Living to 150 years old might sound like a pipe dream. If you’re lucky, you’ll likely live to around 80 in the UK, with average life expectancy currently sat at 83 for women and 79 for men.
Yet, one ambitious woman is now on a mission to defy these odds. Kayla Barnes-Lentz, a 34-year-old from Los Angeles, claims she’s already slashed her biological age by 10 years, thanks to sheer discipline and various ‘life extension’ measures.
“Initially, my friends and family thought it was a little intense,” she told the Mirror in an exclusive interview. “I remember the first time that my mom saw me with a CGM – blood glucose monitor.
“She was concerned and confused. I also hadn’t eaten family meals in years because of my protocols, and I don’t go out to eat with friends – instead I have them over for a healthy dinner – and I don’t go out drinking or stay out late…
“The first markers that I am concerned with are my blood labs and gut and toxin testing because by optimising those labs, I stave off chronic disease in the future, extending my health span, but I have also taken bio age tests in the past and it shows about a 10-year reduction in [biological] age.
“…But at this point, it has been normalised, and my family and friends respect that I am being true to myself and they have gotten healthier as well.” On a typical day, Kayla wakes up ‘naturally’ at around 5:30am before undergoing an impressive number of health examinations and beauty treatments which she believes will bolster her longevity.
While rigorous teeth-cleaning, cold showers and an early workout are perhaps among her more common habits, she also has an in-house medical clinic, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and a team on-hand to help with any concerns.
“[To live to 150] I first start with data or diagnostics,” she said. “This gives me and my medical team a deep understanding of my current health status so that we can continually update my protocols to ensure a long health span and lifespan.
“I test hundreds of biomarkers every quarter to look at every organ system, nutrient status levels, gut health, NAD+ levels, and levels of any toxin exposures, such as microplastics and other environmental toxins… In our home, we have built a medical clinic [… and it includes] at-home diagnostics like blood pressure, spirometry, a comprehensive smart scale to track body composition, bone density, and heart health on a daily basis.
“I also do a variety of medical treatments such as EBOO, plasmaforesis, and peptide therapy, I just started a longevity prescription, Rapamycin, I have done stem cells, exosomes, Vsels, lots of IV therapy, ozone saunas, and more.
“If we paid full price for everything that we did, which I own the clinic, so we don’t, this year we would have spent six figures on health protocols and devices[…] I want to point out though that you can improve your health at any budget.”
Beyond treatments, Kayla does 250 minutes of moderate-intensity cardio and 80 minutes of high-intensity cardio per week. She also eats a primarily Mediterranean, organic diet with lots of plants and ‘high-quality’ proteins like wild-caught salmon or other fish.
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Sometimes, she’ll indulge in grass-fed red meat but, no matter what, she does not eat out or drink alcohol and always stops eating by sunset. She usually heads to bed for 8:30pm, with her quality of sleep tracked using an Oura ring.
Born in a small Midwestern town, Kayla said her current diet is a far cry from the ‘standard American’ processed foods she ate during her childhood. Though, she acknowledged that her mum did what she could at the time, with her family once on food stamps and free lunches.
“I don’t have cheat days,” she asserted. “The way that I have trained my brain to think about food is that I only want it if it is going to benefit my body -why would I want to willingly eat or do something that is going to harm me?”
Later, she added: “My great-grandmother will be 95 next month and is still living at home and is in good health. She has not lived a healthy life per se, so I am hoping that my genes, combined with my rigorous lifestyle and my medical team’s input, can far surpass this.”
Kayla’s pursuit for a longer life is what led her to open a woman-only science community and the LYV Health Optimization Clinic, with her team now offering clients personalised health checks and treatments based on individual genetics, biomarkers and imaging. Remarkably, she also fell in love this way too, having asked her now-husband for up-to-date health examinations before their first date in a hyperbaric chamber.
“He was already a health-conscious man – he ate organic, worked out daily, did sauna, cold plunge, and more,” Kayla said. “He says I am the chief health officer of our house, so it’s my job to ensure that I develop protocols – again with our medical team – that will help him live to 150 plus because I want to live as long as my husband does.
“Being married has been the best thing that has ever happened to me – and my nervous system! We now do all of our health practices together – he is the best ever […] We got married when I was 33, and he was 36, so we need many more years together.”
