asleep and when you do it right when you actually fall asleep in an in alignment with this system with a circadian rhythm you don't worry about things like insomnia you don't worry about things like not being able to fall asleep on time you know or taking hours to fall unheard of right when you do it properly when you're in line with that circadian rhythm as we should be as human beings and mammals there's no problem whatsoever you know unless you have a really unusual sleep disorder or something like this if you're in line with your circadian rhythm you will fall asleep immediately like as soon as you almost as soon as your head hits the pillow if you're in line with this this system and this process but most people aren't in line with that they just and you know for through no fault of their own we've been brought up in a society based around entertainment you know we get back from work at five we think oh well i've not had a very fun day i want to entertain myself i want to do something fun for the rest of the day and because it's already dark you think oh well i'll have to turn the light on i'll watch a film i'll go on my laptop i'll watch you know netflix or whatever but in the in the wild in nature that's not what would happen what would happen is the sun would go down your melatonin levels of rise you'll become so tired that you can't stay awake and you'd fall asleep simple as that that's you know what most unless you're nocturnal that's what animals do so bear that in mind okay if you if you have trouble sleeping just follow that one thing try and go to sleep when it's dark and wake up when it's when the sun rises okay now depending on what part of the world you live in that's going to be you know more or less difficult unless you're in somewhere like scandinavia or you know in the southern part of the world your it's going to be fine right you know the sun rises and sets at reasonable times you know unless you have to be at work at a certain time you know maybe you have to get up before the sun rises or you come home from work after the sun is set you can't it can't be perfect you can't be perfect with this thing especially in today's world but if you have the flexibility to decide when you wake up and go to sleep then follow the sun or at the very least okay if you can't do that if you through whatever reason if you can't do that just make sure that for two hours before you go to sleep you don't watch any screens you don't look at your phone you just do something else you know maybe relax play an instrument meditate have a bath well whatever it is just do something other than looking at something that's going to give blue light to your body now there are ways around this you can't if you have to look at your laptop or if you really want to you can download pro you can download programs like flux fl dot ux it's not a typo that is what the program is called you can find links in the description or just google it what that does is it takes the blue light out of the screen so that you aren't kept awake by the screen it looks like a red or sort of orange glow on the screen and it takes a bit of getting used to to be honest but if you do that you know you can use your laptop and you don't have to worry about things like blue light or you know serotonin and things like that so thirdly and this is bear in mind we're still talking about how to increase your IQ right so this does all affect it believe it or not in a huge huge huge way so the third thing is to do things that challenge you in every way you can imagine right so humans are built humans are built to seek comfort and avoid discomfort okay this is the premise of the limbic system the reptilian brain there's loads of different names for it and loads of different processes in terms but in a nutshell we we are wired as humans to avoid things that are uncomfortable for us now unfortunately we can only grow and get stronger by doing those uncomfortable things so at a certain point you have to say right well i'm going to push myself to do the uncomfortable thing in order to get stronger this is why we go to the gym this is why we exercise this is why we study things to learn and it's essentially how you're going to take your brain and create that adaptation response within it so when we subject ourselves you know body or mind to a stress the body or mind reacts by adapting so say if you lift a weight and it's slightly too heavy for you to manage comfortably next time you lift it your body will have grown stronger in order to adapt to that stress so you get stronger that's how that's how weightlifting works that's how you build muscle etc so with your mind it's sort of the same thing if you if every single day all you do is you know you file some paperwork at work for example come back watch netflix play a video game like there's there's no there's no stress on your brain really there's there's no there's nothing to cause you to need to have a higher IQ just like if you went to the gym and you never lifted any weights you wouldn't get stronger so you need to force your brain force yourself to do things that are mentally challenging every single day whether that's doing a puzzle doing riddle you know there are different brain training games you can do even even really small things that you think would just make no difference but things like brush your teeth with it with your opposite hand okay or use the mouse on your computer with the opposite hand try and train ambidexterity into your routine so you're not just relying on one hand you're relying on you're using both equally if you'll read if you're reading books which you should be try and read a little bit faster try and speed read and skim things try just constantly push your your mind on your body to do things more efficiently faster better whatever you want to call it and if you do that your brain will start adapting it will really will start adapting faster than you think so the last thing and this is what i probably assume most of you are looking for when you came to this video you wanted the instant fix because let's be honest we all do