What is biohacking?
Biohacking your body means changing your chemistry and your physiology through science and self-experimentation to increase energy and vitality. It’s a broad definition, but that’s also because the concept is constantly evolving.
Lifestyle and dietary changes.
These include the more traditional habits that you may not even think of as biohacking: yoga and meditation, eating healthy, spending time in nature, finding exercise you enjoy, sleeping well and using biohacking supplements. These are the rituals you must master before learning more about how to biohack.
Wearable technology.
Did you ever think of your Apple watch or weight loss app as biohacking? All the wearable technology that gives you reminders to take more steps each day, drink water or stand up and stretch is a type of biohacking – and can be extremely helpful to those who are just starting out.
Implant technology.
Many in the biohacking world consider implanted technology the next level, but it isn’t mainstream yet. Yet the technology exists for microchips, bionic eyes, mind-controlled drones and gene editing – and it could be in our futures.
Genetic engineering.
This is the type of biohacking that makes the news. It’s based on a technology known as CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), which allows individuals to edit their own genetics. It’s highly controversial and unregulated, for now existing only on the fringes of the biohacking world.
The possibilities are endless, but they are all rooted in the idea that we can change our bodies and our brains, and that by doing so we can ultimately become smarter, faster and better as human beings.
