Kayla Barnes
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I was doing some of these four men by men protocols and I was watching my thyroid health decline. I was watching my hormones become imbalanced because I was doing way too much.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So its initial indication was for cholesterol management, lipid management. Okay. But in a study, it actually removed 60% of the PFAS from the individuals over a 12-week period. So I had this in my back pocket. I knew about this study. As soon as I got my lab results back, I sent it to my doctor and I said, hey, thoughts, like I think we should do this. He agreed.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And so I'm also doing that, which I'm very excited about because, I mean, if this can help pull out a lot of those toxins, PFAS, all those molds. Yeah. And help really like reduce the toxic burden. I think that's going to be an exciting one as well.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yep. Yep. Love a little bit of binder. Just help bind to the toxins and pull them out.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, I use the Quicksilver binder, so that's my preference.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It is activated charcoal, yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Thank you so much for having me.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
We have one in our master bedroom as well. Our master bedrooms actually look, they're just slightly bigger, but it looks very similar with the Faraday cage and the hyperbaric in there.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
There's no better investment. Like we get one body, you know, it's amazing that people, and I completely understand that this is, it can be a very expensive industry to be in. I'm excited for that to hopefully be reduced in cost soon. But I mean, for me, there's nothing else I would rather spend my money on.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. I mean, women are not small men. So most of the data that we have, like scientific research is done on men. And what we've kind of tried to do so far is say, okay, let's parse this out and just make it a little bit less for the women kind of essentially. Yeah, that women are just small men, but that's completely not true. We are biologically and physiologically different than men.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And women have a 28 to 30-day cycle, whereas men, you guys, it's kind of a little bit like Groundhog Day, right? It's like the same thing over and over.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But it makes it much easier, right? Because you don't have these hormonal fluctuations anymore. Not to mention that there's so many different cycles of a woman's life, right? I mean, I'm in my child-rearing years, premenopause, but then there's perimenopause, menopause. So every one of those phases requires something a little bit different.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And when I started on my biohacking journey, we have a lot of mutual friends like Dave Asprey and Ben Greenfield and all these people. And it's great, but I was doing some of these like for-men, by-men protocols.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And I was watching my thyroid health decline. I was watching my hormones become imbalanced because I was doing way too much. We know that women, you know, they perceive and experience stress at much higher levels than men. So if I try to do the same thing that you do, let's say, you know, you can cold plunge every day, all day. That's great.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But as a woman, my body interprets that very differently and given where I'm at in my cycle. So we can walk down the line of nutrition, sleep, exercise, biohacking. I mean, there's nuance for all of these for women.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Thank you.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, absolutely. So we haven't officially started trying. Actually, we were intending on starting to try this month, but then the fires happened. And so I want to get my body rid of these toxins first. But I think that, and I don't want to make it seem like you have to do all these things. Remember, I'm like in the biohacking industry. So I'm doing all these things that might seem way extra.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But I think for me, if we start thinking about labs, you know, what am I looking to optimize? So we know that the mitochondria come from the mother. We know that the gut is coming from the mother. So for me, and in this recent video I just did, I start with gut testing and optimizing some of these tests. in order to potentially optimize and extend fertility.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I would, when we're done talking about this, I would love to talk about ovarian aging because I think that's like the future, right? And I have some things that I'm trialing. Again, there's not a lot of research and I've talked to almost every, you know, ovarian aging expert, but the female ovaries age at double the speed that any other organ does.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And we still don't know why, but I have some theories, just first principles thinking. But to go back to fertility, so some things that I have done have been gut optimization. I think there is such a story for optimizing your gut, not only because you'll be passing on to your child, but because we know that gut dysbiosis and so many other gut issues can lead to autoimmune conditions.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
