The Biohacking Beauty Podcast
Biohacking Beauty Podcast
reacting to Allure’s LED mask advice: what to know before spending money on a LED mask
If you have been thinking about buying a LED mask, the hardest part is knowing what actually matters. The price range is all over the place, every brand seems to have some version of “FDA cleared” on the page, and a lot of the buying advice sounds scientific enough to trust. But none of that automatically tells you whether the device is strong enough to do anything meaningful for your skin. That is why we wanted to take a closer look at an Allure post called So You Wanna Buy a LED Mask. The guide brings up the same things people usually look at before buying one: price, number of bulbs, FDA clearance, clinical trials, and how often you have to use it. Some of those details can be useful, but they can also distract from the real questions: how much light does the device actually deliver, what wavelengths does it use, and is the coverage strong enough to create meaningful stimulation? That matters if you are about to spend a few hundred dollars on a device and you are using the wrong signals to decide. A high price, FDA clearance, or a small clinical study can make a mask sound more credible, but those details do not always answer the question you actually care about: Will this device give my skin enough stimulation to be worth using?
reacting to Allure’s LED mask advice: what to know before spending money on a LED mask
If you have been thinking about buying a LED mask, the hardest part is knowing what actually matters. The price range is all over the place, every brand seems to...
Dr. Jennifer Berman: peptides, hormones, and the anti-aging protocol most women start too late
We have been getting the same question in our DMs for months now. Peptides are everywhere. Everyone is talking about them. But what actually has evidence behind it, what is hype, and where do hormones fit into all of this? So we went and found someone who has been living this conversation for 35 years, not just talking about it. Dr. Jennifer Berman is a urologist, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the leading voices in female sexual and menopausal health. She pioneered the field at UCLA, runs the Berman Women's Wellness Center in Beverly Hills, and has been her own first patient through every transition she now treats. She is the kind of doctor who was doing things a decade before they became mainstream and has the clinical receipts to back all of it up. In this episode we get into why peptides are the missing piece of the menopause puzzle, what hormones are really doing to your skin from the inside out, and how treatments that were written off as fringe became the new gold standard for longevity.
Dr. Jennifer Berman: peptides, hormones, and the anti-aging protocol most women start too late
We have been getting the same question in our DMs for months now. Peptides are everywhere. Everyone is talking about them. But what actually has evidence behind it, what is...
Dr. Dan Pardi: how creatine supports brain function, skin health, and DNA repair
Creatine has been boxed in as a gym-bro supplement for decades, but the latest research shows it's doing far more than building muscle. It buffers brain energy under sleep deprivation, supporting bone density and mood stability through perimenopause, and freeing up methyl groups for detoxification and DNA repair. We dive deeper into this in the Biohacking Beauty Podcast with Dr. Dan Pardi. We also chat about why the bloating myth is backwards, how creatine and NAD work synergistically to support mitochondrial energy, and what topical creatine could mean for the future of skincare. Dr. Dan Pardi is a researcher whose first study in the 1990s focused on creatine, and he has spent three decades following the science as it expanded from sports performance into brain health, healthspan, and women's physiology. He is the Chief Health Officer at Qualia Life Sciences, where the team has earned recognition from the Nutrition Business Journal for science and innovation. His work focuses on translating peer-reviewed research into formulations that support cellular energy, methylation, and longevity.Let's dive in. Use code YOUNGGOOSE at https://www.qualialife.com/ for a special discount.
Dr. Dan Pardi: how creatine supports brain function, skin health, and DNA repair
Creatine has been boxed in as a gym-bro supplement for decades, but the latest research shows it's doing far more than building muscle. It buffers brain energy under sleep deprivation,...
SPF is not enough: the cellular repair protocol your skin needs this summer
When summer skin starts looking dull, congested, tired, or slower to recover, it is easy to blame the obvious things: heat, sweat, sunscreen, long days outside, or the wrong moisturizer. So the conversation usually stays on the surface. Use SPF. Cleanse better. Switch to lighter products. Add antioxidants. But before we treat summer skin like another product problem, there is a deeper question worth asking: what is the sun doing to the cell before you ever see the damage in the mirror? In this episode of Biohacking Beauty, I want to take the sun conversation past burns, wrinkles, and dark spots. I’m walking through what UV exposure does to the systems your skin depends on to keep up with summer: cellular energy, NAD, mitochondrial function, and DNA repair. Because the skin does not only need protection from the sun. It also needs enough repair capacity to deal with the damage that gets through.
SPF is not enough: the cellular repair protocol your skin needs this summer
When summer skin starts looking dull, congested, tired, or slower to recover, it is easy to blame the obvious things: heat, sweat, sunscreen, long days outside, or the wrong moisturizer....
the mitochondria problem behind aging skin + how to recharge your skin and look younger
Every fibroblast inside your dermis right now is asking 200 to 2,000 mitochondria to power its work in real time, and those mitochondria are descendants of a free-living bacterium swallowed by a larger cell 2 billion years ago. As you age, those mitochondria run slower and your cells build fewer of them to replace the ones that fail. In this solo episode, Young Goose co-founder Amitay Eshel breaks down the two sides of mitochondrial decline that drive skin aging and explains why the science-led skincare category has spent the last decades addressing only one of them. The first side of skin aging is where most skincare brands have built their products around. The other side is the one almost no skincare on the market is formulating for, and it is where the next chapter of skin longevity is being written.If you have outgrown the antioxidant-and-peptide era of skincare and want to understand what is actually happening underneath your skin as it ages, this episode is for you.
the mitochondria problem behind aging skin + how to recharge your skin and look younger
Every fibroblast inside your dermis right now is asking 200 to 2,000 mitochondria to power its work in real time, and those mitochondria are descendants of a free-living bacterium swallowed...
Dr. Tyler Panzner: hidden trade-offs of longevity supplements and the advantage of topical delivery
Roughly 25% to 30% of the population carries slow variants in the MAOA or COMT genes, the two enzymes responsible for clearing adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin from the brain. For these individuals, common polyphenols marketed for inflammation and longevity, including curcumin, act as weak MAOA inhibitors that further slow neurotransmitter breakdown. The result is a quiet buildup of stimulation that gets misread as anxiety, insomnia, or unexplained agitation, with no obvious connection to the supplement bottle that caused it. In this episode of Biohacking Beauty, Dr. Tyler Panzner joins us to translate exactly this kind of pharmacological nuance into protocols people can actually use. He is a PhD pharmacologist with research in neuropharmacology and breast cancer metastasis, and has worked with over 900 clients, particularly highly sensitive people, to identify their genetic weak points and remove the supplements quietly working against them.If you are stacking longevity supplements, feel wired without explanation, or want to understand why your body responds differently than the marketing promises, this episode is for you.
Dr. Tyler Panzner: hidden trade-offs of longevity supplements and the advantage of topical delivery
Roughly 25% to 30% of the population carries slow variants in the MAOA or COMT genes, the two enzymes responsible for clearing adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin from the brain. For...