Ben Greenfield

Now I do podcasting, I write articles, I do freelancing, I write books, I invest in different companies in the health and fitness sector.

The original biohackers were like human cyborgs.

I run membership-based websites and content-based websites, and I own a supplements company.

These were people that would implant metal into their fingers to be able to interact with screens, very similar to Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

And I just basically kind of shifted and did a little bit more of a lifestyle design approach to work from home and to, like I said, unschool my sons and be kind of a fully present father and husband.

compasses installed in the chest that would vibrate when you face true north, implants in the ears to enhance hearing, and all manner of different forms of hardware that would be attached to the human body, which many of the early day biohackers would call wetware, and essentially the

So that's what I do now, starting off from backwoods of Idaho.

And interestingly enough, now I'm building a farm in Idaho that will be done next summer.

So I'll be moving back over with all the rednecks and the hicks.

Biohacking used to be the use of technology to enhance human biology or shortcut certain aspects of human biology to allow the body to work better or the brain to work faster.

Another common definition of biohacking comes from the exercise industry.

And that's like all of the early day body builders who would use steroids and hormones and off-label pharmaceuticals and chemicals to kind of like morph the body into a giant muscular machine.

Well, it's funny because you're right, it gets thrown around a lot.

And now I think you're a biohacker if you put some butter in your morning tea or coffee or hold your breath while you're exercising.

And we see a lot of that type of flavor of biohacking now in the exercise industry, you know, different peptides and stem cells and protocols and gene therapies to kind of like get the body to live longer or work better or be bigger.

The original biohackers were like human cyborgs.

These were people that wouldn't plant metal into their fingers to be able to interact with screens, very similar to Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

whatever the case may be.

But if you combine all those different flavors of what you define biohacking as, I think that ultimately the definition I'd roughly describe would be the use of science, technology, and a variety of different modern tools to enhance human biology in some manner, in the same way that someone might

compasses installed in the chest that would vibrate when you face true north, implants in the ears to enhance hearing, and all manner of different forms of hardware that would be attached to the human body, which many of the early day biohackers would call wetware.