Extreme biohacking: the tech guru who spent $250,000 trying to live for ever

In September last year, the young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Serge Faguet posted an article on the tech website Hacker Noon. It was headlined: "I'm 32 and spent $200k on biohacking. Significantly more intelligent, too, he added, with an increased sex drive that dovetailed nicely with his newfound ease at "picking up girls". These last two points especially grabbed the attention of the site's hundreds of thousands of mainly male readers. The comments section under Faguet's story is full of admiration for his data-driven, problem-solving approach. The article currently has 15,000 upvotes. His follow-up about increasingyour intelligence by having sex and micro-dosing MDMA is the site's second most read article of 2018. In his working life as CEO, or former CEO, of a string of international startups, Faguet is ruthlessly pragmatic. He applies the same approach to his sole hobby: extreme biohacking. Biohacking is a buzzword that unites the hi-tech, wellness, anti-ageing and science ...