What is biohacking? Why are spirulina and chlorella the perfect biohacking foods to maximize your energy, detox, and longevity.

Biohacking to improve your health and performance does not necessarily involve futuristic technology or extreme experiments. In fact, the most impactful biohacks entail returning to the basics of how nature intends us to live. These may include optimizing your sleep, eating nutrient-dense foods, movements, and stress management, as well as reducing your toxic exposures. Biohacking also involves self-experimentation and collecting data to better understand your body, and how you respond to these biohacks. 

In this article, we explore some of the most accessible and evidence-backed biohacks – including why nutrient-dense foods like spirulina and chlorella have become the perfect biohacking foods.

 

What is biohacking and how do biohacks work?

The origin of biohacking is often credited to the Silicon Valley tech communities. Biohacking refers to making deliberate, evidence-informed changes to lifestyle, biology, or our environment to improve health, performance, or well-being. Like most health movements, it exists on a spectrum, ranging from simple habit changes (like improving sleep hygiene) to advanced technologies (like gene editing or implantable devices).

You’re applying inputs (think nutrition, supplements, technology, or behaviors) to influence outputs (like energy, focus, and longevity – to name a few). By changing the inputs, whether chemical, behavioral, or environmental, you shift your physiology towards the desired outcomes. In a basic sense, biohacks leverage biology’s adaptability and the latest technologies to track the changes.

Broadly, we can categorize biohacking into 5 categories:

Returning to nature

Some of the most impactful biohacks come back to the simplest principle – mastering the basics and aligning with nature. Time and time again, research has demonstrated that misalignments with nature have driven down health and well-being.

Nowadays, when we’re surrounded by artificial light, processed foods, and chronic stress, many biohacks aren’t magic tricks at all. These are ways of using tools and techniques to get back to the healthy baseline. Common biohacks used to restore the body’s natural states include:

• Morning sunlight exposure and blue light avoidance at night to align circadian rhythms [1]

• Grounding (i.e., direct skin contact with the earth) to normalize stress response [2]

• Eating whole, nutrient-dense, and naturally-grown foods like algae tablets, instead of the modern industrially-grown or ultra-processed counterparts [3]

• Using air and water purifiers to minimize toxic exposure

• Using minimalist footwear or spending some time barefeet

• Sitting less, instead moving naturally throughout the day and incorporating primal movement patterns

By mimicking the lifestyle our biology evolved for, you remove the modern-day lifestyle factors that interfere with your best health. These changes provide what your body needs to stay balanced and resilient. 

Using hormesis wisely

In this age of excessive physical comfort, the lack of hormesis, or the low-intensity stress that make your body stronger, underlies the rise in noncommunicable physical ailments and age-related conditions, such as obesity, cardiovascular risk, cognitive decline, and more. The re-introduction of hormesis can slow down these ailments or even reverse them.

Hormeses such as sauna, red light therapy, exercise, intermittent fasting, and cold plunges all work to introduce controlled, short-term stressors to the body [4]. 

These mild stressors activate protective pathways like Nrf2, your main cellular coordinator of antioxidant and detox genes. These pathways prompt the body to adapt [5], such as jumpstarting your mitochondria and anti-aging pathways. The net effects may include: 

• Better hormone balance [4]

• Better stress resilience [6]

• Improved insulin sensitivity [7]

• Improved sleep quality and circadian rhythm [8]

• Better cellular repair and rejuvenation [9]

Some plant-based substances, including the phycocyanin in spirulina and flavonoids in fruits, also work like hormesis – they stimulate Nrf2 and strengthen your body overall [10],[11]. In other words, intelligent use of hormesis strengthens your cellular defense, reduces oxidative stress, and a net anti-aging effect at the cellular and hormonal level.  

Cutting-edge stress recovery

The stressors you experience no longer include running away from predators. Instead, you may be stressed from traffic jams, your social media feeds, parenting, and too many Zoom meetings. 

Most people nowadays forget how to toggle back to rest-and-digest, and instead spend most of their days in nonstop fight-or-flight. This is a recipe for all kinds of stress-related health issues, so it’s becoming increasingly important to establish the right rest-and-digest routine for yourself.

The good news is that many biohacking technologies have been invented to improve your ability to enter rest-and-digest mode. For example:

• Floatation or sensory deprivation tanks promote deep relaxation and lower stressful sensory inputs [12]. Floating also provides a large dose of magnesium, a frequently-deficient mineral further depleted by stress.

• Neurofeedback training, whether it’s in a practitioner’s office or a home version, can help train your brain towards a desired mental state [13].

• Vagus nerve stimulation devices can directly increase your rest-and-digest nervous system activity, delivering numerous health benefits [14].

Let’s also not forget lower-tech solutions such as breathwork, meditation, mindfulness, massages, adaptogenic herbs, and relaxation music. More importantly, algae tablets provide some adaptogenic benefits, along with various nutrients that are crucial for a balanced stress response. 

These biohacks shift the nervous system’s balance between “fight-or-flight” (sympathetic) and “rest-and-digest” (parasympathetic), to support our body’s recovery and adaptability.

Experimentation

It takes on average 17 years for new biomedical discoveries to reach clinical practice [15]! Sensibly, many impatient biohackers take it upon themselves to test the findings through personal experimentation . Because everyone is different, your body may not respond to an intervention the same way as everyone else. 

