Exclusive | Meet the biohacker kids whose dads are trying to live forever

As a kid, Anna Asprey’s Friday evenings included neurofeedback training, where sensors measured her brain activity to teach it to function more efficiently.Time with her dad, biohacker Dave Asprey, involved divvying up his supplements before a trip.At bedtime, she rejected a nightlight, concerned it might throw off her circadian rhythm.When she was five, Dave warned her off eating some inedible wild pea plants in their yard, not by telling her she’d get a tummy ache, but with a crash course in biology.“The way he chose to explain this to me was through chemical reception binding and gap junctions,” Anna, now 19, told The Post.“It was actually really very effective,” she admitted.

“He didn’t just want me to understand what was going on, but why and how it was relevant to me.I realize a lot of kids probably haven’t had things explained to them that way.”Once dismissed as fringe, the practices championed by Asprey and other longevity pioneers have steadily migrated into the wellness mainstream.

But long before biohacking became a buzzword, it was already woven into the everyday lives of the early evangelists’ children.Cole Brecka didn’t think much of his family’s habits growing up, though they were far from the norm. “I was probably the only 15-year-old freshman football player on BPC-157 in the entire state of Florida,” the now-25-year-old said with a laugh.After Cole sprained his ankle during a game, his father, Gary Brecka, introduced him to the experimental peptide, which is now used as part of the the gym bro-beloved “Wolverine stack” and promoted for its potential to aid tissue repair and recovery.Before games, his dad would “always give me a protocol — like, you’ve got to have this many electrolytes, trace minerals and amino acids,” Cole recalled. “Then I’d look over at the guy next to me and see he’s eating a Lunchable and drinking a soda and that’s his pre-game warm up.”Gary also occasionally pulled his ...