Why Most Longevity Advice Fails Women: Kayla Barnes Breaks the Silence

The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast with Julian Issa

Kayla Barnes is a certified brain health coach, entrepreneur, and one of the world’s leading voices in healthspan, longevity, and female performance optimization. She is the founder of a longevity medicine clinic and a vocal advocate for personalized, data-driven wellness.

In this episode, we explore why Kayla believes longevity starts with basics—not biohacking—how sleep, strength training, and mindset shape health more than any supplement, and what women really need to know when following protocols built for men.

Expect to learn:

Why sleep is the foundation of female health, mood, and metabolism

How Kayla personalized her health using advanced labs, genetics, and gut testing

Why she ditched caloric restriction—and how it wrecked her hormones

What makes strength training the real “pill” for longevity

How relationships, joy, and intention are Kayla’s secret biohacks

Why women need their own data, protocols, and voices in the longevity space

And the surprising truth about choosing happiness over immortality

Timestamps:

0:00 – What if you only did what you felt like doing?

1:26 – Kayla’s personal story and how she found longevity

3:58 – The three levels of longevity: from sleep to stem cells

7:12 – What men need to understand about women’s health

9:05 – Kayla’s top 3 tips for women’s health optimization

12:53 – Why caloric restriction backfired and what she does instead

14:46 – Personalization and where to start with testing

18:13 – Glucose monitoring, nutrient labs, and Kayla’s protocol

21:55 – Exploring rapamycin, menopause, and delaying ovarian aging

23:50 – How to build a personalized protocol without overwhelm

25:20 – Kayla’s new “why”: health, love, and future motherhood

27:34 – Biohacking vs. real human connection—finding the balance

30:05 – Cold therapy, discipline, and doing hard things

33:27 – Big breakthroughs coming in women’s health

36:59 – Would she choose happiness or immortality? Her surprising answer

Whether you're new to longevity or deep in the data, this episode will remind you: optimization isn’t about perfection—it’s about purpose.

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