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A viral wellness trend called "humanmaxxing" — built around optimizing health, performance and longevity through lifestyle changes, health tracking, supplements and experimental interventions — is attracting high-profile practitioners and growing scrutiny from medical organizations.
As figures like Texas-based wellness expert Dave Asprey and Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson draw public attention to extreme self-optimization, mainstream health experts are urging consumers to distinguish evidence-based practices from unproven therapies.
Biohacking to Algorithms: How Practitioners Define the Trend Humanmaxxing sits within a broader "maxxing" cultural moment that includes looksmaxxing and sleepmaxxing — each focused on extracting maximum potential from a specific habit or trait.
For Asprey, who describes himself as the "father of biohacking," the starting point is environmental control.
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