The other day, while scrolling through Instagram Reels, I came across a guy rubbing dog paw medicine onto his hands. He then demonstrated a planche, an already difficult calisthenics move where you lift your body into a horizontal hold above a pull-up bar. But he wasn’t gripping the bar. His palms were open, and his entire body weight was balanced on the tiny patches of sandpapery skin touching the metal. I clicked onto his account (@swholeanimal) and watched as he contorted his body in all kinds of freakishly inhuman ways, all part of something he calls ‘Biomoding’. The account is rapidly growing, closing in on a million followers. People are invested.
Biohacking has existed on the fringe for decades, from Professor...
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