现代毒素环境下女性生育力与健康的优化
我是一名女性长寿领域的企业家和专家，我致力于帮助女性优化健康，提高生育力，并减少现代毒素环境带来的负面影响。我拥有自己的长寿诊所，并通过各种方法帮助女性改善健康状况。我与伴侣在约会初期就进行了全面的健康评估，这在一定程度上反映了我们对健康共同的重视。在长寿方案的实施上，我发现男性和女性的生理差异很大，女性需要更多睡眠，排毒速度更慢，并且对环境压力因素更敏感。因此，女性在实施长寿方案时，需要根据自身生理特点进行调整，例如睡眠时间、运动强度、压力管理以及营养摄入等方面。在备孕期间，我采取了多种措施来优化自身健康，降低体内毒素和微塑料的含量，包括进行全面的实验室检测、调整饮食结构、进行桑拿、服用补充剂和肽类物质，以及进行一些更先进的疗法，例如治疗性血浆置换和高压氧治疗等。此外，我还关注空气过滤和减少环境毒素的暴露，以最大限度地降低环境毒素对健康的影响。我认为，延缓更年期对于改善女性的健康状况和延长寿命至关重要，并为此采取了一些措施，例如使用高压氧治疗和红光疗法来减少月经周期中的炎症反应。在补充剂方面，我服用一些必要的补充剂，例如欧米茄-3、维生素D和镁等，并根据不同的健康目标调整补充剂的种类和剂量。我还尝试过一些肽类物质，例如BPC、CJC和艾普莫拉林等，以改善肠道健康、加速伤口愈合和改善身体机能。最后，我认为定期进行全面的健康检查，例如血液检测、遗传检测和影像学检查等，对于预防性健康和长寿至关重要。
Edit:2025.04.25
00:00
如今，拥有六块腹肌比成为百万富翁还要罕见。拥有良好的健康状况非常难得，如果你很看重这一点，并且也希望你的伴侣同样重视健康，我认为这种观念应该被接受。所以长寿方案的原则都是相同的，但在具体实施细节和细微差别上各有不同。凯拉·巴恩斯 - 伦茨是一位企业家，也是女性长寿领域的领军人物。她分享了自己作为女性优化健康的历程。
00:26
人们可能知道的一件很有趣的事是，你在开始约会时就为你的丈夫做了一次健康评估。那么，你能详细说说这是怎么回事吗？是的，这确实有点争议。我读到了一些评论，有人说这是我这辈子听过的最不浪漫的事。但其实并非如此。你知道，过去六年我的生活重心都在这上面，我开了这家诊所。就像我和你在我的播客里聊到的，找到一个与自己价值观契合的伴侣非常重要。如果我的丈夫是个晚上只想坐在沙发上喝啤酒、吃薯片的人，那肯定不合适。所以提前明确彼此的价值观和优先事项很重要，健康更是重中之重。我觉得这在其他方面也适用。比如，如果一个男人工作很忙，他会一直忙下去，并且让未来的配偶知道他的工作状态。健康也是如此。所以我很坦诚地问了他一些问题。我先问他有没有自己的体检报告，这能看出他是否在乎自己的健康。我还看了他的社交媒体账号，发现他经常锻炼，吃草饲草养的肉类，我就觉得他可能会接受健康评估。然后我给他发了很多检查项目，包括基因检测、肠道检测、体内毒素总量检测等，他都做了，我们一起查看了结果。有些指标需要优化，但其实过程还挺有趣的。因为在我帮他改善之后，他的睾酮水平从原本很低的600左右自然提升到了916。之后他就全力配合了。虽然这个健康评估引发了一些争议，但我认为这应该是未来的趋势。
03:08
人们常说有六块腹肌比成为百万富翁还罕见，所以良好的健康状况确实很稀有。如果你很看重健康，并且也希望伴侣如此，我认为这种观念应该被接受。没错，我觉得这适用于很多方面。当然，不同生活方式的人也会在一起，但通常健康习惯相似的人更容易走到一起。所以我觉得一些约会应用上应该设置健康相关的筛选选项，实际上已经有一些这样的应用了，或者至少应该有一个选项来表明对健康的重视。
03:51
说到这个，你认不认识“食肉者奥勒留斯”这个Instagram账号？认识。我丈夫好像经常浏览这个账号，因为他当时想找妻子，他有很长的择偶标准清单，所以会在上面评论。这个账号有点像一个约会应用，我们也是通过这个结识的，因为我们都和这个账号的博主有联系，还挺有趣的。
04:07
那你是什么时候开始注重自身健康的呢？这是个逐渐发展的过程。我小时候根本不健康，吃的是典型的美国食物。我妈妈会给我吃像Pop - Tarts这样的东西，现在在我眼里这根本不算食物。上大学时我开始学习营养学，才开始稍微改变饮食习惯。但真正让我有动力的是，我出身并不富裕，我知道要过上理想的生活就得努力工作。所以我17岁就成为了一名企业家，一直有自己的公司。我明白要想实现目标，就必须让自己感觉良好，提升身体机能，所以我开始关注健康。我当时已经34岁了，现在的我感觉比18岁时还好，这太神奇了。后来我对这个领域了解得越来越多，也越来越投入。
06:04
很多人不重视自己的健康，直到生病才开始在意。但到了那个时候，往往只能尽力改善。就像你说的，人们把身体当成垃圾桶，长期积累不良习惯，最终导致慢性疾病。我很喜欢你在做的工作，我也是朝着这个方向努力，提醒人们趁年轻、还没患上慢性疾病的时候就好好照顾自己，因为到那时再想逆转健康状况就困难多了。
07:11
在我们之前的播客里，你提到过你的祖父因癌症去世。那你的家族里有其他慢性疾病史吗？有没有让你在基因方面有所担忧的？其实没有。我的曾祖母95岁了，还独自生活，享受着生活。我的父母也很健康，他们生我的时候年纪都很轻，我妈妈18岁就有了我。所以从家族病史来看，没有什么重大疾病。但我知道我可以让自己感觉更好，而且我工作很努力，经常每周工作80小时，如果不优化自己的健康状况，就很难持续这样高强度的工作。
09:12
在我继续之前，简单给你介绍一款我喜欢的长寿小工具——Bond Charge红外桑拿毯。这是一种更便捷、更经济的方式，让你随时随地享受桑拿。我经常谈论定期桑拿对健康的好处，我认为定期桑拿对长寿的好处仅次于运动。实际上，桑拿能模拟很多运动的健康益处。这个桑拿毯在176条评论中的评分是4.9分，这并不奇怪，因为我几乎每天都用它，它能达到和普通桑拿一样的效果，而且易于清洁，还能放在床底下。好了，回到视频内容。你很关注男性和女性的健康差异，能详细说说吗？
10:02
当然。医学研究最初主要是针对男性的，女性直到20世纪90年代才被要求纳入研究范围，这和我现在的年纪差不多。所以很多长寿方案和研究都是基于男性的数据得出的，然后推广到女性身上。就拿热量限制来说，在研究中发现它能延长寿命，所以我也尝试了热量限制、间歇性禁食以及各种锻炼计划。但后来我发现自己的生物标志物，比如甲状腺功能和激素水平出现了异常。于是我深入研究发现，在睡眠、排毒、应对压力源等方面，男女存在很多差异。
12:07
就睡眠而言，女性比男性需要更多的睡眠时间，在生理周期的某些阶段，这种需求差异更大。而且女性排毒速度比男性慢，因为女性更倾向于储存脂肪，身体脂肪含量更高，同时接触的环境毒素也更多。所以在实施长寿方案时，要根据这些差异进行调整。比如激素调节方面，女性对压力的反应更敏感，在进行冷疗等应激源干预时，要考虑到这些因素。
14:11
在优化健康的过程中，要根据女性生理周期的不同阶段调整方案。比如在卵泡期，女性胰岛素敏感性较高，可以适当增加碳水摄入；而在黄体期则相反。在营养方面，也要根据周期进行调整。此外，女性接触的环境毒素更多，所以要尽量减少毒素暴露，比如选择更安全的个人护理产品和家居用品。
16:57
女性在孕期面临着更多的健康挑战，因为胎儿会从母体吸收大量营养，同时环境毒素也会对胎儿产生影响。所以在备孕期间，要尽可能优化各项指标，比如进行营养评估、降低体内毒素总量等。我丈夫也在做同样的事情，我们会一起努力，为迎接新生命做好充分准备。
19:22
为了孕育健康的宝宝，我们会尽量减少毒素暴露。比如使用玻璃容器，避免使用塑料制品；选择有机、天然的食物和护肤品；进行排毒治疗，如血浆置换等。同时，我们也会关注营养摄入，确保摄入足够的营养物质，为宝宝的发育提供良好的环境。
20:04
在孕期，我们会更加密切地关注各项指标，因为目前对于孕期女性身体的了解还很有限。我会定期进行营养评估和毒素检测，根据结果调整饮食和生活方式。我认为所有女性都应该了解自己的抗缪勒管激素（AMH）水平，如果数值过低，可能需要调整生活方式或者考虑冷冻卵子。
21:24
我听说过这个检测。在备孕期间，男女双方都要进行至少三个月的备孕准备，这期间要尽量保持健康的生活方式，包括合理饮食、充足睡眠、适度运动等，这对提高精子和卵子的质量非常重要。
22:03
对于男性来说，保持健康的生活方式同样重要。比如进行适度的运动、保证充足的睡眠、降低体内毒素总量等。现在也有一些专门为男性设计的备孕营养补充剂。如果男性正在接受睾酮治疗，需要谨慎考虑对生育能力的影响。
23:12
近年来，全球范围内的出生率都在下降，这背后有很多原因。除了人们选择少生孩子之外，现代生活方式导致的生育能力下降也是一个重要因素。我们应该采取一些措施来提高生育能力，比如保持健康的生活方式、减少环境毒素暴露等。
26:30
女性在现代社会中承受着更大的压力，这对健康和生育能力都会产生影响。所以我们要学会有效地应对压力，比如进行呼吸训练、冥想等。这些方法可以帮助我们保持身心健康，提高生活质量。
27:19
女性的健康状况不仅影响自身，还会对下一代产生影响。所以在备孕期间，要格外关注自己的健康状况，为宝宝的健康打下良好的基础。
28:08
关于切尔诺贝利事件对健康的影响，有一些研究显示，当时人们担心辐射会影响生育，但实际上并没有显著增加胎儿畸形等风险。不过，像洛杉矶山火这样的环境污染事件，会对健康产生更直接的影响，所以我们要尽量减少暴露在污染环境中。
29:24
如果无法避免环境污染，就要采取一些措施来减少毒素摄入，比如使用空气净化器、过滤水等。同时，要保持健康的生活方式，增强身体的免疫力。
30:19
在过去30年里，男性和女性的生育能力都有所下降，而且这种趋势还在持续。所以无论是男性还是女性，都要注重自身的健康管理，包括合理饮食、适度运动、减少压力等。
31:07
在备孕期间，夫妻双方要共同努力，营造一个健康的家庭环境。比如共同制定健康的饮食计划、一起进行运动等。这样可以提高受孕的几率，同时也有助于宝宝的健康成长。
32:01
睾酮治疗会影响男性的生育能力，因为它会抑制睾丸产生精子的信号传导机制。如果男性有生育计划，应该谨慎使用睾酮治疗。
32:36
女性生育年龄的推迟与寿命延长之间存在一定的关联。但这并不意味着越晚生育越好，还是要根据自身的身体状况来决定。同时，也要考虑到社会和家庭等因素的影响。
33:00
随着年龄的增长，患心血管疾病等疾病的风险会增加。而体内积累的微塑料等毒素也会对健康产生负面影响。所以我们要尽量减少毒素暴露，同时采取一些排毒措施，保持身体健康。
34:21
微塑料无处不在，它们会通过食物、水、空气等途径进入人体。长期积累可能会对健康造成危害，比如影响免疫系统、内分泌系统等。所以我们要重视微塑料污染问题，采取有效的防范措施。
35:01
为了减少微塑料摄入，我们可以采取以下措施：不喝自来水，使用反渗透过滤器过滤水源；避免使用塑料制品，选择不锈钢、玻璃等材质的容器和餐具；选择无塑料包装的食品和个人护理产品；使用空气净化器，减少空气中的微塑料污染。
36:02
除了减少摄入，还可以通过一些方法促进体内微塑料的排出。比如多吃富含膳食纤维的食物，如西兰花、花椰菜等，它们可以促进肠道蠕动，帮助排出毒素；适当运动，通过出汗等方式排出体内的有害物质；还可以考虑一些专业的排毒疗法，但要注意选择正规、安全的方法。
37:21
在排毒过程中，要综合考虑各种因素，选择适合自己的方法。同时，要保持健康的生活方式，增强身体的免疫力，这样才能更好地应对环境污染带来的挑战。
38:16
在日常生活中，我们要时刻关注自己的健康状况，从点滴做起，养成健康的生活习惯。比如随身携带水杯，避免使用一次性塑料瓶；选择环保、健康的产品等。这些看似微不足道的小事，其实对健康有着重要的影响。
38:42
除了减少毒素摄入和促进排出，我们还可以通过一些方法来增强身体的抗氧化能力，帮助清除体内的自由基。比如多吃富含抗氧化剂的食物，如蓝莓、草莓等；适当补充抗氧化剂营养品等。
39:04
对于一些先进的排毒技术，如血浆置换等，虽然目前还存在一些争议和限制，但它们在某些情况下可能会对健康有一定的帮助。不过，在选择这些方法时，要充分了解其原理和风险，谨慎决策。
39:32
在改善健康的过程中，我们要综合考虑各种因素，包括饮食、运动、睡眠、心理压力等。同时，要根据自己的身体状况和需求，制定个性化的健康管理方案。
40:02
随着科技的不断发展，未来可能会有更多有效的排毒和健康管理方法出现。我们要保持开放的心态，积极学习和尝试新的技术和方法，为自己的健康保驾护航。
41:07
在日常生活中，我们可以通过一些简单的方法来改善室内空气质量，比如使用空气净化器、定期开窗通风等。同时，要注意选择环保、健康的装修材料和家居用品，减少室内污染源。
42:14
在选择厨房用品时，要尽量选择天然、无毒的材料，如不锈钢、陶瓷、玻璃等。避免使用含有有害物质的塑料制品和黑色餐具，这些可能会释放有害物质，影响健康。
42:48
空气污染对健康的危害不容忽视，尤其是室内空气污染。我们要采取有效的措施来改善空气质量，保护自己和家人的健康。
43:14
在呼吸过程中，有害物质会直接进入肺部，然后通过血液循环到达全身各个器官，对健康造成严重威胁。所以我们要重视室内空气质量的改善，选择合适的空气净化设备。
43:35
血浆置换技术最初主要用于治疗严重的自身免疫性疾病，通过去除血液中的有害抗体来缓解症状。后来也应用于新冠患者的治疗，帮助他们减轻炎症反应。对于长寿来说，它可能通过清除体内的微塑料、重金属、霉菌和毒素等有害物质，改善身体的内环境，从而起到一定的作用。
44:07
从理论上来说，血浆置换可以去除血液中的老化分子和垃圾物质，让身体更健康。但目前还没有足够的研究来证实其长期效果和安全性。不过，随着技术的不断发展，未来可能会有更多的突破。
44:29
随着年龄的增长，体内的炎症分子和老化物质会逐渐积累，影响身体的正常功能。而血浆置换等技术可以帮助清除这些有害物质，改善身体的代谢功能，对长寿可能有一定的积极影响。
45:19
在进行血浆置换时，需要考虑一些技术和安全方面的问题。比如如何确保血液的纯度和安全性，如何避免感染等风险。同时，也要考虑治疗的成本和可行性。
45:56
高压氧治疗（HBOT）在很多方面都对健康有益。它可以提高血氧含量，促进组织修复和再生；改善血液循环，增强身体的免疫力；对于一些神经系统疾病也有很好的治疗效果。从理论上来说，它可能通过改善细胞的能量代谢和抗氧化能力，对长寿产生积极影响。
46:20
