A Whoop Band can track your “sleep efficiency,” heart rates, and oxygen saturation. Supplements may help you lose weight. Fasts and cleanses may improve your gut health. Golfer Rory McIlroy (not diabetic) injects a continuous glucose monitor so he can achieve “perfect” blood sugars.
“Biohacking” encompasses a range of bizarre behaviors. Why do such things, like sleeping with your mouth taped shut? Some hacks are about beauty (supposedly mouth breathing ages you), others are focused on athletic achievement. But most biohacking has a loftier goal: stop aging and even death (see James Strole). They want to live forever.
That will never happen. Hebrews 9:27.
But there are ways to stay healthier, longer. First, the obvious: (1) Exercise, (2) eat right, (3) sleep enough. God expects us to steward our bodies. Forget gimmicks, “biohacks,” diet books, and seaweed pills. Just EAT BETTER FOOD, exercise, and sleep well. Beyond that, trust the Lord.
“Listen to me … You who have been with Me from birth. I will be the same in your old age, I will bear you up when you turn gray. I made you, I will carry you. I will bear you up and I will save you” Isaiah 46:3-4.
God will take care of you. Need more? “Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long” Exodus 20:12. God promises a long life to those who honor their parents and grandparents. He can do it: when Israel marched in the wilderness forty years, their clothes and sandals did not wear out. God can also help you not wear out! Specifically, Caleb and Joshua did not get old the way their peers did, because they had been faithful to God:
“Here I am today, 85 years old. I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me to spy out the land [at 40]. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then” Joshua 14:10-11.
What’s the secret to aging well? Exercise, eat right, and sleep enough, but take another step: live a life that honors your parents and your Heavenly Father.
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