Speciale Tg1: "Pionieri di longevità — Biohacker"
Rai 1's Speciale Tg1, by Barbara Carfagna, devoted a report to biohacking and longevity, following the practices of Fabio Pietrosanti — known as naif — as one of the field's pioneers in Italy.
Speciale Tg1, the long-form report of Italy’s main public news programme, devoted an episode to biohacking and longevity on 5 January 2025: Pionieri di longevità — Biohacker , by Barbara Carfagna.
The report examined the practices of Fabio Pietrosanti — known online as naif, an information-security expert and one of the field’s early practitioners in Italy — alongside the wider phenomenon: people trained in computing and biology who run drugs, lifestyle changes and therapies on their own bodies, and who measure the results.
Its framing is worth quoting, because it is more accurate than most coverage of the subject: nobody wants to live forever, but everybody wants a healthy old age. The report treated the biohackers as what they are — an experiment in whether that goal can be pursued deliberately, with instruments, rather than hoped for.
For this project, the interesting part of the exposure is not the profile. It is that a mainstream audience saw a protocol being measured. The claim that distinguishes this work from supplement marketing is exactly that: numbers taken before, during and after, published whether or not they flatter the intervention. That is what the blog records and what biohack.it is being built to make routine.
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