Biohack Me: The Practical Guide to Everyday Biohacks Anyone Can Use to Optimise Their Health and Longevity

by Camilla Thompson

Genres: Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

Published June 10, 2025

Reviews

[Tatyana · Rating 2 out of 5]

The biohacks mentioned are so repetitive (stay hydrated, get enough sleep, take cold showers, etc.) that it would have been way more logical to organise the book in terms of biohacks themselves rather than what you’re biohacking. There are many examples of people starting to biohack but no actual information on what real results they got out of it.

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apparently I've been a biohacker for most my life without knowing it. I like trying new things, giving myself new physical and mental challenges, seeing and tracking improving health metrics. I find the entire "community" quite cringe though. This book doesn't help or avoid that. For someone who says that the hacks are science based, this book contains no science. A heavily bloated and repetitive book that could be a blog series. Just an introduction to a 'hack', it's purported benefits (with no elaboration on the science- and I want to clarify that lots of these methods do have validation it's just this book doesn't talk about it), and how it could be implemented. The author mentions "rebounding" numerous times and extols its benefits but never actually says that it's just jumping up and down in place, ideally on a mini-trampoline. Many of these things are just giving well-known practices new names. And of course there's always the difficult and problematic territory of recommending supplements and medications, I do think an author needs to offer a little more than a disclaimer to check with your doctor before starting a new regimen and 'every body is different'.

If you've even dipped your toe in the waters of self-improvement there is little here you haven't heard before. If you've watched a single Andrew Huberman podcast you've probably encountered them all. Hot/cold exposure, meditation, red-light therapy, tongue scraping, physical fitness, tracking metrics, sunlight exposure, sleep hygiene, Celtic sea salt, hydrogen water, grounding, supplements (magnesium, melatonin, ashwaganda, collagen, creatine, etc), plus every other fad that has come around. And this isn't a dig on these practices-- I do many myself, but I don't feel like this book was a good introduction to them. There was too much repetition and not enough meat. I've seen social media posts that provide equivalent information.

[Stephanie Fleming · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative but quite repetitive.