I’ve lost 100lbs, reversed my biological age by 10 years and healed my liver: From the exact supplements I take to a simple morning routine that changed my life, here’s exactly how I did it…

Americans are preoccupied. 

With what, you may ask? Themselves.

Over the past few years, it seems like ‘biohacking’ has been the word that’s on everybody’s lips. From Dave Asprey, known as the ‘father’ of the movement, to Bryan Johnson and even Kim Kardashian, it’s becoming more prevalent than ever.

While some may be installing things like hyperbaric oxygen chambers and saunas in their basements, the actual concept is simpler than that – it means optimizing our health and maximizing it as far as possible, so we can live longer and more fruitful lives. 

According to Dr Melissa Young, a functional medicine doctor at Cleveland Clinic, the idea can be defined as ‘the art and science of maximizing a human performance by hacking our biology.’ 

Many do this by making changes to their lifestyle, using things like their diet, environment and even supplements and peptides to their advantage to try to optimize their health. 

Some people have dedicated their entire adult lives to it, like Asprey, 52, the founder of the viral Bulletproof Coffee. So far, the former tech startup entrepreneur-turned-biohacker has spent over one million dollars on his ultimate goal to live to 180 years old. 

And others are following his lead, turning what was once a fringe movement into something more conventional. 

It was evident this past weekend, as Asprey hosted the 14th annual BEYOND Biohacking Conference in Austin, Texas, with over 5,000 attendees, sharing the latest innovations in the biohacking industry.

The Daily Mail attended to learn more about his unorthodox methods, which include taking a myriad of supplements and peptide injections, the latest phenomenon in Hollywood. 

‘I take about 150 supplements a day,’ Asprey told the Daily Mail.

‘Injections can go from one per day up to maybe ten per day, and if I’m doing ten per day, I’m on a usually four to six week [schedule],’ he said. 

Social media influencers, podcasters, wellness clinics and online sellers promote peptides as a quick and easy way to build muscle faster, heal injuries more quickly, reduce inflammation, lose fat, sleep better and more.

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has repeatedly backed giving Americans broader access to peptides. In April 2026, the FDA announced plans to consider allowing some of them to be made to order at specialist pharmacies after banning them in 2023.

A peptide is just a short chain of protein building blocks called amino acids, which include insulin or GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic. But the issue lies in whether the peptides being sold have gone through the long process that makes medicines credible: reproducible manufacturing, careful dose testing, clinical trials for a specific condition and ongoing safety monitoring.

Some of the peptides that Asprey currently has in his stack include the controversial Melanotan, which stimulates pigment cells in your skin to produce more melanin and BPC-157, which is supposed to stimulate tissue repair.

Asprey is all in on peptides but in comparison, they’re only a small part of his overall larger routine. In the morning, for instance, he keeps his phone on airplane mode and tries to get a taste of morning sunlight.

‘The thing that’s most important is not doing the same thing every day,’ Asprey said. 

‘It’s setting aside time to do something that makes you better every day, so my non-negotiable is, I tell my EA, who helps me with scheduling my day, don’t schedule things before 10am,’ he said.

‘I do work from home when I’m not on the road, and that means before 10am, I do my thinking, and I always spend at least 45 minutes doing something to improve myself.’

Sometimes this includes a hyperbaric chamber or a sauna, while other mornings he might do neurofeedback meditation – a practice that combines traditional meditation with real-time brainwave monitoring – with at-home neurofeedback system Satoria, or journal.

‘The deal is, doing the same thing every morning becomes a chore and a burden, and you’re very unlikely to stick with it,’ Asprey said.

‘And what if what you say, I’m going to exercise every morning, you’re just overtraining. So, what does my body need this morning?’

But before you can ever start to wade into the world of peptides or extra supplements like Asprey, he said you have to have your basic nutrients covered – or else all those extras simply won’t work. 

‘You’ve got to have your vitamin D, A, K, E, your Minerals 101, and have sufficiency of your basic vitamins, getting enough animal protein in your diet,’ Asprey said.

‘If you’re not doing that, it’s like trying to frost a cake that hasn’t baked yet. It’s not going to work right.’

And Asprey truly believes that he’s ahead of the curve.

‘I used to weigh 300 pounds. I weigh 200 pounds now, and I’m about seven and a half percent body fat,’ Asprey explained.

‘My biological age, depending on what test you want to believe, is at least ten years younger, and I have all the worst genes. I had all the diseases of aging before I was 40, arthritis and prediabetes, and high risk of stroke and heart attack, and all of that’s gone.’

‘People say, “But, I want to get all my nutrients from Mother Nature.” Oh, really? So then you should get all of your toxins from Mother Nature, and all of your EMFs from Mother Nature, and all of your lighting from Mother Nature. So, good luck living in a cave somewhere on the planet,’ he continued.

Asprey called it a ‘complete fantasy’ to only think that you’re going to get nutrients strictly from food.   

‘It’s almost mean to yourself to say, “I’m going to get all of my nutrients from my food,” because our food is stripped of minerals, it contains toxins, and life contains toxins that we did not evolve to deal with,’ Asprey claimed.

He said that his liver, for example, is ‘extremely healthy’ – something that not everyone can say. 

‘Most, but not all, the nutrients that I take, actually help your liver and your kidneys and the other systems in the body, because I take high quality, real supplements,’ Asprey said.

‘You can take some Chinese herbs, or some knock off fake supplements, or even some peptides that aren’t pure, that can be hard on the liver, but can we talk about Tylenol?’ he continued.

‘I’m not saying that stuff is even bad for you. I’m just saying, if that’s hard on your liver, not to mention the pint you just drank, don’t talk to you about supplements.’

Elsewhere, others in the industry are exploring other breakthroughs like oral peptides. 

Dr Christopher Shade, the founder and CEO of Quicksilver Scientific, has dedicated his life to creating liposomal products to increase the absorption of certain bio nutrients in humans.

He’s known as the ‘detox alchemist,’ creating a line of oral peptides, including a liposomal copper tripeptide complex, also known as the ‘soccer mom’ peptide that’s supposed to build collagen and elastin in the skin. 

‘It’s cheaper than doing injectables, and so we’re getting the same results that people are getting with injectables, and now they don’t have to worry about, “Where do I get these? Are they sterile?”‘ Dr Shade told the Daily Mail.

In addition to his own products, he encourages people to live a ‘simpler life,’ and have more presence in the everyday. 

He suggests people move towards an organic diet and avoiding toxins that can lie in everyday products, like weed killers or certain body care products. 

‘Getting people to a simpler life, less pollution in their environment, more air circulation in their environment, less digital pollution in their minds, and more presence in their life, just presence, really shifts thing,’ he said.

But when asked about the future of biohacking, Dr Shade said he believes it could lie in gene therapy, which works to change or replace a disease-causing gene.

‘Being able to do either gene therapies where we turn up the production of these specific proteins genes for them, or some way to take them into the body, will be really strong at reversing the aging process,’ Dr Shade told the Daily Mail.

‘You have the genes to make all the things you made when you were young, you just start turning them off over time, that’s the epigenetic changes,’ he continued.

‘So we can switch those back on, then we get back to that young cell signaling and regenerative capacity, because I believe the body should be able to last much longer than it does if you take out this coding in there that says one, two, fall apart.’

While Dr Shade may believe that gene therapy is part of biohacking’s future, it was evident that after attending this conference the next ‘miracle’ could truly be anything, from anywhere and right around the corner.

Whether or not these innovations will stand to see the test of time – or, say, live forever – is a question that remains to be seen.