5: The Biggest Lie In Women's Biohacking That Is Actually Harming Your Hormonal Health with Dr. Amy Killen

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. Want to go deeper with this episode? Ovary Club Insiders get a special download: The Female Longevity Checklist: Your Minimum Effective Dose of Everything That Actually Matters. 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. Become an Insider here: alisavitti.kit.com/products/the-ovary-club  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. Thank you to our Sponsors:  FLO Living (supplement): Get 25% off with the code podcast25 at floliving.com  Ovary Club Insiders: Ovary Club: Join us at alisavitti.kit.com/products/the-ovary-club  MyFLO App: Download the MyFLO App and use the code FREEMONTH    Learn more about Alisa Vitti:  Instagram: @alisa.vitti  Website: https://alisavitti.kit.com/    Learn more about Dr. Amy Killen:  Instagram: @DrAmyBKillen  Website: dramykillen.com/  YouTube: @Dr.AmyBKillen