Biohacking - anyone done this? Or knows about it?

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I'm very late 40s.

Definitely in peri.

However, I have severe joint pain, it hurts me to move. I need to be exercising more, that's difficult when getting out of bed hurts.
I want to sleep all the time.
Additionally, I often get severe migraines.

Plus a load of other symptoms I won't go into.

I've had blood tests. Nada.
Thyroid is within limits, though on the edge of them. All of my symptoms point thyroid as the first and most obvious cause, but no.

I've read and heard about bio hacking.
To be clear, I am talking about medical bio hacking; swabs and/or blood tests to map your own genetic profile and correct and deficiencies, specifically deficiencies in diet and vitamin deficiencies.

Has anyone done this?
Does anyone know about this?

Any answers gratefully appreciated.

Don't know if most GPs know this, but if your vitD levels are low your thyroid can't work properly.

These are the enzymes my friend uses for reduction of pain, inflammation, fatigue
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Thank you @newtb and @Doliveira.

It's easy to learn about some biohacking 'experts' and think well that's madness.

I'm not a biologist, but I have a science background. If you look past all of the 'we can prevent your future cancer' nonsense, it seems to me to be about getting vitamins that your own body needs.

One extreme example of this would be my friend with sickle cell anaemia, she takes a lot of vitamin A. Much more than would be tolerated by paler people like me.

IMO bio hacking is that - but for anyone/everyone. At different ages, our gender and race, where we live and how we live, all have an effect on our health and life expectancy.

It does make sense that different vitamins - and increasing certain vitamins - will be suitable for different people.

My mom died in her 60s. She was alcoholic, a heavy smoker, depressed, took no exercise. So cardiac arrest... it made sense.

her brother (alcoholic, heavy smoker) died about 50 from a heart attack.

Mother of my niece: BPD, ex-smoker, recovering alcoholic, she looked super unwell when we met up about 18m before her death. I wasn't surprised when she died suddenly of a stroke. Very similar for mother of my nephew who also died in her 60s, she was barely able to walk in last 5 years of her life.

My brother (hepC, heavy smoker) is miraculously still going in his mid 60s.

Nobody ever just stopped or had a stroke or something sudden when very healthy. One friend (ex-smoker, who had worked with many toxic chemicals) got a lethal cancer in her 30s, I suppose.

Aseem Malhotra is convinced that because he himself thought his dad was in great health, nothing else could have killed his dad but a recent covid vaccine. It's funny how we believe what we want to believe.

Hi OP and anyone else reading this. I have just watched Gary Brecka on DOAC ‘The man who can predict how long you have to live’ and upon researching his theories I came upon this thread. Did you ever follow up with any checks for deficiencies with any one like Medicheck? I feel as if I would like to see if I have any deficiencies so I can just improve my general health but I know that GPs haven’t got time and resources to spend on this kind of thing.

I've been checking vitamins myself for years, normally D, b12, folate & iron levels and just supplement as needed. Very quick and easy to DIY. Have recently had bloods done via the GP and some of the results were the same as medichecks, some were not. (Annoyingly the ones I had concerns about were high with private, normal on NHS, so now the GP isn't looking into them)