我自己也体验过HBOT的治疗效果，在认知方面有明显的改善。虽然目前还没有进行相关指标的检测，但从自身的感受来说，它对我的健康有很大的帮助。同时，它对男性生殖健康也有好处，可以提高精子质量。
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对于一些患有勃起功能障碍等疾病的男性来说，HBOT可能是一种有效的治疗方法。它可以通过改善血液循环和血管功能，缓解症状，提高生活质量。
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在研究方面，目前关于HBOT对女性生育能力和抗缪勒管激素（AMH）的影响还在探索阶段。但从一些初步的研究结果来看，它可能具有一定的潜力。
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在进行HBOT治疗时，需要根据个人的身体状况和治疗目标制定合适的方案。一般来说，一个疗程包括多次治疗，每次治疗的时间和压力也会根据具体情况进行调整。
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在选择补充剂时，要根据自己的需求和身体状况进行选择。比如Omega - 3脂肪酸对心血管健康有益；维生素D有助于维持骨骼健康和免疫系统功能；镁元素对神经系统和肌肉功能有重要作用。
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除了基本的营养补充剂，还可以根据自己的健康目标选择一些针对性的补充剂。比如在进行排毒期间，可以适当增加膳食纤维和抗氧化剂的摄入；对于想要提高生育能力的人来说，可以选择一些对生殖系统有益的营养补充剂。
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在选择补充剂时，要注意选择质量可靠的产品。可以通过医生的建议或者专业的检测来确保产品的安全性和有效性。同时，也要注意适量摄入，避免过量服用对身体造成不良影响。
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一些新兴的营养物质和生物活性成分也值得关注。比如亚精胺可以模拟自噬过程，有助于清除细胞内的垃圾物质；尿石素A对线粒体健康有益，可以提高细胞的能量代谢效率。
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在尝试新的补充剂和治疗方法时，要保持理性和谨慎。可以先进行小剂量的试用，观察身体的反应。如果出现不适或者异常情况，要及时停止使用，并咨询专业人士的意见。
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关于GLP - 1这种肽类药物，它在减肥和改善代谢方面有一定的效果。但我在使用过程中发现它对我的激素水平产生了影响，导致瘦素水平升高。这提醒我们在使用这类药物时要充分了解其潜在的风险和副作用。
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虽然GLP - 1在减肥和代谢方面有好处，但我们也要关注它对身体其他方面的影响。在选择使用这类药物时，要权衡利弊，根据自己的身体状况和需求做出决策。
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除了GLP - 1，还有其他一些肽类药物也值得关注。比如MOTS - c对血糖控制和身体成分有积极影响；BPC - 157对关节和软组织损伤的修复有帮助。
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在选择肽类药物时，要通过正规的渠道购买，确保产品的质量和安全性。同时，要按照医生的建议使用，避免自行滥用。如果在使用的过程中出现任何不适或者异常情况，要及时停止使用，并寻求专业的帮助。
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在选择药物和补充剂时，要根据自己的具体情况进行选择。比如对于想要改善肠道健康的人来说，可以选择一些对肠道有益的补充剂；对于有心血管疾病风险的人来说，可以选择一些有助于降低血脂和血压的药物。
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在健康管理方面，我们要综合考虑各种因素，包括饮食、运动、睡眠、心理压力等。同时，要定期进行体检，及时发现和解决潜在的健康问题。
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在选择医疗产品和服务时，要保持警惕，避免受到虚假宣传的误导。可以通过咨询专业人士、查阅可靠的资料等方式来获取准确的信息。
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在选择补充剂和药物时，要根据自己的需求和身体状况进行选择。同时，要注意产品的质量和安全性，避免使用劣质或者假冒伪劣的产品。
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在健康管理过程中，我们要不断学习和更新知识，了解最新的研究成果和健康理念。同时，要保持理性和科学的态度，不要盲目跟风或者迷信一些所谓的“神奇疗法”。
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随着年龄的增长，女性的身体会发生很多变化，比如骨密度下降、肌肉量减少等。这些变化会增加患骨折等疾病的风险，影响生活质量。所以我们要采取一些措施来预防和延缓这些变化的发生。
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在预防骨质疏松方面，除了补充足够的钙和维生素D之外，还可以通过适当的运动来增强骨骼密度。比如进行力量训练、有氧运动等。同时，要注意保持良好的生活习惯，避免吸烟和过量饮酒。
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女性的卵巢衰老速度比其他器官快一倍，这是一个值得关注的问题。目前还不清楚具体的原因，但我们可以通过一些方法来延缓卵巢的衰老，比如采用高压氧治疗和红光疗法来减轻炎症反应。此外，合理的饮食和生活方式也对维持卵巢功能至关重要。一些研究表明，特定的营养素和植物化合物可能有助于保护卵巢健康。
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激素在女性健康中扮演着重要角色。从青春期到更年期，激素水平的变化影响着女性的身体和情绪状态。了解激素的作用机制以及如何通过自然方法或医疗手段维持激素平衡，对女性的整体健康至关重要。
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过去关于女性健康的医学研究和治疗存在很多不足。比如，女性健康倡议研究中使用的激素替代疗法由于方法和时机不当，导致了一些负面结果。这使得很多医生对激素替代疗法产生了误解，认为它对女性有害。但实际上，在合适的情况下，经过专业医生的指导，激素替代疗法可以为女性带来很多益处。
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预防性健康检查对于早期发现和治疗疾病非常重要。除了常规的血液检查外，还有一些更高级的检查项目可以帮助我们更好地了解自己的身体状况。比如，针对癌症的液体活检和全身MRI检查，可以早期发现肿瘤迹象；先进的血脂和血糖检测项目，可以更准确地评估心血管疾病和糖尿病的风险。
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基因检测也是预防性健康检查的重要组成部分。通过了解自己的基因信息，我们可以提前知道患某些疾病的风险，从而采取针对性的预防措施。比如，如果携带某些与阿尔茨海默病相关的基因，就可以更加注重脑部健康，提前采取预防措施。
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在预防心血管疾病方面，除了关注血脂、血糖和血压等常规指标外，一些更深入的检测项目也很重要。比如，脂蛋白(a)和载脂蛋白B等指标可以更准确地评估心血管疾病的风险。此外，定期进行心电图和心脏超声检查，也有助于早期发现心脏问题。
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糖尿病的预防和管理同样不容忽视。通过定期检测糖化血红蛋白（HbA1c）、空腹血糖和胰岛素水平等指标，我们可以及时发现血糖异常情况，并采取相应的措施进行干预。对于已经患有糖尿病的患者，合理饮食、适量运动和药物治疗是控制病情的关键。
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个性化医疗是未来健康管理的发展方向。每个人的基因、生活方式和环境因素都不同，因此健康管理方案也应该因人而异。通过基因检测和健康评估，我们可以了解自己的身体状况和疾病风险，从而制定个性化的健康管理计划。
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定期进行全面的健康检查是保持健康的重要手段。建议每年至少进行两次全面的健康检查，包括身体各个器官系统的功能评估。这样可以及时发现潜在的健康问题，并采取相应的治疗措施，避免疾病的进一步发展。
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健康管理不仅仅是身体方面的，还包括心理和情绪方面。长期的压力和焦虑会对身体健康产生负面影响。因此，我们要学会有效地应对压力，保持积极乐观的心态。可以通过运动、冥想、社交活动等方式来缓解压力，提高心理韧性。
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家庭健康史对我们的健康管理有重要参考价值。如果家族中有某些遗传性疾病史，我们要更加关注自己的身体状况，定期进行相关检查。同时，也要将这些信息告知医生，以便医生在制定治疗方案时能够充分考虑我们的遗传因素。
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健康的生活方式是预防疾病的基础。合理饮食、适量运动、充足睡眠和戒烟限酒是保持健康的关键。此外，减少环境污染暴露、保持良好的卫生习惯也有助于预防疾病的发生。
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如果你想了解更多关于女性健康和长寿的知识，可以关注凯拉·巴恩斯的网站（Kayla Barnes, K - A - Y - L - A - B - A - R - N - E - S.com）、Instagram账号（Kayla Barnes）以及她在YouTube上的长篇女性特定长寿内容。
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在健康管理的道路上，我们常常会忽略一些重要的方面。比如，很多人在忙碌的生活中忘记了关注自己的压力水平，长期处于高压力状态会对身体和心理健康造成负面影响。所以，我建议大家要把压力管理作为健康管理的重要一环，从现在开始就重视起来。
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Having a six pack is like more rare than being a millionaire these days. Having good health is very rare and if that's important to you and you want your partner to have that as well, I don't think, I think it should be accepted. So the principles of longevity protocols are all the same, but it's like in the details and the nuance how you implement those. Kyla Barnes-Lentz is an entrepreneur and a leading voice in female longevity. She shares her journey on optimizing her health as a woman
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fertility, reducing the burden of toxins in the modern world, and using different biohacking technologies. She also has a longevity clinic in Ohio.
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One of the very interesting things that people might know about you is that you did like a health interview for your husband when you started dating with him. So, yeah, can you maybe explain a little bit how did that go? Yeah, I mean, it's become a bit controversial, I will say. Like I've read some of the comments and people say, oh my gosh, this is the most unromantic thing I've ever heard of in my life. But it wasn't really like that. So, I mean, you know, this has been, you know,
