I Am Heading to the Biohacking Conference — And I Cannot Wait to Share Highlights

There is a question I carry into every room, every conversation, every conference I attend.

Not just how do we live longer — but how do we live fully in every year we are given?

Lifespan and vitality span are not the same thing. And for the women I work with every day, the gap between them is where the real suffering lives. They are not afraid of getting older. They are afraid of getting older and feeling like a shadow of who they know themselves to be.

That is the question I am taking with me this week to the Biohacking Conference.

I Know This Territory Personally

Today my biological age tests 14 years younger than my chronological age of 66. I feel fully alive — energized, clear, strong. But 25 years ago, none of that was true.

At 42 I was diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Failure — full blown menopause, early and without warning. My adrenals were so depleted I needed bioidentical cortisol just to function. Two hours of sleep to generate two hours of productivity. Making dinner for my family was the ceiling of what I could do in a day.

What I did not know yet was that I was carrying the same glutathione gene variations — GSTM1-null SNP — that had quietly taken my mother’s life at age 25. Her official diagnosis in 1962 was hepatitis. The real story was a detoxification system that could not protect her. I inherited that same vulnerability.

It took 15 years to unravel what was happening in my body — heavy metal toxicity, Epstein-Barr virus, and finally, mold toxicity with levels that were off the charts. Nobody connected the dots. My PCP was not asking those questions. The resources were not there. The education was not there.

Biohacking works. And we have far more control over our health — and even the expression of our genes — than Western Medicine, Big Pharma, or Big Food have ever told us.  That is why I wrote Create the Vitality You Crave. And it is why I go to the Biohacking Conference every single year.

This Year’s Lineup

I go every year. And every year I come back changed — not because the information is overwhelming, but because being in a room full of people who refuse to accept the status quo of aging does something to your thinking. It expands it.

This year has me particularly excited.

Dr. Jason Sonners — Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

I have been doing HBOT weekly since October. New research is placing it among the top-ranked longevity tools available — for mitochondrial function, inflammation, and biological aging. Dr. Sonners recently completed his PhD in molecular biology at the University of Miami. I want to understand the pressure protocols, the epigenetic effects, and what the latest data shows for women specifically.

Dr. Nathan Bryan — Nitric Oxide and Metabolic Disease

Nitric oxide is foundational to vascular health, hormone delivery, and cellular signaling — and almost nobody is talking about it in the context of perimenopause. I plan to change that.

Jim Kwik — Unleashing Your Limitless Brain

Back again — and I will be in the front row. Jim’s work on brain optimization and accelerated learning is unlike anything else in this space. His work is not just for high performers. It is for every woman who has ever wondered why her brain does not feel like her own anymore.

Dr. John Gray — Biohacking Your Hormones for Lasting Romantic Attraction

This sounds provocative and is actually deeply clinical. The intersection of oxytocin, dopamine, testosterone, and relational health is one of the most underexplored areas in women’s hormone work.

Psychedelics Panel — Dave Asprey and Others

A frontier conversation that medicine can no longer afford to treat as fringe.

Dr. Bryce Applebaum — The Eye-Brain Connection

My colleague, from the Health Business Growth Collective, will make the case that this is the most overlooked biohack in modern performance. I believe him.

The New Biology of Longevity Through Supplementation

A deep-dive panel I have been waiting for.

Plus, a vendor hall full of tools that have not reached mainstream medicine yet.

There are millions of women right now whose PCP is not connecting these dots. Not asking the right questions. Not sharing what is possible. I know — because I was one of them.

I am going to this conference as a practitioner. As your translator. As the person whose job it is to sit in these rooms, figure out what is signal and what is noise, and bring back what actually matters for your hormones, your brain, your energy, and your life.

Because the goal was never just to live longer.  It is to build a vitality span that matches every year of your lifespan.

I will be sharing as I go. Follow along — and watch for a recap when I return.

For the women who refuse to let their lifespan outrun their vitality span,

Lori Finlay, NP, CNS