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Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Michelle Fleury,

and today I'm asking what's really behind the biohacking fad, why people are doing it,

what exactly they think they're upgrading.

It works for our family. Every day we wake up and we understand the bullets that we dodged.

Biohackers say they're making their bodies and brains run better by hacking their biology.

And it's not just kitchen counter experimentation anymore. There's now an entire industry promising to optimize you with supplements, treatments,

and increasingly strange gadgets.

And because I'm lazy, I'm trying a treatment that claims it can work out my body for me.

We can give you 5,000 crunches in 10 minutes.

But a lot of these methods are controversial,

and none of them have been proven to extend anyone's lifetime

in real, well-designed clinical trials.

They're using maybe unconventional or unproven treatment

that could be also dangerous.

So is the business of biohacking brilliant or just bonkers?

That's coming up on today's Business Daily.

Biohacking is when ordinary people start treating their bodies like machines,

tweaking sleep, diet and exercise, tracking every metric and trying to slow down

aging in the process. It's a fast-growing industry blending medicine, technology and AI, now worth

an estimated $17 billion, with luxury brands racing to cash in. High-end Jim Chain in the United

States Equinox is the latest,

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