Biohacking

Biohacking has two common meanings.

The first is derived from the biopunk movement in which people create synthetic_biology using DIYbio. By mixing and matching genes and characteristics from different species, biopunks are "biohacking."

The second meaning of biohacking refers to the art of managing one's own biology using a combination of medical, nutritional, electronic, and Quantified Self techniques. The term is in common use by several public figures:

• Tim Ferriss wrote about biohacking in 4_Hour_Body#The_4-Hour_Body
• Dave Asprey of "The Bulletproof Executive" [1] about whom the Financial Times wrote "Indeed, why not give yourself an 'upgrade', says Dave Asprey, a 'bio-hacker' who takes self-quantification to the extreme of self-experimentation. He claims to have shaved 20 years off his biochemistry and increased his IQ by as much as 40 points through 'smart pills', diet and biology-enhancing gadgets."1
• Neurosurgeon Jack Kruse who writes "Our hypothalamus rewires to many stimuli and it appears that temperature is a major factor in the rewiring protocol of our brain...Our job as enquiring primal bio-hackers is to figure out why and how this might have happened. 2"