You can do n = 1 self-experiments, testing new inputs and observing how your body responds. Whether that is trying out different sleep routines, fasting windows, nutritional strategies, or meditation routine, biohacking is all about finding and continuing what works best for you.

Track, test, individualize

Informative n = 1 experiments require careful trial and error, combined with data tracking to guide the right decisions using tools like wearables and lab tests.

Wearables help track everything from sleep, exercise recovery, and heart rate variability. Combined with careful journaling, these can help identify the foods, hormesis, and stress management strategies that work best for you, or the ones that throw you off the most. 

Blood tests, glucose monitors, functional labs, and genetic tests help identify health predispositions and responses to biohacking interventions. These feedbacks allow you to validate what is and is not working. Instead of guessing, you can measure objective outcomes and refine your approach.

What makes spirulina and chlorella perfect biohacking foods?

Unlike the many experimental biohacks, spirulina and chlorella have been studied for decades, with hundreds of peer-reviewed studies to back up their use. Versatile, safe, evidence-backed, and natural, spirulina and chlorella  have been found to provide clinically meaningful benefits ranging from immune modulation to hormone balance and detox. Algae tablets provide dense nutrition and unique bioactive compounds that support the very foundations of biohacking: energy, resilience, cellular defense, and recovery.

Whole food nutrition

No matter how cutting-edge the biohack, they all rely on nutrients to work. Spirulina and chlorella provide the complete package – protein, B vitamins, minerals like magnesium and iron, and essential fatty acids – all in a natural, balanced, and bioavailable form [16]. Instead of stacking multiple, single-ingredient supplements, or less natural synthetic nutrients, ENERGYbits® provides all you need to support your body on its biohacking journey. By filling in micronutrient gaps, spirulina and chlorella enhance the effectiveness of other biohacks – from fasting to exercise to sleep optimization.

Mitochondrial support and antioxidants

Mitochondria, your cells’ little power plants, are central to your metabolism, blood sugar, brain, heart, hormones, and much more. When the mitochondria function well, you have energy, focus, and resilience. When your mitochondria falter, you may experience more fatigue, brain fog, or accelerated aging.

Raw and minimally processed algae tablets are uniquely suited to support mitochondrial health, as spirulina and chlorella cells also produce ATP. Besides their concentrated nutritional profiles and enzymes, their bioactive compounds, such as phycocyanin and chlorophyll, are preserved through heatless production [17]. 

Both chlorella and spirulina stimulate the Nrf2 pathway, increasing antioxidant and detox enzymes [18]. This amplifies the benefits of other hormetic biohacks like cold exposure or sauna. By combining nutrient density with hormesis, algae tablets help create stronger, more adaptable cell environments – exactly the kind of upgrade biohackers seek for performance, longevity, and resilience.

Detox support

While your body has built-in detox systems, the modern world, full of environmental toxins, pollutants, and stress, can also leave it needing some extra support. This is where algae tablets shine as biohacks. RECOVERYbits®, in particular, can uniquely bind heavy metals and other harmful compounds to help your body eliminate them [19].

For biohackers who experiment with fasting, high-protein diets, or hormetic stressors like sauna and cold plunges, supporting detox pathways is crucial for recovery and resilience. Spirulina and chlorella not only provide the nutrients required for liver enzyme function, but also activate Nrf2, the body’s own detox master switch [20]. The result is a double boost: better clearance of harmful compounds and stronger long-term cellular protection, both key to longevity and optimal performance.

Sleep quality and stress resilience boosts

Stress management and recovery are indispensable parts of optimal health. Nutrients found within these algae tablets support the production of GABA and melatonin – molecules essential for restful sleep and balanced mood [21]. 

RECOVERYbits® provides B vitamins that are crucial for neurotransmitter synthesis, along with tryptophan and magnesium. These key nutrients support the production of key sleep hormones such as melatonin. Tryptophan is a backbone for melatonin and serotonin, while magnesium helps your muscles and nervous system relax. Chlorella is rich in antioxidants, immune-balancing, and detoxifying nutrients [22]. These help your brain’s housekeeper (the glymphatic system) function optimally while you sleep. Overall, its nutrient profile makes it a great biohacking food for sleep optimization, so you wake up refreshed every morning. 

In a randomized controlled trial with 80 participants, eight weeks of daily spirulina consumption (1 g/day) significantly reduced sleep disturbances and lowered stress scores, while improving overall quality of life compared to a placebo [23].

In essence, algae tablets can enhance the body’s natural ability to bounce back, improving sleep quality, lowering stress hormone burden, and boosting overall resilience. These are the fundamentals of any biohacker’s regimen.

Compatibility with special diets

Biohacking involves individualization, including when it comes to diets. One person may function best on a plant-based diet, while another on a paleo or ketogenic diet. Algae tablets are the ideal biohack food because they can fit into any of these diets. Hypoallergenic, plant-based, and low-calorie, these foods have minimal impact on insulin levels and can provide nutrients needed when experimenting with different diets. In fact, they are suitable for just about every dietary pattern out there, whether it’s keto, paleo, vegan, intermittent fasting, and even low histamine. Including algae, like VITALITYbits®, into your biohack routine can be that extra nutritional insurance when making diet changes.

Algae tablets as your ultimate biohacking foods

Upgrade your biohacking routine and results with the simplest, science-backed boost: spirulina and chlorella tablets for nutrients, energy, resilience, and detox naturally.

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