When Perfect Wellness Still Leads to Burnout: Intuitive Longevity, Hormones & Nature Healing with HigherDOSE's Lauren Berlingeri

Biohacking with Brittany

Lauren Berlingeri, co-CEO and co-founder of HigherDOSE (code: BRITTANY15), opens up about the hidden cost of doing "everything right" – running a fast-growing wellness brand, raising twins, optimizing fertility – and still ending up pre-diabetic and deeply burnt out.

We explore what happens when you stop chasing perfect biohacking metrics and build intuitive longevity rooted in nature, nervous system care, and the season of womanhood you are in, from postpartum vaginal rejuvenation tech to trading Botox for facial acupuncture and massage.

This episode matters for women's long-term vitality because Lauren shows, in real time, how choosing environment, community, and self-compassion over hustle lets your health strategy evolve with your hormones, body, and life.

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WE TALK ABOUT:

07:05 - Why Lauren left New York and now spends half the year in South Africa

10:40 - Why living close to mountains, light, and barefoot kids changed Lauren's health more than any hack

19:00 - How trying to "fix" family and friends backfired – and what shifted when Lauren just modeled the behavior

25:20 - Honoring phases: Fertility years, postpartum, perimenopause, and why your health plan must change

28:30 - Micro self-care rituals that keep Lauren grounded as a mom and CEO

34:05 - Designing HigherDOSE products as a woman and mother who needs hands-free, realistic rituals

39:05 - Why women's sexual health and menopause remain huge blind spots in medicine and funding

41:50 - Moving from hardcore biohacking to nature, intuition, and tools that actually fit women's biology

44:00 - "Intuitive longevity" vs biohacking: The "why" matters more than the hack

46:30 - Retiring beauty as your main currency and finding freedom from aesthetic obsession

49:20 - Why this is a powerful moment for women's longevity and why nature is still the ultimate medicine

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