Seems likely we’ll see a greater portion of people compelled to hack their own lives in increasingly inventive, urgency-led ways.

This isn’t a crisp distinction. The classic biohackers I talked to often also did some health hacking, and r/nootropics might say it’s about superhuman performance, but reading the comments shows that at least half of them are dealing with serious mental health or neurodivergence issues. The headlines treat gray market GLP-1 usage as unprecedented, but when I compared users to health hackers with problems ranging from diabetes to gender dysphoria, their attitudes were almost identical. Everyone I talked to treated their interventions as experiments, acknowledged the risks inherent in experimentation, but felt the greater risk (as measured by their gut) was in not trying and would never have started hacking if the formal medical system had met their needs.

We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides—Asterisk ↗