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Definition - What does Body Hacking mean? Body hacking is the process of making adjustments to the way we live, work, sleep or generally function in an attempt to improve our overall level of well-being. The adjustments are either based on information obtained through self-tracking or through general real world experiences; they are not necessarily scientifically or medically recognized.

Body hackers believe that the careful collection and analysis of personal information will improve their ability to get a good night’s sleep, control crying and emotion or even cure hiccups. Of course, the sensitive information obtained collected for body hacking is likely to be coveted by MARKETERS, making securing this sensitive data one of the key concerns surrounding the practice. Zideate explains Body Hacking Body hackers believe personal gain is possible, but the practice is not without critics. Medically, critics worry that body hacking involves physiological changes based on incomplete or possibly inaccurate information. Body hacking advocates insist that the practice, so long as it is paired with regular medical visits and checkups, is safe in spite of its limitations. 

In many ways, body hacking is analogous to computer hacking, which focuses on changes to circuit boards and code to improve the machine’s performance; body hacking finds physical, emotional or intellectual tweaks designed to improve a person's performance in those areas.

 

Pulse Aware (PA) makes self-hacking accessible for the masses.

 

PA is a personal analytics platform that aims to allow people to take control of their data, display it in a dashboard and use it to inform better life decisions. Tapping into the TREND for self-hacking or "the quantified self", PA allows you to make use of the data trails we leave across the web and cross-reference them to spot patterns that you can act on. PA, which is currently in closed beta, lets you pull in data from a huge range of sources, including body mapping, somatotype,

 

As founder and CEO of PA, I believe that the service is powered by the convergence of data, rather than devices. "New formats are enabling us to bring datasets together and drive compelling insights," adding: "We believe that there's value in providing people with a dashboard of their 'current state of affairs', a single PLACE where they can review the latest stats about their different activities, from check-ins to email, current weight to today's lunch spend. By just having one's activity data in one place, users can immediately understand how they are doing at any given time and across need-states."