We know that 80% of autoimmune conditions are women. And this is like, this is a really, this should be a huge red flag, right? Right. And we know that if you optimize the gut, it can also help to reduce your risk of some of these conditions. So I think gut optimization is number one. I like a test called the GI effects by Genova.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Um, any practitioner grade gut test I think would work, but I think gut health testing is super important. Reducing your toxic burden as low as you can, because again, you're getting ready to house another human being and the development of that human being.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So if you look at things like heavy metals, molds, mycotoxins, environmental toxins, I think getting those as low as you can is super helpful. Um, some other things that I, I'm personally doing, I think it's interesting to look at biological age because we want to improve our biological age if possible, um, prior to conceiving.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And again, I'm going to say the preface again, you don't have to do all this stuff. This is just me taking it to like the end.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I mean, absolutely. I mean, for me, I wasn't given that opportunity. I mean, I, I, who knows what was going on when I was growing, but I want to set the best stage, but also, um, you know, we see this time and time again, I've interviewed a lot of fertility experts. Um, They say that there's about a three-month period prior to getting pregnant that you have the most impact.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So even if you want to start now, it's for women and men. For sperm and for eggs, as they're actually forming and getting to be released, you have about three months prior.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
that you can really lean into um nutrition exercise sleep sleep is so incredibly important our body is either going to prioritize fertility or it's going to prioritize survival and if you are in this state of constant stress with you're not getting high quality sleep you are maybe doing way too much uh hormetic too many hormetic stressors then we won't prioritize getting pregnant so
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Really important. And I can talk about how I actually optimize my cycle with my biohacking and my nutrition and my exercise to hopefully optimize fertility outcomes. But that's some of the testing. Also, I think AMH, so anti-malarian hormone. If you're a woman and you're listening to this, I think you should know what your AMH is as soon as practically possible.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Because although you can't actually test fertility until you try to conceive, you can know your ovarian reserves. So an AMH test will tell you essentially how many eggs that you have left. And you can be in your 20s and have a really low AMH. You could be in your 40s and have a high AMH. I mean, it's really super bio-individual.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But if you don't know that number, I think it's one of the most important ones. Because if you do have a really low AMH right now, it might be a flag that you...
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
either might consider trying a little bit earlier than you had planned or something like I'm calling it, um, fertility preservation, something, you know, like egg raising, but you should at least know where you're at because you don't this, if you want a family, I don't think it's something that you want to just kind of fly blind on.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if we go all the way back, so I like to preface it that I did not grow up healthy. I grew up on a standard American diet foods that I'm like, mom, why a pop tart and a toaster strudel? This is not edible. You know, you were telling your mom that. Well, not then, but now I think back and I'm like, mom, no, I wish I was, but I did not. So I didn't grow up super healthy.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. So that's also why getting some of these labs, because the best way to achieve optimal health or optimal fertility is your own data. Right. So I'm excited to be putting out all my data and sharing the protocols I'm doing. But also, as you know, I mean, you're like the master of genetics. We have different genetics. We could be detoxing differently. There's so many different factors.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So best way to do it is get your own data and then optimize off that. But from a nutrition standpoint, I think we've made it way too complicated. I mean, you know, this insane internet battle. It's just focus on single ingredient foods. My diet's primarily Mediterranean. I do eat meat.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I actually eat a little bit more red meat during the bleed phase of my cycle because we know that we're losing blood and losing iron. But Single ingredient foods, avocados, those healthy fats are so important. We know that even mothers, while being pregnant, if they eat more choline, the baby's brains develop better. So things like eggs are really great. I love that you're saying that too.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
cruciferous vegetables, a lot of high fiber, especially because you want to be detoxing, which is really important, but it's nothing too complicated. It's just single ingredient for me. A lot of like wild caught salmon loaded with those omegas. I do an omega test as well. I always try to keep my omega index over eight.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
There's quite a bit of literature on extending the lifespan and even reduction in cardiovascular events. So really focusing on omegas, but you don't have to keep it too complicated. Just Completely eliminating all ultra processed foods for sure. And processed foods, you know, if you can to the best of your ability.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I mean, a lot is. A lot is.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