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my world for the last like, you know, six years, I have a clinic. So for me, and you know, you and I chatted about this on my podcast, it's so important to find a partner that aligns with you, right? Like, it'd be very difficult to be pursuing longevity and health optimization.
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if I had a husband that wanted to like sit on the couch and drink like beer and eat chips at the end of the night, you know, it would be not a, it would not be a match. So yeah, exactly. Like it wouldn't work out anyway. So it's better to come out clear with what other values and priorities are with health. A hundred percent. Right. And I think it's, it's more acceptable.
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in other areas, right? Like if a man works a lot, he's going to continue working a lot and show that to his future spouse, right? Like, hey, this is what you're getting yourself into. That's kind of how I thought of it. It was one of…
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The most important things to me, you know, like there were other things like faith is super important and morals and but health is huge. So, yeah, I asked him first. I asked him if he had labs of his own because that would kind of indicate whether or not he even cared about his health. Well, first they did like a little Instagram scroll and I checked out like what's going on here. There's like working out pictures. That's good. He's like getting like grass fed grass finished meets the air one. I'm like, OK, that's good. So I figured he'd be open to it.
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And he was, so he immediately sent me like his full physical things looked pretty good. But then I was like, Hey, can I send you a bunch of other labs? Are you down to take them? So I sent him so much. I sent him a genetics test, a gut test, total toxic burden test. And he took them immediately, sent them back and we reviewed them together. They were pretty good. I mean, there were some areas that we were able to optimize. That was really fun actually, because I think for him, once I helped him get his, like, so when we first met, he was on a little bit of testosterone, like tiny, the smallest dosage.
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But because we won't have babies, I was like, hey, do you mind to get off of that? And he's like, yeah, no problem. And so we took his testosterone from about like 600 or so up to like 916 naturally. So he was like all in after that. He's like, oh, definitely. Let's do it. So, yeah, the lab thing has been controversial. But, you know, I think this should be like the future, to be honest with you.
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Good health, I've read that having a six-pack is more rare than being a millionaire these days. So having good health is very rare. And if that's important to you and you want your partner to have that as well, I think it should be accepted, to be honest. Yeah, I think it applies to a lot of other areas. Of course, you have people with different…
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lifestyles also being together but usually people with the same music get together music taste get together people with same health habits get together so yeah there should be like a filter on some dating apps I think there are like some dating apps actually where it's around health so you can check I think
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Or at least there should be, you know, there should be some like option on dating apps that check health, like be healthy or something like that, value health. Yeah. So, yeah. Well, on that note, do you know this Instagram account, Carnivore Aurelius? Yeah. So we ended up…
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My husband was apparently like going to Carnivore Aurelius Instagram and like, cause he was intentionally trying to find a wife. He wanted a wife for like a long time, but he just had a really long list of things that he wanted that person to have. So he would go like and write a comment and see. So Carnivore Aurelius kind of has a dating app. We kind of met through that as well. Cause like we were both connected to him, which is kind of funny. Yeah. That's interesting. But what got you into, what made you want to be healthy yourself? Yeah.
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I mean, it was kind of like a slow build. I didn't grow up healthy at all, like just ate standard American diet. Like my mom was giving me like Pop-Tarts, like things that I don't even see as food now. So when I started studying nutrition in college, it was just like a little bit, you know, I was like, oh, let me just change how I'm eating.
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But the real desire was that I didn't really come from a lot. And I knew that in order to build a life like that I wanted, I was going to have to work a lot, truly. So I became an entrepreneur at the age of like 17 years old. I've always had my own company. And I knew that I was going to have to feel amazing and like upgrade my biology per se to be able to work as much as I wanted to work to build the life that I wanted, which I now have, which is exciting. Yeah.
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So that was the first thing I was just like, let's change how I'm eating a little bit. And then I started to feel better. I got super deep into it about five years ago when I went to go open up a clinic. So, um, I have a longevity medicine clinic and when I was
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thinking about what to offer I started looking at all these labs that my doctor had never recommended before, so I had never seen a gut test, my doctor never told me to look at like the amount of parabens or phthalates or environmental toxins and my health was like great according to my doctors, right? But as soon as I started getting some of these labs back I'm like, “Oh, I think this can be better.”
