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If you are an adult living in the UK today, chances are you will live to be around 80 (the average life expectancy is 79 for men and 83 for women), while children born today may live to 90. But at least one longevity expert based in Los Angeles plans to live to 150 – a potential increase of six decades – with the help of her biohack lifestyle.
Kayla Barnes-Lentz, 33, is a co-founder of LYV The Wellness Space, a “biology upgrading clinic”, and creator and host of the Longevity Optimization podcast. She has designed a longevity protocol specifically for women. It involves going to bed at 8.30pm each night to ensure maximum deep sleep, as well as getting in 15,000 daily steps, working in 90-minute blocks and finding time for infrared saunas and cool plunges. Other hacks include using oxygen treatment to reduce oxidative stress and taking 20 supplements a day.
Barnes-Lentz says she wants to live to 150 to ensure she has as many years as possible with her husband Warren Lentz, 36, who also signs up to her way of living. And she also wants to ensure her work has the biggest possible impact.
“I’m excited to have started this longevity journey so early on – and already my biological age is about a decade younger than I actually am,” she says. “I’m aiming to reach 150. There are so many technologies and advancements that are coming, especially with AI, and I think that living so healthily will mean I will be able to partake in these advancements during my lifespan.”
While she realises her routine may seem “a lot” to some people, she says she feels “blessed” to live this life. “When I think of the state of health at the moment, we are in a health crisis; our system is not built to optimise health,” she adds. “Many people feel constantly tired and don’t know what it’s like to wake up bursting with energy. It’s exciting to see small lifestyle changes that can make such a difference.
Barnes-Lentz forms part of a growing industry dedicated to longevity, anti-ageing and even the pursuit of living forever. In recent years, the field has seen major investment from billionaires such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman.
