Biohacking: separating what has been tested from what is being sold
There is no definition of biohacking that two people would both sign.
Biohacking
Protocols, regimens and compounds that promise to tune your metabolism. Each one is taken apart by the same rule: what was measured, in how many people, for how long — and what follows for the plate.
Meal timing and the body clock: why breakfast and midnight are not the same meal
The same plate is not handled the same way at eight in the morning and at midnight.
Glucose spikes after meals: which of the hacks actually flatten them
Consumer glucose sensors turned the post-meal curve into a spectator sport, and a market of tricks grew up around flattening it.
Protein and muscle protein synthesis: dose, leucine and the anabolic window
Protein comes with its own arithmetic: thirty grams per meal, a leucine threshold, a window after training.
Caffeine and adenosine: why it works, why it stops, and what to do about it
Caffeine does not supply energy.
Cold exposure and brown fat: how many calories an ice bath actually costs
Brown fat is one of the rare cases where the elegant mechanism turns out to be real: the tissue genuinely converts fat into heat, bypassing the usual route.
Longevity supplements: NMN, resveratrol and what human trials measured
This shelf has the best story of any: a molecule, ageing cells, mice that lived longer.
Adaptogens: ashwagandha, rhodiola and studies with sixty participants
The word adaptogen was coined in the mid-twentieth century for substances said to raise resistance to stress in general, without specifying to what.
Testing it on yourself: telling an effect apart from noise
Trying something on yourself is the only available way to find out whether it works for you specifically.
The microbiome and food: what a diet actually changes
Gut bacteria respond to a change of diet within days.
From reading to doing. All of it starts in one place — knowing what is on the plate. Photograph it and the calories and macros appear on their own.
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