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So it was just, yeah, it was a build and I have a very type A personality. I really started to love the fact that you could feel better like as you got older, you know, I'm 34 now and I feel better now than when I was like 18 years old. So I'm like, this is amazing.
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And then I just started to get so educated on the subject, right? So as you build these medical clinics, you talk to all these doctors and, you know, practitioners, and I'm like, what are you doing that's working? And then we started implementing a lot of that. And then I got this great clinical experience, which was so fun.
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Because you get to see people's lives change. You get to, because I would say about 50% of the patients that live are wanting to improve lifespan or healthspan. But the other 50% have like some chronic illness. They've been to 10, 15, 20 doctors and they can't figure out why they feel horrible. And so those people, you get to put them through these interventions and protocols and then you see their life change. That's like the most rewarding thing. So I got excited about all these different therapies and the ability to improve health now, but also for the future. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, because, you know, sometimes people don't care about their health, but if they get sick, they start to care. So it's like, you know, you will care eventually. And at that point, when you are forced to care about your health, that's the only thing you want. Like you would, you know, give away anything just to be healthy. Yeah, your entire focus just goes to that. And it's so sad because…
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people unfortunately like treat their body like a garbage can you know for so long they just they're like oh nothing's happening it's fine but it's just it's accumulating and eventually it's just going to tip over and then you're going to have some sort of chronic disease so i love the work that you're doing that's the work i'm trying to do is just say take care of yourself now when it's easier when you're younger and when you haven't developed any chronic disease because it's going to be so much more difficult to reverse that later yeah
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So on your podcast, we talked about my grandfather who died to cancer. Do you have any family history of any chronic diseases or is there something that you're genetically worried about?
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Actually, no. So my great-grandmother is 95, and she is still living on her own, and she is still, yeah, just, I mean, enjoying life. So there wasn't anything major. My parents are both. My parents also had me really young, so my mom was like 18. My mom was just out here. No one could believe that she was my mom. Everyone was just like, oh, who's your friend? And I'm like, no, this is my mom. So that's good. I didn't have anything like that.
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But I just knew that I could feel better and I knew that like, you know, at one point I was working, you know, 80 hour weeks like for many years in a row. And you can't do that if you're not optimized. If you are not eating the right foods and getting high quality sleep and it's much more difficult to do that. And I just knew I was going to have to because I wanted –
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a life that was so beautiful but I just knew I would have to put in a lot of work to get there so no not particularly but it was kind of like my own pursuits like wanting to see how good can I get so I can achieve all these things yeah well if you have a grandma grandma who's so old you have very high likelihood of living to 100 as well because the research is something like if you're
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mother or grandmother or someone who lived to 100 become a centenarian, then the offspring's likelihood is also like 100% higher than the general population or something like that. So yeah, genes are great. I mean, yeah. And by no means is she doing anything like health related. Yeah.
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Before I continue on, I'll briefly mention to you about one of my favorite longevity gadgets, which is the Bond Charge Infrared Sauna Blanket. It's a cheaper and more convenient way to take the sauna anywhere at any time. I've talked a lot about the benefits of regular sauna use. I believe taking the sauna regularly is the second best thing for your longevity after exercise. In fact, the sauna mimics a lot of the health benefits of exercise.
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The sauna is also effective for excreting heavy metals and other chemicals we're exposed to on a daily basis. It's got a rating of 4.9 out of 5 based on 176 reviews, which is crazy. But I'm not surprised because I'm using the blanket almost every day and it gets the same job done as a regular sauna. Plus it's easy to clean and you can store it under your bed. Alright, back to the video. You're also like very vocal about like male and female health. So there's like…
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a lot of differences that there are between men and women. So maybe you can elaborate. What are some of the biggest things that people miss when we're talking about health advice for men
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and women. Yeah, absolutely. So when I started all this, you know, the medical literature is essentially for men, right? So women weren't required to be included in research until like the 1990s, you know, so that's like as old as I am just about you two probably close. So that hasn't been a very long time. So all these like longevity protocols and a lot of the research is done on men. So then that information is extrapolated for men.
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So I was doing a lot of these longevity protocols, like let's use caloric restriction as one. We know that that's one of the best interventions for life extension, right? So I believe, was it a 20 to 30% caloric restriction yielded a 20 to 30% longer lifespan, right? So I was doing all these things. I was implementing the caloric restriction from the research. I was implementing intermittent fasting with that. Then I was implementing all the exercise regimes
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And at the end of the day I was watching my biomarkers like my thyroid and my hormones trend in the wrong direction. So my thyroid was dropping, my hormones were becoming dysregulated, so I really started to pull the cover back and say, “Okay, why is this? I'm doing all of the right things, but for some reason my biomarkers are trending in the wrong direction.”
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And I really kind of just put it together. Let's reel it in a little bit. And so I found differences in every single area. So let's, you know, sleep. We know sleep is like the foundation of health, right? So in the literature, it says that women need about 11 to 20 minutes more sleep than men, which is interesting. What I have found, just like NM1 studies, so I've been blessed enough to be able to go to bed at the same time and wake up with no alarm clock.
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clock, I have found, especially during specific phases, so like late luteal or early follicular, that's the bleed phase for women, that I need even about an hour more sleep than my husband. And if we think about first principles, because there's not a lot of medical research, that's what this whole thing that I'm doing is, right? It's first principles thinking about some of these
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really under-researched topics like ovarian aging, we'll talk about that in a second. So women detox slightly slower than men because we prioritize fat storage and we have more body fat in general than men, so we detox a little slower. That could be a reason that we need more sleep to detox.
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And then we're also exposed to more toxins. So it's estimated that we leave the house with about double the amount of toxins that men do in the form of personal care products and fragrances and makeups, all these different lotions and stuff that we're putting on and different products. So that could be one reason because we don't really know exactly why women need more sleep than men, but that's one big difference. So if you're just listening to this, you're like, I'm going to do a super strict longevity protocol, then that's
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being a part of the 5 a.m. boys club might not work for you as a woman, you know, because we do need more sleep. So that's something that was an interesting finding. Yeah. And, you know, more stress or more of these, even if they're considered positive stressors, like too much of anything is also bad for men. Like, you know, there's a lot of men as well who do the 5 a.m. and three hours exercise every day and calorie restriction, et cetera. And, you know, their health is also not in the best shape. At least their hormones would probably like,
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quite suboptimal if they were to be natural. It's very unlikely for men to even maintain normal hormone levels with a very stressful and highly physically active lifestyle, not to mention women. Yeah, because you know,
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women are more sensitive. So let's say, you know, you and your wife or me and my husband are both getting into a cold plunge. And let's say, you know, you can do fine at 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Um, and then she gets in, she's going to have a higher cortisol spike faster than you are.
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So that's another difference, right? Is these hormetic stressors, which we know and love for improving resilience and increasing our capacity to handle stress. Women just need to think about it a little differently. So the principles of longevity protocols are all the same, but it's like in the details and the nuance, how you implement those can be either amazing and help you up
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healthspan and energy and fertility. You know, fertility is a huge issue right now on both sides of the coin, right? It's 50% from the man, 50% from the woman. But hormetic stressors is another one. So I was doing a lot of cold therapy all the time, all throughout my cycle. So it was just, I was like doing caloric restriction and intermittent fasting and trying to be like waking up super early. And I was also doing all these hormetic stressors and it was just way, way, way too much. So what I have found now, I've kind of opt
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optimize my cold therapy protocol. And so I'm doing all of my cold therapy in the first half of my cycle. So this is like day one through about day 14, because we have all this estrogen. And so we can take advantage of that as women and we can do our hardest. That's when I'm hitting like all my PRs. I'm really doing most of my HIIT training because we know like HIIT training is so good for the mitochondria. And fun fact, but
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women, um, the highest density of mitochondria is like in the heart brain, but women also have a massive mitochondrial density in the ovaries specifically in these O sites. So I'm always thinking about mitochondrial optimization for that and for fertility also. So that was another big change is changing and reducing the hormetic stressors, um, timing, duration, and temperature. So I'm keeping my cold plunge. I have a cold plunge up there that we walked past
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um, at about 40 degrees Fahrenheit instead of those super cold temperatures, because I'm getting the same benefit as my husband, but I can do less time and I can do a warmer, warmer temperature. So, uh, those are a few of the nuances. And then even when it comes to nutrition, you know, um, being able to optimize your nutrition for your cycle. So we're mostly talking about women, uh, that are the age of like your wife and me. So, um,
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This is like a child-rearing years, maybe perimenopause. When you get into menopause, it changes a bit because your hormones are really very stable and they're very low. But for someone in their child-rearing years that is menstruating, you can even optimize your nutrition to your cycle because men, it's kind of like Groundhog Day. It's like you guys have this 24-hour cycle of hormones, which is great.