you know we're not very patient as as a species are we so the i guess you could say the instant fixes that you could do are there's a there's a mixture of things so firstly meditate every morning okay it's not as instant as you'd like but it's going to make a big difference the clarity and the stillness that you can bring to your mind secondly if you need to supplement what i would suggest you do is to take a good multivitamin and something like optineuro or mind lab pro so these the multivitamin goes without saying you need to have you know a good level of nutrients and vitamins in your body in order to do everything properly okay you need to have the right stuff in your body the other two i mentioned are actually what's known as neutropics these are smart drugs so these are actually a really exciting thing that you know i'm obsessed with this stuff you know i love finding out about these things and learning how they work and testing different neutropics and things like this if you've seen the film limitless you're familiar with them roughly how it works you take a drug or you know a neutropic and it enables your brain to fire on all circuits enables you to increase the level of mental energy that you have and there are different ones for different things different ones for like focus you know studying learning all sorts of different things the ones i like to take are purely based on the brain they are based on just increasing how well you can use your brain how fast you can think and how well you can access memories and that sort of thing right creativity so the ones i mentioned optineuro is a really really effective neutropic i actually have been using this one for a while it does it does contain caffeine but it's balanced out with eltheanine which for those of you who don't you probably don't care actually but if you for those who do care when you take caffeine you get those that boost of energy mental and physical but you also get those jitters right so you get shaky hands or whatever and then after a couple of hours you feel like you need another hit of caffeine whether that's to a coffee or a supplement or whatever when you balance it with eltheanine you eliminate those side effects and you make the effects of the caffeine last longer so eltheanine is should always be paired with caffeine in a in a new tropic anyway i'm not going to go too much into new tropics because that's another video but optineuro has groana extract which contains natural caffeine and it also contains eltheanine and a bunch of other stuff you know really really good ingredients basically it gives you a mental energy boost for about six hours and i can't fault it it's really good really effective they say you should take three capsules i just take one or two and yeah i've been using it for a while very good new tropic now mindlab pro is like the bigger version of that the better version it's slightly more expensive it doesn't contain caffeine but it doesn't need to because it's containing so many high power effective ingredients that you don't need the caffeine to get the mental boost and in all honesty it is probably healthier for you to not have the caffeine at all because when you ingest caffeine you you engage things like your dopamine system you become if you take it in the wrong way and if you don't cycle it you can become reliant on it i'm sure you're aware that people who abuse caffeine you know people who have coffee every single day they feel like they need coffee every single day in order to be human in order to actually do anything or be productive so don't get to that point you know don't abuse caffeine to the point where you you're reliant on it i never i would never suggest you become reliant on anything you know with new tropics i only supplement them when they add to what i'm already doing and where you want to have a strong foundation before you do anything like new tropics you want to have that really really strong foundation of good sleep good diet you know good mindset good habits meditation things like this when you've when you've got all of that and that's that's why i'm putting this stuff at the end of the video because when you've got all of that if you then take a new tropic it does incredible things for you you know like in the film limitless when they say it works better if you're already smart if you already have that foundation and then you take a new tropic huge results right a huge success but if you just come to the video or the article or wherever you're you know trying to get a new tropic if you just come online and you search for the limitless pill okay and you just assume that you can have all of these great results and all of this success without changing anything about your lifestyle you're not it's not going to work it's just not going to happen so and you might get a small boost from the caffeine but apart from that your mental powers they're going to be pretty much the same you know not much is going to change up there unless you have that foundation and then you supplement in the right way and it's a bigger picture type scenario that was a long video to make but that's how you can become limitless that is how you can increase your IQ your intelligence quota that's essentially if you do all of that stuff you will become smarter not just in terms of your IQ but your your entire persona and character will become a smarter one you know you'll be able to think faster you'll be able to learn better remember things more accurately and people will perceive you as being a clever person anyway if you are interested in those new tropics I mentioned there are links in the description I think you can get discounts on some of them that's it for now guys but remember don't try and look for the magic bullet or the you know the quick fix for your intelligence it's not there you know you might find a small short term boost but the real results are going to come from putting in the work building the habits building the foundations and then if you need to have like that cherry on the top go for something like a new tropic but don't rely on them done