5: The Biggest Lie In Women's Biohacking That Is Actually Harming Your Hormonal Health with Dr. Amy Killen
5/26/202659 min
Women have been told that the more disciplined they are with their wellness, the better they will feel. So they fast longer, do more cardio, restrict more, and push harder. And somehow they still feel exhausted, hormonally off, and like their body is working against them. What nobody told them is that almost every protocol they are following was designed for male biology and tested on male bodies.
In this episode of The Ovary Club, I sit down with Dr. Amy Killen for a conversation that is going to make a lot of women feel both vindicated and relieved. Because what she shares about which biohacks are actively harming female hormones, what the longevity data actually says women need to be doing, and how sexual health connects directly to how long and how well you age is the kind of information that changes the decisions you make every single day.
Dr. Amy Killen is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who left emergency medicine to specialize full-time in longevity, regenerative medicine, hormone optimization, peptide therapy, and sexual health. She is the co-founder of Humanaut Health, a longevity medicine franchise. With her clinical background spanning emergency medicine and her deep specialization in how hormones, sexual health, and longevity intersect specifically in women, she is exactly the person this conversation needed.
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Dr. Amy Killen dropped specific numbers throughout our conversation that prove what I've been saying for years: women get MORE longevity benefit from LESS effort than men. Our biology is efficient. Stop overcomplicating it. Here's every number from the episode in one checklist.
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What's Discussed:
(3:21) Why having a 28-day infradian rhythm on top of a circadian clock changes everything about how a woman's body responds to biohacking interventions.
(4:58) Which mainstream biohacks have strong evidence for men but actively disrupt female hormones.
(6:31) Why fasting is overrated for female hormone health and why skipping breakfast is quietly raising cardiovascular risk in women.
(11:00) Why one day of resistance training per week has the same longevity effect for women as three days does for men.
(24:26) When women should actually start thinking about hormone optimization and why most are waiting too long.
(45:10) Why the quality of a woman's sex life is one of the most underrated markers of how well she is aging.
(57:51) The biggest lie in women's biohacking and what to do instead.
(55:57) The one metric women should be tracking to know if their longevity strategy is actually working.
Listen to this episode of The Ovary Club and walk away finally understanding why your body has been responding the way it has, with the exact science and the specific tools to stop following protocols that were never built for you and start making decisions that actually work with your female biology.
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First 90 secondsAlisa Vitti· Host0:02
Welcome to The Ovary Club with me, Alisa Vitti, your source for women's hormone truth from someone who's been pioneering this conversation for over 25 years. If you wanna join the club, here's what you need to know. Your ovaries are a key driver of how you feel, function, and age. They track everything, and it's time you start working with them. And no, your body doesn't operate like a man's, so your health strategy shouldn't either. That's why I'm here to help you deal with hormone symptoms naturally, slow hormonal aging, and biohack like a woman. Inside The Ovary Club, we do things differently. This is gender-specific science designed to help optimize your health through every decade of life. So if you're ready to join the club, consider this your invitation to start living in sync with your hormones. Welcome back to The Ovary Club. I'm your host, Alisa Vitti, and I'm so glad that you're here today. I wanna start with something that I think a lot of you have felt, but maybe haven't had the language for. You've been doing the work, you've been following the protocols, the fasting windows, the cold plunges, the zone two cardio, the calorie restriction, and instead of feeling better, you're feeling exhausted, more hormonally chaotic, and you feel like your body is somehow working against you despite everything that you are doing for it. The truth is that the biohacking culture, the fasting protocols, all the things, was built on research done