HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER

Mention Biohacking to anyone, and you are met with a puzzled glance in return. When I told friends and family I would be trying this much-buzzed-about “treatment,” they asked what it was. I, having never done it before and having only read about the idea in a series of articles that attempted to explain the idea through jargon, was just as confused. “I think I’m going to turn into a robot by the end,” I finally mustered up.

I first became interested in the concept after reading about Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and how he used his diet as a means of Biohacking. Dorsey eats only one meal a day because he says it makes him feel clear-headed and mentally focused, therefore his entire body is geared for optimization and improvement. It sounds a lot like an eating disorder, which most of his critics say it is.

Perhaps that’s on the radical side of things. All those articles described Biohacking practitioners as mostly being white male “tech bros” from Silicon Valley obsessed with stoicism and extending their lives so they can use it to preach more about disruption to the rest of us. When I met Eli Abela, owner of UNLTD Biohacking Recovery Center, the first such facility in the Philippines, that couldn’t be further