A Freeranger's Riposte to Biohacking

Introduction

The modern health world is brimming with experts, influencers, and self-styled "biohackers" — promising peak performance, perfect sleep, laser focus, and even the reversal of ageing, all through gadgets, pills, and micro-managed routines. It's a tempting vision for the weary and unwell. But from where I stand — grounded in more than 50 years of natural health practice and a lifetime of athletic experience — I see things very differently.

As a Freeranger, I say this with both respect and concern:

We don’t need to hack the body. We need to honour it.

What's Really Going On Here?

Biohacking, at its core, is the belief that we can override, optimise, or manipulate our biology through external interventions. Some of it is harmless enough — cold plunges, fasting, blue-blocking glasses. Other parts of it, like smart drugs, synthetic hormones, wearable biometrics, and experimental gene therapies, are inching into dangerous territory.

The message is subtle but persistent: “Your body isn’t good enough as it is. You need to fix it, override it, upgrade it.”

I reject that entirely.

Trust Nature, Not the Tinkerers

Yes, we share some common ground with the biohacking crowd: a commitment to a clean, nutrient-dense, whole foods diet. Avoidance of GMOs. Focus on exercise, good sleep, and sunlight. But let's be honest — those aren't "biohacks." That's just living well. That's being human, the way our ancestors were for thousands of years.

Freerangers aren't looking to reprogramme the human operating system. We're looking to restore it — by removing interference and reconnecting with nature. Your body already knows what to do. Given the right inputs — food, movement, light, rest, love, challenge — it heals. It adapts. It thrives.

The Problem with Biohacking

Beneath the shiny veneer of "optimisation" lies the same old industrial mindset: more control, more tech, more tweaking, more artificial solutions for problems often caused by artificial lifestyles.

It’s not freedom. It’s dependency — on devices, protocols, products, and people who claim to know better than your own body.

What biohacking often becomes is a kind of silicon-based shamanism: rituals and tools to ward off disease, decline, and death — while ignoring the fundamentals that never stopped working.

Your DNA is Not a Fault to Fix

It’s a Gift to Honour

We must stop treating our genes like software with bugs. Instead, we must see them as the sacred Godscript — the distilled intelligence of thousands of generations of survivors. Freerangers believe in nurturing this genetic inheritance, not interfering with it through synthetic inputs and experimental upgrades.

The greatest "hack" of all? It's not a cold plunge or a wearable.

It’s getting back to nature, returning to the soil, reclaiming the fire, moving your body, eating your ancestral foods, and living in harmony with your own biology.

The Freeranger Life Isn't About Hacking — It's About Living

The biohacker chases performance through control.The Freeranger earns health through alignment.

While the former straps on sensors, counts macros, and obsesses over data, the latter grows his food, moves through real terrain, breathes fresh air, and sleeps when the sun goes down. No apps required.

We aren't broken machines. We're living organisms.We aren't lab rats. We're wild, adaptive, and intelligent by design.

So Here's My Freeranger Challenge to You:

Before you reach for another "biohack"…

• Get outside and get dirty.

• Eat food your grandmother would recognise.

• Move your body until it hurts — then recover like a warrior.

• Fast sometimes. Feast sometimes.

• Laugh often. Sleep deeply. Sweat regularly.

• And remember: you aren't a project to fix. You're a being to honour.

  
  

Final Thought

Let the biohackers continue their endless tweaking if they must. As for me and the Freerangers — we'll be out on the trail, wild and free, nourished by nature, and thriving by design.

No hacks needed.