emerging markets that claim to make you smarter, enhanced memory as making more efficient. in essence, bio hackers are helping to test our limits and are constantly pushing the boundaries when it comes to trying to upgrade us as human. i'm crispy and you're watching the cost of everything we're today. we're going to be exploring the world of bio hacking. and if this is simply a trend or the next big movement me bio hacking is a broad and amorphous term that can cover many activities. popular hacks include intermittent fasting supplements, or using wearable technologies to track sleep and heart rate. take that one step further and then you have things like sleeping in a hyper bare chamber price therapy for muscle recovery, red light therapy for anti aging. and more of that have been popularized by silicon

valley bros. like jack dorsey and other famous figures. and then on the far end of that spectrum, you have the blurred edges between tech biotech and human. you had things like a lot masked neuro link, which is a brain implant company was the initial goal is to help people with paralysis, to regain independence through the control of computers and mobile devices. while it is said that neuro link is working well in monkeys, he hoped to test it on humans with severe spinal cord injuries like tetra paralegic or quadriplegics in the near future. another company, syncron is also working on similar technology as it plans to place a device called the centro, which is smaller than a match, stick into the brain to help paralyze patients control digital devices. the military is also considering implants for soldiers that may be useful to monitor their health data and even recovering them if they were captured or lost in war.

technology now has made it so that 6 completely blind, people have had their vision partially restored via a device that feeds camera images directly into the brain using electrodes bypassing the damaged optic nerve. artificial vision is still in its infancy, but so far the results have been very encouraging. another recent example using biotech to enhance our senses is the night vision, eye drops, which allow test subjects to see in the dark. these eye drops were made where the chemical found in a deep sea fish and the effects would last for several hours. scientists are even developing a sensitive artificial skin to make prosthetics feel more lifelike. there's already a material that can sense pressure, moisture, and heat. so it would be used as skin to cover artificial limbs. and advancements in technology and biotech, while rooted out of medical necessity, are now being used by bio hackers in order to optimize their own health,

personal fitness, efficiency, and longevity. now to dig some more, we're joined in by dan low, ron author and cybersecurity, expert santana. what is the ultimate purpose on all this file hacking? yes, it does. it does a certainly a large group who want to ultimately enhance ah, human capabilities and, and we way back when. busy growing up, we had the $6000000.00 man, right, and we can make them better, we can make them stronger, we can make them faster. now remember growing up watching that as a boy, and i think there's a lot of truth in that. people want to say is, are there ways we can um, enhance, you know, capabilities for the future. certainly, another thing piece of this is as artificial intelligence becomes more and more a wide spread in the decades ahead and becomes more and more common around the

world using that in a wide variety of applications for humans to be able to perform the best of this more and more talk that you need to have linkages bringing together human and bio interfaces, you know, with, with machines, you know, tip to provide bent the best use of a i, the best use of artificial intelligence and, and also technology to enhance human function. so that's alternately where this is going. i think certainly of jury diseases. this is where it's going to really start to really maybe become more commonplace in society. right now. it's still pretty much a fringe ah, activated for just a small group of people around the world. when you look at the billions of people that live in a worldwide. and do you think this is a dangerous trend we'll hear of celebrities like jack dorsey, or grimes, doing all sorts of my teens and hacks to obtain what they believe is optimal health

and state of mind. but it doesn't actually work, or can it be dangerous? actually think it can be dangerous and i mean, i actually come from cyber security world background, the national security agency and, but it's, i'm security my whole life. and, you know, i think the fears are in many cases, well founded that will, how will that data be use? how will the information be use? could it be misused by government or others just in the same way that you know, maybe data's been misused by some social media companies used to, um, you know, to create situations where people are attracted in the doing things that might be harmful or um, you know, could, could this day to be, to this technology and or our data be misuse and i think that's where the danger comes in and i think is going to be experimentation is going to be testing. i don't think it's, it's all or nothing, you know, but i do think people worry about everything from 984, you know, big brother. and then this is more like ok control. so i think winning people over

when i posted this kind of tech of my articles, i've got several different articles on this topic and linked in it was like 90 percent or more greater were against it. they said this is not good. it's, i'm never going to put a chip in my body. i'm never going there. so that's why i say initially, i think the adoption is really going to be for medical uses for uses where you can show that, hey, this can really either he or disease or greatly enhance and provide the ability for men and women for people to be able to um, you know, overcome disabilities to solve medical problems and as that becomes more widespread than i think people are gonna, maybe be more open to, to the wider piece. but yes, i do think it could be dangerous. i do think it could be misused. and now a lot of those are hacks, they're not whacked by enough scientific data. and yet you have some people going to extreme lengths like modifying their own genome. so i think this being regulated,

