For biohackers, decentralization is a feature, not a bug. It is a safeguard against corruption. “The community of Biohacking”, Fabrizio “Fab” Mancini, a chiropractic and frequent flyer of the daytime medical circuit, says to me: “It is not owned by any entity. They are real people”. In a community for which deregulation is entirely the point, however, as can be seen for bullshit?
I ask Asprey for the verification process for the series of sellers and speakers who have the treatments for its fair, many of which are expensive, few approved by the FDA. “I don’t look at anything as a marginal,” he says. “It is known or unknown, and has evidence or not.”
The last Day of the conference, I attend a speech on snake poison. A man named Since Seven is enhancing the medicinal virtues of Vipera, cobra and rattles snakes directly in the bloodstream of his patients.
“The snake heals his prey before he kills his prey,” he claims, before personifying the snake. “Inieco the poison in you who induces rapid healing. Floods the body with white blood cells, kill viruses, kill bacteria, tumors, kill tumors, because I don’t want to eat it.” (Trace quantity of poisons they are currently used in drugs approved by the FDA and were found effective in the treatment of stroke.) Seven is asked by a member of the public if Snake Venom could be used to treat autism. Even if he had not yet personally tested him, seven underlines: “I am willing to work with anyone … my colleagues, us I am Clinical studies. “
“Oh, my God”, a woman breathes between the audience. Whether it’s moved or horrified, I can’t say it.
In the end of the day, I understand it. It is not fair to say that I hate my body, exactly – it certainly has its merits, and moreover, the Biohackers constantly speak of the power of positive language in manifesting your reality, but we have never really affected it. One of my first memories involves my parents who called 911 when I had spread problems, the paramedics that affect me so high that I swear that they scraped the ceiling. At college I was leafing through Lyme’s disease, one morning my wrists froze rigid to the point that I could not open the door of my dormitory room. I broke several bones, I removed a lesion (not cancerous) by my scalp, I passed a renal stone. I have insomnia and depression and a perpetually swollen ankle. I had Covid at least five times. At the time of writing this document, they are a few days after an appointment with my dermatologist, who carves a portion from the back to determine whether or not I have skin cancer.