How the Antifragile Biohacker outsmarts AI, medical misinformation, shoddy science, and marketing hype

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Doctors begin their careers with the Hippocratic Oath vowing to...

First, do no harm.

While I’m not a doctor, the same ethos has underlied my endeavors to inform about Smart Drugs, Nootropics, health supplements, and Biohacking tech for 14 years now. I’m a major advocate of the safe and conservative use of these tools, so in this article, I’ll outline my guidelines for safety and risk management strategy. If you’re new(-ish) to this whole weird and wacky world of Biohacking, self-experimentation, and cognitive enhancement, this is a pretty good place to start.

Among Biohackers, there’s a predilection for risk.

And don’t get me wrong, like risk. My favorite line from my all-time favorite novel is...

I was young again, as if on the sea or in the air, made lively by having everything to lose and everything to gain, made content only by risk, for in the light of risk every earthly color catches heavenly fire.

But I like risk that ROIs - terms of profit, pleasure, or health - I don’t like risk bearing drastic downside (wherein dwell dire black swans - yeah, I’m an acolyte of Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile). Due to my conspicuous position as a self-experimenter and the personality I inject into my content, I receive a number of emails and messages from people (usually young men) asking me about experimental Smart Drugs, research chemicals, microdosing psychedelics, or psychoactive chemicals in the legal fringes. I consistently urge conservative self-experimentation to these people, not because I’m a stodgy conservative but because this kind of self-experimentation is bad risk management in light of my 14 years of obsessive study. Whatever your Biohacking goals are...

* Being more energetic, focused, and productive

* Improving mood and mindset

* Improving memory or accelerating skillset acquisition

* Recovery from trauma

* Having better sex

* Recapturing your cognitive edge

* Making gains in the gym

...There are better ways of doing it than taking risks with unproven research chemicals, taking supplements in extreme dosages, or invasive technological interventions.

How to do proper research (before you order or ingest anything)