I'm a tech CEO/ YC alum. For the last 4-5 years, in my spare time I have been doing a lot of biohacking. Spent ~$200k, did thousands of tests, ate tens of thousands of pills and dozens of prescription drugs, and it made me calmer, fit, extroverted, focused, healthier and happier. I may be wrong but I suspect there are fewer than 1000 people in the world who went this deep into personalized health.
I wrote a couple very detailed posts with a ton of very private things about my medical tests, sex, drugs, psychotherapy etc.
Pls give feedback, repost, and let me know if there are journalists or communities interested in talking about this. This feels like an important issue because people who will do this stuff will gain a massive advantage in society. People talk about human enhancement as if it is the future, but it is already here.
I think that this is interesting. I'm a fan of people using steroids and other "bio-hacks" to get to where they want, as long as they understand the risks involved in doing so. (I don't do anything special myself; I stick to good ol' diet, exercise and time management.) I often wish that steroids (performance and body composition) were legal so that so many people would stop getting fleeced by bad product from countries that don't have a FDA. There are lots of people who took drugs to get their body fat way down and lots of stories of people without doctors backing them that fucked themselves up really badly because the Internet is a terrible medium for medical advice.
Let's talk about downsides: what disadvantages have you encountered? Also, I can't imagine someone without $200k or more to spend on this hobby getting the same results. Biohacking correctly (with doctors) is expensive as fuck; lab-grade steroids cost a lot of money, for example. What do you think?
actually can only think of one real disadvantage: i travel a lot, and getting all the prescriptions filled internationally is very hard. so a couple times i had to change travel plans just to get new prescriptions.
also sometimes i have to fill out medical forms about stuff i take and that... takes awhile :)
also yeah it is very challenging to individualize. the problem isn't even the cost of testing, meds and doctors. it is that this stuff does not scale across different individuals. that is the ultimate driver of cost.
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I wrote a couple very detailed posts with a ton of very private things about my medical tests, sex, drugs, psychotherapy etc.
Pls give feedback, repost, and let me know if there are journalists or communities interested in talking about this. This feels like an important issue because people who will do this stuff will gain a massive advantage in society. People talk about human enhancement as if it is the future, but it is already here.
Thank you!
I think that this is interesting. I'm a fan of people using steroids and other "bio-hacks" to get to where they want, as long as they understand the risks involved in doing so. (I don't do anything special myself; I stick to good ol' diet, exercise and time management.) I often wish that steroids (performance and body composition) were legal so that so many people would stop getting fleeced by bad product from countries that don't have a FDA. There are lots of people who took drugs to get their body fat way down and lots of stories of people without doctors backing them that fucked themselves up really badly because the Internet is a terrible medium for medical advice.
Let's talk about downsides: what disadvantages have you encountered? Also, I can't imagine someone without $200k or more to spend on this hobby getting the same results. Biohacking correctly (with doctors) is expensive as fuck; lab-grade steroids cost a lot of money, for example. What do you think?
also sometimes i have to fill out medical forms about stuff i take and that... takes awhile :)