Hello, and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast were two philosophers, hack knowledge.

Or in this case, show you why hacking is maybe not always the best metaphor.

I'm your co-host, David Pena-Gusman.

And I'm Ellie Anderson.

Ellie, in philosophy, there has recently been this movement called transhumanism,

which is all about pushing the limits of the human.

A central figure in this philosophical movement is the thinker Max Moore, who defines

transhumanism as seeking the continuation and acceleration of human life beyond its current

form. And for him, that means using science and technology as ways of promoting

intelligent life, or rather life as intelligence. Now, the thing about transhumanism is that it takes

many, many forms, but one of them is what is known as biohacking. So what is biohacking?

Dave Asprey, this guy who's known as the father of biohacking,

who got famous for promoting bulletproof coffee, which you put like grass-fed butter in your coffee and then also coconut oil or coconut oil instead. I don't remember, but I actually did this

for a while. Did not really work for me. My body, yeah. I mean, we'll talk about this today, but I am not a stranger to some of what I have since discovered falls under the umbrella of biohacking. I've tried all the supplements. So, yeah, I did like this bulletproof coffee for a while, and my body did not like it.

But Dave Asprey, the guy who founded this, who's a biohacker, we're going to talk about a lot today,

wrote this book on biohacking, which we'll be analyzing.

But for now, I want to mention a definition of biohacking that he gave in a speech.

He described biohacking as a global movement based on the idea that you can change

the environment around you and inside of you. So you have full control of your own biology. So that's his

take on it. And the control, this full control that he refers to, is really about optimizing.

Biohacking is about being the best version of yourself.

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