BIOHACK YOUR BEST LIFE

Time to get in the lab and build a better you for 2025 - Matt Evans tested five health tech upgrades for budding biohackers

- Matt Evans

Loose New Year’s resolutions around losing weight or getting fit are doomed to fail without help. Time for a new approach this year, one in which you leave the well-trodden path of calorie-counting and busy January gyms, and stray into the wild blue yonder of high-tech, experimental health and fitness solutions.

Those on the cutting edge are embracing ‘biohacking’. Biohacking involves using unconventional, unusual technology driven by data to improve your health: it could mean wearable tech, but it could also mean monitoring your blood or trying untested dietary hacks.

Fringe practitioners like Bryan Johnson, the 49-year-old Venmo creator and biohacker, are spending millions of dollars using experimental tech and biochemistry in an attempt to reverse ageing, and making headlines in the process.

Fortunately, you don’t have to spend that sort of dosh, or put yourself at risk with untested supplements, to improve your health with the latest smart tech. Whatever your goals – better sleep, a healthier diet, or more effective workouts – there’s a gadget out there for you. These are the very latest cutting-edge tools, and any one of them could be key to building a better you for 2025.

CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORS

Wouldn't it be great to know exactly how your snacking habits affect your blood sugar levels? Weight gain is very strongly linked to blood sugar spikes, according to JAMA research. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, are patch-like devices that stick to your arm, with a needle to penetrate the skin - it's far less painful than it sounds - and a sensor attached to the needle used to take constant blood sugar readings, beaming the results to an app on your phone via Bluetooth.