Ben Greenfield

And essentially,

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.

use a computer in a different way, or upgrade that computer in some way could be called a computer hacker, or even someone who might go into the back end of the computer software and alter the code.

Another common definition of biohacking comes from the exercise industry.

You could say that biohacking would kind of like be what a computer hacker would do to computers, except a biohacker would do that to biology.

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.

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.

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

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I have said that phrase of one foot in the realm of ancestral wisdom and the other foot in the realm of modern science.

I'm walking through the forest behind my house.

I've got this half mile long obstacle course that I've carved through the forest.

And in a moment, I'll come up on the goat and the chicken pens and a big garden of six

use a computer in a different way, or upgrade that computer in some way could be called a computer hacker, or even someone who might go into the back end of the computer software and alter the code.

raised beds for gardening, and, you know, a lot of kind of like outdoor farm style living.

You know, we often go outside, again, in this same forest, and we'll plant forage and find wild mint and nettle and mushrooms and harvest things that we can use in cooking.

You could say that biohacking would kind of like be what a computer hacker would do to computers, except a biohacker would do that to biology.