You don't have to keep it too complicated. It's not just one thing. It's not saying that you're not working out or you're not eating healthy. It could be in your environment as well.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. There's a great resource that I love. It's called the Environmental Working Group.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, they're great. And they have something called the Skin Deep Database. So what you can do is you can literally just type in your product or brand and you can see the toxicity. It'll start to teach you what to look for. Really?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, Skin Deep Database. It's great. That's how I started. I mean, I was just running every single product through there. And I was just seeing time. I was like, garbage, garbage, garbage. Have to throw all this stuff away. And I had no idea before that. So I think that's a great resource just to start slow.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Um, I started studying nutrition in college and just started to make little changes. You know, that was kind of the first taste that I got of feeling better through a practice of that nature. But I got really deep into it about five and a half years ago. So I started to prepare actually to open this clinic and I was ordering all the labs. I'm like, what are we going to offer here?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I don't want this to be overwhelming because, you know, when you go to buy new makeup, you can get a better, you know, more clean version of makeup. You can do it slow. So it doesn't feel like you have to change everything overnight. I mean, I've been in this industry for a while. So now I'm focusing on like, do my clothes have microplastics in them? And you know, the whole nine yards.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But just starting slower and just starting to swap out some of these products. I mean, fragrance is the worst offender.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
They can put anything in fragrance under a trademark. And then think about where you're spraying it. You're spraying it on your thyroid. You're spraying it on your lymph nodes. I mean, day in and day out, sometimes multiple times a day.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Absolutely. So that's one of the first things that I would probably kick to the curb is fragrance, traditional or conventional fragrance, and swap it out for something like an essential oil. There's also some really good brands coming about that can help women as well.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
No, they really are. I mean, especially if you look at, you know, a lot of women love like these luxury makeup products, right? The clean versions are actually cheaper than those products. But definitely there are, I think, available options for really almost anybody.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So I found, you know, Vibrant and Genova and all these, you know, unique lab companies. And I started ordering all these tests and I was getting the results back. And I was like, my doctor has never recommended a gut test. They've never looked at how many toxins I have in my body. They've never looked at my nutrient status. Like I've never seen a lab panel this in depth. Right.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Thank you.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So my mind was just open. I'm very type A. I've been an entrepreneur my whole life. So I've always been building something. And I always wanted to feel my best and perform my best. So when I started getting this data back, I was like, this is incredible.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, I did it all myself first. And I was just there were so many like red flags. I'm like, oh, I didn't know that that happened. My doctor never checked that. He never looked at that. My doctor said everything was great. And, you know, I was in good health, but there was a ton of room for improvement.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, and it's very significant in women because sarcopenia, osteoporosis. So I do a lot of my strength training days, do a lot of compound lifting, so really loading the bones. And then I measure all this stuff at home too, by the way. So I have a really smart scale where I look at my bone density and my body composition, my fat mass, my muscle mass.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
A little bit of like, you know, like bloating or like, you know, some hormonal acne, things of that nature, but nothing too crazy. But I wanted to be elite. Like I wanted to, I knew, Gary, that if I wanted to go from where I came to the life that I have now, it was going to take an incredible level of focus, energy, stamina. I'm like, I have to upgrade my biology and this is the way to do it.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I just did a PR, by the way, on the grip strength. I'm at 100 pounds. Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. And there's a direct relationship between, you know, grip strength and longevity. It's a proxy for overall strength. So as women, you know, it's not really talked about for us to measure these things, but I think looking at your lung health through like a spirometer, Your grip strength, knowing what your body composition is, how much muscle do you have?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
How much fat do you have? What's your bone density like? Super, super important. So I'll go to the gym and hit one of those metrics that I'm working on. And then I come home. I usually do my biometrics, all the things I just mentioned. On a weekly basis, I do the lung health, look at my sleep. I do blood pressure. I do grip strength. I do body composition, all that stuff at home.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I have all this data now. I can upgrade all these areas of my life.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And then I will do PEMF and a little bit of like reading, prayer, meditation, something to just set my mind, as I say, before the day sets it for me. So before, you know, you get emails and calls and things happen, I like to really try to put myself into a more relaxed state.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Um, and then I will usually have breakfast. So I usually like to eat pretty close to when I work out, always aiming for high protein. So I try to get about 30 grams plus a protein per meal. So I get about a hundred grams of protein a day. I weigh about one 22. So, um, that's super important for me. And then I put a lot of my biohacking stuff throughout the day as well.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
