Biohacking: how to unlock the potential of the human body

Although biohacking no longer seems like a fantasy novel, there is no consensus about it. Some consider it pseudoscience, others - a way to create a man of the future.

Biohacking can be seen as an optimization of the body's resources. As specialists, biohackers are approached with a request to slow down aging and reduce the risk of age-related diseases (biohackers believe that they can work with age-related diseases in a better, deeper way than modern medicine offers), as well as in an effort to improve brain function or athletic performance in order to adjust the body , unleash the potential, go beyond. Recently, there has also been a request for recovery from COVID-19 .

How did biohacking come about?

It began to develop in the first decade of the 21st century, in no small part from the so-called functional medicine. Its representatives such as Mark Hyman, Joseph Mercola, transhumanist and futurist Ray Kurzweil worked, one might say, on first-level biohacking - at this stage it could be considered more like a healthy lifestyle. In the 2010s, the idea of ​​biohacking was greatly developed under the influence of the Finnish school (see Teemu Arina) with its emphasis on mental practices, sauna and diets, Serge Faguet, Joseph Cohen, who created the site selfhacked.com.

They postulated the foundations of biohacking, that is, a systematic approach, drawing up, on the basis of a comprehensive diagnosis, an individual program not only for training, but also for a lifestyle in general: nutrition, physical activity, normalization of sleep, regulation of thinking and emotional reactions - the use of advanced and borderline methods of influencing the body not accepted by large, that is, official evidence-based medicine.