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What are you more

capable of? If you haven’t heard the term biohacking, you’re not alone. It is the future, and its development has been rapid and recent. It will impact your life sooner or later — maybe it already has. If you’ve taken steps to better understand your body, your DNA, and your potential, that’s biohacking. If you’ve pursued ways to improve your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or cellular health, that’s biohacking.

drift. Hacking is a creative problem solving to help improve one’s life, and biohacking turns the focus on our bodies and biology.

Biohacking: In a nutshell

Biohacking: Taking control

Biohacking is using science and technology to become the absolute best version of yourself. Essentially, it’s using all of the tools we now have at our disposal to improve our lives. Modern science is addressing every potential concern, inconvenience, or physical limit facing human bodies today. We are learning everything we can about our own biology, as well as finding ways to “hack” that biology. “Hacking” has long had a negative connotation. But as you probably know, we now use “hack” to define any type of creative optimising. For example, when you find a creative solution to an everyday problem you may call it a “life hack.” A tweak to how the furniture is assembled from the manufacturer’s instructions is an “IKEA hack”—you get the 38

Biohacking: Why?

Biohacking has actually been used for centuries. Human beings have always looked to maximise their performance, from the days of hunter-gatherers to modern Olympians. It’s not just about being bigger and faster, either. It’s about whatever is important to you and your body’s functioning. Science and technology are focusing intensely on biohacking to change lives. Nutrition has been a foundation of health and medicine from the Dark Ages. And now we know so much more than the Dark Ages. Of course, we all know not to overeat or to forget fruits and veggies, but nutritional biohacking is so much more important than that. Biohacking nutrition means identifying desirable goals we wish to achieve, then creating a nutritional portfolio designed to achieve that biological outcome. Controlling what goes in and on your body is the simplest and most immediately applicable form of biohacking — to great effect. This is why nutrigenomics is a fundamental part of biohacking a healthier life. Based on the study of the effects of nutrients and natural compounds on our genes, scientifically-backed products that support healthy ageing on a


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