The Best Biohacking Books in 2024 For Smarter Recovery, Sleep and Wellness
The highest performing athletes, CEO’s, students and scientists are already practicing biohacking to hack their mind, body, nutrition and sleep
Looking for a comprehensive list of best biohacking books in 2024? This is it! Biohacking starts from the moment you wake, throughout your wakeful state during the day and in fact continues well into your sleep experience. Living a longer life is good, but adding some thriving vigor to your extended years is equally as important. Not only that, well before we reach our later centuries we aim to be operating at our optimal level, living in full flight. In this article we share a comprehensive list of the best biohacking books for improving performance, sleep, recovery and wellness.
What is biohacking?
If you are reading this article there is a high chance you already know what biohacking is and have already found a few great biohacking books yourself. If not, a brief explanation is needed. Every morning, there are more and more folks starting their day with meditation, ice baths and fasted bodies; they are using smart drugs or nootropics to boost the capacity of their brain; they are employing sleep practices that optimise sleep; and they are employing multiple tracking devices to measure what the habits, practices and supplements are doing for them. These daily rituals and self experimentation are part of what a growing movement of biohackers are doing - consciously ‘hacking’ their minds and bodies in an effort to be faster, fitter, smarter and stronger.
So we share our comprehensive list of best biohacking books that delve into categories like biohacking for sleep, biohacking for nutrition, biohacking for brain power, biohacking for performance and other interesting areas of wellness and human potential.
Best Biohacking Books For Improving Sleep, Recovery, Wellness and Performance
Whether you are familiar with the idea of biohacking or are new to the scene, let us be clear, there is absolutely no shortage of ways to skin the cat. We have been exploring this practice of self-optimisation for a good 10 years now and in fact all met at an early Wim Hof breathing workshop in Australia back in 2010.
The shared knowledge in this space through podcasts, blogs and books is extensive. Below we share our best biohacking books for improving sleep, human recovery, wellness and performance to immerse yourself in, we are sure there’s at least a couple even the most die-hard biohackers haven’t come across yet.
Our Top General Biohacking Books
This collection of 5 overall best biohacking books provides a really good basis to begin your biohacking journey and indeed a wealth of knowledge to expand your practices. We have been drawing on the knowledge in these biohacking books for years and continue to pick them back up years later and learn more still about human performance, recovery and wellness.
Biohacker’s Handbook: Upgrade Yourself and Unleash Your Inner Potential
By Teemu Arina, Olli Sovijärvi, Jaakko Halmetoja
This is somewhat of a bible on health and health-tech for us. We continually refer to and re-read this handbook. The Biohacker’s Handbook is the best biohacking book and uses the latest scientific research on holistic health including 1500+ references, 540+ pages and 200+ images to produce a manual for optimising human performance. This is the best starting point and indeed addition to any biohackers bookshelf as a superb reference point for seriously boosting health, wellbeing and performance.
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman
By Tim Ferriss
You may have heard of some of Tim’s other works including The 4-Hour Work Week or Tools of Titans. The 4-Hour Body is another one of our primary references for best biohacking methods. It is now over ten years old yet still includes relevant information and references to apply to biohacking practices across many topics including mobility, testosterone levels, cold exposure, fat loss and muscle gain. One of our favourite concepts in the book is what Tim describes as the “minimum effective dose” - the smallest dose or least amount of input to produce a desired outcome.
Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging
By Ben Greenfield
Why is this one of best books for biohacking? Ben is one of our biggest references and inspiration on the best biohacking performance fronts. It is often more comforting to take advice from someone who has achieved great things themselves. It is even more comforting when they give that advice in a scientific way and have put it into practice and proven its efficacy. Ben Greenfield has completed multiple ultra marathons, triathlons, body building feats and is a blogger, influencer and podcast host and guest and numerous podcast. Boundless is a compilation of perhaps the most comprehensive, step-by-step guide for optimizing all things human. A blend of “ancestral wisdom and modern science”, he explores in depth strategies and practices that relate to logevity, better sex, personalising nutrition, fasting protocols, lab testing, optimising your envirionment, building muscle, burning fat and detoxing.
