Former party girl Davinia Taylor, has revealed the extreme lengths she has gone to achieve her ageless physique, including consuming ‘frogsecretions’.
The Lancashire-based ‘biohacking pioneer’, 47, who previously admitted that if she had ‘one more drink, she could have died’, now has a biological age of 20 – thanks to a regime of exercise, bone broth and infrared light.
Where once she was aluminary of the famous Primrose Hill set, partying through the ’90s with friends including Kate Moss, Sadie Frost, and Jude Law, Davinia has since traded in her dancing shoes for a rigorous, sometimes experimental, health regime.
She now prioritises her health over almost everything, forgoing alcohol, ultra-processed foods, and sugar, to maintain a toned size 8 physique, and tucking into an ‘ancestral diet’, of bone broth and keto coffee.
Beyond heavy exercise and a restrictive diet, Davinia has also experimented with a number of extreme health treatments, including one that saw her consuming frog secretions for a youthful complexion.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the former actress explained that she had taken part in a Kambo ritual, usually performed in the Amazon.
Far from the traditional Amazonian destination, where she said the ritual is meant to take place, Davinia found herself having it performed at ‘some woman’s flat in Tottenham’.
It was an experience she is unlikely to forget in a hurry. After consuming frog secretions, she endured intense physical side effects and had her host ‘chanting’ at her.
Wellness enthusiast, Davinia Taylor, (pictured) has revealed the extreme lengths she has gone to achieve her ageless physique, including consuming ‘frog secretions’
‘You vomit, your face swells, it’s like an exorcism – my skin was amazing the next day, but never again,’ she recalled.
Another venture saw her sending a stool sample to a lab in Iowa for testing. But a mishap with the post office resulted in her having to bring the sample home only to have to store it in the freezer over the weekend.
Experimental treatments are the icing on the cake rather than the bedrock of her routine, though.
The mother-of-four, who now runs her own natural food supplements brand,WillPowders,maintains a highly regimented food and exercise regime in her day to day life.
She embraces a ketogenic diet – a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and moderate-protein eating plan that forces the body to burn fat for fuel – a metabolic state called ketosis, and exercises several times a day.
In a recent with The Standard,Davinia, whose mantra for life is ‘sobriety, simplicity and science’, shared her daily routine, which first begins with her waking up at half past six – which she crucially does without the help of alarms since they can‘spike cortisol’ levels.
After blasting her spectrum light panel to ease her into the day, she will sip on a keto coffee, made with collagen and MCT, which she believes helps to focus her ‘ADHD brain’. For the uninitiated,Medium-Chain Triglyceride (MCT) oil supplies extra ketones, which reportedly gives energy to charge the fat burning process.
Once caffeine-loaded, Davinia will do a quick skincare routine and complete the school run before going on a seven-kilometre run while blasting house music to help raise her endorphins.
The Lancashire-based ‘biohacking pioneer’, 47, who previously admitted that if she had ‘one more drink, she could have died’, now has a biological age of 20 – thanks to a regime of exercise, bone broth and infrared light(seen on This Morning in 2023)
Rather than breakfast, she will have a late morning snack ofeggs or broth-based soup.’Dinner is ancestral: meat, fish, veg, and bone broth protein powder. It’s the one thing I couldn’t live without,’ she said.
Speaking to The Telegraph, she recalled how she entered the biohacking universe after hitting ‘rock bottom’ aged 35.
Although she had already quit drinking at this stage, she still sought refuge in food and combined with the effects of taking ‘a ton of antidepressants’, she was left ‘overweight’.
In addition to her runs, Davinia completes a strength training routine three to four times a week.
After an intense work out, she will relax and reset by enjoying an infrared sauna, ice bath, or cold shower.
To track her health throughout the process, she dons an Oura ring, a device also loved by Gwyneth Paltrow that reveals health metrics and insights, and Whoop, a similar health monitor worn around the wrist.
She told the outlet how everyone in her office will be given an Oura ring or Whoop. And, as expected, the WillPowers office is filled with similarly health-oriented contraptions.
‘There’s a full gym, filtered water, organic food, the PBM bed, hydrogen therapy, infrared sauna, ice bath, walking desks, Oura/Whoop for everyone, ketones and nootropics everywhere. It’s the healthiest workplace in the UK — and yes, we still have biscuits for guests.’
The former actress, who ditched the party scene to live a healthy lifestyle, has confessed that she kept drinking through her 20s until she hit rock bottom (pictured in 2000)
Artificial Intelligence is also massively beneficial for Davinia, who uses it to research and write about many facets of her life, including recipe ideas.
Despite boasting of the benefits of AI, she maintains strict boundaries with her phone, and isn’t afraid of banning her children from theirs if they’re overusing.
Elsewhere, Davinia also boasts of the benefits of taking magnesium supplements, eating sourdough, blue blockers, and breathwork meditation to aid sleep and stress.
Alcohol is a strict no-no for Davinia, especially when it comes to wanting a deep sleep.
It comes after the former actress confessed that she kept drinking through her 20s until she hit rock bottom.
Now, Davinia, who has been sober for 17 years after battling alcohol addiction, has become a fitness guru and credits ‘biohacking’ for her ‘biological age of 20’.
Speaking recently to The Royale, she revealed that she feels better now than she did in her 20s, explaining: ‘I was drinking, I was knackered, had a hangover. I think everyone was in their 20s.’
On what sparked her turning point to sobriety, she mused: ‘I suppose having my first son. Having a hangover with a kid isn’t fun. It’s really hard work and it requires a lot of energy, so that’s what I didn’t have.’
‘And alcohol is a massive neurotoxin,’ she continued. ‘It makes you feel depressed. Who wants that? So, obviously, with hindsight. 20 years on, you think, bloody hell.
‘If you put the right ingredients into it, it’ll do that automatically. Just give it nature’s ingredients, what we’ve all evolved on. Decent meat, decent sunlight, great sleep, connection with your family, and it kind of does it itself.’
