590: The Dark Side of Biohacking

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Goals, Lifesuccess, Success, Goalsetting, Halelrod, Business, Achievement, Lifestyle, Motivation, Productivity, Miraclemorning, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We live in a time when there is so much information and technology available to optimize our health, making it increasingly easy to fall into the trap of obsessing and overcomplicating our health. I recently had the honor of speaking at Dave Asprey’s Biohacking Conference, and I had an eye-opening realization: sometimes, the pursuit of biohacking can lead us away from peace and into overwhelm.

In this episode, I’m sharing five (5) nature-based “biohacks” that are free and cost nothing to help improve your mind, body, and overall well-being. While there is no shortage of tools and gadgets, such as cold plunges, red light therapy, and PEMF mats, that track every macro—and I’ve tried them all—we actually have everything we need if we just utilize what nature provides.

No matter what your personal goals are, whether it’s to lose weight, add muscle, or improve cardio, I believe that improving our health isn’t achieved through suffering; it’s attained with consistent and sustainable actions that give you the energy and motivation to propel you towards the next step.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

How biohacking can shift from helpful to harmful when it becomes obsessive
Why peace—not performance—should be your health goal
Three questions to ask yourself to simplify your health routine
Five nature-based habits that are both free and timeless
How breathwork, natural sunlight, and grounding are great ways to reset and calm your nervous system
Why learning more can sometimes be procrastination in disguise

Get The Full Show Notes

To get full access to today's show notes, including audio, transcript, and links to all the resources mentioned, visit MiracleMorning.com/590

Subscribe, Rate & Review

I would love if you could subscribe to the podcast and leave an honest rating & review. This will encourage other people to listen and allow us to grow as a community. The bigger we get as a community, the bigger the impact we can have on the world.

To subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on iTunes, visit HalElrod.com/iTunes.

Connect with Hal Elrod

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level,
0:16.5	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.9	themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you
0:26.4	need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go.
0:31.4	Hey, goal achievers. This is Hal Elrod and welcome back to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:36.3	Today's episode is inspired by a powerful experience
0:38.9	that I had this past week. I had the honor of speaking at Dave Asprey's biohacking conference.
0:43.9	It was the miracle morning for biohackers. And it was a room full of 4,000 health-obsessed,
0:50.3	optimization-driven humans who are genuinely committed to upgrading their bodies, their minds,
0:54.7	their lives. It was inspiring to be part of this group, but I want to talk about the flip side
0:59.4	of that passion. Because just after the conference, I think it was serendipity. I read an article
1:05.5	titled The Illusion of Optimization. It was written by Adam Bornstein, or Bornstein. I don't know how you say his name,
1:11.9	but he's the editor-in-chief of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Pump Club email newsletter, which I think
1:17.5	a gazillion people subscribe to. It's actually a great newsletter. But it perfectly described
1:21.7	the trap that so many of us fall into, myself included, where the pursuit of health and personal growth and
1:28.9	optimization becomes unhealthy, overwhelming, and potentially detrimental. So today I want to walk
1:35.2	you through the inspiring truth about the biohacking movement, because it is an inspiring
1:41.0	movement that is doing a lot of good in the world. So I want to start there with
1:46.1	the positive aspects of biohacking, but then I want to talk about the dark side. You can say
1:50.8	it's when optimization becomes obsession, right? And what are the detrimental consequences of that?
1:56.7	And then maybe most importantly, I want to simplify your biohacking journey and your health habits so that they're sustainable and that they're rooted in nature and that they don't cost you thousands and thousands of dollars.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hal Elrod, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hal Elrod and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.