Extreme biohacking: the tech guru who spent $250,000 trying to live for ever

Silicon Valley millionaire Serge Faguet thinks pills, injections and implants will turn him into a superhuman. Could they?

In September last year, the young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Serge Faguet posted an article on the tech website Hacker Noon. It was headlined: "I'm 32 and spent $200k on biohacking. Became calmer, thinner, extroverted, healthier & happier." Significantly more intelligent, too, he added, with an increased sex drive that dovetailed nicely with his newfound ease at "picking up girls".

These last two points especially grabbed the attention of the site's hundreds of thousands of mainly male readers. The comments section under Faguet's story is full of admiration for his data-driven, problem-solving approach. though a handful of others dismiss Faguet as a psychopath, the embodiment of "Silicon Valley's toxic machiavellian bro culture". The article currently has 15,000 upvotes. His follow-up about increasingyour intelligence by having sex and micro-dosing MDMA is the site's second most read article of 2018.