Perspective | The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it ‘biohacking.’

  • 📰 washingtonpost
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 65 sec. here
  • 3 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 29%
  • Publisher: 72%

Health Health Headlines News

Health Health Latest News,Health Health Headlines

Perspective: The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it 'biohacking.'

Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter and Square, speaks with members of the media following an Empowering Entrepreneurs event at Ryerson University in Toronto. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist April 11 at 2:04 PM One night in college, a member of my four-person study group showed up with a bunch of Snickers bars from a campus giveaway. The only man in the group picked one up and casually read the nutrition label.

Is there something odd or disordered about Jack Dorsey's eating? Maybe he's just a try-guy, on a perpetual quest to see what makes his body feel and perform the best. He's spoken in the past about dabbling in veganism, in paleo, in consuming so much beta carotene that his skin turned orange. Maybe he's just that kind of person; we don't have sufficient data to suggest otherwise.

I don’t know why we’re so reverential of the eating behaviors of Silicon Valley executives, except I sort of think I know why. These men completely revolutionized the way we took photographs, paid for services, connected with relatives and moved through the world. There’s something tantalizing in the idea that they also hold the key to revolutionizing our bodies.

Soylent received $20 million in venture capital, but some commenters pointed out that Soylent has essentially already been around for 40 years. It’s called SlimFast. And it’s marketed not to tech bros, but to women who also have important pursuits, but who additionally know, in a rapid-response way, how many calories are in a Snickers bar.It's fascinating to watch the language of food consumption mutate as it travels across genders. For decades,"dieting" was the domain of women.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

yes lets all take diet and health advice from this guy

If I hear one more time about something-hacking (growth, bio, life), I will flip my shit.

He's living his best life and the WP has to be on him like a tabloid?

Still Twitter boss?.....😈🤪

I think this guy watched The Inventor a little too much.

Don’t eat unless you’re hungry and once you eat don’t get full. Simple effective advice.

Sure whatever

A first glance, I thought he was a character from “Game of Thrones” smh. So much advertising! Ahhhhh.....

I love intermittent fasting, believe in several of its benefits and have had good success with it myself. That said, Dorsey takes it to stupid extremes by fasting all through the weekend...

You charge people to read this kind of content 👀👀

I eat one meal a day, not because I want to lose or maintain weight, but because I find our cultural obsession with food and eating boring & bizarre. People eat too much. And unless you are actually out in the world hunting & gathering, 1,200 - 2000 calories a day is plenty.

The media kissing a giant monopoly CEO ass. Oh btw the same media is owned by the richest person who ever lived in our planet.

Yeah...jack looks terrible after he started the whole diet thing

Ignoring the pretentious writer of that awful article - 'biohacking' is just going to be another silly term used to normalize yet another thing that is terrible for you. I suppose we should all just ignore how mankind has eaten and drank for the past 10k+ years to survive.

😍 handsome

We grow food because we can’t afford to buy it.

Really? This is what you are covering? When most people can’t feed themselves? GTFOH

It's pretty obvious jack is batshit and has been for a while. No wonder he and Trump get along.

Shots fired Dave Asprey, and bulletproof? With their butter coffee BS

Is he on that Soylent diet?

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 95. in HEALTH

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines