When I tell my mother that I’m heading to an island accessible only by speedboat to join 11 founders on a biohacking retreat, she tells me to share my location with her in case someone traps me there to harvest my youthful blood. She’s half joking, but when many people think of longevity, that is the image conjured: extreme health hacks with questionable ethics, reserved for the uber rich.
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