Mother-of-two, 38, claims she gets mistaken for a teenager thanks to £2,000-a-month biohacking regime
She’s just months away from turning 40, but Tracy Kiss claims people think she’s a teenager—her secret? Pricey biohacking treatments she says have reversed her cellular age.
Ms Kiss, 38, who spends up to £2,000-a-month on a plethora of cutting edge wellness sessions including time in oxygen chambers and red light therapy, says that she is often mistaken for her 18-year-old daughter’s sister.
She threw herself into the biohacking lifestyle when she was 25 after feeling ‘burnt out’ and worrying that she looked like an ’80-year-old’.
Ms Kiss said: ‘Biohacking is like being reborn. I renew my cells so I look naturally young.
‘A lot of my friends my age get told they look about 43, but I get ID’d. It’s very funny.
‘People are always really surprised when they realise I’m my daughter’s mum.
‘Biohacking makes your age really just a number. My age in years bears no relation to the age of my cells.’
Ms Kiss does a variety of at-home and in-salon treatments to keep her cellular age low.
Tracy Kiss and her 18-year-old daughter—she claims they are often mistaken for sisters
Ms Kiss as a young single mum, shortly before her biohacking journey began
She has a special infrared light ‘sauna’ sleeping bag which she purchased two years ago.
Red light therapy (RLT) is a treatment that uses low-level red and near-infrared light to stimulate cells to promote healing and reduce inflammation and pain, in a process called photobiomodulation.
Cells contain tiny structures called mitochondria that act like batteries.
Research from Stanford University found that these mitochondria can absorb red and near-infrared light, helping them produce more energy.
The theory is that extra energy boosts repair, reduces inflammation, and supports collagen production in the skin.
To combat the harmful effects of pollution on her body, she pays £500 for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) every other month.
This treatment involves breathing up to 95 per cent pure oxygen within a high-pressure chamber—in comparison, we usually inhale air of around 21 per cent oxygen.
Oxygen helps cells perform vital abilities, including repairing and replace damaged cells, which in turn helps the body heal.
She undergoes oxygen and red light treatments
She spends up to £2,000-a-month on biohacking treatments
Ms Kiss said: ‘I come out with so much energy, nothing aches, everything is effortless.
‘You can go in a tank, or just pop on a mask, and you can get all your emails done.’
The full-time content creator also uses LED therapy to combat damage to her skin, and lies on a special a £1,000 LED blanket three times a week.
She said: ‘It boosts your body’s natural ability to regrow and replenish.
‘Different frequencies [of lights] get to different layers of your skin.’
Recently she started three sessions of EBOO (Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation) blood filtration, costing £1,400 each, to detox her blood.
It involves withdrawing blood and passing it through a filtration device, before it is mixed with pure oxygen and ozone gases and returned to the body.
‘It’s incredible’, she said, ‘I went to the gym and thought the machines were broken everything was so easy.’
She embraced fitness after the birth of her son, now aged 13
She drinks herbal teas, and coffee made from mushrooms, and takes adaptogens and other supplements instead of cracking open a can of energy drink.
Ms Kiss said: ‘Biohacking is like putting plant food on your flowers. You take what is naturally there and boost it.
‘It’s like hitting rewind on the clock of life.’
The single mum-of-two, from High Wycombe in Bucks, decided to overhaul her life after the birth of her son, now 13, in April 2012.
She was suffering aches and pains, and couldn’t walk without feeling faint—in fact, any sort of fitness was challenging, and she was unable to perform a single press-up.
‘Age 25 I was totally burned out,’ she said.
‘I was mentally, physically, and emotionally broken. I needed to get back on my feet, I had two children to look after.
‘I was crying myself to sleep. I worried constantly about what would happen to my children if I died.
She started doing yoga in 2017, and became a Buddhist
‘I decided to make myself as strong as I could mentally and physically.’
Ms Kiss decided to throw herself into fitness, and started weight training.
She also overhauled her diet, and began eating 3,000 calories a day to fuel her intensive workouts.
She said: ‘I don’t want to brag, I just want to be the change I’d like to see.
‘And I’m really strong. I can hike mountains, lift weights, climb trees, and do pullups and flip overs on the side of my house.
‘I realised my lifestyle was winning when I could carry a grown man on my shoulders and beat him in running races, he’d be exhausted and I’d have so much energy.’
Diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)—a group of inherited connective tissue disorders—the condition can also affect the digestive tract, and make you more prone to food intolerances and allergies.
To make sure she was giving her body what it needs, in a form it can handle, she embarked on a strict meal plan of curry and rice for breakfast lunch and dinner, and porridge and protein shakes in between.
Some of the treatments she has cost hundreds of pounds
There were mental changes too, and she began to study mindfulness and other wellbeing techniques.
She became a Buddhist, and added yoga and meditation to her daily routine in 2017.
She said: ‘Just learning to close off my mind so that I could sleep made such a difference.
‘Stress is so harmful for our bodies.’
Ms Kiss also discovered that the Botox and fillers she had been relying on to give herself a youthful glow were not the magic wand she thought they were.
She had been getting the treatments since her early 20s but decided to ditch them after studying aesthetics and learning about the risks and side effects.
She said: ‘Fillers can expand years after they’re put in and you can end up looking swollen.
‘Basically it’s all a quick fix, but your body is still ageing.
‘Ultimately fillers and Botox will end up pulling your face down. You end up looking like a corpse.
‘A lot of beauty is about airbrushing, but I’ve fixed my ageing from the roots, so I just glow naturally.’