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but we have to think through everything in like days one through 14 and 14 through 16 and then 16 through the end. So I'm eating like a little bit more grass fed grass finished red meat in that first week because you're losing iron. So you can supplement with that. We know that women are more insulin sensitive in the first half of the cycle. So during that follicular phase, so that is something to know because you want to take advantage of
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that. You're a little bit less insulin sensitive in the second half of the cycle. So managing blood sugar throughout that cycle can also be really helpful. So those have been like a few of the differences. And I would say one of the last differences that's really important to know is this total toxic burden thing. I'm really obsessed with this right now because I
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women are exposed to so many more environmental toxins. So I think if women can start to reduce their total toxic burden, either, you know, you don't have to test if you don't want to spend the money on the test, but I'm just starting to swap out products. There's a, there's a resource called the environmental working group that
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great resource. They have something called the Skin Deep database. You could just type in the product that you're using right now. It'll give you a score. You want to stay in the green zone of toxicity and you can just start swapping out products for less toxic products. I mean, here in the US for sure, regulations are very wide. There's not much regulation at all on what goes in the food or what goes on your skin. But when you're thinking about your skin, it's essentially like a mouth. It's being absorbed transdermally. That's why we even need to shower our
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filter our shower water here. So trying to reduce that toxic burden for women, I think is going to be really helpful overall to hormone health. Like a lot of women have these PMS symptoms and these hormonal imbalances. And I think if you can optimize your hormones, you're going to really just
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feel so much better. Yeah. Yeah. For men, most men, it's just the three in one shower gel that they're exposed to. But yeah, women have a lot more. Yeah. The shampoo, the shower gel and the conditioner all at once. But
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But yeah, it's like a small amount compared to women who are using different personal care products and makeup and things like that. So yeah. Yeah. And even like cleaning products, you know, women are traditionally exposed to more of them. I know that these roles are changing a bit, I suppose. I don't know. My husband doesn't touch cleaning products. So…
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I mean, yeah, I think it's just the accumulation and we're living in an environment, as you know, and we were even talking about the differences of like where you live in Estonia versus like living here in LA. It's vastly different. It's the air pollution is really something to be. So it depends on where you're at in
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the world but if you're here in the U.S. we know that there's just all sorts of these you know known carcinogen and endocrine disrupting chemicals like these microplastics that we now know are in the brain in the ovaries in the placenta of babies those mimic estrogen so we see young girls um
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starting to menstruate earlier than ever, we see women entering menopause earlier than ever. So these are things we really need to be thinking about, these estrogen mimicking substances. Yeah, so you're planning to get a baby with your husband eventually.
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How do you prepare for that? Because like you said, there's a lot of these toxins and microplastics that have been found to be transmitted from the mother to the baby as well. So how are you preparing yourself, you and your husband? How are you preparing to get the healthiest
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with the least microplastics. Yeah, I know. It's the whole thing. So, I mean, I want to preface that, you know, this is what I do professionally, like for my job. So I don't think anyone, everyone needs to do all of this. But for me, I'm trying to optimize every lab. So of course, just like basic blood work, we want like our lipids to look good, our inflammation to be really low, our, you know, insulin and glucose and all of our just basic blood work.
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we want to optimize. But then I want to look at like nutrient status. So I do something called a nutrient eval. So instead of just guessing like what supplement I should take, I literally draw labs and I look at all these nutrient statuses because we know that once you get pregnant, the baby is just going to draw so many of those nutrients from you. So actually all throughout the pregnancy, I'm excited because I don't think this has ever been done. I'm going to do an obscene amount of labs, you know, probably every few weeks, like two to three weeks during pregnancy to see what's going on.
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because we don't even know which is crazy. It's 2025, we really have no clue what's going on in a woman's body during pregnancy. So I'm optimizing the NutriEval, which is the nutrient status test,
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really optimizing the total tox burden test. So getting those down as low as possible, because we also know that higher levels of environmental toxins decrease a lab value called AMH or anti-malarian hormone. This is a measurement of your egg reserve as a woman. So it's not a perfect measurement and there is no exact measurement to test fertility until you try to get pregnant. It's like…
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Do you or don't you? But I have gotten all the labs to just see where things are. And I think all women should know their AMH because if it's really low and you're young, that might mean that you either need to do a complete 180 on lifestyle, but you also might want to freeze your eggs. You might want to start trying to get pregnant. Are you familiar with this lab?
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I've heard about it.
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uh, prenatal. So we take a, something called a weaned needle. They have a woman's version and a men's version, which is really nice loaded with like antioxidants and, you know, methylated folate and some of these key nutrients that we need. It's great to know, but there's a three month window for both men and women that you can
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to as much as possible. So women can optimize their egg quality. Men can optimize their sperm quality. So my husband's doing all this stuff too. So we're looking at his total toxic burden. We're looking at his gut tests, his blood biomarkers to also help him detox.
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We're doing a lot of sauna, so at least minimum four sauna sessions. Since the fires in LA, I'm doing sauna every day now. So really helping to just excrete those toxins, doing a lot of binders. This is really extreme and I'm only doing it because of the toxins, but I did therapeutic plasma exchange, doing EBU to reduce that toxic burden. But just having an idea of where your toxin levels are, it looks at BPA. I've done the microplastic test too. So just reducing microplastics in all ways. Yeah.
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Of course, using glass, not drinking out of plastic, no plastic, little cups, and then heating it up in coffee. That's like one of the worst, just dispersing microplastics everywhere. Same thing with tea bags. I mean, that's like a lesser known, but really important. Those plastic tea bags, people are putting it into hot water, drinking green tea, thinking it's amazing for them. And then they're just drinking like, you know, millions of microplastics. Um,
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clothing even I'm really trying to move my clothing to be natural fibers organic and just like 100% cotton because a lot of these workout outfits for women you know the polyester spandex they're actually have a ton of microplastics in them and then when you sweat they're actually able to like seep in transdermal and a lot of the chemicals so just working out and some basic like 100% cotton outfits instead of those like super cute workout outfits and
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That's something, um, really leaning into optimal nutrition. So I tend to eat similar to you, you know, like a Mediterranean style diet. I do eat red meat always just, I think quality is everything and focusing on single ingredient foods, you know, um, like one ingredient, kale, avocado, healthy fats are amazing. We know the eggs, um, you know, increasing your choline is better for baby's
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brain development. So I have eggs, I eat fermented foods, which are great for gut health. Love things like pomegranates because they're loaded with urolithin A. A lot of the supplements that we know to be good for longevity, I do try to get in the food forms like urolithin A and like natto. I mean, it tastes horrible, but like it's, you know, you get a lot, a high dosage.
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love taking the pomegranates things like bone broth which are really great for sealing the gut and improving gut health pre-baby I mean even organ meats are like an organ meat supplement of some kind I mean again tastes horrible but really good like nutritional powerhouse just you know in one small dosage so
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optimizing sleep you know women experience stress at much higher levels so that doesn't mean we have more stress but the way that we perceive it our stress levels are higher it's crazy because I look at my husband's aura ring and I look at mine he's a CEO he wakes up super early works so hard he's building a business but somehow he's in restored like all day on aura ring not me at all like
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I have way less stress than him actually. But for some, as a woman, we, I think it's just, we were built like that because we were built to have children. Right. So our senses are heightened all the time because we were meant to like hear the baby crying or, you know, watch out for something. We're just built differently. So our baseline stress is higher.
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And we know that like 80% of doctor visits are related to stress. So really trying to intentionally reduce stress, uh, pre maybe, or trying to be the most fertile. So for me, I've also like wound in, as mentioned, you know, these cold therapy practices and stuff in the luteal phase and trying to focus on stress reduction, I think is huge. One really cool thing that I've found hyperbaric does is that as soon as the chamber is pressurized, um, my,
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my stress levels on aura go from being stressed to being in restored immediately and they stay there. So that's a really cool thing. But I think women should intentionally build in stress reduction. So I have four to five times per day on my calendar starting in the morning that I'm doing breath work. I have a little device called a moon bird and it really helps you like slow down your breath and breathe super deep. And then I can see myself transition into parasympathetic. So I think that parasympathetic activation for women is so important.
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Because we also know women are experiencing, you know, 80% of the autoimmune conditions. We live on average four to six years longer than men, but we also experience a lot more and longer chronic disease. So, yeah, it's…
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Those are some of the things I'm doing for fertility optimization and my husband's doing a lot of it too. I mean, leaning into exercise, we know that being sedentary is a negative for fertility. We know that having a high BMI is a negative for fertility. So, of course, those things, focusing on high-quality sleep will help with some of that stress reduction too and just balancing your hormones. So you say like a three-month period before…
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conception you want to be like a super clean lifestyle best ever yeah yeah because you can actually make a big impact in that three months so that's kind of cool you know yeah i think people should not be discouraged if you know you really want to be in peak health if you're just start now in three months you have this time to really like make a difference in your egg quality and sperm quality yeah many people don't think about it like they don't think that
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your current state of health, how it influences the child, you know, even though you might be healthy later. But, you know, during the conception stage, you need to be in like pretty good health if you want to make the child also like the healthiest. There's like, you know, after Chernobyl, there was like a lot of women who, you
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were afraid of getting pregnant and they didn't because of the fear of radiation, which will have some effects on the child. Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if there's like, is there a lot of research around Chernobyl and what happened there? Well, I remember reading a few studies where there was a lot of abortions after Chernobyl because the women were afraid of some risk for the child. But apparently it's not like
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that big an effect that it would like significantly increase the risk of some mutations or something so yeah unless you were very close to it like you know if you're if you were in Sweden during the explosion then you probably didn't have any significant risk yeah so yeah the you know exposure and how far are you away from it has a much more important role yeah and the same with you know the
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environmental pollutants like the LA fires probably, you know, will have a bigger effect now since it's been recent. So there's a lot more of these pollutants in the air than, you know, six months ago. Yeah. Well, I looked into a little bit, like I was just trying to understand what happened around 9-11, you know, so there was two buildings and there are about 130,000 people from what I found enrolled in like a government supported health program because of,
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It's not, it's of course the initial issues and the initial exposure, but my concern and why we're leaving LA is that I think as they go to clean it all up over the course of the next two years, it's going to keep being reintroduced into the air, you know? And there are really harmful things that are linked to things like birth defects and infertility and cancer. And so, I mean, for me, and I know that this is coming from a massive place of like, um,
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you know privilege i'm leaving but if i weren't leaving la i would definitely do everything i could to detox as often as possible yeah gotcha um what about like for men like is the way to enhance like because you know there's declining birth rates um for many reasons people choose to have less children but there's also yeah like declining fertility because of the modern lifestyle other like uh
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What do you think is the biggest reasons why the birth rates are declining and are there some things that people can do to support their fertility? Yeah, of course. I mean, well, I think the biggest number to think about is the fact that fertility on and off itself, not even just the birth rates, has declined about 30% in the last 30 years. So it's going down about 1% each year, which doesn't sound like a lot per year, but it's compounding, right? So when we get to 50 years, we're 50%. So yeah, it's certainly…
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50% for the man, 50% of the woman, so it's both sexes need to be optimized, right? And I think for sure, I mean, it's so many things, right? Like sedentary behavior constantly. I mean, we know that 60% of Americans have one chronic disease, 40% of Americans have two chronic diseases. This is absolutely insane, right? So…
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trying to get in the healthiest state ever, lower BMI, exercise, improving hormones in general, I think is helpful, and also reducing the amount of environmental toxins. So both of these things really apply to both sexes. Gut health optimization, really important for both sexes. And also nutrient status, you know, optimization, I think can be helpful for both sexes. And it's great because if you're married, like, you know, for me, I make all the meals. So like I look at my husband labs
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and then I make all the meals and I prepare the supplements. So like he doesn't really have to do much different. You know, he's just like kind of following the protocol. But I think, yeah, definitely just maintaining a super healthy lifestyle is going to be so helpful. Sleep too for men, really all the same things. And then probably supplementation for men too. So I love, you can do like a one-stop shop, like a prenatal for men, which is like a very common thing now. I think it used to not be, but now it's quite common. So I find that to be really helpful as well.
