# Mission and scope The International Biohacking Community is a global community focused on biohacking research, discussion, and collaboration. It brings together practitioners, researchers, and curious newcomers across human augmentation, DIY biology, longevity, and applied self-experimentation. ### Mission The International Biohacking Community exists to support an open exchange of ideas in biohacking, with an emphasis on careful reasoning and responsible practice. In practice, this means interdisciplinary collaboration, documentation that others can evaluate, and critique that distinguishes evidence from inference and speculation. ### What “biohacking” means here In the International Biohacking Community, biohacking includes practical efforts to understand and improve human health, performance, and capability. It spans biology, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. ### Scope Discussion commonly covers measurement and self-tracking, supplementation and nootropics (with attention to risk), cybernetics and body modification, longevity research, and DIY biology as citizen science. The community does not provide personalized medical advice. It also does not host instructions that facilitate unsafe experimentation, illegal activity, or attempts to bypass professional oversight in high-risk contexts. ### How the International Biohacking Community is organized The site is designed to make technical discussion easy to browse later. You will typically find content grouped by domain (for example: cybernetics, magnets, nootropics, supplements, and longevity). Where possible, discussions are indexed into a knowledge base so that definitions, links, and prior work stay discoverable. ### Community approach The community is intentionally broad. Expect a mix of scientific papers, lived experience, engineering perspectives, and philosophical discussion. When stakes are high, the community encourages conservative decisions and consultation with qualified professionals. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.biohackinginternational.com/about/mission-and-scope.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.