Davinia Taylor’s Secrets to Looking 28 Years Younger

Former star turned health guru Davinia Taylor has revealed how she 'biohacked' her way into reducing her body age by 28 years. 

The actress took to This Morning to open up on her health journey, which has seen her turn back the clock and manage to reverse her biological age to just 20. 

Davinia, 47, joined  and  to speak about her new book release, Kitchen Rehab, where she offers food hacks to help reduce their body age. 

Instead of cutting down on food, she teased the book is full of things you can 'add' to a diet in order to help your body stay young from the inside out. 

Davinia explained on the daytime show: 'What I've written here, it's about adding in, and it's just about, even if you can change one meal a week, it's about adding in more ancestral nutrition. 

'We're missing out on things like bone broth, with all the minerals and vitamins that are naturally there that mother nature gave us. 

'I am no chef, I am no cook, and what I've got is this little community called the For Fat's Sake group, 30,000 mums in there, all sharing recipes so this isn't just me. 

'It's just making a couple of little tweaks... Basically, it's like meat and two veg, it's what our grandmothers would have thought was normal but we've forgotten how to use these amazing ingredients that nature put on the planet.'

'As your grandmother would recognise it as an ingredient, it's going to be good.

'Pre 1950s, and even pre 1970s, we didn't have doctors telling us what we should eat, we didn't have dietary guidelines, we would just listen to what our parents did and chronic disease was down.

'We need to listen to our gut, our intuition, and listen to when we're hungry, and we've got to feed the brain first because the body will follow.'

She spoke about 'making your own Ozempic': 'It's a massive blockbuster drug now, and it just showed how many people are using it to stop the addiction from over eating. 

'You can get that by introducing good fats, the 'f' word because we were taught to never have fats... that extra fuel source will dampen down any food noise and snack attacks - and I used to have it all the time with cereal, I was addicted, seriously.'

Davinia also explained about pesticides on food, and encouraged listeners to wash fruit and vegetables thoroughly before cooking and eating. 

Continuing on her other biohacking tips, Davinia added: 'I've got an infra-red sauna, and it's a great place to have a chat, it's like my night club, after 20 minutes you really detox.

'It uses light and it penetrates into the organs so you sweat from the inside out like a microwave - it's like having a glass of wine, it takes the edge of the day. 

'Of course, cold exposure is good for getting the dopamine up.' 

It comes after Davinia opened up on her alcoholic past and explained how if she had 'one more drink, she could have died' as she opened up about her former party life.

The former actress who ditched the party scene to live a healthy life style, has confessed that she kept drinking through her 20s until she hit rock bottom.

Davinia was famed for her position in the notorious Primrose Hill party set, where she joined her then-husband Dave Gardner in partying through the Nineties with pals including , and .

Davinia, who has been sober for 17 years after battling alcohol addiction, has become a fitness guru and credits 'biohacking' for her 'biological age of 20'.

Chatting to the Sun, Davinia explained that she 'flatlined' and was drinking to survive rather than for enjoyment.

She told the publication: 'I was constantly hungover, riddled with anxiety, and alcohol didn't work for me any more. Not even a glass of red wine would lift me.

'I was shown these awful videos of myself drunk, and numerous times I was told by doctors, 'one more drink will kill you'.

Biohacking involves making small, strategic scientific-backed changes to habits and behaviors to improve things like cognitive function and weight management.

Davina ditched her party girl ways in favour of a cleaner existence, after a 12-week rehab stint in South Africa where she was eventually able to kick her habits.

The former actress described her battle with alcoholism as a an 'eternal hell', because she knew she shouldn't be drinking but was in a heavy period of withdrawal

Once she got clean, Davinia said she became addicted to other areas of life, such as eating when she gained 'stones', before eventually finding a happier balance.

She shares son Grey, 17, with Dave, and Luxx, 13, whose father has never been revealed, and Asa, six, and Jude, seven, with her partner Matthew Leyden.

Davinia recently told The Sun how she wishes her mother, who died in 2013, could see the woman she has become.

She said: 'For her to see me now, as a mother – happy, settled and not needing the fineries to support my ego – would have made her really proud.'

At one point in her life, Davinia faced a custody battle and was suicidal, however, now she said her old self would not have been able to recognise the woman she is today.

Explaining why her younger years were so wild, Davinia said that she has a high dopamine drive, meaning the impulsiveness to do things to feel alive was stronger.

She said that this is a classic symptom of ADHD, but that it is not as widely diagnosed in women as it is in men.

'A girl with ADHD will be referred to as 'Dolly Daydream', and that was me,' she said. 'I'm hoping over the next few years that a lot of women my age realise they can get help for it now – it's not too late.'

In 2007, Davinia gave birth to her first child, Grey, and began to suffer with postnatal depression which she attempted to buy her way out of.

She said doctors prescribed her with strong medication for bipolar disorder which she stayed on for five years and although she was no longer suicidal, she said she started drifting through each day.

Reflecting back on the birth of Grey, Davinia said she now realises she was suffering from a crash of her supportive hormones due to the IVF - but doctors had written this off as 'baby blues'.

She now hopes that her struggle can encourage more women to talk about this issue and push for hormone replacement therapy to help them.

During her divorce from her ex-husband Dave Gardner in 2009, her mother sent her to rehab in South Africa to overcome her alcohol addiction, and Davinia said she thinks without her mother's help, she would not be here now.

'By the time I was out the other side of the divorce, I was beyond any relapse. It was a blessing in disguise, because it put me in fight mode, and sometimes that's my comfort zone. I had to be razor-sharp and although it wasn't necessarily pleasurable, it gave me focus.