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A Biohacker Future

An exploration by Shelby Newsad & Compound


with black sand beaches, volcanic fields blanketed in heavy moss and over 3,000 species of mushrooms, the icelandic landscape is the most sci-fi corner of planet earth.

three mushrooms in moss
mushroom in moss

2025: Biohacking Goes Mainstream

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three mushrooms, one on branch

At the beginning of the year, biohacking as a serious hobby, driving health outcomes is still a niche subculture, despite the growing online presence of biohackers and exploding subscriptions to podcasts discussing different supplement ‘stacks’.  Half-way through 2025, Netflix releases a series on ‘Biohacking Health’ which chronicles well-known biohackers and ‘normal’ people who took health into their own hands to cure their ailments and enhance their health. This finally pierces through the noise into the mainstream. Many modes of intervention are cataloged from supplements to off-label/gray-label peptide use to gene therapy to tracking biomarkers through. Hardware such as EEG-based brain monitoring and hyperbaric chambers also are showcased. 


This has immediate impacts on supplement suppliers, especially Elysium Health which can’t keep up with demand but still doubles sales YoY after the Netflix special. Public supplement companies see a broader 10-20% increase in market cap from the special. Hardware companies tracking health also have a boost in sales (wristband heart and sleep monitoring company, Oura, doubles sales overnight). High-tech hardware incumbents such as Apple increase revenue guidance and progresses towards $3T market cap as wall street perceives them as a continued winner in the consumer hardware market, which freshly includes the promise of deeper health monitoring. Google, seeing the increased guidance and enthusiasm starts looking for health monitoring companies to acquire, much like their Fitbit acquisition in 2019.. 


The most measured man alive, Bryan Johnson, uses the Netflix series to expand his current products to a biohacking supermarket, Eternity Grocery. Eternity  pilots in LA and is set up across the street from Erewhon, selling everything from high-grade chocolate, olive oil, and AG1 replacements, to fresh superfood produce which is ‘hyper-ganic’. ‘Hyper-ganic’ is a term he coins to account for no pesticides and no plastic (or microplastic) in the growth, watering, processing, shipping, or packaging of the food. Eternity becomes the launch spot for science driven consumer products. As such, Zya, a product which converts sugar to fiber pilots first in Eternity Grocery. This cross-branding and launch  sees broader D2C uptake, with people using it in combination with weight-loss peptides. 

floating mushroom
three floating mushrooms

an island created by volcanoes

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drone shot of iceland
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black sand texture
beach texture

iceland’s geothermic pools and black sand beaches create stunning compositions from the air. both are created by the island’s constant volcanic activity.

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black rock texture

natural beauty in its rawest form

black sand texture
drone shot of red rocks

iceland’s surface is carved by water, originating from either its massive glaciers or abundant rainfall.

landscape of red rocks
red boulders
waterfall with red rocks
background texture of beach

the sun’s angle at this latitude produces deep and contrasty colors, drawing out the blacks in the volcanic soil and saturating the greens from the grasses and moss.

shop prints

a2 sized digital c prints, suitable for framing. each edition is limited to ten prints.

black rocks texture
red rocks shot on drone