These are my working definitions, open to feedback about them 🙂

• Longevity: Combined metric incorporating both quantity (lifespan) and quality (healthspan) of life. When I say “longevity-optimized,” that means my efforts are targeted at increasing the number of years I can live in good health. A fairly common misconception about aging/longevity research is that the goal is to drag out the frail, terminal phase of life. THIS IS NOT ANYONE’S GOAL.
• Biohacking: An approach to biology inspired by the following approaches:
  • Engineering: solution-oriented as opposed to formal process-oriented
  • DIY: finding and/or creating accessible, cost-effective methods
  • Hacking: specifically exploiting system weaknesses by any ethical means to achieve a goal
  • Evidence-inspired: as opposed to formal, evidence-based methods. The FDA, for example, is important to protect consumers, but it’s very very slow and not always perfect. Biohackers, I think, generally prefer to operate according to their own risk calculations, as long as the resulting actions don’t impose risks without consent on others.