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The knowledge of all relevant body data makes biohacking programs so effective.<\/span><\/p>\n

BEST OF | Issue 04 | AUTUMN\/WINTER 2025\/26 | Text: Christian Bonk<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting older in good health, doing an end run around creeping decline and mental deterioration… biohacking is the lifestyle trend which leads the way from the universal human dream of eternal youth to a scientifically founded sphere of present-day reality. There is no doubt: a harmonious mixture of scientific knowledge, power substances derived from nature and an attentive treatment of one\u2019s own psyche can indeed lengthen life, amplify good health and generate more quality in being alive. When will your own experiment in living-longer-better begin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biohacking, as it presents itself today, brings a roller coaster history with it. For example, in the 80s there was the phase known as do-it-yourself biology in the U.S., boasting legendary garage laboratories, an underground movement seeking to optimize one\u2019s own self, postulating a startling democratization of biological research. Even back then, the all-important goal of its followers was to achieve mastery over your own genes, to manipulate and increase the longevity of your own DNA or at very least, to influence all this in positive ways. Critics reprimanded it for biological terrorism, warned against uncontrollable risks from shoddy knowledge based on experiments carried out by non-professionals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/span>

The Brand Base Tunnel in the BIOGENA BRAND BASE 01, located in the heart of Salzburg\u2019s historic old town<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 90s, LOHAS (Leadership of Health and Sustainability) followed in its footsteps. It was a movement custom-made for prosperous professional performers. Its goal was to live life to the fullest, to the absolute hilt, yet at the highest degree of health possible, but above all to enjoy life\u2019s pleasures without unduly burdening the environment. Here, too, there were harsh critics who admonished LOHAS for camouflaging what was essentially a luxurious lifestyle with a thin environmentally friendly mask… made of organic cotton, it goes without saying.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the era of technological body measurements got underway. Fitness-trackers were the hot property of the hour, providing to their wearers well founded data ranging from pulse frequency with the quality of an ECG, documenting individual phases of nocturnal sleep, counting steps taken over 24-hour periods, and even calculating the calories of what was being consumed. For many people, these devices constituted the foundations of a new personal fitness training and a healthy regime of nutrition containing as few perilous foods as possible. Those were the days when carbohydrates, fats, cholesterol got their names written into the No-No black book of nutritive elements. Then at the start of the 2000s, rumours arose that the unbelievable masses of data which had been collected on the wristband sensors and digital chest bands made it possible for the manufacturers of these devices to predict the moment of death down to the precise week, more or less, for all those who wore these devices on a sustained basis… just in case they weren\u2019t struck by lightning before then.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/span>

Data-driven health checkups are the foundation of long-term therapy success. \/ SHA Spain<\/span><\/p>\n

Biohacking \u2013 the dream of living until you are 180<\/h2>\n

But let\u2019s now turn to the current trend of biohacking, which in the interim has become a deadly serious and often pursued path on how to make life healthier, fuller, happier. There has hardly been anyone who left a greater imprint on the concept of biohacking than the former Silicon Valley nerd, Dave Asprey. His downright \u201cOlympian goal\u201d is to appear at a celebration party (presumably with his 100-year-old grandchildren) on his \u2013 wait for it \u2013 180th birthday. It seems more realistic to understand this as a serious attempt to optimize his daily lifestyle, as he has been doing since 2010, in order to slow down the aging process to the greatest extent possible. \u201cBulletproof coffee\u201d, mitochondrial optimization, neurofeedback, light therapy, all these things belong in the repertoire of essentials on the hunt for ongoing youth and health for Dave Asprey. \u201cI don\u2019t simply want to grow old, I want to stay young while I am growing old,\u201d
\nis the mantra of one of the very early adherents of the present-day biohacking scene.<\/p>\n

His legendary morning coffee, so-called bulletproof coffee, consists of highest quality coffee beans, butter from pasture-fed cows and MCT oil. It guarantees not merely his personal launch into the day but has become a worldwide top seller among supplements. Apart from the purely organic support he supplies to his body by this means each and every day, the highly successful entrepreneur and pod-caster also praises (and wagers his destiny on) medical technology and high-tech solutions. He is unshakably of the opinion that he can become old enough for the threats which currently plague all aging people such as cancer, dementia \/ loss of memory and life-threatening metabolic illnesses to be made treatable and curable. Apart from his diet of bulletproof coffee, he also swallows dozens of supplements daily, places his bets on cryotherapy, neurofeedback, meditation, respiratory exercises, as well as continuing with permanent check-ups of his fundamental bio-markers, accompanied by periodic fasting in order to promote quicker regeneration of his body cells.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/span>

The connection to nature is an integral part of many biohacking concepts. \/ Kamalaya Thailand<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you got what it takes to attempt biohacking?<\/h2>\n

It goes without saying that attempting biohacking does not mean imitating the daily biohacking schedule of Dave Asprey. Nevertheless, each and every one of us does have the possibility to try out certain finely-dosed measures based on knowledge which is already established and accepted in order to participate in biohacking benefits ourselves. Specially selected supplements and carefully chosen techniques to keep the psyche buoyant, sufficient amounts of quality sleep and reinforced mental composure and dispassionateness lead imperturbably to heightening individual quality of life. For beginners, that means starting out gently, i.e. integrating two or three biohacks per week into your normal mode of life, amplified by a balanced diet which includes high-quality supplements, is the recommended way to launch it.<\/p>\n

Below is a starter-list of tried and tested biohacks for the quick-start of your own rejuvenation programme:<\/p>\n