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I wake up at 5.30am, every single day. No lie-ins, ever. I know that sounds extreme, but keeping the same wake-up time is the most powerful thing I do for my circadian rhythm. I sleep on an Eight Sleep mattress (see review, opposite) that cools the bed through the night.
Before my feet even touch the floor, I massage my own face. A full lymphatic drainage sequence, focusing on the fascia and the nasolabial folds, done lying in bed. I have fewer lines now, at 34, than I did at 28. Overnight the face fills with fluid, so those few minutes of drainage completely change its shape and tone before I have even stood up. I put beef tallow on my face. It gives me the occasional breakout, but I know exactly what I am putting on my skin.
I have not used shampoo in three years. I wash it with a single homemade bottle: apple cider vinegar and one secret natural ingredient. People slide into my DMs constantly asking what the secret to my hair is, and I just laugh, because they are expecting me to name some luxury brand and the answer is sitting in my kitchen cupboard.
Supplements are where I go in the opposite direction, radically complex. My protocol shifts constantly with my bloodwork and my body’s needs, and I track it in a spreadsheet so detailed it is basically its own computer. First thing, I usually take copper.
Then comes the part of the morning I love most: a walk on the beach with my husband Matteo and Chloe, our Weimaraner. We stop for a tea on the sand and talk through the business, then a few minutes on the treadmill to get the bowels moving (unglamorous, but essential for reducing bloating), then my Pilates Linfodrenante session, sauna, breakfast and journaling.
My diet is shaped by something most people have never heard of: histamine intolerance. It quietly drives bloating, headaches, skin flare-ups and that heavy, inflamed feeling so many women live with. The thing I could not live without is coconut and vanilla gelatine. I eat it by the bowlful.
With fasting, my conclusion, especially for women and above all for our hormones, is that the extremes do not work: the truth sits in the middle. I keep my window between 12 and 16 hours, currently around 12 to 14. Female hormones are sensitive to restriction, and pushing too hard does more harm than good.
My movement is ruthlessly scheduled. I film the app’s sessions, so I cannot leave a thing to chance. I train every morning to rehearse what I am about to film, and on a shoot day I record up to six follow-along sessions back to back. I hit at least 5 km before I reach the office, because if I skip it, the entire day goes down the drain.
I wear an Oura ring, but the data I truly value does not come from a wearable at all: it comes from full bloodwork and MRI scans. I feed all of that data into Claude and use it to keep refining exactly what my body needs.
A dry brush is the most underrated piece of “tech” you will ever own. People spend fortunes on gadgets when a simple brush, used correctly towards the heart, does the real drainage work for the price of a coffee.
While everyone races towards more extreme biohacking, I do the opposite, and I am healthier for it. I am radically food-first and natural. No nootropics, medicines or peptides.
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