Adrian Vance
Founder & Editor
Adrian spent eleven years as a data analyst before turning the same scepticism on his own supplement cabinet. He writes most of what appears here and throws out about half of it before publication.
About & Ethics
Biohacker Life started in 2021 as a spreadsheet of things that did not work. It has grown, but the editorial posture has not changed.
Why this exists
The health and performance space has an incentive problem. The people with the largest audiences generally sell something, and the compounds with the most enthusiastic coverage are frequently the ones with the highest margins. Meanwhile the interventions with the best evidence — sleep, aerobic fitness, resistance training, not smoking — are unsellable, because nobody can package them.
We write about the boring, well-evidenced things at length, and about the interesting, poorly-evidenced things with the evidence gap stated plainly.
How this is funded
Commerce. Biohacker Life is published by the team behind Nalu Labs, which sells in some of the categories this site covers.
That is a material commercial interest, and you should factor it into how you read us — particularly on anything adjacent to what the shop stocks. We would rather state it plainly here than have you discover it somewhere else.
What it does not change is the standard applied to the writing. Coverage still names the evidence, names the gaps, and says which is which, including where that is unflattering to a category we have a stake in. Several pieces on this site conclude that a popular product does not do what it claims, and that does not stop being true because of who publishes it.
Corrections
We get things wrong. When we do, the correction goes at the top of the article with the date and what changed — the original text stays visible rather than being quietly edited. If you have found an error, tell us and include the source.
Self-experiments
Several articles here report n-of-1 experiments. These are unblinded, uncontrolled, and conducted on a sample of one. We label them as such, pre-register the protocol before starting, and publish the null results alongside the positive ones — which is the only thing that makes them worth reading at all.
Medical disclaimer
Everything published here is general information about research findings. It is not medical advice, it is not a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for a clinician who can examine you and knows your history. The full disclaimer is here.
Who writes this
Mara Ellison
Senior Writer
Mara covers sleep and circadian biology. She has worn a sleep tracker every night since 2019 and has strong opinions about what the resulting graphs do and do not mean.
Nadia Okafor
Training Editor
Nadia is a strength coach who reads the primary literature so her clients do not have to argue with their group chats about it.
Dr. Priya Raghunathan
Contributor
Priya is a clinical pharmacologist. She writes occasional guest pieces here, usually when something in the consumer wellness market has outrun its evidence base.
Theo Lindqvist
Contributor
Theo is a Stockholm-based science journalist covering the supplement industry and the economics that shape it.