That was the first step. And then I started to get on the phone with, you know, owning a clinic. It's like, what therapies are we going to offer here? And I started doing a ton of research, just got obsessed with reading clinical studies and medical research and found some of the things that you actually have. So I found like the ozone sauna or a hocket. and ozone therapy.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So I do like a nano V, which helps reduce oxidative stress. And then I do PMF like at my desk.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Nanavi, yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, it's a German device with the nasal cannula.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So it's supposed to reduce oxidative stress and improve protein folding. So we know oxidative stress is a root cause of many different diseases.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
No, it's actually creating a frequency and you're inhaling it.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I did a test called a Mead test, and it actually measures essentially the voltage of your body. And we know that I kind of think about it like all these hits of like poor food and, you know, lack of exercise, lack of movement is like draining our voltage, like our cellular voltage, right?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So we can do things like grounding, which is free. It just takes a lot longer. So I have the PMF device at home, but I love doing that as well. Actually, two things that I didn't mention in the beginning, though, I have a very extensive oral health routine because we know that the oral microbiome and overall health is directly connected.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
We've known about the link to like cardiovascular disease for a very long time. But now it's becoming more and more prevalent. I see a biological dentist, which is like the functional medicine of dentistry. So I do, you know, ozone oil pulling, of course, like flossing, a really great, you know, brush in the morning, tongue scraping. And then that's obviously the first thing that I do.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And I found hyperbaric oxygen therapy and I started learning about NAD. I was doing peptides like way before they were cool as I'm sure you were. I had a glucose monitor like back when you had to like actually get a prescription that you needed one and it messed up your whole health.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Oh, gosh. It's wild that it's even legal.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Actually, my friend owns a company. It's Simply O3. They make a lot of ozone generators too.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Right in there. Yeah. So they make an ozonated oil pulling solution. They do? Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, before they were like direct to consumer. And so I started trying this stuff out on myself. So I tried ozone therapy and hyperbaric, and I would retest and retest and retest. And around the same time, you know, I started assembling a medical team. So we needed providers in the clinic.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Yeah. And it's in an oil and it's already ozonated and it's a nice like glass bottle, no microplastics. And I just swished around for about 20 minutes.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It is. I mean, you could always do less, right? Like I'll do like stretching and other things and just pass some time, you know, start, start my protein coffee. So I left out. Yeah. First of all, oral health routine. I think it's super important. I also do oral microbiome testing or oral biome testing. So it tells you levels of bad bacteria, good bacteria, just like a gut test.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But we want to make sure that that's optimal too, ideally.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
We are biologically and physiologically different than men. There's so many different cycles of a woman's life. Premenopause, but then there's perimenopause. When you hit menopause, your risk for all causes of mortality increases substantially. So if we can delay the onset of menopause, then that could be massive for female longevity.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, quite a bit of it. I mean, I travel with a few things for sure. Um, but also, you know, like today, well, I do want to mention for women, one thing that's important. So again, a big learning was I no longer train fasted. I think that women do better with a totally agree with protein. So I do a protein coffee.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But I'm like, well, if we get these results back, I think we both know most doctors aren't trained on necessarily these really unique labs. So I did tons of interviews, found some great providers, and then we started looking at my data. And using some of these therapies, we do methylene blue IVs and curcumin IVs.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So a little bit about a half cup of coffee, um, was a little bit of, for me, raw milk again, you know,
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
be advised i don't know what the quality is of raw milk everywhere but and then i do a little bit of colostrum and a little bit of creatine five grams of creatine we got erwan so you love yeah we got erwan so yeah we're fine yeah when you buy it off the shelf at a regular grocery store i feel pretty good about that so yeah um so that's what i do before training but i think that's an important takeaway for women is that we do seem to do better uh training fed
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
not not at this point um you know we had the first ones in ohio um so now i live in la but we are going to open one uh later this year in la oh great but basically i had to buy all the things at the clinic and then put them in my house because i miss them all so much so you've been loving this research project right oh love the best ever so um but yeah so i'm on the same bandwagon so so um
