#450 Optimize Fertility and Health in a Modern Toxic World - Kayla Barnes-Lentz

Kayla Barnes-Lentz (0:00)

Having a six-pack is more rare than being a millionaire these days. Having good health is very rare, and if that's important to you, and you want your partner to have that as well, I don't think, I think it should be accepted. So the principles of longevity protocols are all the same, but it's like in the details and the nuance, how you implement those.

Siim Land (0:18)

Kayla Barnes-Lentz is an entrepreneur and a leading voice in female longevity. She shares her journey on optimizing her health as a woman, fertility, reducing the burden of toxins in the modern world, and using different biohacking technologies. She also has a longevity clinic in Ohio. One of the very interesting things that people might know about you is that you did like a health interview for your husband when you started dating with him. So, yeah, can you maybe explain a little bit, how did that go?

Kayla Barnes-Lentz (0:48)

Yeah, I mean, it's become a bit controversial, I will say. Like, I've read some of the comments and people say, oh my gosh, this is the most unromantic thing I've ever heard of in my life. But it wasn't really like that. So, I mean, this has been my world for the last six years. I have a clinic. So, for me, and you and I chatted about this on my podcast, it's so important to find a partner that aligns with you, right? Like, it'd be very difficult to be pursuing longevity and health optimization if I had a husband that wanted to like sit on the couch and drink like beer and eat chips at the end of the night.

It would not be a match.

Siim Land (1:27)

Yeah, exactly. It wouldn't work out anyway. So, it's better to come out clear with what other values and priorities are with health.

Kayla Barnes-Lentz (1:35)

A hundred percent, right? And I think it's more acceptable in other areas, right? Like, if a man works a lot, he's going to continue working a lot and show that to his future spouse, right? Like, hey, this is what you're getting yourself into. That's kind of how I thought of it. It was one of the most important things to me. There were other things, like faith is super important and morals, but health is huge. So, yeah, I asked him. First, I asked him if he had labs of his own, because that would kind of indicate whether or not he even cared about his health. Well, first, they did a little Instagram scroll, and I checked out what's going on here. There's working out pictures. I'm like, that's good. He's getting grass-fed, grass-finished meat to air-worn. I'm like, okay, that's good. So I figured he'd be open to it, and he was. So he immediately sent me his full physical. Things looked pretty good, but then I was like, hey, can I send you a bunch of other labs? You're down to take them. So I sent him so much. I sent him a genetics test, a gut test, total toxic burden test, and he took them immediately, sent them back, and we reviewed them together. They were pretty good. I mean, there were some areas that we were able to optimize. That was really fun, actually, because I think for him, once I helped him get his like, so when we first met, he was on a little bit of testosterone, like tiny, the smallest dosage. But because we want to have babies, I was like, hey, do you mind to get off of that?

And he's like, yeah, no problem. And so we took his testosterone from about like 600 or so up to like 916 naturally. So he was like all in after that. He's like, oh, definitely, let's do it. So yeah, the lab thing has been controversial, but I think this should be like the future, to be honest with you. Good health, I've read that having a six pack is like more rare than being a millionaire these days. So having good health is very rare.

And if that's important to you, and you want your partner to have that as well, I don't think, I think it should be accepted, to be honest.

Siim Land (3:25)

Yeah, I think that it applies to a lot of other areas. Of course, you have people with different lifestyles also being together, but usually people with the same music get together, music taste get together, people with same health habits get together. So yeah, there should be like a filter on some dating apps. Yeah, I think there are some dating apps actually where it's around health. So you can check, I think, or at least there should be, there should be some like option on dating apps that check health, like be healthy or something like that, value health.