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You mentioned your husband was on small testosterone before. Yeah. So that reduces sperm count, right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean if you're on testosterone and you want to have children, I mean I would be really careful. There are other options that you could consider, something maybe like enklomafine for a short dose, but yeah, testosterone, it essentially turns off the signaling mechanisms to the testes to produce these sperms.
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So, and, and some people on testosterone, not to be like fear mongering or anything, it's very bio individual, but, um, if you're on it for a super long time, you just want to be conscious if you want to have children in the future. So, yeah, I mean, right away I asked him to cease that and, um,
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thankfully he did how many kids do you want we want a lot so I would like to have like five or six kids so my husband was one of six he was all him and all the siblings were homeschooled I was one of five so we both had big families and yeah we want to have I didn't ask you that question how many kids do you want um
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Well, yeah, I mean, we were thinking of two would be like definitely what we want, maybe three, four. So depends. Yeah. The interesting thing is that women who are able to have children later in life, they live longer. So like if they can have it in 40s, a child, then that's a good sign of good health. So, yeah, maybe maybe we'll.
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have more so who knows I mean hey you know for me it's like why not why not have a bunch of like little amazing kids running around it's gonna be so fun yeah yeah and uh for men especially like I think I saw some study on Amish people that for men the lowest mortality was something like 14 children oh my god and for the for the woman it was something like six or five five six was the lowest wow I mean yeah
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People have been having babies, you know, forever. And it's really sad that we're in this place that people are struggling so hard to get pregnant. Some of it has to do with age in general because the age of first baby is just getting, you know, pushed out. Obviously, it was like, you know, late teens at some point, like 19, 20 years old, mid-20s. But now we're having babies older, so that means we have to take even better care of ourselves. Yeah, there's some fear that if you…
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if you're past 35 or something, then you shouldn't have kids anymore because it's too late for the woman. But which, you know, if you look at the studies, like women who have children in their 40s, they are able to live longer. Yeah, but I do think it's a big correlation that they're already healthier. Yeah, well, that's the point. Yeah, like if you are able to do it, then you're healthy. You have a healthy body. One interesting thing, yeah, like we…
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touched already is like the pollutants and microplastics and those kind of things do you have any like specific protocol you follow and like what kind of tests you do to like remove them because you know they're everywhere and they've become quite like um
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worrisome in the sense you find them that in higher amounts of microplastic in the arteries increases risk of heart disease or heart attacks so yeah they're like accumulating a brain yeah 2x the speed it's wild um so in terms of testing i do the total toxic burden test i've also done um there's another microplastic only test you know the one that i'm talking about i'll send you the link
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I forgot the name of the company, but that'll just show you if you have microplastics, right? I mean, everybody has some form of microplastics. I think when I think about this, it's obviously, you know, I actually interviewed Dr. David Furman. Do you know who he is? From the Buck Institute. And he thinks that microplastics is like the biggest threat to humanity after like a world war. So really important topic here. So what do I do? First is like,
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Microplastics. So what do I do for that? Definitely no tap water. Tap water is one of the biggest sources of microplastic exposure. So filtering, preferably with like a reverse osmosis, that's what's really going to get the microplastics out. Then you have to remineralize it though because it strips out everything, including the minerals. So I put minerals back in.
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Salt is actually a huge source of microplastics because it's sitting in the bottom of the ocean collecting. So I have a, like my husband was laughing last night. He's like, you have four different types of microplastic free salt in there. So microplastic free salt is a big one.
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just simply never having plastic. It's hard though, because even if you order from a grocery store, like things are in plastic. So ideal life for me is going to be always going to the farmer's market, never using a plastic bag, but it's so hard. So reducing your exposure as much as humanly possible. I also have a microplastic filter on my dryer. So it actually collects the microplastics from clothing. So that can be helpful. Let me think, of course, just like
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steel Anything that you're cooking with never using plastic I searched for this coffee. Yeah, I mean I actually I found the best brand over here after like trial and error 100% pure ceramic it's called extrema So I really like that one and I like cast iron too because a lot of these brands They just put a ceramic coating on it And then once that coating I get through it then you get like exposure to these harmful You know
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chemicals. Same thing with even cutting boards. So in the kitchen doing like a wood or some sort of stone cutting board can be really helpful for the kitchen to reduce your microplastic exposure. We mentioned clothing, swapping out that. And then in terms of detoxification, I mean, I love a lot of fiber and like cruciferous vegetables. Sulforaphane is great for that. So I do sulforaphane supplementation, a lot of like broccoli, cauliflower, nutmegs.
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Not only is it good for just like keeping things regular and fiber requirements, but it's good for detoxing. Eating a lot of antioxidants is super important for getting rid of some of these microplastics. Sauna is really, really great. So doing sauna, sauna is amazing, right? Like the risk of, I believe it's a 66% reduction in dementia with four sauna sessions or more per week. You have a massive risk in all cause mortality and cardiovascular events. So doing that, super important. This,
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This is like way on, let's just work from like basic to like up to more extreme. So reducing exposures in all ways, definitely do that immediately. Never drink these like soft plastic water bottles, you know, and then people like put them in the car and then they're in heat. It's a total disaster. So just stop doing that in all ways. Be a nerd, like have a little water bottle that you bring. Unless you're in the Sahara desert and looking for water. Yeah, okay. Then maybe. But you know what?
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It's so funny, like most women carry around like a handbag. I just show up everywhere with a glass bottle of water. Everyone's like, you just bring this everywhere. And I do. That's super helpful. And then so we talked about some detox modalities, the sauna. I mean, exercise, just moving your body, sweating. We were meant to sweat. I don't think that we do that nearly enough now because we're way too sedentary. But sweating is a mechanism to excrete these things. Obviously, regular bowel movements are a way to excrete toxins.
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A few more advanced things that I'm doing too because we actually don't know how to get the microplastics out of the tissues once they've actually embedded. So our best bet right now is to get them before they've been embedded into the tissues. Yeah, when they're in the blood. So things like EBU can be helpful. Plasma for rhesus can be really helpful. You could also…
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I don't know the exact percentage of efficacy but you know some people donate plasma and donate blood right so you can do these things that are free sometimes you even get paid for them um so that is something because we of course know tpe is like very expensive right now but those are a few things I think to get them out of the blood in addition to all of the other practices is there anything I missed is there anything else you're doing um so I mean yeah like there's
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best way to get them out of the blood. So like blood donation, taking the blood out, filtering it with the TB and those kind of things. I think they're the most effective probably. There's also things like this…
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with a UV light or something like that you do the light is shot into your veins. So like there's some research that the UV light goes and breaks down some of these microplastics, but it doesn't take it out. So the EBO would be probably like a better version because you take out
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It goes through a little filter. Yeah, filter, and then you also shoot the UV light in there, ozonate it, and then get back in. So that's a more efficacious approach, I would imagine. But there's no studies on that yet. Theoretically, the TP is probably the most effective.
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Or blood donation. Blood donation is like a lower barrier to entry. You get paid or it's free. But yeah, you're giving it to someone else who is in dire need of it if they need a blood donation. But it's still…
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you know, it's better than nothing. Yeah. So I think that's where we're at. I think a lot of companies, tech companies are like pursuing this, right? Because it's like a massive issue for human health. How do we get rid of these, get them out of tissues? And I can't even, I can't really think of a good way even just first principles thinking, like how do you get them out of tissues without going inside the body? I don't know. Maybe, I don't know, HBOT or something because oxygen is,
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because environmental plastics, they gray with oxygen and sunlight.
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so uh maybe there's something there but it's just like how long is it gonna take for them to degrade yeah yeah the best thing best thing is we are just to get them out of blood regularly and reduce your exposure like as much as be like think about i'm thinking about all the time right which might seem like a little neurotic but like once you get yourself set up it's not so much like stress like once you have a limited plastic you have your little water bottle and all your things then you have to think about it so
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much yeah it's hard in the beginning when you're kind of used to the plastic but if you like start using a stainless steel pan or whatever you remove the plastic cutting board then is it
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I mean, it's just, there's literally no effort to just replace it. Yeah. Well, and also one other thing about the kitchen is those, you know, like black utensils are apparently made from like old electronics. Okay. Wow. And so you're like heating them up. Yeah. I mean, awful. So I use like just stainless steel utensils, you know, from time to time a wood utensil, you have to be careful. You don't get like mold or something in the wood, but yeah.
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Yeah, just optimizing as you can, like don't be overwhelmed, but I've tried to make like my home environment as optimal as possible so I don't have to think about it. Yeah.