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
One of the biggest things that I'm so interested in right now is ovarian age. So again, I've spoken to so many different experts. We don't know why the ovaries are aging at double the speed of every other organ. So I'm just using first principle thinking here. And there's a few things that I've done.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So I did start taking rapamycin because some of the preliminary studies, they haven't yet gone through peer review, but they can potentially, this can potentially delay ovarian aging by about five years. Because if you think about a woman, so women live longer than men, about four to six years on average than men.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I've done essentially olive oil extract IVs, olefinelia, all this really kind of like cutting edge stuff that was not as popular back then. And I started to feel unbelievable. And I was seeing changes in my labs day, not day after day, but every single time I would test, they would start to get better. And I was just hooked.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But when you hit menopause, your risk for all causes of mortality increases substantially. So if we can delay the onset of menopause and keep the ovaries healthy and functioning and the hormones where they're at, then that could be massive for female longevity, right? Mm-hmm. So some of the things that I'm doing that I think are interesting are low-level laser therapy.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
There's been some interesting studies on fertility. Actually, there was a study out of Japan with infertile women, and they did low-level laser therapy. So it's slightly different than red light. It is red, but it can— It's transdermal, right? It's just— Yeah, they actually did the proximal technique.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So they were just putting a low level laser on the neck and it was actually reducing the inflammation in the ovary so much that I think about 20 to 25 participants got pregnant. And these were all people with severe infertility. So please like add that potentially to the stack of things in my stack of things I'm doing for fertility optimization. Wow. and ovarian health in general.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So I have a little low laser there. You do it at home. Yeah, I do it at home that I do right on the ovaries. And then I also do it on my neck as well, considering that's how the studies were done. So I think that's super interesting. But if we think about the inflammatory cascade or reasons that the ovaries could be aging so fast, so it could be the inflammatory process.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So we have this entire cascade of inflammation happening as the uterine lining builds and then sheds every single month, right? So what I'm doing is doing even more red light therapy during that time on the ovaries, on the uterus, and I'm doing hyperbaric oxygen strategically during that time as well.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So I've already done my loading doses of hyperbaric for the year, and there's also some interesting— I did about 40. And so I did one hour, five sessions per week for 40 sessions at 2.0 for my body protocol. And then I did that same, you know, 40 sessions, five sessions per week at one hour at 1.5 for my brain protocol. So I've had those completed, but there's also interesting data on hyperbaric.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It is. I mean, but for me, it's like the most exciting thing.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
My first date was in a hyperbaric chamber.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Okay.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Okay. That's a serious change. But it's nice because you can actually swap it out and you can take it lower. So that's great. So you can put in a 1.5 and then take it down.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, so now I'm really trying to align it with this inflammatory cascade of my cycle. Because, again, we don't have the data, but that's why I'm doing all the same amount of testing. I want to see, you know, how long I can extend my ovarian health. So I'm doing hyperbaric strategically alongside my cycle to potentially reduce that inflammatory cascade.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. I mean, I was doing all the basic things at that point. I mean, I did a lot of sports and stuff in high school and gymnastics and things like that. So I was active, but I still wasn't feeling as good as I thought and knew I could.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
The other thing that's important to know is that actually the highest density, one of the highest densities after the heart, I believe, is the mitochondria and the oocytes, which will develop into eggs. And so I am always thinking, okay, number one, you need to improve your mitochondrial health overall, right? Training, absolutely incredible for that.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Increases the amount of mitochondria, can help to kind of kill off the... The bad mitochondria. So HIIT training is a big part of that. But I also love things like pomegranate and, you know, urolithin A in terms of diet that I didn't mention before. And then red light therapy, right?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Like I am doing a lot of red light therapy to try to improve those mitochondria in the oocytes because they're such a high density. So that's something to really think about as well. And with hyperbaric, there is actual research. A lot of this is still developing, right? Like I have friends that are conducting trials on AMH, which is the anti-malarian hormone or ovarian reserves and hyperbaric.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But there is data on improving sperm quality. So fertility is 50%. It's the husband 50% and the wife 50%. So it could be either or partner or both if there's issues with fertility. So all the protocols I'm going through, my husband has also done. That's amazing. and the toxins and all of the different like lab markers, you know, he does that as well.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So that we're both coming to the plate and we've both had really in-depth testing. He's looked at, you know, motility and the quality of the sperm and all of that. And it's in the highest region it can be. And then I've done all of the, you know, my AMH is about 5.8, which is super high for my age, but you know, I've also taken all the other markers.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So it's nothing like PCOS because sometimes people with PCOS can have really high AMH. So it's,