The Biohacker’s Guide to Upgraded Energy and Focus
By Anthony DiClementi
Much like Tim Ferriss, Anthony is an avid self-experimenter and this guide is an account of the collection of the results of these experiments. The best biohacking books provider account of science and self experimentation and Tim indeed shares a collection of these experiments and looks at sleep, mental performance, physical performance, disease and fasting. Personal trainer, nutritional specialist, and wellness coach to the elite has made it his mission to debunk the conventional advice that so many of us believe is true. His proven track record in helping executives and entrepreneurs become the very best they can is tantamount to how successful his methods really are.
Unstoppable: A 90-Day Plan To Biohack Your Mind And Body For Success
By Ben Angel
Why does this make the list of best biohacking books? This book takes somewhat of a different trajectory to the ones previously mentioned, however it still applies to biohacking. Designed to help readers break free from the glorified non-stop hustle and hack their brains to refocus their mindsets, push through brain fog, and overcome imposter syndrome, Unstoppable delivers a 90-day roadmap to becoming a better version of themselves using a combination of personal development strategies and science-backed tools. Ben gives you a look into the world of nootropics, wearable devices, and nutrition and delivers a guide to help you reduce stress, increase focus, improve physical performance, and eliminate your fears.
The Best Nutrition For Biohacking Books
Although these books contain a food heavy focus, they also largely focus on reshaping and rethinking lifestyle and even relationship to food. These books are generally the most popular as so many people are affected by obesity and seek out “dieting” and “weight loss” fixes. These books are more than that and take a look at how and why food can often have the most profound effect on our performance, wellbeing, sleep, recovery, mood and a plethora of other things.
The Bulletproof Diet: Lose Up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life
By Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey obviously makes a number of appearances on our list of best books for biohacking in the nutrition space. We have been drinking Bulletproof Coffee for over 10 years now. Dave Asprey was indeed our original introduction into how nutrition and using certain nutrition tweaks can manipulate the body and provide positive outcomes for energy, weight management and weight loss, satiation, performance, mood and brain fog. The “father of biohacking” has created an entire industry and in fact his own entire Bulletproof product line which is an eclectic mix of some amazing products that we have had the pleasure of using including coffees, ketogenic supplements, blue light blockers, nootropics, activated charcoal, collagen bars, cookbooks, immune stacks and various capsules.
Keto Diet: Your 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, Boost Brain Health, and Reverse Disease
By Dr. Josh Axe
Why is this on our list of best biohacking books in the nutrition space? This book is somewhat of a bible about the Ketogenic diet. Today, the ketogenic diet is the world's fastest growing diet, and with good reason. When practiced correctly, it has been proven to burn fat, reduce inflammation, fight cancer, balance hormones and gut bacteria, improve neurological diseases, and even increase lifespan. It includes handy features including shopping lists, exercise routines, recipes and 5 different ketogenic meal plans to follow.
The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
By Dr. Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore
Dr. Fung has practiced on over 1000 patients and is considered an authority on fasting. The Complete Guide to Fasting explains some important topics relating to fasting including: why fasting is actually good for health, who can benefit from fasting (and who won't), the history of fasting, the various ways to fast: intermittent, alternate-day, and extended fasting, what to expect when starting to fast, how to track progress while fasting, the weight loss effects of fasting and how to ward off potential negative effects from fasting. It is a really good reference to keep referring back to regarding fasting and indeed a really good place to start.
Wired to Eat: Turn Off Cravings, Rewire Your Appetite for Weight Loss, and Determine the Foods That Work for You
By Robb Wolf
Robb Wolf is another guru in the biohacking space. Developed by former research biochemist, health expert, and bestselling author Robb Wolf, Wired to Eat offers an eating program, based on groundbreaking research, that will rewire your appetite for weight loss and help you finally determine the optimal foods for your diet and metabolism.
The Best Genetics For Biohacking Books
Want to live forever? This may be the best collection of 4 best biohacking books to give you at least an understanding of how to add qaulity if not quantity to your lifespan.
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To
By David Sinclair, PhD
This is one of our most recent reads of best biohacking books 2024. What a compelling insight into aging as a “disease” rather than a naturally occuring mechanism. Dr. Sinclair views aging as a treatable disease and reveals some tech and lifestyle practices that are proven to live longer and feel younger. Dr. Sinclair takes what we have long accepted as the limits of human potential and mortality and turns them into choices. LIFESPAN is destined to be the biggest book on genes, biology, and longevity of this decade.
Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever
By Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey appears again on our list, no surprises. Asprey is well known for his p[roclomations that he will live to 180 years old. He admits to suffering countless symptoms of ageing as a young man, which sparked a lifelong burning desire to grow younger with each birthday. For more than 20 years, he has been on a quest to find innovative, science-backed methods to upgrade human biology and redefine the limits of the mind, body, and spirit. The results speak for themselves. Now in his 40s, Dave is smarter, happier, and more fit and successful than ever before. The journey of the self proclaimed human guinea pig, reveals how it is possible to make changes on the sub-cellular level to “dramatically extend life span”.
Super Genes: The Hidden Key To Total Wellbeing
By Deepak Chopra
Why is this book on the list of best biohacking books 2024? For years it was accepted knowledge that genes were fixed components of our bodies, and that we as individuals were incapable of altering our genetic make-up. Yet groundbreaking research suggests that changes in lifestyle and diet can greatly influence our genetic predispositions to disease and certain physical and psychological behaviours. Super Genes includes meditation and breathing exercises, as well as information on how to manage risk factors for disease. In true Chopra form he combine ancient traditions and western research to show how we do not need to be at the mercy of our genetic inheritance is a revelation for most!
Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health
By Dr. Jack Kruse
Neurosurgeon and wildly controversial Paleo blogger Dr. Jack Kruse gives us his first book. Kruse, who used his findings to lose 140 pounds and pack on muscle, takes the reader through his prescriptions for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, autoimmunity, brain health, and aging including extensive research on cold exposure and cold therapy in biohacking the body.
The Best Movement And Breathwork For Biohacking Books
These are some of our most featured coffee table books and our go-to guides for all things movement, mobility, flexibility, pain, agility and recovery. Biohacking is a whole of life and lifestyle practice, so anything that optimises your potential is considered a biohack. Below is our list of best biohacking books for movement and mobility.
Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
By Kelly Starrett
Why is this book top of the list for best biohacking books for mobility and movement? This is a detailed body maintenance guide for those looking to recovery from injury, build a stronger foundation, move pain-free and be stronger and faster. Performance is what drives us as human beings, but dysfunctional movement patterns can bring the human body to an abrupt halt. Often, the factors that impede performance are invisible even to seasoned athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. Whether you are a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from physical restrictions, this one-of-a-kind training manual will teach you how to harness your athletic potential and maintain your body. This book includes hundreds of illustrated mobility techniques and movements to move better and harness your athletic potential.
Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week
By John Little and Doug McGuff, M.D.
In this book, bodybuilding powerhouse John Little teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to present a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just twelve minutes a week.
The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter
By Patrick McKeown
Want to revolutionise your potential through the breath? This book will help you hack your training and breathing techniques. Patrick McKeown has trained some world renowned athletes including Connor Mcgreggor. This one is for the mouth breathers out there. The scientifically validated exercises in this book have the potential to drastically improve your overall fitness, whether you are a habitual couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion.
Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond
By Dan Brulé
Reduce stress and anxiety, increase your productivity, detox your body, balance your health, and find the path to greater mindfulness with this collection of signature breathing techniques by the world's leading breathmaster, Dan Brulé. Breathwork offers a wide range of benefits, including managing acute/chronic pain; help with insomnia, weight loss, attention deficit, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and grief; improved intuition, creativity, mindfulness, self-esteem, and leadership; and much more.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
By James Nestor
Why is this on the list for best biohacking books in 2024? Breath effectively flips the widely believed idea to breathe deeper, fuller breaths on its head. Nestor describes how it is actually more beneficial to “breathe low, slow and through the nose”, saying how chrionically over-breathed we are. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, halt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease, and even straighten scoliotic spines.
The Best Sleep For Biohacking Books
Sleep really is the golden chain that links our body to good health and wellbeing. This collection of 4 books is more than enough go deep into the realm of why we need to sleep how to sleep better.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
By Matthew Walker, PhD
We are a sleepless society. This book is our bible for sleep and why it is of the utmost importance for a healthy and happy life. It describes in depth how sleep affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being, and how to harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent disease, and slow down aging by using actionable steps to get a better night’s sleep every night.
