Do-it-yourself biology

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Yeah, their health maxing or their hacking their bodies.

Biohacking, yes.

Yes, yes.

So that's one type of user.

Doesn't seem to have hurt herself.

Biohacking started in the late 1980s as a do-it-yourself biology practice and expanded into garage labs in the mid-2000s.

Back then, biohacking defined as working outside of academia and the medical industry.

That made biohackers essentially guinea pigs who offered up their own bodies as labs injecting or implanting things inside of themselves to see if that would lead to a cure or better treatment.

You ain't not, you're not even using that Korean baby dick.

Come on now.

Biohacking.

Meetups and startups.

The more you invest in your health, the better your life will get.

Biohacking really does broaden your horizons.

It's the most surefire way to to wield true free will, to rise above mundanity, to plot your own course, and take your destiny into your own hands.

But as I was reading this grandstanding introduction, I thought, not that Ben was wildly exaggerating, but that he's a person who has won the genetic lottery in a major way, and then stacked on a bunch of hacks, resulting in his awesome life.

Hello everybody! Welcome back to Biohacking with Brittany.

Thank you for listening to this episode today.

So, so many changes are happening.

Your peptides aren't working and everyone keeps telling you it's a scam.

Biohacking expert Dylan Gemelli says it's almost never that simple.

He's built a following of over 1.5 million people exposing the toxic underground of the research chemical world.

Today he's breaking down the real reasons peptides fail, the toxins, the fillers, your nervous system, and maybe even your faith.

I'm gonna jump right in with you.

You, you, uh, bumped into me at the Biohacking Conference in Austin, Texas, and I ended up getting a Juvent panel at my house to stand on in the morning, which has these micro vibrations.

Define that device for me.

What category does it fit in in wellness technology?

Singing is good.

Biohacking? Is that a spiritual practice? I don't know.

I feel, so I had this lady on and she owns an acupuncture and turned on clinic in San Diego.

And she says, yeah, she's like people, she's like with all of the wearables and devices and eating all the things and people are coming into my clinic more stressed when they're doing all that versus picking a couple of things.

Let's look at Gabriel Licina.

Biohacking is driven by this belief that the human body is just biological hardware waiting for a user-installed software update

Totally bypassing clinical trials or ethical review boards.

Licina wanted to give humans night vision, so he concocted a mixture containing chlorine E6, which is actually an FDA-approved drug used to treat night blindness and occasionally in cancer treatments.