Entrepreneur Jack Smith discusses his experience trying alternative biohacking therapies to treat a year-long chronic headache condition.
Opinion
Smith: Fast whole-body MRI startups are just Silicon Valley branding
“So I've done that in America, and they similarly say, like, okay, well, I was the chief medical officer at Google, and we have all these Google engineers, so we do AI, And that's why we can do it in 45 minutes instead of four hours, et cetera, like you're sayi…”
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Jack Smith: MrBeast could be US president if he wanted to
“I think Mr. Beast, if he wanted, he can be president of the US at some point, because he just, since the age of 15, has just had one goal, And it's not changed for 10 whatever years.”
Insight
Smith: 99% of Biohacking Fails, But 1% Yields Major Impact
“So 99% of it, I don't notice anything. However, one percent, I do notice big things. And for me, it's kind of like, okay, We don't know what works, what doesn't work, but I've only got one life, and I've only got one body, and just experimenting, I can find th…”
Insight
Smith: Medical Concierges Can Arbitrage Lower-Cost Foreign Diagnostic Clinics Without Buying Hardware
“I feel you could just brand a biohacking center in any other country if you have strong links to the country, because what they were doing here is they don't have their own MRI scanner. He just took us to MRI. He just took us to all these different labs in Ind…”
Insight
Smith: Maintaining maximum sprint intensity across a startup marathon inevitably causes burnout
“If you're just trying to do that endlessly, it's like telling Usain Bolt, like, okay, great. You just ran the hundred meters. Just keep up that pace. We're now doing a marathon, but just keep up that same pace you ran the hundred meters in. It doesn't work. Li…”
Disclosure
Smith Owns an At-Home Penile Shockwave Therapy Machine
“I'm starting doing this treatment where it's like shockwave therapy that you shockwave your penis, et cetera. And he's like, I'm going once a month, et cetera. I'm like, dude, I have that machine in my house.”