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How to live a long, happy life: celebrity biohacker Ben Greenfield shares his top tips – have meaning and purpose, and stay physically fit

  • Greenfield, a 42-year-old who says he has the biological age of a teenager, has a million monthly visitors to his website, keen to learn his biohacking secrets
  • He describes some of his life-extending hacks, and talks about how living a meaningful life, one with purpose, is key to being happy

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Happiness is knowing that one is living a meaningful, satisfied, fulfilled, and purpose-filled life, biohacker Ben Greenfield says. Photo: Ben Greenfield Life

Biohacking – making incremental changes to your body, diet, and lifestyle to improve health and well-being – is all the rage. Ben Greenfield, a 42-year-old biohacking sensation who claims to have the biological age of a teenage boy, is a recent poster boy for the trend.

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He counts ex-Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey and legendary music producer Rick Rubin among his fans.

Greenfield is also a nutritionist, physiologist, competitive athlete, New York Times bestselling author – and husband and father.

He shares his tips widely: his BenGreenfieldLife.com website counts more than a million monthly visitors.

“If you have a meaningful life, you are by definition going to be happy,” says 42-year-old biohacker Ben Greenfield. Photo: Ben Greenfield Life
“If you have a meaningful life, you are by definition going to be happy,” says 42-year-old biohacker Ben Greenfield. Photo: Ben Greenfield Life

His Instagram channel, @bengreenfieldfitness, has attracted 421,000 followers; his Facebook page Ben Greenfield Fitness has 190,000 followers; and his YouTube channel Ben Greenfield Life has attracted 110,000 subscribers.

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He is an interesting man. But, more importantly, he is a happy man.

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