Reading About Wellness and Biohacking: Where to Start
A guide to our Wellness & Biohacking shelf — twelve anthologies of first-person testimony, from cold plunges and saunas to peptides, NAD+, and hyperbaric oxygen.
June 27, 2025 · By The Editors, Healing Stories Network · 1 min read
Biohacking promises a great deal, and the marketing rarely pauses for breath. What is genuinely hard to find is the ordinary aftermath: the person eight months into cold plunges telling you what stuck, the sauna devotee separating ritual from result, the IV-drip customer doing honest math on what the money bought. That aftermath is precisely what this shelf collects — enthusiasm and buyer's remorse both, fifty voices per volume.
Here is the Wellness & Biohacking shelf, mapped.
Heat, cold, and pressure
- Taking the Plunge: Cold Exposure Stories
- Frozen Assets: Whole-Body Cryotherapy Stories
- Sweat Equity: Infrared Sauna Experience Stories
- Under Pressure: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Experience Stories
- Tank You: Float Therapy Stories
Light and ground
The injectable frontier
- Drip Feed: IV Vitamin Therapy Stories
- NAD to the Bone: NAD+ Therapy Stories
- Peptide People: Peptide Therapy Stories
- Cell Renewal: Stem Cell Therapy Experience Stories
- O-Zone: Ozone Therapy Stories
From the Reading Room
Companion pieces include cold water therapy, red light therapy, NAD+, and peptide therapy.
The whole shelf lives in our Wellness & Biohacking collection.
These books are companion reading, not endorsements. Much of this territory is lightly regulated and thinly evidenced; the honest accounts inside include the disappointments, and anything injectable or systemic deserves a clinician's counsel first.
The Reading Room publishes personal stories and editorial notes from our press. Everything here is companion reading — never medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For guidance about your own health, please speak with a qualified clinician.