Former ‘ladette’ and party pal of Kate Moss, Davinia Taylor, has revealed the daily health routine that’s helped her reverse her biological age.
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.
At one point, though, she was famed for her position in the Primrose Hill set, partying through the ’90s with friends including Kate Moss, Sadie Frost, and Jude Law, as well as ex-husband Dave Gardener.
After stepping away from her acting career and partying ways, the now-sober mother-of-four spends her time running WillPowders, her natural food supplements brand.
However, as revealed by her recent interview with The Standard, leading a life like she does is no easy feat, and involves early mornings, heavy exercise, little technology, and plenty of bone broth.
A typical morning for Davinia, whose mantra for life is ‘sobriety, simplicity and science’, involves waking up at half past six without any alarms because, she insists, 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.
Lancashire-based Davinia Taylor (pictured in Manchester in March last year), 47, has revealed insight into her intense health regime
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.
Rather than breakfast, she will have a late morning snack of eggs 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.
In addition to her runs, Davinia completes a strength training routine three to four times a week.
Given the intense workout routine, she relaxes and resets 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.’
Artificial Intelligence is also massively beneficial for Davinia, who uses it to research and write about many facets of her life, including recipe ideas.
Davinia previously said that if she had ‘one more drink, she could have died’ as she opened up about her former party life (seen on This Morning in 2023)
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)
Davinia was famed for her position in the notorious Primrose Hill party set, where she joined her then-husband Dave Gardner in partying through the ’90s (seen at London club in 2003)
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’.
Chatting to The Sun, Davinia explained that she ‘flatlined’ and was drinking to survive rather than for enjoyment.
She told the publication, ‘I was constantly hungover, riddled with anxiety, and alcohol didn’t work for me any more. Not even a glass of red wine would lift me.
‘I was shown these awful videos of myself drunk, and numerous times I was told by doctors, “One more drink will kill you”.’
Biohacking involves making small, strategic scientific-backed changes to habits and behaviours to improve things like cognitive function and weight management.
DavinIa ditched her party girl ways in favour of a cleaner existence, after a 12-week rehab stint in South Africa where she was eventually able to kick her habits.
The former actress described her battle with alcoholism as an ‘eternal hell’, because she knew she shouldn’t be drinking but was in a heavy period of withdrawal.
Once she got clean, Davinia said she became addicted to other areas of life, such as eating when she gained ‘stones’, before eventually finding a happier balance.
She shares son Grey, 17, with Dave, and Luxx, 13, whose father has never been revealed, and Asa, six, and Jude, seven, with her partner Matthew Leyden.
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’
Chatting to the Sun, Davinia explained that she ‘flatlined’ and was drinking to survive rather than for enjoyment (pictured in 2010)
Davinia recently told The Sun how she wishes her mother, who died in 2013, could see the woman she has become.
At one point in her life, Davinia faced a custody battle and was suicidal. However, now she said her old self would not have been able to recognise the woman she is today.
Explaining why her younger years were so wild, Davinia said that she has a high dopamine drive, meaning the impulsiveness to do things to feel alive was stronger.
She said that this is a classic symptom of ADHD, but that it is not as widely diagnosed in women as it is in men.
In 2007, Davinia gave birth to her first child, Grey, and began to suffer with postnatal depression which she attempted to buy her way out of.
She said doctors prescribed her with strong medication for bipolar disorder, which she stayed on for five years and although she was no longer suicidal, she said she started drifting through each day.
Reflecting back on the birth of Grey, Davinia said she now realises she was suffering from a crash of her supportive hormones due to the IVF – but doctors had written this off as ‘baby blues’.
She now hopes that her struggle can encourage more women to talk about this issue and push for hormone replacement therapy to help them.
During her divorce from her ex-husband Dave Gardner in 2009, her mother sent her to rehab in South Africa to overcome her alcohol addiction, and Davinia said she thinks without her mother’s help, she would not be here now.
‘By the time I was out the other side of the divorce, I was beyond any relapse. It was a blessing in disguise, because it put me in fight mode, and sometimes that’s my comfort zone. I had to be razor-sharp and although it wasn’t necessarily pleasurable, it gave me focus.’
After ditching alcohol, Davinia said she turned to sugars and unhealthy foods, because she didn’t realise how much of an impact they could have on her health.
She said that her poor diet caused her to feel joint pan, caused her to start forgetting things and her general mood was also being affected.
To combat this, Davinia said she started reading up on dietary knowledge and came out a happier person and better woman to her friends and family.
However, she also said that she hasn’t become obsessive over her health, joking that she’d recently had a fry-up.
If she is feeling low though, she added that she ups the amount of fats and protein she consumes, and enjoys a cold shower and a run.
