How “Fake News” could end Biohacking…

I’ve got good news for you and I’ve got bad news for you, and the bad news is about fake news.

The good news…

I interviewed a friend and mentor with 25 years of Biohacking experience. We went deep discussing...

• PTSD and trauma
• The Racetams
• Liquid smart drugs
• Bodybuilding
• Hacking bioavailability
  Neurogenesis
• We even did some in-depth listener Q&A

Biohacking for a Quarter Century with the Brofessor, is well worth a listen.

The bad news…

You’re probably well aware that the world of politics has a big fake news problem. And I’m sorry to inform you that the world of Biohacking also has a fake news problem. If you read the excellent book that originally defined and dissected the problem of fake news, Trust Me, I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday, you’ll see lots of egregious examples of it in the Biohacking sphere online...

• The vast majority of YouTube videos about different Nootropics or Biohacking tools are just some person’s feelings, subjective experiences, and opinions. Very little of the content out there makes cogent arguments that reference sources that lend credibility to their assumptions, statements, and recommendations.
• There’s an abundance of blogs and articles about Biohacking but the writers of most of them are VERY LAZY about citing their work; 800-word SEO-optimized blogs comprised assumptions, generalizations, and platitudes with a just couple of links added to the very bottom which may or may not actually support the information presented.
• Many of the most popular websites about Biohacking and health are veritable content farms, that select topics based upon SEO keywords instead of actual expertise and then pay outsourced writers $5/hour to write about them. The more banner ads you see surrounding an article the less likely it’s telling the truth.
• Many of these content farms along and supplement vendors don’t personally stand behind their products or recommendations. All you can find is a generic About page; no real people, no phone number, no address, and no business registered in good standing.

There is a very real risk that regulators or government agencies will take a hard look at all this and decide to crack down further on our freedom of consumption as Biohackers. It’s already happened in the UK, hasn’t it mates? In the USA we've seen regulators impose draconian restrictions during COVID and the FDA pushed for an emergency scheduling of Kratom, a relatively benign opioid, that would turn many who need it to treat chronic pain or anxiety into criminals.

Hypothetical scenario

Let’s say some reckless fool gets himself dead (let’s be honest — it’s almost always members of the male gender that win the "Darwin awards") with Piracetam or Modafinil in his system and it shows up in the autopsy. These very helpful (and totally benign, in the case of Piracetam) smart drugs will get a very red flag in a government database of harmful substances, which is searched and quarried by the chubby fingers of petty little tyrants endeavoring to create problems to solve to justify their government salaries. Not very many reckless young men need to remove themselves from the gene pool before the government will come along and decide that YOU should not have the right to use Modafinil, the Racetams, or heck, maybe even Horny Goat Weed!

How I fight fake news…

I’m one of the few public faces of Biohacking that thoroughly researches my subject matter. You’ll notice that my articles and meta-analysis are full of quotations and links to studies and credible sources supporting my hypotheses about how a given supplement may benefit you or achieve a specific effect. I put my real name and image on almost every piece of educational content I put out, so I have a serious reputational incentive to get things right.

The content format that people seem to appreciate the most is my long-form animated video blogs (like the one above), explaining a topic I spent dozens or hundreds of hours researching. Some more examples...

The "swiss army knife" of Mitochondrial support supplements 🔬 Creatine Biohacker Overview & Review
The Social Anxiety Protocol for Biohacking Confidence
Tyrosine 🎖️ Military-Grade Nootropic for hacking acute stress and sleep deprivation
Biohacking the Fronto-Parietal Cortex 🧠 Brain training app review of Dual N-Back Pro
Caffeine as a Nootropic ☕ Pros vs Cons of Supplementing Caffeine
Piracetam Decoded 🔬 What +600 human studies are saying about the enigmatic smart drug...
9 Steps to Becoming a Tantric Man ♂️ Visiting a CEMETERY is #9

Since my videos are long, detailed, and thorough YouTube won't rank my videos highly and send me viewers unless my audience is sharing my videos. But if I’m going to spend my nights and weekends slaving away video editing (which is really not my favorite thing to do) to create fun, entertaining, and, importantly, well-researched videos you need to share them. The videos above are clearly some of the best content on the internet about social anxiety, brain training, Nootropics, and sexhacking yet they've accrued just a paltry few thousand views on YouTube (even before my +15,000 subscriber channel got banned). Why is this?

They are long and YouTube doesn't seem to like to rank long videos highly.
So…
I could start just making short, simple videos with clickbaity titles and slide images.
Or…
My audience can get a little more active about sharing my videos which will communicate to YouTube that they deserve higher rankings.
So…

Call to action

Peruse my channel and watch at least 20 of the videos I’ve created in the last year, here on YouTube, it won’t take you more than a few hours and you will learn some very cool, useless stuff (I've got a bunch of playlists that will make this easy). Then I’d like you to share at least three of my videos with people whom they could help.

If your roommate has social anxiety issues, send them my social anxiety protocol videos.
If your dad is a coffee addict, send him my video about caffeine.
If your sister has memory problems send her my videos about Piracetam.

Don't just share them on social media, instead think about the people in your life and the challenges they face. I probably have videos that can really help them! Send them a short message or email letting them know you care about them, and have something that you think might help them. Share at least three of my videos privately or publicly with your recommendation and maybe encourage them to subscribe to my channel.

Now, my middling success on YouTube is my choice because, unlike a lot of YouTubers...

• I don’t beg my audience every seven minutes in my videos to like, comment, and share! Which is apparently what you need to do to go viral.
• I don't monetize my content with annoying midroll ads.
• I don't create shorts for the masses with TikTok brain.

My internet marketer friends are telling me that if I want to grow my audience and income I should be doing Facebook/Instagram ads, retargeting campaigns, and 30-second shorts, instead of spending my time researching neurobiology, anti-aging, and transformative personal growth, and translating it into cool, original multimedia content for you. But I refuse to do the formulaic things that everyone else does to try to achieve virality! I refuse to dumb down my content and waste your time in it trying to appeal to an algorithm! If you appreciate that, let's make this a little more of a reciprocal relationship, please share my videos with those who might help.