Biohacking: where fad meets finance?
The growing industry that promises to optimise you with supplements, treatments and gadgets - often expensive and unproven.
Biohackers say they're making their bodies and brains run better by hacking their biology. And it's not just kitchen counter experimentation anymore. There's now an entire industry promising to optimise you with supplements, treatments and increasingly strange gadgets.
Are these expensive, unproven 鈥渉acks鈥 worth the investment?
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Presenter: Michelle Fleury
Producer: Nathalie Jimenez
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(Picture: North America Business Correspondent Michelle Fleury and Midtown Biohack owner Chuck Morris, standing over a client trying out a red light therapy headset.)
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