6 hours Ago By Gwyneth Rees
If you are an adult living in New Zealand today, chances are you will live to be about 82 ( the average life expectancy is 80.6 for men and 83.8 for women ), while children born today may live to about 90.
But at least one longevity expert based in Los Angeles plans to live to 150 — a potential six-decade increase — 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 Optimisation podcast. She has designed a longevity protocol specifically for women.
It involves going to bed at 8.30pm each day 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 subscribes 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.”.