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What do you think about the total plasma exchange from a longevity perspective? Not just the detox. Do you think it has any longevity potential or benefits? Yeah. One other thing to mention too is air filtration because we actually breathe more than we do anything. So the air inside of homes is typically about, I think, eight to ten times worse than the air outside. So that, I think, is another big lever that you can pull is
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really filtering your air and getting those microplastics out of the air and other contaminants because that was the issue with the LA situation. And so when you breathe things in, it bypasses your detoxification systems and you have all these like capillaries and blood vessels in your lungs. So breathing something in is actually like one of the worst ways to be exposed to it because it gets a massive dose right into the bloodstream. One of the ways they get to the brain is through the olfactory bulb. So it's like the soft tissue, so they just…
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merge through it yeah exactly um like i'll show you when we go back upstairs i have like a jasper in every single room which is like way too much technically but like you know the air quality even throughout the fires i have little testers all throughout the house of the air quality and it remained good throughout the whole fire so um so tpe for longevity um
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Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a massive benefit for longevity. So it was originally used, from what I understand, for people with very serious autoimmune cases. So it would actually remove some of those antibodies. So let's say you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you would have these antibodies.
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antibodies that are attacking your thyroid. So it can remove those from the plasma and lower the impact and the damage on your body. It also was used during COVID apparently for people experiencing these cytokine storms to really reduce that.
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So I think yes for longevity, probably though the benefit is primarily coming from the reduction in things like microplastics, heavy metals, molds and mycotoxins. That would be my first line of thought. What about you? Do you think any other longevity? I mean, yeah, like with age, you'll have just more.
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inflammatory molecules old proteins of just junk material in the in the blood and you know there's like there's these studies with this blood exchange between like old mice young mice etc and apparently the old mice do get healthier from the blood of the young mice so if you just you know take out the old blood and filter it and you have a little bit younger blood
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then it might have some systemic effects yeah this theoretically so i'm just very interested in yeah like what it's gonna turn out to be in the next few years if you know we will have some studies on it but you know theoretically i just removing just even just yeah like the toxins and the junk material then you'll just have like just better health if not longer life yeah yeah i mean in general yeah like um
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becoming worse at fighting off all things, right? So just, yeah, like an infusion. In those studies, I can't remember, did they track how long the benefit lasted with the old and the new mice? I don't remember exactly, but I think there were…
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attached together yeah yeah like continuously so like i think it lasted on because you know if you detach them then the the effect is going to wear off eventually so yeah that is that is interesting i have i have not gotten any infusions of any new blood yeah um what about h-bot do you
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Yeah, I mean, so I definitely need to do exact biomarkers because I've been doing HBOT actually for a very long time, like intermittently. I just this year really did like the big protocol. So my HBOT doctor, do you know Dr. Scott? Yeah. Yeah, he's amazing. So I have a one base and so he's helped me put together my protocols. And so I…
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I have loved it from a cognition standpoint. I mean, my AMH, I wish I had an AMH before I ever started HBOT, but I unfortunately don't. I've definitely feel a lot of good benefits. My health is good, but unfortunately I don't have, I wish I had like biomarkers right before and then after.
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But from what he is showing, actually, HBOT is a great way to improve sperm quality. That's been proven in the literature. It's really great for brain health. We know that for sure. Any concussions or any TBI is really helpful for healing and repairing brain. Also, things like ED or erectile dysfunction because of the improvements in blood vessels and vascularity and the ability to kind of like revascularize, which is
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The stress reduction, I saw that direct impact. So really being able to put into a parasympathetic state. Let me think about some. They're doing studies right now on fertility in HBOT, which I'm excited to see what those yield. They're doing studies on AMH, that antimalarian hormone or the ovarian reserves.
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Because women these days are experiencing diminished early ovarian reserves, like more so it seems than in the past. And I think a lot of it has to do with environmental toxins and just lifestyle. But yeah, HBOT has been
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Great for me so far. Also, I mean, telomeres, they say that they lengthen telomeres. My telomere age, I got a new test yesterday. It's 23. So, I mean, things are going well in that regard. But I, yeah, and the next one that I do, so the way that Dr. Scott framed it for me was that I should do a
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body protocol. So that's 40 sessions, one hour per day, five times per week until you hit the 40 sessions at 2.0 ATA. Then you take a break and do maintenance. You can do like one to two sessions per week if you want, just any maintenance. And then you do a
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brain protocol, which is 1.5 ATA, so dropping down the pressure, and then repeating those one time per, or one hour per day, five times per week at 40 sessions. So I'm going to try that and see what happens. But yeah, the studies on telomeres are pretty good too, so. Hmm.
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I think it can definitely play a role in longevity. I mean, oxygenation of the tissue and the body and improving, you know, blood flow are all incredible benefits and really go to like the bottom line of longevity, I think. Yeah, I also think it's very interesting. It's not going to be like some radical life extension, but again, like better, I guess, better blood markers that then correlate to a lower risk of some chronic diseases. Yeah. Supplements are like very popular. Like, do you…
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take any supplements or even peptides? I do. I've tried a lot of different stuff. You know, I love them for all different indications. The way I think about supplements are I have like my non-negotiables, things like omega. So there's interesting research on having an omega index over eight. So I usually try to keep my omega index about 10. This is a blood lab for anybody that's listening that will measure the amount of omegas in your body. So I do an omega-3. I like the MetaJettings brand.
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I do a vitamin D supplementation. I, like you, keep my vitamin D at about 70 to 80. I think that's an ideal range. There's a lot of research to linking vitamin D and fertility. So that's important for women to know. And then I have like things like magnesium. That's like in my non-negotiable bucket, right? And then I have things that are in my protocol bucket. So that will be whatever I'm working on. So right now, because of the fires, it's detox.
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So I have additional like sulforaphane. I have additional vitamin C. I'm doing binders. I'm on like a cell core protocol. I also am doing a prescription called the clostridium that we talked about earlier to help get rid of some of those environmental toxins. Um,
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And then I have my what I call like longevity stack. So that is a little bit of NMN, which, you know, I do NMN or NAD testing as well. And it's wild. I mean, it's you need to do supplementation to keep your levels up at this, at least in the environment I'm in right now. So I do a little bit of NMN. I do spermidine, I think is an interesting molecule.
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Um, it kind of mimics autophagy. So I am trialing that I try stuff all the time, you know, it doesn't always necessarily stay. Um, I think methylene blue is a kind of interesting compound. I kind of go back and forth with transcriptions actually, um, for some cognitive enhancement. I've also done methylene blue IV therapy and like stack that with red light.
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Um, that's kind of powerful and I mean, really good mental clarity. Um, let me think what else I really enjoy. I mean, I think urolithin A is great, but you can also get it from food sources. So really thinking about improving mitochondria specifically in the ovaries and the oocytes for anyone that's like looking to get pregnant, I think can be really helpful. So I take, uh, the, the MedoPure, um, urolithin A supplementation. And let me think what else I really enjoy.
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am enjoying these days. From a peptide standpoint, I think that I've tried so many of them and we also prescribe a lot of them.
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So like anyone dealing with glycemic issues, I think MOTC is something to explore. I have tried CJC and epimeralin so that can help with body composition. And anyone looking to like lose a little bit of fat, add a little bit of muscle. Actually, I haven't even talked about this, but this is kind of wild, something that I did an N of one test. So I started trying a GLP-1 at a very small dosage. I was doing five units.
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I only did it for about a month and I wasn't doing it for the weight loss benefits, but supposedly it can be really good for like longevity, metabolic health. But what's crazy is what happened to my leptin when I got off of it. So my leptin is so high right now, just from a month of that tiny of a dose. So a normal dosage of this GLP-1 would, it depends on the provider, but like something like 50 units. So I was taking five, super low. Didn't even like have any really weight loss impact, but-
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wild how my leptin right now is almost 50. It's that of like an obese person. So
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It's crazy to me the swing. I think that this is not talked about and I think it should be because if I didn't have as much discipline as I have because I'm like hungry all the time now. If I didn't have as much discipline. So if you think about it, imagine someone on a dosage. So I don't know where I land. I'm just having conversation about this about the GOP ones because it does seem to have, of course, weight loss benefits. And then you get all these longevity benefits from losing weight. They also seem to have some independent benefits from.
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of longevity but imagine trying to get off of it if i was on a high dose like a normal person would be and then your leptin so that's like increasing your hunger hormones like crazy just spikes massive so yeah there's like a rebound effect then major but i did not expect that was such a small dose for such a short period of time yeah you would expect yeah like some people to
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regain some weight once they stop taking uh glp ones and they'll because the hunger comes back but yeah like the leptin is quite interesting maybe that's the reason why they rebound then the leptin increase seems so yeah but i'm just curious like what would it be if i was on a higher normal dose right um because it almost makes me feel like it really is going to keep people on it forever like yeah well that's very interesting yeah once they go but they do have you know
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very crazy results with weight loss. So it's kind of are you going to stay obese or are you going to use it and lose the weight and get to normal weight even though you have to take it for a longer period of time you could be able to stop it and then
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regain maybe 10% back, but it's still better than being 100% of the initial weight. Yeah. I mean, I think for sure, like people that really need it, I mean, totally, I would do it. So, I mean, GLP-1 is a peptide, so there's that. I have tried that, but as just mentioned, it was for a very short period of time. I'm trying to figure out how to like get the leptin back down to like normal levels quickly, but we'll see how long it takes. I'm going to do a little video on that too.
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Other peptides that I think are interesting, there's like kissapeptin and PT-141. Those are interesting for like sexual function for both men and women. Not really my thing. I don't really need that. But, you know, if you're having issues, that could be something to consider. Yeah. So those are peptides. Which one? BPC. Oh, BPC. I love that. Yeah. Actually, I'm taking oral BPC right now because it's great for gut health and I'm, you know, optimizing the gut pre-baby. So yeah.
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I'm doing a prescription compounded oral BPC. And then I've done BPC, of course, injectables. Actually, I broke my finger on the door outside. It's like so heavy. And I healed it in like two weeks by injecting BPC right into the fat pad of my hand. And it healed so fast. It was crazy. Like, yeah. So I did that and I did red light therapy on it for 15 minutes per day. And then I did PEMF on it and it like was healed and back to normal within two weeks. So, yeah.