The Promise Of Sleep: A Pioneer In Sleep Medicine Explores The Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, And a Good Nights Sleep
By William C. Dement
Dr. Dement offers a hands-on prescription for vibrant good health and longevity, including: self-tests to determine how much sleep you really need; information on the role of prescription and over-the-counter sleeping aids; the latest research on how sleep affects the immune system; how to combat insomnia, snoring, jet-lag; and much more.
The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken And How To Fix It
By W. Chris Winter
We are really interested in sleep hygiene. We have discussed this in depth in another article of ours. This book says a lot for sleep hygiene practices and is a game-changer for biohacking and sleep. Understand how sleep works and the ways in which food, light, and other activities act to help or hurt the process, learn why sleeping pills are so often misunderstood and used incorrectly--and how you can achieve your best sleep without them, incorporate sleep and napping into your life--whether you are a shift worker, student, or overcommitted parent and wade through the ever-changing sea of sleep technology and understand its value as it relates to your own sleep struggles.
Activate Your Vagus Nerve: Unleash Your Body’s Natural Ability to Heal
By Dr. Navaz Habib
Your vagus nerve is the largest and most important nerve in your body. It carries messages to and from your brain, gut, heart, and other major muscles and organs. However, common issues like inflammation, stress, or physical trauma can interfere with the nerve's ability to function. This book is packed with easy-to-follow exercises and activities, this book will show you how to unlock the power of the vagus nerve to heal your body and get back to a state of balance.
The Best Environment For Biohacking Books
EMF’s or Electromagnetic radiation is a well debated topic. To be honest there is a lot of trash written about this topics so it is hard to sift through it, but, we have done the hard work for you. Are EMF’s worth worrying about? How do EMF’s affect you? Are EMF’s A Conspiracy? Find out some important information about your environment and how you can use it to biohack the mind and body.
EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
No longer is this stuff made of science fiction. With our constant exposure to radiating technology, Mercola describes what EMFs (electromagnetic fields) actually are, where you find them in your daily life, and how they affect you. He makes a link between technology use and cancer, heart disease and neuropsychiatric illness. He then describes what we can do as individuals to combat this threat to our health and how we can actually repair the damage done by EMFs at a cellular level with practical strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones from EMFs at home, at work, and out in the world.
The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs: How to Fix Our Stupid Use of Technology
By Nicolas Pineault
Can you really feel years younger & make unexplained symptoms vanish with the click of a button — the “Airplane Mode” on your cell phone? Advocate for safe technologies Nicolas Pineault used to think this all sounded like something only crazy people wearing tinfoil hats would say. But the overwhelming amount of independent scientific evidence linking electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from wireless technologies with increased risks of cancer, infertility, insomnia, and depression sure has the uncanny ability to change a man’s mind.The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs is a simple and unconventional book that will teach you exactly how to reduce your exposure to this brand new 21st-century pollution without going back to the Stone Age
The Best Advanced Biohacking Books
Biohacking is a pandoras box for human health and wellbeing. However, if you’d like to venture further down the rabbit hole, we have these 3 books for advanced biohacking. A caveat to these books, we definitely don’t recommend them as a place to begin your initial biohacking journey however they provide some astonishing concepts that may open a new world to thinking about connectedness, energy, the quantum and how it all relates to mind, body and nature.
Quantum Healing: Exploring The Frontiers Of Mind/Body Medicine
By Deepak Chopra
This book is one we came across many years ago and was a huge catalyst in realising the potential of biohacking and using the mind-body connection to influence health and wellbeing. Chopra brings together current Western medicine, neuroscience and physics with a flavour of Ayurvedic medicine to describe the “network of intelligence” that exists within us that has the potential for influencing the creation or removal of chronic conditions. This is a chronicle of hope and healing on a quantum level.
The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor
By Gerald Pollack
Dr. Gerald Pollack, takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity - providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably seen but not really understood.
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
By Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
This book is a far cry from talking about fasting and diet. To go a little (or a lot) deeper, this book discusses how biological phenomena such as photosynthesis, enzyme catalysis, avian navigation, and olfaction may make use of a number of features of quantum mechanics, such as coherence, tunneling, and entanglement.