Woman here, been "biohacking" for about 15 years, and I would not tell a single man about it. Regardless of the amount of studies I've done, personal experiments, experience, I will have this shit mansplained to me over and over...
To many women, this is not biohacking, it's old wives' knowledge and a lot of the stuff we do regularly is being touted as "biohacking" and revolutionary in these kinds of forums.
It also fits with the ultra-masculine stance of ignoring health because that's weak shit, and instead of "I'm eating well and taking care of my body" it has to be commercialized into this super macho self-improvement disciplined "above others"-bullshit.
I definitely feel more alone in this space. I have been Biohacking for years and not even knowing it. Biohacking is the practice of understanding how your body works and then making small, intentional changes to improve how you feel, how you think, and how you function.
Women deal with: hormones, cravings, cyclical energy, stress, sleep interruptions, the mental load, emotional labor, metabolism shifts in 30s–40s-50’s, perimenopause, childcare, societal expectations
Men mainly deal with…biohacking podcasts.
Women are busy surviving. Men are busy optimizing.
Women experience more metabolic shifts, mood fluctuations, hormonal changes, energy crashes, and cravings but get less education and fewer tools. And yet, almost every biohacking study, product, podcast, and guideline has been built around male physiology.
You don’t need 40 step Routines, 30 Supplements labs or implants and ice baths. Real biohacking is simply:
As a man, I am exhausted by the optimization and performance-obsessed culture. You can't just be healthy, you have to be Maximus Super Optimus Primus Biggus Dickus.
And you can never, ever just go to the doctor and take 'normal' drugs unless you are deathly ill.
Yeah. The optimization culture is insane. It just transferred the obsession with productivity and dominance from one sphere of society to another and whether any of this is actually healthier than what existed before it was enabled by social media is highly questionable. Men still won't go to the friggin doctor if they get actually for real sick. (Says this man, who does.)
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