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It's pretty exciting. But that one's a great one. Body protection compound. Great for people that have any injuries like healing, just want to recover faster if you're really doing intense exercise. My husband takes CJC. That one is really great for him in the gym.
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So yeah, I mean, I love peptides. I think it's exciting that we're getting access to these fun molecules, although then they kind of like take them away sometimes and then now they gave them back. There was a whole thing with the FDA here in America, but now they gave them back, which is absolutely amazing. Yeah, I don't like the research, but I'm not a huge…
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fan of the research peptides though because I'm concerned of like what if they have contamination with something. So I would recommend people get them from their doctor because your doctor can like prescribe you. And then they're like compounded in an FDA approved facility. Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of peptides that you never know what you get unless it's a quality source. Which one have you tried? Are there any favorites you have? I've used only oral PPC. I mean I use like copper peptide but
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very like not always. Yeah, then there's GHC-KU. That's a good one more like topically. You can do it in injectable form, but that, you know, could be good for like skin. Yeah. But yeah, those are probably… Oh, I also like Thymus and Alpha. Those are for like immune system boost. So depending on, you know, if you need like… If your sickness is going around, you want to do like immune system boost, that's something to consider. And…
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Yeah, I think that's probably when I've dabbled, you know, in a lot of them. But we've also seen like clinically, you know, we've seen some really good results with some peptides that have been great. Like for women, when, as we age and sarcopenia, you know, thinking about something like a CJC or a Tassamoralin or something to like help add on a little bit of muscle mass, mainly CJC to add on some muscle mass. Like I've seen that be pretty effective. Yeah.
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But in general, I think, you know, with my exercise programming, I'm thinking a lot about like adding bone density, improving bone health and adding on muscle as a woman. Like I just hit like my grip strength is 100. I mean, I really don't know many women that have 100 grip strength, but like getting that muscle mass and thinking about strength is so important because as we get older, when you hit perimenopause and menopause,
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you know, where you're precipitously going to lose bone density and you're also going to lose muscle mass. And we know that like if you, you know, women, if you fall and break a hip, I forgot the percentage, but it's an incredibly high percentage that you will not make it home from the hospital. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty risky for other people. And you have to menopause. Yeah. Bone density goes pretty low.
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I'm excited to see, like, I feel like the biggest game changer for women's longevity would actually be to delay menopause because when you hit menopause, like your risk of everything increases, like everything, you know, cardiovascular disease and dementia all causes a mortality increase substantially. So it's amazing that it's 2025. I don't know if you know this, but the ovaries age at double the speed of every other organ. And we basically have no idea why still, like in the research.
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So I'm doing some things that are kind of interesting. So thinking like first principles thinking. So as a woman goes through her menstrual cycle, there's an entire inflammatory cascade that's happening because you're building up this lining, then the lining is shedding, and then it's doing it again and again and again every month. So I'm trying to strategically use like HBOT and red light therapy
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to reduce that amount of inflammation. Because like I did, I actually did egg freezing because we want so many kids. If we only wanted one or two, we would just start having kids and it would be no problem. But I want to have it just in case. But usually when a woman has this retrieval of the eggs, it takes like two and a half weeks for the ovaries to go back to normal.
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My doctor almost fell off of her chair when I came in just five days after my retrieval. She's like, Kayla, I have never seen anything like this in all my days of doing this. Your ovaries are back to normal. Like, what did you do? And I did HBOT and, of course, like general healthy lifestyle. But I did red light therapy, like actually on the ovaries combined with HBOT. And it really was able to make a massive impact on that inflammation. So I'm just wondering, I'm like, if we can –
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reduce the inflammation and the ovaries throughout the cycle. Can we prolong the longevity of the ovaries? I'm also doing, I'm not taking it now because we're about to have babies, but I was doing rapamycin, which interesting, you know, there is a very controversial now, right? Because now some people are saying it can increase your biological age, but there's an interesting paper has not been yet peer reviewed, but rapamycin has been able to extend
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ovarian aging by five years in these new papers. So, you know, taking it for that reason only for a woman could be interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I've also seen that. And it's like very interesting that women, you know, one of the reasons why women might live longer than men a few years is because they, you know, up until menopause, they have higher estrogen that has cardioprotective effects. So they get like, you know, four or five decades of
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of time where their cardiovascular burden is somewhat lower compared to men, which, you know, starts accumulating already much younger because they don't have that high estrogen levels. So yeah, like if you can extend that window, so we get menopause in your 60s, for example, then, you know, women would theoretically automatically add another 5-10 years to their lifespan just by doing that. So yeah, and it's, you know, kind of unfair that you have
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normal sex hormones and then after menopause it just drops off the cliff whereas men you can have pretty high testosterone even when you're 80 years old but it does kind of trickle down slowly compared to women. Yeah and these hormones are
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beneficial for health right i mean it's also wild like the misinformation kind of around women's health so my mom lives in ohio it's a very small town in you know the the u.s and her doctor read the really old study there was a study on the women's health initiative like over 20 years ago they used the wrong sort of like hormone replacement therapy and they started it way too late i think they started it like 10 years after the onset of menopause and
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this entire generation of these doctors were educated that hormone replacement therapy will cause cancer for women. So my mom, even as of today in 2025, her doctors are telling her that she shouldn't be on hormone replacement therapy. Thank goodness she has me. Right. And I literally have a clinic. I'm like, go to live and go get your hormone therapy because otherwise, like she would think that it's, it's really bad for her. But I mean, just logically maintaining a
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similar hormone levels and the benefits of estrogen and these other hormones, I mean, of course, it can be beneficial. So bioidentical, the right kind under the right like advisement of a provider, you know, these things can be very like tricky to dial in the dose. So you want to work with someone really good. But it's just sad that we're still having like misinformation from that long ago harming women like you in 2025. Yeah. Before we start wrapping up, what are like some of like
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a few tests that you think are essential for preventive health like yeah obviously blood panel um you can go as crazy with the blood panel as anyone wishes but uh yeah like besides the regular blood work other like any tests that you think are really good for preventive health longevity
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Well, I think it depends on what your family history is because based on that, what your predisposition, like if you have a family history of cancer, you might want to look at something like a grail test, right? And a prenuvo full body MRI to catch anything really early. Let's say you have cardiovascular disease that runs in your family and the number one cause of cancer.
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It's the number one killer anyway, you know, looking at like an advanced NMR panel, like, so not just HDL, LDL triglycerides, but looking at, you know, LP little a and APOB, these more advanced cardiac panel markers are really important.
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Um, I also, let me think what else I really love. I mean, those are the stroke and cardiovascular disease, top killers, cancer, diabetes. So, you know, uh, HBA1C looking at your metabolic markers are really important and your, um,
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insulin markers, glucose, but you, if you can only just do an HBA1C, that one's fine too. And then those advanced cardiac panels, because that's going to kind of look out for stroke and cardiovascular issues. And maybe like a grid, have you heard of grill cancer pre-screening? Yeah.
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liquid biopsies are becoming more popular. I'm going to do one every year, just like for the rest of my life, because cancers are getting younger and younger. It's insane. And then when you pair that with something like a full body MRI, you can catch anything really early. So I think it depends on what your personal predispositions are. Also genetics, you can take a look at your genetics and just see like, what are you predisposed to? Because if you have, you know,
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like multiple copies of Alzheimer's gene, for example, you might really want to be putting brain health first. So that's why personalization is so important, right? But in general, I think everybody should be testing twice a year, a minimum, the most advanced panel that you can afford, right? Looking at essentially every organ system. How is your liver performing, your kidneys, your heart health, your brain health, just breaking those down and being as proactive as humanly possible. Because
01:04:38
It's crazy in medicine because it's like one day you don't have diabetes and the next day you do, but that's not really how it works. That was a buildup and you could have seen that like five years ago on your labs. And then you could have aggressively worked to reverse it, right? And then you wouldn't have gotten the type 2 diabetes in the first place. Yeah, I actually have like a family member who would
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did get diagnosed with diabetes recently last year. And yeah, he never took a blood test for the last 10 years or never went to the doctor. So you don't know when did he actually get it or like, because yeah, it's a slow process of…
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over years. But I had a family member that just, you know, got, I mean, actually went to my clinic and our provider said, hey, like you have prediabetes, right? And but that's amazing, because now guess what he can do, he can aggressively work to reverse that. And then he doesn't have to get diabetes. But in most medical establishments, Western medicine, they just will say, oh, you're fine. And then all of a sudden, you get diabetes, like the prediabetes is like not even mentioned, you know, you're fine until you're not. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
01:05:41
Well, yeah, it's been a great conversation. Before I ask my last question, where can people learn more about you and your work? Yeah, my website is Kayla Barnes, K-A-Y-L-A-B-A-R-N-E-S.com. I'm also posting on Instagram under Kayla Barnes. And I recently started posting like long form female specific longevity content on YouTube. So any of those places.
01:06:03
That's good. We'll put the links in the show notes. And my last question is, uh, what's this one piece of advice or a habit that you wish you'd up to sooner? Um,
01:06:15
I would definitely say stress reduction. You know, I really pushed myself super hard and I allowed my stress to run at much higher levels than I probably should have for many years. You know, I wanted to do all the things. I wanted to be perfect in all the areas. I wanted to be perfect at working out, running companies, building businesses, showing up for everybody. And I wish I would have thought about stress reduction intentionally earlier. Yeah, it's important. Well, yeah. Well, thanks for…
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having me and record the podcast here. And yeah, thanks for having me on your podcast as well. So people check it out. Well, of course. Thank you for, thank you for having me and thank you for being online. Yeah. All right. That's it for this episode. Make sure you check out my new book, The Longevity Leap on Amazon. I'd also appreciate if you share this episode with a friend or family member. Other than that, my name is Seem. Stay tuned for the next episode. Stay empowered.
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