How biohacking can build a more inclusive future and help gain agency over our bodies

World Changing Ideas

We spend our whole lives living in human bodies, but even in 2023, there is so much that science doesn’t understand about how our body works, how it’s programmed, how it heals itself . . . or doesn’t. Despite all of our technological innovation, human life expectancy seems to have plateaued. In the U.S alone, it’s actually gone down for the past 2 years.

Biohackers around the world are making it their mission to optimize the body for its longest, healthiest life possible. In today’s episode, we follow one woman’s journey as she finds out how to heal her body using modern technology that borrows from age-old practices. We also found out how one company is bridging the gender health gap, and how tiny robots could help locate tumors and dissolve blood clots before they became fatal.

• Emma Wheylin, video producer of Fast Company's "Future Me" biohacking series
• Alicia Chong Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech
• Dr. Bradley Nelson, professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich