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Chasing Life

Biohacking...or BS?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Caloric restriction. Blood transfusions. Hormetic stress. Off-label meds. As CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is often asked about the latest “hacks” for longevity that pop up in the news. But do any of these interventions actually work? Can aging actually be stopped, much less reversed? In this episode, Sanjay speaks with Dr. Nir Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He believes one of the keys to battling aging lies in our cells and genetic makeup. Plus, we hear from self-professed “biohackers,” who have some tips we can all try to extend our healthy years. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I do two 10-day water fasts every year, so that would be literally not eating for 10 days.

0:09.5

I try to do time-restricted eating, which means I only usually eat between one, or two,

0:16.6

and three, and seven.

0:18.9

When I travel in the plane, I take a molecular hydrogen.

0:26.3

Wow. You know, I'm not even sure what some of that means, but one thing I've learned on this

0:30.8

season of the podcast is that people will go through extraordinary lengths, with the hope,

0:35.7

the simple hope, of living longer. Yeah, it's a worthy goal. Live a long, healthy life,

0:42.5

but as you just heard, some people are going to put a lot more effort into this than most.

0:47.3

Some of the things that I do that are more like what you're probably imagining,

0:50.6

and biohacks would be, would be nutrient-drip, ibs. I usually do one per week.

0:55.6

I sometimes feel like we're all a little crazy all of us biohackers.

1:00.0

Welcome to the world of biohacking. This is an emerging field, and I guess maybe

1:05.2

best described as finding ways to enhance our natural biology. Kyle Armer started a whole

1:10.9

Facebook group devoted to biohacking back in 2017. Biohacking, to me, is it's hacking your biology,

1:20.4

right, to be more efficient, more productive, just create more efficiencies, and to live a fuller

1:29.1

life. Molina Vicario, who is based in Argentina, and is regarded as sort of the voice of the

1:36.1

Spanish-speaking biohacking community, defines it like this. Biohacking, for me, is a tool that gives

1:45.3

people freedom. I use her manual for humans in these days.

1:56.1

As the chief medical correspondent at CNN, I hear a lot about so-called hacks or miracle

2:02.1

treatments that promise to slow or even reverse aging. We are pitched ideas around this topic

2:07.7

all the time. Cold plunges, supplements, drugs, particular ways of eating or moving.

2:14.0

We spoke about some of these this season, and while some of them have real science to back

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