biohack

American  

[bahy-oh-hak] / ˈbaɪ oʊˌhæk /

noun

1. an instance or manner of self-improvement done through strategic experimentation with technology, drugs, hormones, diet, etc..

   Here are a few simple biohacks to get your body's engine revving!

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verb (used with object)

1. to improve (someone, especially oneself) through strategic experimentation with technology, drugs, hormones, diet, etc..

   Today, consumers biohack themselves by measuring changes in ketones and blood sugar correlating with exercise, sleep, and what and when they eat.

Other Word Forms

• biohacker noun

Etymology

Origin of biohack

First recorded in 2005–10; shortened from biohacking ( def. )

Example Sentences

It beat out fellow shortlisted contenders "aura farming" and "biohack".

From Barron's

Rage bait beat two other shortlisted terms - aura farming and biohack - to win the title.

From BBC

On his show, he fetishizes weightlifting, fighting sports and other clichés of hyper-masculinity, and, like Johnson, capitalizes on his audience’s insecurities by selling them useless supplements with false promises that they can “biohack” their way to domineering manhood.

From Salon

Stewart described them as a “plethora of stocky, bald billionaires who also seem to go to the same biohack life extension clinic and say, ‘Give me the Lex Luthor.'”

From Salon

In 2015, Di Franco founded The Open Insulin Project, a community based organization run by volunteers, with the intention to “biohack” publicly available research on how insulin is made and provide those directions in an open-source format.

From Salon