Biohacking Lite

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• URL: http://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/
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• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

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• Primary category: Personal heuristics / AI philosophy / learning advice
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Summary

Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with some ignorance while I am young, but at some point I was messing with my health-adjusted life expectancy. So about halfway through 2019 I resolved to spend some time studying these topics in greater detail and dip my toes into some biohacking. And now… it’s been a year! A “subway map” of human metabolism. For the purposes of this post the important parts are the metabolism of the three macronutrients (green: lipids, red: carbohy…

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