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Maintenance Phase · March 26, 2025 · 69m
The Bulletproof Diet
Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Diet: butter in coffee, mycotoxin panic, and the biohacking-to-product pipeline. How Silicon Valley's optimization culture created a diet empire built on unfalsifiable claims and expensive supplements.
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Hobbes observes that biohacking culture embodies the hedonic treadmill: each optimization (coffee, sleep, supplements, red light) produces brief satisfaction before revealing the next thing to optimize. The endpoint is never reached.
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The biohacking-to-product pipeline — personal experimentation as marketing
Hobbes traces how Asprey's 'self-experimentation' narrative (I spent $1M hacking my biology!) functions as marketing: the story of personal transformation creates authority that sells products, regardless of whether the science supports the claims.Was this useful?