THE VISIONARIES BEHIND BIOHACK YOURSELF: ANTHONY AND TEREZA LOLLI'S JOURNEY
How Anthony Lolli and Tereza Lolli Use Storytelling to Communicate Biohacking Science
ANTHONY LOLLI & TEREZA LOLLI JULY 31 2024
Biohack Yourself media is a visual depiction of ambition realized.
We use documentaries as a form of self expression, as a means to communicate a truth or experience.
Very organically, documentary filmmaking came into our lives in a more professional capacity with requests from doctors, scientists and inventors needing us to communicate their science to the general public.
Going into this endeavor, we wanted to make sure we honored the topography of the existing regenerative medicine landscape and at the same time not squander the opportunity to create something new.
We had to be unabashed in our approach to this project and publicly admit we had health concerns. However, during the course of filming 113 interviews in 9 months, we became much more sensitive to the health problems and experiences of the people with pain to passion stories, which gave us a new perspective of what we were considering our “health crisis”. As the saying goes: “The man with no shoes felt bad for himself until he saw the man with no feet.”
Whilst our consumption of information, we recognized the need for accessible information to the unique support structures that currently exist in the wonderful world we discovered.
It’s an incredible cognitive lift to get things done. There are so many people who simply just cling to the problem and default to talking points on how they would solve it rather than roll up their sleeves and do the work it takes to build coalitions of support and people who are willing to compromise and move the ball.
We came across a lot of high level academia sitting in professorial seats, not behaving like professors or academicians.
To be fair, only a handful turned their noses up at participating in our documentaries because they didn’t want to be associated with what they called “pseudoscience influencers”. In our opinion, we noticed that there was an underlying secret professional jealousy mainly over someone with social media stature that they labeled as ”fringe.” This professional jealousy may be stemmed from their non ability to market and connect in the industry like others, or it's simply there for them to work out their personal insecurities.
Anthony & TereZa on set
David Shutt
To be clear, this excludes all of those who participated in our projects past, current and in pre production. These heroes were insanely cooperative and generous with their valuable time and information, yet none of them asked to be paid. In fact, they came to our set at their own expense and many from great distances to help spearhead this global life spanning and health spanning movement.
Nonetheless, we managed to weed through all of that and bring you the best of the best.
What’s necessary and currently absent is dissident scientists inside the university system, inside the research institutions, who question the status quo. If they do, they get tarred and feathered, so their default is to keep their head down and fall in line.
We were shocked to find out that some of the experts advertise a fake openness and are truly unaware of science history.
Take for example, George Green (the miller turned mathematician) had no formal education and was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists.
Image source: Thegophysics.com
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Having said all of the above, this content is made by a family, to be consumed by other families all over the world. Our family likes to abide by the principle laws of Lashon Hara.
The current policies and procedures in place are highly consequential and are impacting people’s lives at scale. However, it is not our place to condemn or criticize the powers in place, instead, we choose a more curious approach of seeking information and solutions with a positive focus on the future.
In places like the UAE, the publication of a defamatory statement is a criminal offense which in some cases lead to substantial fines and even imprisonment.
That being said we are all about full disclosure and everything in life has terms, conditions and consequences. We kindly ask that you read ours.
We feel beyond lucky to have the resources, contacts, capital and connections to be able to bring to you notable and credible figures and at the same time use this medium to introduce people, places and things who might have been overlooked, much like Einstein, born deformed, who would whisper sentences to himself softly making his parents think he had learning disabilities.
This man taught himself geometry at the age of 12, mastered calculus at the age of 15, but after graduating college he failed to land a job as a teacher and was rejected by all doctoral programs including failing the Zurich Polytechnic entrance exam.
So instead, he got a job as an assistant at a patent office and that gave him time to research scientific theories. He then developed the most famous equation shortly after and the unknown patent office assistant became world renowned.
If he submitted his work today, it would be called unconventional. This is why we created our own open and impartial peer review group, that will continue our work in bringing you the most innovative, vetted and verified voices.
The Lolli Family (and Steven)
Carlos
Our family is gratefully indebted to the cast who undoubtedly paved the way for our longevity and healthspan. We heard and will honor their clarion call to relentlessly advance this industry’s meritocracy.
What you see here is a fraction of what's to come, so congratulations and welcome to the early days of this platform.
The Lollis