Depending on who you are, biohacking is either brilliant or nonsense. Either way, it is big business as biohacker authors and influencers take social media by storm with their (sometimes extreme) tips and techniques. What does biohacking mean? It is basically a vague and fancy term for the act of going to extremes to make your body work as well as possible, to help you live longer, and healthier. But as a recent Forbes piece put it: “Almost any tactic could be considered biohacking if an individual employs it with the goal of enhancing their biology in some way.”
The man who invented the term, Dave Asprey, likened the practice to the way that computer hackers “gain control of the system by changing the way they get in”. The medical world does not condemn biohacking, however the jury is out on many of its promises. It is therefore left up to me to try out some of the techniques for a week and report my findings to the scientific community (or at least, the Evening Standard).
