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The Super-Simple Way to Biohack Your Body Starts with Sleep, According to an MD

By Tamim Alnuweiri — 2018

The word “biohacking” may conjure images of Silicon Valley coders in a computer lab and mad-scientist–esque experiment scenes, but in reality, it’s about the tiny ways you can improve your body inside and out. Or, as CEO of functional medicine practice Parsley Health Robin Berzin, MD, put it in a recent Facebook Live, “the principles and practices that help us feel better and help us optimize our health.”

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