Why We Will Need to Biohack You

Biohacking. The word conjures up images of millionaires injecting themselves with stem cells, sleeping in hyperbaric chambers, and swallowing 150 pills a day while monitoring every conceivable bodily metric. For Silicon Valley and its disciples, biohacking means turning the body into a perpetual optimization project, a machine that must be constantly updated with the latest technology and the most expensive supplements.

But here we're going to talk about a different kind of biohacking. One that recognizes that most depression and altered mental states are simply due to not giving our body what it needs. A biohacking that understands you don’t need to spend a fortune to feel good, because your body already knows what to do if you give it the basic conditions. A biohacking for real people, with real jobs and real budgets, looking to reclaim the human capabilities that the modern world has taken from us.

In the Anthropocene, the normalization of states like chronic fatigue, perpetual stress, and life dissatisfaction represents a fundamental contradiction with our biological nature. We have built a civilization that celebrates burnout as a badge of honor and treats exhaustion as the inevitable price of success.

Does this sound familiar? You wake up tired, drag yourself to work, survive on caffeine, come home exhausted, binge Netflix until the early hours, sleep poorly, and repeat. And when someone asks how you are, you say "fine, normal." This is a biological dystopia we have collectively accepted.

This crisis transcends social, economic, and cultural borders. The CEO of a multinational and the delivery driver share the same symptoms of biological disconnection. The difference lies in the budget to disguise it, but the existential void is the same.

The Wellness Pyramid Scheme

The global biohacking market surpassed fifteen billion dollars in 2023, selling everything from rings that "optimize your sleep" for $300 to longevity protocols that cost more than a car. Techno-utopian trends aim to create 'superhumans' through advanced devices and supplements, turning health into a luxury product.

The wellness gurus sell you the idea that you need:

• $5000 genetic analyses to know what to eat

• 47 different supplements taken at specific times

• Biofeedback devices that cost a minimum wage

• Ayahuasca retreats in Costa Rica

• Stem cell therapies in Swiss clinics

All this while ignoring the fundamental fact: our bodies are still fundamentally the same mammals that evolved approximately 120,000 years ago. Your genetics expect sun, movement, real food, and human connection. Everything else is noise and marketing.

There's a Hell Loop in Your Life

Chronic inflammation emerges as the common thread linking most contemporary pathologies. We're talking about a state of permanent civil war in your body that affects everything from your ability to concentrate to your mood.

Inflammatory mediators can alter neurotransmission, generating sickness behaviors that include fatigue, changes in motivation, and social isolation. Translation: that irritable, unmotivated, antisocial version you think is your personality might simply be your biology crying out for help.

The most disturbing part is that collecting diseases after 30 has become the new normal. Gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, insomnia, anxiety, insulin resistance, subclinical hypothyroidism... The list grows every year, and we normalize it as 'signs of aging.'

In their infinite quest for clicks, the media has reduced the entire health debate to a matter of weight. This criminal simplification ignores that you can have a 'perfect' BMI and be metabolically wrecked inside.

The genesis of that inflammation, is the lack of nutrients and excess of inflammatory compounds in the basic food basket. A thin person fed on ultra-processed foods can have worse health markers than someone overweight who eats real food.

The industrialization of the food system has created a paradox: we live in an age of caloric abundance but nutritional scarcity. We have unlimited access to 'edible products' engineered in labs to maximize addiction and minimize cost, while our cells starve amidst abundance.

The Business of Keeping You Sick

Here's the conspiracy that is real: it seems no one benefits from you being healthy. A healthy person doesn’t buy antidepressants, doesn’t need metformin, doesn’t pay weekly psychiatrist visits, doesn't consume content on "how to improve your life." Doesn't pay a health plan of 400 bucks for pre-existing conditions.

The global pharmaceutical industry banks over $1.4 trillion annually, and its business model relies on chronic patients, not cured individuals. That's why they sell you the pill for the symptom while ignoring the cause.

Biohacking influencers are the millennial version of the same scam. They promise optimization while keeping you in an endless cycle of purchasing: the new supplement, the latest gadget, the revolutionary protocol. There's always something more to buy, something more to optimize, something more to hack.

POOP

The concept of 'listening to the body' transcends metaphor to become a scientifically grounded practice. Your body carries millions of years of evolutionary backing. Every cell contains ancestral wisdom on how to function optimally.

The problem is that we’ve created such an artificial environment that signals are lost in the noise. Between artificial lights, industrial food, and chronic stress, your body screams, but you don’t listen. You prefer to trust an app over your own sensations.

Those who have experienced a successful biological reset report feeling 'authentically themselves for the first time'. Imagine discovering that the grumpy, tired, and unmotivated person you thought you were was just the result of years of inflammation and biological disconnection.

Let's Find Your Movement

When we talk about exercise, the fitness industry sells you the idea that you need to suffer in a CrossFit box or whip your back running marathons to be healthy. The reality is that natural movement patterns like walking, climbing, and lifting weights are what your body truly understands.

The key is to find YOUR sport, that activity that makes you lose track of time, that doesn’t feel like an obligation, but like play. It could be dancing, martial arts, climbing, swimming, or simply walking on a hill. Your body is designed to move with joy, not with suffering. Add to that socializing with people who have fun just like you (and if they are consistent, they might have quite the hot spirit of improvement), there are no glow ups in life without going through this stage.

In a world where getting real food has become an act of rebellion, every conscious decision is a political act. Every time you choose the sun over screens, movement over sedentary lifestyle, connection over isolation, you are hacking a system structured to keep you as a passive consumer.

The most effective biohacking embraces biological simplicity over technological complexity. The fundamental principles you need to master are as ancient as they are effective, and best of all: they're free.

What's Next

This approach invites us to recognize that the true revolution in health will not come from sophisticated technologies, but from remembering how to live in harmony with our nature.

In the upcoming episodes of the EVERYthing guide, we'll explore how to execute that biological reset without spending a fortune. We'll talk about concrete strategies to navigate a world designed to make you sick. We'll discover why what you consider your personality might just be inflammation in disguise.

Because in the Anthropocene, where everything seems to conspire against your biology, the most radical intervention is reclaiming our biological humanity. And that, friends, doesn’t require millions, gurus, or cutting-edge technology. Your physical self already has 120,000 years of experience in keeping you alive and thriving. Maybe it's time to let it do its job.