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
We don't know yet, right? But it could be. But then too high, too. So women that have PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome, they will all have a really, really high AMH, usually like 10 plus. But that's because there are so many different cysts actually developing.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So if you have that, you also, of course, want to work with a doctor to take care of or manage PCOS, which is mostly a metabolic disorder. to reduce that because it makes getting pregnant more difficult because your period becomes really erratic.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because, I mean, women of all sizes and ages can develop PCOS. It's incredibly common at this point, but we see that its roots are really in insulin resistance. So, you know, these diets that are really high in, like, these refined sugars and carbohydrates, like you mentioned, just starting to track.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And then, of course, we add on, like, potentially lack of exercise or these endocrine disruptors, all of these things. You know, it's not just one thing. It's not saying that you're not working out or you're not eating healthy. It could be in your environment as well, going back to why environmental toxin testing could be so important.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But, I mean, we know that people reverse PCOS, so that's really exciting that you can do that. I love, for me, wearing a continuous glucose monitor is really helpful, too, just to make sure that my, in addition to blood labs of insulin and glucose, that you have an at-home, real-time experience of your blood sugar. So I love doing that.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, I try to lump my supplements into three sections. So I have my absolute basics. Those are going to be things like magnesium, fish oil, vitamin D. I mean, I keep my vitamin D level around 70. So really important for fertility, but also boosting your immune system.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Totally. So keeping those optimized. There's a lot of interesting new research coming out with NAD or NMN supplementation and fertility. So I do different varieties. I do IV therapies a couple times a year, sometimes do boosters, but you can also just do NMN supplementation. I think that's a really good one. And then I have
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Other supplements that I really like, I think that something like Medopur or urolithin A can be really helpful. I think there's some research on CoQ10 for improving egg quality. I like, it's actually a prenatal, it's called WeNatal. So it really hits a lot of these required nutrients that we need as women. So that's kind of like a one-stop shop. Thorne also has like Novarian Care. So
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
has like some my own notes at all as some of the like vitamin a the b vitamins that you need of course in the methyl forms um so they're more bioavailable for you i love that yeah that's right up my alley yeah but this is a great one it could be a good multivitamin just for women too but finding something that hits all of your basic nutritional requirements i do the nutri eval so i know exactly what i'm deficient in and then i supplement for that
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It is both, intra- and ultra-cellular.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I feel like everyone should be on methylated B vitamins.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Just like as a baseline.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, absolutely. So I have my like those are my foundational basics. Then I have my protocol basics. So whatever my updated protocol is. So let's say right now I'm working on detox. Right. So I have all this additional glutathione, sulforaphane, vitamin C, some quercetin, binders. That's like what I'm working on right now based on my labs and my longevity stack.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
That looks like, I'm really interested in spermidine right now. I think that's an interesting molecule. So that's my longevity stack. The NAD or NMN is super helpful for me. I also like to put a little bit of methylene blue. That's kind of more on the next side, but I like to combine that with the red light therapy.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. I've done IVs of it too. I did that this morning. Super fun. Yeah. Super fun. Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But it's such a cute little IV. It's like a little baby one.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, my website is kaylabarnes.com, K-A-Y-L-A-B-A-R-N-E-S.com. I also post a lot of content on YouTube newly. I think I'm the only woman posting longevity content actually on YouTube. Oh, awesome. I think so, unless there's more, but I think so. And then Instagram at kaylabarnes, and my clinic is live-wellness.com.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Wake up every day, bursting with energy, limitless drive, and being able to show up for those that you love.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It truly is. I mean, I've heard that having abs is like more rare than being a millionaire these days.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
The best way to achieve optimal health or optimal fertility is...