not right now. they need to be, i mean i, i totally agree that those are challenges that i think, you know, bleeding edge aspects of this are scare ah, you know, it's, it's, some movies are made up. so i absolutely believe that we're regulation needs to become a needs to be you know, scientific evidence needs to be provided there needs to be a reasonable, basically safeguards put in place. and that, you know, that, you know, right now, today is we, you know, on record this, this is, this is, this is really bleeding edge technology. and, and so i think the proof could it be, need to come from those who are pushing the envelope in this area and early can others that are going to be coming out with new um, you know, new technology to do this in more more areas and i think a lot of people are going to be skeptical initially. it's going to take time to build trust with society and who has the,

who has the control over these. and i think it's gonna take time to really, to build that trust. and wow, a lot of the pile hackers and narrow hackers claim positive boosts been that affects. how can the nisha it's merely isn't a placebo effect. i don't think you get the sure. and again, i think, i think you have to have, you know, the reasons why they do double blind tests. there's reasons why, you know, you need to be verified over time and over, you know, excited methods. so yeah, i don't believe currently as it stands today, where we're at in late 2020 to that, that is, you know, that is something that is, that is acceptable currently. so i, i would, i would say, you know, be careful. and now there are some extreme methods on the border on ethically ambiguous territories, things like young blood transfusions, way trans is the blood of someone younger and healthier. how do you see this

industry involving? that's a great question. not a doctor. so i'm again, i'm, i'm looking at this mainly from a cybersecurity perspective and from, you know, just the perspective of. busy of professionals in the united states and trends that are happening and the merger of a lot of different fields in science and medicine and technology and, and, you know, i, i do see more and more, you know, advancements in this area. i think that, you know, people are talking, broadly speaking, that we could have artificial intelligence at the, at the basic human level of, of, of, of a 10 year old or of a teenager. ah, within, within, you know, 15 year. so i've heard dates like 20402038. we could have of that kind of thing. so i certainly think we're going to be seeing more and more of this

. i think you're going to see more advanced mits, you know, but i think you're going to have to, to some forward one step back. one was that forward to step back, just like you know, a few years ago we're talking about. 6 by 2025, all vehicles will be autonomous. all new vehicles, congress. it's clear that's not going to be happening. we are going to head autonomous vehicles, but it's good take maybe somebody else a decades to get there. so i do think that this is going to take time, but i do think that people can be pushing the envelope and we need to have a relationship around that. we need to be thinking clearly about this and it's going to take time to do that. thanks so much, dan lauren, by a time and and site but medical necessity, the side would you pay to receive a chip implant if they offer some other optional medical enhancements, plan madi, most of these enhancements and right out of medical necessity. but technology has advanced to offer more things like deep brain stimulation, which started out as a treatment for parkinson's disease. now suggests that

a chip in plant can booster them, right? so when, hey, to push the limits on the human body and hack here. my ology to be more efficient, stronger, faster, better. and how much do these advanced technologies cost to develop? while have more after the re? ah, ah. in 1935 fascist italy, led by dictator benito mussolini decided to expand its colonial empire in africa and take over ethiopia. by that time, ethiopia was the only fully independent state on the continent. back in 1896, it's inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonists and defend their

independence. since then, rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october, 3, 1935. without any announcement, the fascists attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces fought courageously, but the brutality of the italians knew no bounds. they use not only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also chemical weapons, toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia by the fascist 760000 people were killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe's tacit approval . britain and france recognized the annexation, giving the green light to further fascist expansion in the world. and baby in the

way for the outbreak of world war 2. ah, your so them normally neural things like whites nature or the western approach to m u. c. i internal personal for personal in interstate. the relationship is one of the black and white realities, or maybe many shades of both different colors to proceed. and the chinese philosophy approach to the issue is, you know, if we're different worked together. ah welcome back. must had initially invested a $100000000.00 of his own money into narrowing the device received an ac d, a breakthrough designation and 2021. and would be robotically stitched on to the

