Biohacking infradian rhythm can improve female healthspan

Forget the circadian rhythm – when it comes to optimum healthspan for women, infradian rhythm is the flavor of the month, says Aggie Lal.

LA-based Aggie Lal is a biohacker and nutritional coach who is on a mission to help women get fit, lose weight and have more energy through understanding and leveraging the infradian rhythm – going beyond the daily circadian rhythms and looking at the monthly flow of bodily cycles, including, especially, the menstrual cycle.

My take on this: Aggie Lal’s new book, Biohack Like a Woman, is described as a “blueprint” on how to listen to the infradian rhythm and calibrate an individualized biohacking protocol based on the user’s own biological needs.

Ahead of the release of the audiobook of Biohack Like a Woman, we caught up with Aggie Lal to find out more about infradian rhythm, biohacking and her own healthspan journey.

People are familiar with the circadian rhythm, the physical and behavioral changes experienced over a 24-hour cycle. Whereas circadian means around a day, infradian means beyond a day.

“Infradian rhythm is the rhythm that women were born to live according to – and it’s a 28 day cycle,” Lal explains. “We’re lunar. We’re synced with the moon, ideally, and as the moon goes through phases, so do women. Ovulation is around new moon, and menstruation is around full moon – once you understand how crazy that is and how many similarities there are, and you can adjust your diet, workouts, lifestyle, fasting according to that. It’s just life changing.”

Lal is keen to explode the myth that biohacking is only for the few. "It's not like golf – full of rich men and very cliquey," she explains. "That's the biggest misconception. You see those guys in bespoke plunge pools and hyperbaric chambers costing $100k and you feel you can't achieve anything. That's not true – many biohacks are free and you can actually end up saving money when you biohack. Anyone can have a cold shower and grab ten minutes in the sun!"

Biohacking is also extremely relevant for women moving through the stages of perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause. "There are so many things that you can do to feel absolutely incredible," Lal explains. "And I think in the mainstream, menopause is considered to be a time where women just stand by and almost wait to die. But these are times when women can thrive; fasting can help, cold plunging can help. There are actually more women in perimenopause and menopause than are ovulating, and by biohacking they can thrive and feel great."

Dive further into infradian rhythm and more insights, straight from Aggie Lal right HERE.

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