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Author: Nicole Petersen, RD
You don’t get a generic conference crowd when you come to Beyond Biohacking. The people in this room are uniquely amazing, and once you have spent three days with them you will feel it. Here are the five types you will meet. At least one of them is you.
The Practitioner
There are tons of experts in the room and they’re all willing to answer your questions and geek out with you.
I remember meeting one very accomplished doctor who had created a mitochondrial test. He was so humble and down to earth, got me super excited about the product, and made me feel like a long-time friend. That is what the practitioners at Beyond are like. They are rigorous and evidence-driven, and they came because they want to know what their patients are going to come in asking about next month. They are also just really good people to be around. They ask the questions nobody else thinks to ask, and they will actually sit with you and explain the answers.
The Optimizer
The optimizer has been biohacking for years. They know their biomarkers, they track everything, and they are always running some kind of experiment on themselves. This one is me right now. A little weird but in the best way possible! We are also the funniest people in the room because we are completely unapologetic about it. You will see someone doing yoga in the corner at 7am. Someone else steps outside between sessions to get their daily sun. Nobody bats an eye if you pull out your digestive enzymes at the lunch table, or if you excuse yourself to inject your BPC-157 in the bathroom. At Beyond, that is just normal. Everyone has a protocol, everyone has a story, and everyone actually wants to hear yours. That part never gets old.
The Curious First-Timer
This was me, once.
I won a contest to attend Beyond for the first time and I wanted to go so badly. I had been doing so much on my own but had no idea there were other people as into this as I was. Walking in felt like Disneyland. I could finally try everything I had only read about, all in one place. And then I got to meet Dave which was so fun! I had read The Bulletproof Diet and that book is really what started all of this for me.
I went into the first talk not knowing what to expect and came out completely blown away. Then I stayed for the second one and felt exactly the same way. I took so many notes. The moment I knew I belonged was when I realized nobody here thought I was too much. Everyone was interested, everyone was kind, and nobody needed me to explain why I cared so much. If you are on the fence, I promise you: by day two you will not be able to imagine why you waited so long.
The Founder
The founder is building something in the health, longevity, or human performance space, or seriously thinking about it, and they know that the people at Beyond are their market, their collaborators, and in some cases their future partners. A lot of them are also the people running the booths in the Tech Hall, which means the conversations on the floor go very deep very fast. You will not have to convince anyone in this room that what you are building matters. They already get it. They are probably building something adjacent to it themselves. There is even a whole track for you at the conference that you can register for: the Business Track. Check it out if you want to start a successful business or take your current one to the next level. Read more here.
The Seeker
The seeker came because something brought them here, even if they cannot fully explain what. Maybe they have been dealing with an issue for years and the conventional answers have not been enough. Maybe they feel like there is a version of their health they have not reached yet and they are determined to find it. Maybe they want to live long enough to meet their great-grandchildren and they are completely serious about making that happen.
Or maybe, more than anything else, they are just looking for their people.
That is what I think most people are really searching for when they come to Beyond, even the ones who would never use the word “seeker”. You can find information anywhere. You can read books, listen to podcasts, follow the research. What you cannot find just anywhere is a room full of people who speak your language, who do not think you are strange for caring this much, and who are on a very similarpath. When you go back to your regular life after three days here, something is different. You found your clan. And that feeling does not go away.
Which one are you? Grab your ticket at beyondconference.com.