brain to ultimately address musculoskeletal and neurological problems as well as track movement. and stream music mosque described it as a fit it in your skull. now neural lank has since res, over $300.00 a $1000000.00 for r and d as well as to develop its robotics surgeon that would be responsible for implementing the chip. must claims that the entire procedure will be performed by a robot and he expects the surgery to end up costing only a few $1000.00. now, muscle controlled prosthetic limbs were amputees or quadriplegics are also making huge advances. new a i chip technology would allow patients to control robotic body parts using their thoughts by employing machine learning. currently today, prosthetics on the market. detect shoulder, chest or muscle movement. they have sensors to recognize signals in specific

regions of the human body that tell it to move in a certain way. adapting to these well driven lens is not easy for most patients, and they are unsuitable for physically weak individuals. with a i chips, these neural prosthetic arm moved with the will of the patients mines. it is efficient, easy to use and a lot more intuitive than any commercial prosthetic system available. while the cost of prosthetic vary from limb to limb, a basic muscle control upper lim, prosthetic cost, about $7000.00. in contrast, and a i power prosthetic could range anywhere from $30000.00 to over a $100000.00. these are definitely luxury items and are priced accordingly because of the expensive a i chips that power the lens. these neural morphic chips seek to imitate the learning ability and energy efficiency of human brains. and this is proving to be very popular with the prosthetics as a system is capable of stimulating

a 100000000 neurons. now to the 1000000 global new amputees yearly, these new prosthetic systems will help less than the learning curve in adjusting to their new normal. in addition to that, as technology continues to advance these prosthetics also helped to supplement healthy individuals with additional lens. think a i powered exoskeletons that can help you lift 200 pounds effortlessly. now, while these devices are not yet available commercially to consumers, they are available to certain clinics and cost upwards of $80000.00. while the far end of bio hacking spectrum that includes a i, chips and surgery implants is not yet available in to mainstream consumers. the middle ground has now been popularized by celebrities. athletes like tom brady tech rows like bases and dorsey, and many more have popularized things like intermittent fasting kyle therapy for

muscle recovery, and boosting metabolism, which cost about $50.00 per 2 minute session. eli d infrared saunas to promote anti aging, which can cost over a $100.00 per hour session. now let's bring an e n con, a med reverse expert futurist an author. so are there any complications from the surgery and how big are these chips? what are they made of and how often do they need to be replaced or updated? so microchips that are used in health care today specially in brain implants or any other biometric that's inserted at the body, the sizes very. and that they have the sizes dramatically reduced from the last few years of the last decade since this reached or started happening right now, you could have a micro chip that's one millimeter a long. and you can't even see, it really depends on what the micro chip is being used for. if you look at some of the new technology, such as newer link, in case of brain implants, it's no longer

a microchip, but it's a very thin sensor that's thinner than a hair on a person's head that is inserted in the brains are really, really depends on what tech, what technology is being used, how information indeed as being gathered and collected from that micro chip or that technology. and then where is it going? so there's no one standard one fit for all. and also because this field is very new, this cutting edge research happening, there aren't many of the approvals on this and anything and everything is available out there at a very research level. so we'll see where this technology goes. and now what is the . * cost to get the search and when will insurance cover it? so at this moment, a lot of insurance companies, if not all, may not cover surgeries where you're getting any kind of an implant. now again, there's different types of implants. if i put something on micro chip that has an r f i d meter subcutaneous li, i put it under my skin and i use it,

let's say p at starbucks or p at my grocery store. that's a very simple kind of an implant. what the chip is very simple, there isn't much in there. there's an r f i d sensor in there doesn't coded the specific information that you get to program before you embed it in. so a few 100 to a couple of $1000.00 of costs incorporate incurred when you're doing that. when you look at more expensive or more researched kind of technologies that are there, they're not commercially available. you cannot just go and walk into a clinic and say, hey, i need a brain and blind, i need a wreck and i am blind. i need a hearing implant of some kind. so can i put it on my insurance insurance companies to believe you typically work with generic general health issues, diabetes or chronic illnesses. arthritis and what have you dental? i benefits and they would not cover any of these surgeries. the reason being they are very expensive. there isn't a straightforward pricing guide that you can open and say, hey,

this is how much is gonna cost me to do these implants. i don't anticipate insurance companies to cover these in the near future because the costs of dramatically high of again, as i said, majority of these implants are not 50 approved. they're not in the general sense of health care out there and not everybody in the population would get them. so i see approvals within health care being of being a long path that needs to be chaste. what does the future these checks look like? do they get bigger or smaller and more powerful? and what else would these chest be capable of doing? has 11 months neural inc, yvonne, teaching diseases like fanny are opposite, as he has stated, that will stimulate the brain and the current brain activity to the future of these chips. and this technology is really headed into a, 1st of all the form factor becoming smaller chips are becoming smaller. they're carrying more data carrying more information. there's optical fiber technology rather than a wire being put in. so in on that, on, on that side there's,

