 I wanted to say this for a very long time so here it goes. Biohacking is one big fat lie. Now I've been following this industry since about 2015 or so and I've been following the most famous biohackers for a very very long time and what is happening in this industry right now it is just gross so we need to speak about it. Hey friends and welcome to your Inception's channel. My name is Greg and I'm the founder of this channel and here we cover everything from biohacking, brain supplements, to psychedelics so if this interests you then be sure to subscribe to my channel below. Now I know you probably know what biohacking is but still biohacking kind of involves all activities that help people improve their cognition, improve their well-being, their health and help with longevity or anti-aging. Now to be honest there is no real hacking happening right I mean it is mainly optimizing our performance or our health to achieve certain results. So the word biohacking is not completely correct but since it attracts masses nowadays we will stick to it. Now today's there are tens or even hundreds of popular biohackers around the world that share their hacks every single day that should help you improve your performance or your well-being but what they actually do in real life is they help you optimize your performance so there are no real hacks they're optimizations and some of those optimizations can be very helpful can really help you improve certain aspects of your performance or well-being or your health but some can be actually quite dangerous. Now I've been following this trend of self-proclaimed biohackers for a very long time and it is really crazy to see how certain people, certain influential biohackers change their stories, their beliefs, change the narrative and what they're doing is absolutely crazy so that's why we're talking about it. Now to an unexperienced eye biohackers are a salvation to all human problems but if you know at least a little bit about human biology there are no more than charlatans that they don't even sell snake oil while they often sell our pure lice and those lice can be quite dangerous to you and that's why we're gonna talk about three main problems I see today with biohacking industry and biohackers by the way which is your favorite biohacker let me know in the comment section below so the first problem that I see is that biohackers often make lice so they simply lie they make a statement that is completely false but since such a statement is often so shocking it goes viral and because it goes viral it brings clicks and views and followers and that's what make people money now I have found hundreds of examples but I decided to show one a recent one from Dave Esprit the father of bioquacking oh sorry I mean biohacking itself it is such a great example that I wanted to share with you so let's see what Dave said about brown rice when he compared to white rice yeah white rice not brown brown rice is bad for you god it's like the complete opposite of everything that we learned that's because some guy in the 70s was like because fiber brown rice has a whole bunch of lectins it shreds your gut and it's got 80 times more arsenic than white rice that's why every rice eating culture on the planet peels their rice unless you're too poor to peel your rice so the fact that some kind of self loathing long distance runner in the 70s told you you know a whole bunch of fiber and whole foods whatever that means it doesn't work that's what made me fat I was also a raw vegan by the way like as a devout vegan you've done the whole thing yeah it gave me worse arthritis it gave me more other immunity it gave me terrible joint pain it broke teeth 80 percent of people go vegan quit because it makes them sick and it can take years to recover so don't do that so firstly brown rice doesn't have 80 times more arsenic than white rice according to this study it has only 1.5 times the levels of arsenic than white rice so this is not 80 times Dave it is 1.5 times more now imagine him making a video in which he says hey brown rice has 1.5 times more arsenic than white rice I mean that's not gonna go viral will it and that's why he doesn't do that but since brown rice is generally considered much healthier than white rice because it is unprocessed rice this statement is so more shocking and that's the kind of content that goes viral on social media nowadays sadly this is just a pure lie but that's not even the biggest problem and that's what gets us to the second point biohackers often don't talk about the important things what they really like to talk about are things that don't really matter let me give you the same example based from what Dave has preset so 99.9 percent of people don't care about arsenic levels in brown or white rice to be honest right they don't even care about the healthy foods in general so why do you talk about arsenic levels in brown rice or white rice if most people don't even care about eating healthy I mean that doesn't make any sense and people like myself like to listen to Dave Esprit and people like that because we want to live a healthy life but even to me it doesn't matter how much arsenic is in brown rice or white rice what matters to me is whether brown rice or white rice are healthy that's basically it now real scientists not bioquacks they rank foods from less healthy to more healthy so it's kind of a food is you know placed in a certain range it's not about this is unhealthy this is healthy no usually it is the dosage that makes the poison right and this is very very important when it comes to arsenic levels in brown rice for example so we know that 140 milligrams to 1400 milligrams of arsenic