As biohacking starts to appear more often in headlines, it’s worth getting clear on some of the fundamentals. Here are nine questions that can help you make sense of biohacking.
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2) Why are people doing this? What drives someone to biohack themselves?
On a really basic level, biohacking comes down to something we can all relate to: the desire to feel better — and to see just how far we can push the human body.
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6) Are all these biohacking pursuits legal?
Existing regulations weren’t built to make sense of something like biohacking… . That means that a lot of biohacking pursuits exist in a legal gray zone: frowned upon by bodies like the FDA, but not yet outright illegal, or not enforced as such.
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9) At its most extreme, biohacking can fundamentally alter human nature. Should we be worried?
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Here’s another risk associated with biohacking, one I think is even more serious: By making ourselves smarter and stronger and potentially even immortal (a difference of kind, not just of degree), we may create a society in which everyone feels pressure to alter their biology — even if they don’t want to.
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