The Lab Within

Self-experimentation as personal evolution.

I've turned my body into a laboratory. Not a sterile, white-coat lab with beakers, but a living, breathing experiment that runs 24/7. I tweak my diet like adjusting a complex formula, I track my sleep and mood as if graphing an equation.

Biohacking, they call it – but to me it's just being curious about myself. What happens if I cut sugar for a month? If I meditate every morning? I am the scientist and the subject, the microscope and the specimen, all at once.

In a world where we optimize code and processes, why not optimize our own biology? There's a thrill in it – not vanity, but discovery. Sometimes I find answers: more energy, better focus, a calmer mind. Other times I find limits and learn to respect them.

The corporate world taught me to measure everything, and I carried that habit inward. The key is ethics and care: I'll experiment, but I won't compromise what makes me human. The goal isn't to become a perfect machine; it's to understand the machine and the soul inside it.

In the lab within, every failure is data, every success a small evolution. I remain, above all, honest with myself – because the point of all this tinkering is not to escape my humanity, but to embrace it more fully.