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Cost vs Effectiveness of Biohacking Treatments
Comparison of costs for common biohacking procedures tested at the event.
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I Tested Longevity Tech in Silicon Valley. Here's What's Worth It ...
I'm 24 and tried a bunch of longevity hacks popular in Silicon Valley. Only a few felt worth the money. By Tess Martinelli You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The Biohack Miami event in San Francisco took place at Shack15, a social club for founders and entrepreneurs. Tess Martinelli 2026-04-29T09:11:01.299Z Biohacking is the trend of optimizing your physical and mental health for longevity. I went to a biohacking event to test out the buzziest longevity technologies. From red light therapy to neurofeedback, not all remedies are created equal. Don't be concerned, but I'm 24, and I'm already worrying about aging.I religiously reapply sunscreen throughout the day and keep a ready supply of colorful roasted vegetables in my fridge (you did good, mom), but the San Francisco biohacking event I attended this month made me feel like a longevity fraud.From neurofeedback to red light therapy, several technologies used for wellness were available — so, naturally, I tested everything I could get my hands on and observed the products I couldn't try. Some products proved immediately valuable, while others left me altogether confused.As experts have told my colleagues on Business Insider's health team for years, the best way to protect our health long-term and boost our longevity is to nail the basics: eating a balanced, nutritious diet; regularly doing exercise we enjoy; getting enough sleep; and having meaningful relationships and purpose in life. Still, I couldn't help being curious about what the biohackers could offer me.With price, overall benefit, and ease of daily use in mind, these are the longevity technologies that I actually found worth trying, ranked from least to most appealing. Neurofeedback 60-minute consultation and 45-minute session: $175 The music in my headphones was created based on my brain waves. Tess Martinelli Neurofeedback didn't feel worth the investment.The woman who facilitated my experience told me that neurofeedback helped her overcome her public speaking anxiety, and claimed that it can improve sleep, relaxation, and mood.Sensors were placed on my scalp to track brain waves, and then a personalized feedback signal was sent to the headphones in the form of music to regulate my brain functions. As the desired brainwaves are reached, the music is supposed to become clearer, therefore training your brain on how to function over an extended period of time. Depending on t...
Kayla Barnes-Lentz, longevity influencer, follows this strict routine
Updated April 26, 2026, 11:00 a.m. ETAUSTIN — The overhead lights and lamps in the home switch from bright yellow to a soft orange. Custom-made furniture sits in every room, free of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. Elsewhere, there's a hyperbaric chamber, PEMF machines, saunas with built-in red light therapy, a home gym and a cold plunge pool. Air purifiers protect the home's occupants from any toxicity that dare enter from outside. Say what you will about longevity entrepreneur Kayla Barnes-Lentz: The woman is meticulous.The 35-year-old has built a cult following as the most publicly measured woman in the world, and the first woman to undergo ovarian biological age testing. Her ovaries are 30, not 35, thank you very much.Barnes-Lentz opted to study nutrition in college after subsisting on a diet of Pop-Tarts and Toaster Strudel. She never graduated, but that didn't stop her from learning everything she could about how to live a healthy lifestyle, including earning certifications and growing businesses, Barnes-Lentz says. She opened clinic LYV in Ohio in 2018 (which she left in 2025), aiming to improve her health metrics in the process. Research doesn't necessarily support all the things she is doing and some experts worry her large following could be misled by the data she shares broadly. Barnes-Lentz outfitted LYV with a medical team that worked to offer patients a deeper look at their health than a typical doctor's visit. Gut tests, advanced thyroid panel, total toxins tests. She was the clinic's first patient. And she started posting the results publicly in 2019."I said, 'hey guys, why don't we develop the most science-backed protocol for longevity?' How healthy can we make me, essentially, is what I was thinking," she says.She discovered some early differences that separated her personal data from previous research done on men. Caloric restriction, for example, upset her menstruation."My cycle became dysregulated for the first time," she says, and "my thyroid just started to decline. They were going to put me on a thyroid medication. And I took a step back and like, 'okay, hold on, this doesn't seem right.'"Barnes-Lentz's experience isn't exactly a surprise. Two-thirds of dementia and Alzheimer's cases are in women, for example, but they are not represented proportionally in research. Women were only required to be included in clinical studies as of 1993, not to mention that only 1% of all federal funding goes to woman-specific research outside of...
Ich besuchte eine Biohacking-Messe - das lernte ich übers lange Leben
Auf einem Wellness-Event im Silicon Valley testete ich Biohacking-Trends - und lernte: Die besten Methoden für ein längeres Leben sind oft die einfachsten.
Longevity: Anti-ageing drugs, watch out, here we come…
In September 2021, a consortium of biotech, clinical, and academic institutes launched the Swiss Longevity Science Foundation (LSF) to fund up to $1 billion in early-stage ageing research.