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It's not, yeah. But there's obviously exposure to so much water.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've seen so many of, you know, the clients that live come in with mold. And as you know, it can really like wreck your life. And it is something that often goes undiagnosed for so, so long, if ever found. So I have been doing at least quarterly, sometimes even more frequently, something called the total toxic burden.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And the reason why real quick that I think that's vibrant, right? Yeah. It's amazing. Important for women because we know that women actually experience a higher toxic exposure than men in the form of like personal care products and fragrances and cleaning products. So it's estimated that women leave the home with about 200 toxins versus about 100. So it's about double than men.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So I love this test because this is also before we dive into the mold. We're going to look at things like paraben and phthalates and all of these endocrine disruptors that we're exposed to, right, that many times we don't even know. They're snuck into fragrances and your body lotions and all these different products that we're applying on a daily basis. So I love it for women for that reason.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And we also know that, you know, women are a bit slower detoxers because we prioritize fat storage, right? Which is where a lot of these go. Right. So if we are exposed to more toxins and detox them a little bit more poorly than men do, then I love this test for that reason. But I do this test all the time. So I have a pretty good baseline. And during the fires, I did it mid-fire.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So it was on the fire started on January 7th. I did the test on the 18th. And the results that came back were something like I've never seen before. My medical team didn't even believe that these were my results.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Everything in the red. I went from having three toxins in the medium range to having over 20 in the high range. And you're familiar with this test.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Incredibly alarming, right?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Exactly. So if you're in L.A. right now and you're looking at the AQI, and this is a measurement essentially of like particle size and the particles could be anything. They could be skin cells. They could be from trees, ash, whatever.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
But it's clearly very concerning that these particles are obviously based on my results are made up of things like heavy metals and massive amounts of environmental toxins I've never had. My BPA went from the lowest range it could be to through the roof. So these are like plastics and nothing about my lifestyle has changed. No, I avoid plastics and clothing.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I avoid plastics every which way you can do, you know, at the airport, I won't even take like a paper cup. So I avoid that at all costs, but all of these molds and mycotoxins came back in my labs, tons of environmental toxins and, um, you know, tons of heavy metals too, that I had never had before. So yeah. If you are living in L.A., I don't want it to be like a fear tactic.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I mean, personally, my husband and I are going to move because I don't think this is going to be an isolated incident. All of that debris is going to be cleaned up over the next two years, and we know it's just going to be kicked back into there.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
If you look into it, at 9-11, there were only a few buildings in comparison to how many were just burned in L.A., and there are about 130,000 people enrolled in a program from the government because of all their health issues. So I just saw something the other day that they weren't going to test in LA. They weren't going to look at the toxins. Of course they're not, right?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Because then everybody would leave. I mean, these are toxins that are linked to cancer and infertility and issues with pregnancy. So it's so important that-
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
you either i guess live inside because you can i have lots of high quality air filtration but for me i mean i'm just going to get out but when it comes to the mold so i've done quite a bit luckily i have quite a few tools at my disposal i mean i'm a huge fan of sauna in general so i do sauna about four times a week now i'm doing it every single day because we need to get these toxins out i usually take a binder beforehand which i really love do you have actually like a
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I have two. I have two saunas. So I have a infrared sauna with a built-in red light therapy. I've been loving that because it kind of stacks two of the therapies I want to do together.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, I love any time.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, exactly. So I have that and then I have a finished sauna outside. So I kind of go between the two. But usually, you know, 20 minutes, 176 to 212, that's what all the studies are based on for all the longevity and cardiovascular benefits. But massively leaning into sauna. I did something called therapeutic plasma exchange.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Right after I got.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I did, yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
So, I mean, I actually have another test that's pending, so I will have new total toxic burn results that I'll release. Obviously, the expectation is that they've been reduced significantly, but for anyone that's listening that doesn't know what plasma exchange is, they actually take all of your plasma out of your body. I think I got about 2.5 liters, and they replace it with albumin.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It's so wild.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
It is really heavy. Wow. I was surprised. So I did that. I'm going to do probably two to three more sessions of that because for me, you know, it was disappointing, but like you mentioned, we always have a journey, right? So my husband and I wanted to try to conceive. I just made like an hour, an hour long video and all the things for fertility optimization.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah. Yeah. And so it's a bummer that this had to happen. It's like, you know, you're doing everything. I, I do so much. Everybody jokes. I like live in a bubble and people think I'm so boring life because they go to bed at eight 30 and I don't drink alcohol and I don't go to nightclubs, but I am doing all these things.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And then, you know, just an environmental disaster in LA, it can just wipe that out.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
I mean, I'm very grateful that I'm equipped to deal with it. So doing the plasmapheresis, the TPE, also doing EBU. So, you know, very high dose ozone therapy helps to filter the blood as well. And I actually am taking something. It's a prescription called Listeramine. I could be pronouncing that slightly wrong, but it's really interesting research.