Episode #155: Is Biohacking TAKING IT TOO FAR?? The dangers of EXTREMISM!

The Dylan Gemelli Podcast

In Episode #155 of The Dylan Gemelli Podcast, host Dylan Gemelli critiques the growing extremism within the biohacking community, warning tha

Key takeaways

• Biohacking began as a movement of self-empowerment and questioning authority, not extremism.
• The shift from skepticism toward mainstream medicine to extreme fear-based content is problematic.

Main topics

• The evolution of biohacking from empowerment to extremism
• Fear-based content in wellness communities

Notable quotes

Biohacking is just another option. It's not a conspiracy theory or a cult.

When people revolting become the very thing they were fighting against, that's contamination.

Conclusion

Dylan Gemelli calls for a return to integrity, balance, and critical thinking within biohacking. He

Transcript preview

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All right, everybody, welcome back to the Dylan Jamelli podcast. So I know that you saw the title to this one and you might be saying, wow, what's he going to say today? You guys know me. Everybody that follows me knows that I don't hold back. I say exactly what it is. I don't tell you what you want to hear. I tell you what you need to hear. And I'm seeing a lot of things right now that are very, very troubling. And I think it's going to take a lot of people to start pushing back. And unfortunately. I'm going to be pushing back against some of the people that I really respect and some people that are friends, colleagues that I interact with constantly. And I'm not going to call anybody out by name in any way, shape or form. But I think that where I go with some of this, you're going to know it's not difficult to see, but it's bothersome and it's becoming a problem. You know, one of the things over time when something goes bad or goes wrong or starts to be infiltrated with money and bad actors and. People that just have bad motives. You're going to have a revolt, a rise up against whatever the negative entity or idea is going on. That's normal standard since the beginning of time. The problem is, is when the people revolting then become the people that they were revolting against. And this always happens. Contamination. People that come in and either get too big for what they stand for or become or others that don't. have the same kind of motives that came out of nowhere that see, wow, I can take advantage of this circumstance or this alliance or this uproar. So what are we looking at here? Well, we take pharma, medications, big food, all of the things that biohacking really is against is the anti, the anti-establishment, the anti-authority, however you want to call it. Biohacking is this term that gets polarized, misunderstood, misconstrued, misrepresented. People don't know what it means and people often make it out to be something that it's not. It's very simple what it really is. All that biohacking is, is essentially you taking control of yourself, not just falling in line with whatever mainstream doctors and medicine are telling you to do. This conventional way of doing things that in my view is as non-conventional as it gets. And I'll touch on that in a minute. It's you being responsible for yourself. It's you asking questions. It's you looking for different ways to perhaps take care of yourself or find what works for you. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's not this crazy cult of people that are doing $5 million modalities and everything else under the sun. There are some people that are all about their... Hundreds and thousands of dollars of treatments and therapy. Sure, they're out there, but that's not what biohacking is. That's not what it ever was intended to be. Biohacking is just another way. It's just, to me, it's just like another option. And then it turned into this movement, which is great. I love movements. I love being parts of things that are set out for a good cause, that showcase and highlight different ways, different options. See, I'm a guy that asks a ton of questions, hence the podcast. I think one of the reasons that my podcast does so well beyond the authenticity is that I am genuinely curious and I try to ask things that I feel like most of you want to know. I think that my curiosity resonates with a lot of people. Here's the problem. It's been demonized to ask questions. Over time, the mainstream or people that are in authority don't want you asking questions. It's just do as I say. And so that's where biohacking came in. It is a... entity of we're going to ask questions. We're going to try different things. We're going to do things out of the norm, so to speak. But where does it end? Where does it stop? Why does it have to go from one extreme to the other? This one extreme of do whatever we tell you. And it's this basic, basic setup and give you every medication under the sun. tell you that certain foods are good for you without telling you what's in them to now we're going to put the fear of God into everybody about anything and everything that they do. See, here's where I'm going with this. When I ask, is biohacking gone too far? And maybe it is not so much biohacking gone too far as that the people representing it gone too far. The main names. See, here's what I see going on right now. Fear mongering, people trying to find one study that they. take out a who knows where fix to have an outcome or something crazy, something about putting bananas in a smoothie, something about how phytic acid and it can not absorb your nutrients and oxalates are going to wreck you and give you kidney stones if you have a piece of