is the deadly dosage so we want to eat less than that right so let's go with the lowest level so let's say that 140 milligrams is the dosage that you know we need to be aware of we need to intake a lower level than 140 milligrams of arsenic to be on the safe side if one kilogram of brown rice has about 200 parts per one billion of arsenic and if we use the number 200 here so this is the highest number that come from studies we know that one would have to eat 700 kilograms or 1500 pounds of brown rice to potentially die from that so we need to kind of stay below that can you do it now since we know that the half life of reasoning is 46 hours and it is excreted in the urine but it takes in general up to a whole week to get a reasoning out of your body this means that you need to eat less than 700 kilograms or 1500 pounds of brown rice per week to stay in the safe zone and this is you know very exaggerated this is a very conservative logic and calculation here so the question for you is can you eat less than 700 kilograms of brown rice who could eat so much brown rice in a week I mean this absolutely insane so for that example we know that arsenic in brown rice is not a real problem it's not even a thing to talk about now imagine Dave making a video and saying hey brown rice and white rice are healthy so you can eat them as much as you can now that's for sure not gonna go viral right now before we go to the third problem I'm sure there's gonna be at least one person in the comments is gonna say yeah Greg you're talking about the deadly or the little dosage of arsenic but you know what is kind of at the lowest level of arsenic that is still safe to have in your body now of course I looked at the studies and this level is somewhere around five milligrams so if you have less than five or if you contain less than five milligrams of arsenic you shouldn't have no issues with that because at five milligrams you get the poisoning from arsenic so if we calculate again and we are very conservative here you need to eat less than 25 kilograms or about 55 pounds of brown rice per week to stay on the safe side can you do it I mean I usually eat about 200 grams of white rice per week up to half a kilo that's maximum but you know this is 25 kilograms per week to be on a completely safe level and far away from any kind of poisoning from arsenic now you see why it is so unimportant to talk about the level of arsenic in brown rice if you actually look at the data but that's not even the biggest problem if you look at the studies you know that people who consume more brown rice they are healthier because eating brown rice can improve diabetes can improve heart disease and so on and we know this from high quality studies and this is what gets us to the third problem self-proclaimed biohackers often cite low quality studies or they even talk about anecdotes and Dave Esprit is a perfect example of that I still remember his comment way back when he said like you know when he was on a plant-based diet he had so many issues with health and so on where we know nowadays from very high quality studies that this is one of the most optimal diets for human beings so it wasn't the plant-based diet itself it was his poor planning that made the issues and what he did is he used one anecdote his own story instead of looking at the high quality human studies that are actually available so every serious researcher will look at the totality of evidence available and we know there's a hierarchy of quality research on the top we have meta-analysis and systematic reviews of multiple studies then the randomized controlled trials then there are the cohort studies or the observational studies then we have animal studies and then we have in vitro studies and at the bottom we have individual case reports and I can say that anecdotes are even below that and what every serious researcher will tell you is when you have a higher quality data available what is below that so lower quality that doesn't make any sense right especially when you have meta-analysis of multiple studies so I remember one example but when there was a meta-analysis of 300 studies and then there was one study one single a low quality study who kind of tried to disprove all the 300 studies that have been done before and that's just not how science works now I'm not saying that science is perfect we don't have all the research available but when there is so much data available don't even try or don't even bother to talk about one single anecdote but first look at the totality of evidence presented then you can present your anecdote and then people will decide what matters most but you know if you have tons of evidence available and this means high quality evidence then you need to use tons of new high quality evidence to dispute this initial quality evidence and that's just how science works but if you're trying to make a certain point if you try to get views and clicks you're not gonna do that you're gonna make a stupid comment that has you know there's no reality in that it's pure lie it's it's false it's you know it's a scam because that is what's gonna go viral that's what's gonna bring clicks and views and that's what's gonna make you money and this is just wrong now luckily there's still people out there that I try that I follow and they're phenomenal experts phenomenal researchers that you know I've been following it for a long time so if you really care about your well-being your health and someone you know there's a list up here you can check it out to see who are the people that I personally trust thank you guys for watching this video and please don't get tricked by biocrackers have a good day