The Beverly Hilton feels pretty peak Los Angeles. Under a bright blue sky, valets park luxury cars with views of palm trees. In the lobby, chandeliers twinkle for the guests who will soon be heading out to a pool cabana.

Or perhaps they’re here to visit Upgrade Labs, a startup that bills itself as the world’s first biohacking health and fitness facility. Both its Beverly Hilton and flagship Santa Monica locations offer what the website describes as data-driven technology, “dedicated to improving mental and physical performance and recovery.”

The new Upgrade Labs facility has the gleaming white, spa-like aesthetic of your standard five-star hotel gym, but the front desk staff has you fill out a lengthy waiver before you enter. Personal trainers are called Biohacker Technicians.

It’s exactly the kind of gym you’d expect from its creator, Dave Asprey. The longtime Silicon Valley executive, who in 2013 founded the seemingly unstoppable lifestyle company Bulletproof (nutrition supplements! coffee! books! monster podcast!), is perhaps the world’s most high-profile bio­hacker (he’s even name-checked in the Merriam-Webster definition of the term) and claims to have spent more than a million dollars investigating ways to improve his biology.

Asprey, 45, has always been an active person, though you might not have guessed that if you’d seen him a decade ago. “Maybe I need to do some therapy around my experience with exercise,” he tells me, laughing, in a phone interview. He played soccer competitively until his body couldn’t handle it anymore. In his twenties he weighed in at 300 pounds.

Moving his workout indoors didn’t help. “I just beat myself up in the gym, in this desperate quest to get healthy and to get to at least a reasonable body weight,” he says.

Starting in 2010, Asprey developed his Bulletproof lifestyle, switched to a ketogenic diet, and started amassing biohacking gear that helped him recover faster and exercise more in less time. He was constantly on the hunt for tech that created the biggest benefit faster.

A lot of the equipment found its way to him thanks to his podcast, Bulletproof Radio. “I basically get to try all of the world's performance enhancement technologies as part of my job, which is the coolest thing I can even imagine,” he says.

Asprey has a continuous glucose monitor implant in his arm to monitor his blood sugar. With hacks like these, he hopes to live to at least 180. Michelle Groskopf

In the years since, he has gotten results. He now carries 204 pounds on his 6'4" frame. Upgrade Labs was born from the idea that someone needed to bring the best of this often pricey technology to as many people as possible.