there's definitely dramatic improvements that are happening. if you remember back in the eighty's or ninety's, we had big giant desktop computers and we all were hooked on to desktops. but now you're apple. i watch or your i phone or your any smartphone is a 1000 times more powerful than those computers we used. and those desk often, and we don't even use desktops anymore. so what is happening with technology is the form factor, which is the shape and the size of technology is decreasing and it's becoming smaller capacities, doubling, quadrupling every single year. and so that is good news when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to chips and microprocessor that would be embedded inside the body of a person. because now you don't have to cut as much. now the body is not going to reject that sensor or that chip as much because she answered anything into a human body. the human body will reject it. it'll form no layers of different our fluids around it, and it will really try to protect itself. and that's the natural protection

mechanism behalf. and so that's great news for factors becoming a smaller in the future. also, we're looking at maybe artificial intelligence working really intelligently and actually working property intelligency, getting more data and you know, correlate all the data collects and try to figure out what is happening within the human body. so let's say we use these micro chips in a person who's physically disabled they can on their arm or leg, or don't have body movement. the chips may be able to read information and, and, and, and provide health care practitioners information about what parts of muscles are not working, which muscles need activation or what is wrong. i'm not a medical doctor, so i can't comment on that. but when it comes to technology, we're definitely making progress, but a lot more studies need to be done. lot more lab work needs to be done. and hopefully in the next uh, few years we might have, you know, treatments and tours available for conditions that we are unable to treat right now

. and what about the neural engineering system design, or any sd program sponsored my diaper that will build the bridge between the brains and computers, has that program achieved its goal to link matter and my co chips. so many different technologies have come and stayed and gone the specifically technologies by dar and others. everything is experimental. i mean, if you actually watch some of the new sy fi movies, for example, i, i and mother you watch terminator, you watch any modern sy fy will we, you'll see all the technologies that we're talking about happen. but in a virtual world, in a, in a, in a movie dramatized our dramatized waste. what is happening on the ground is different technology by darpa, that you mentioned is still a very early in its early stages. we hear a lot about our technologies being used in espionage and we hear in movies and other news that you know brain to waive sensing technologies are being used or mind

reading technologies are used theoretically. yes. many of them are possible and we don't know what people are working on with them. they're laboratories and in the secret kind of labs. but these technologies are not out here. they're not in a hospital until they're not proven to be working. they're not allowed to work to regulate, it means we don't have access to them. and i hope some of these come through and were able actually to benefit from them now is very insightful. thank you so much for your time. ultimately, bio hacky is a mindset as mike, as any specific take action or discipline. the mindset of bio hacking is the goal of optimizing your life in regards to your health performance work using all the tools and technology that we have available to us. the popularity of bio hacking has boomed in the past 10 years with people trying to take their own health in their own hands using technology to track various data points in their lives. there

are also things like experiments which is a kick starter program for research projects that lets people crowd fund research that interests them open. insulin for example, is a project that is trying to make the production of insulin cheap and easy to do at home. and this project spark massive interest and might create a pathway for people to start looking, a bio hockey for personalized medicine. the open source gender codes aims to engineer trans genetic tobacco plans to produce cheaper gender hormones for trans people. more and more community labs are giving people the tools and knowledge to design experiments to hack their lives. the history of science is full of stories of doctors and researchers being their own guinea pig to prove whether or not their ideal works. socks tried the polio vaccine on himself, not to mention august beer who used the spinal anesthesia on himself before any one

else. bio hackers have long been frustrated with the updates, sluggishness, and green lighting, all sorts of treatments. it can take up to 10 years for a new drug to be developed and approved in the u. s. for people with serious health conditions. and this is why bio hackers want to empower people to experiment on themselves. however, that's not to say that anyone can do this. there's serious risks and repercussions when experiments go wrong. like when a man injected himself was untested herpes treatment, or when another shared a self created gene therapy for lactose intolerance. mistakes and bio hacking seems to be getting higher and higher and eventually someone is going to end up hurt if they do not have the proper medical or technological knowledge. i'm christy. i thanks for watching and we'll see you back here next time on the costs of everything for

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