HigherDOSE Cofounders Launch ‘BioHack-Hers’ YouTube Series, A Female-Led Exploration Of Biohacking

In 2016, a lot of the world had by no means heard of infrared saunas or the myriad well being advantages they provide—however that didn’t cease Lauren Berlingeri and Katie Kaps from launching a complete enterprise dedicated to the know-how. What started as an activation at New York Metropolis’s Alchemist Kitchen and a handful of pop-ups at resorts and retailers shortly grew right into a flagship spa in Williamsburg and a everlasting location on the 11 Howard resort in SoHo. Now, simply six years after its begin, HigherDOSE has develop into a full-fledged wellness empire, full with a line of merchandise that convey the wonders of infrared sauna to clients’ personal properties.

However whilst their model flourished and helped gasoline a rising cultural curiosity on the planet of wellness, if solely at a floor stage, Berlingeri and Kaps discovered themselves annoyed by the dearth of information and data round biohacking, the wide-ranging phenomenon of altering the setting round you and inside you to optimize efficiency and longevity. “I feel that there was already a shopper development towards wellness, and the pandemic has solely heightened that by making folks conscious of simply how necessary preventative well being is to protect towards sickness,” Kaps explains. “There’s additionally been a rise in analysis round many therapies and modalities to see how efficient they’re in boosting immunity and total well being.” But, regardless of elevated shopper curiosity, the HigherDOSE founders have seen confusion persist inside the house, particularly amongst girls.

“I feel that girls are usually extra risk-averse, and we are likely to query issues earlier than we strive them, whereas males are typically extra comfy being guinea pigs,” says Berlingeri, who suspects girls’s concern over fertility and hormone stability could also be chargeable for the hesitation. She additionally believes that the time period ‘biohacking’ itself, initially coined by Dave Asprey, might function a barrier to entry for a lot of girls due to its aggressive connotations. “It’s simply not as accessible to girls, and there’s nobody actually proudly owning the house proper now who represents girls,” Berlingeri notes. “However there are some superb applied sciences and therapies to find inside this realm, and we wished to shine a lightweight on them so that folks may higher perceive biohacking and make it extra approachable.”

Since founding HigherDOSE, the founders have made some extent of studying about—and infrequently attempting—the most recent applied sciences and merchandise inside the wellness business and have felt it’s a part of their job to immerse themselves within the science and analysis behind them. So, when Berlingeri and Kaps observed the ignorance and accessibility round biohacking, they determined to make it their mission to alter that by making a YouTube collection that explores the sphere via a feminine lens.

“Every time I might speak to my associates and inform them concerning the stuff I used to be doing, they had been all the time so , and it was cool to see how folks would simply perk up,” says Kaps. “So, it simply felt like a no brainer to us to convey a digicam alongside and seize the issues we had been attempting and speaking about anyway.”

“BioHack-Hers” which premiered on Wednesday, follows the HigherDOSE founders as they study and expertise quite a lot of biohacking remedies and applied sciences, from temperature distinction remedy to vaginal O-shots. Every 5 to 10-minute episode focuses on the previous, current, and way forward for the featured therapy, highlighting the traditional knowledge and time-honored practices which were used all through time, the rising instruments and applied sciences that folks at the moment are utilizing to hack the house, and at last, the most recent improvements that can dictate the place it goes from right here.

The present will debut three new episodes each month, with every month tied to a particular theme—January seems at Psychological Well being, February will discover Intercourse and Intimacy, March will delve into Magnificence & Pores and skin, and April, Could, and June will probe Longevity, Power and Stream, respectively. “These are brief, digestible episodes, however you actually study quite a bit inside that point,” Berlingeri provides.

When it got here to deciding on the therapies and applied sciences to focus on within the collection, the founders say it was a mixture of the apparent and the acute. “I’d say over 70 % of the issues we strive within the present simply got here from already having achieved them or listening to about them inside our group,” Berlingeri explains. “However different stuff, we actually needed to dig and decide the brains of leaders within the discipline to find.”

And whereas her cofounder did loads of the normal analysis, Kaps took it upon herself to throw within the extra out-of-the-box concepts. “I feel I stated let’s strive ketamine remedy—which sarcastically, I chickened out of that one and Lauren did it—or like ozone remedy, the place you actually filter out the entire blood in your physique via pink and blue mild,” she recollects. “And now, I’m pushing for fecal transplants as a result of I feel it’s going to actually pique folks’s curiosities.”

However as entertaining as seeing a few of these remedies may be, it’s additionally about guaranteeing their security. “Katie and I’ve two guidelines: the primary is that we really really feel a distinction, that it’s really doing one thing and there’s science to again it up; and the second is that it’s protected and mild sufficient that folks can do it at residence,” Berlingeri says. “If it doesn’t obtain each of these issues, we don’t even take into consideration bringing it to our group.”

The women know that with something well being and wellness, there’s all the time an opportunity that one thing received’t for everybody’s particular person wants, so that they imagine it’s necessary to be sincere about any problems that might come up. “I really feel like that’s what makes this fashion and format so nice: it’s utterly actual and open,” explains Berlingeri. “Katie and I consider it as a approach to have a podcast, however as a substitute of simply speaking about our experiences, we’re really displaying them and letting the world watch us undergo these susceptible moments.”

And in a time when a lot of the wellness business is glamorized, usually unrealistically so, and focus is positioned solely on the top consequence, the HigherDOSE founders take delight in displaying the nitty-gritty and the precise course of behind these remedies and traits. “It’s very susceptible to place your self on the market as a human guinea pig,” Kaps says. “However finally, I really feel motivated by the concept that if we will put data on the market that’s serving to even just some folks study and enhance their lives, it’s value it.”

“Our mission is de facto to assist folks,” provides Berlingeri, “and I hope that that’s the response this will get.”