Female Biohacking Isn’t a Trend, It’s Women Taking Back Control of Their Health
- Brainz Magazine
- 1 day ago
- 6 min read
Written by Amritta Kaur Dhillon, Online Fitness Coach
Reets is a leading voice in women’s fitness, mindset, and hormone health, and the host of the Get Buff with Reets podcast. As founder of Get Buff With Reets and creator of the Buff Rewire System, she helps ambitious women lose fat, build muscle, and reclaim confidence without sacrificing their careers or personal lives.
Biohacking is a word that gets thrown around easily these days, often attached to cold plunges, strict routines, and extreme habits that look impressive online but rarely translate into real life. Yet for women, biohacking carries a deeper truth. It is not about trends, aesthetics, or trying the latest wellness experiment for a week. It is a grounded, necessary response to years of navigating symptoms, stress, and health challenges without being offered meaningful answers.
In fact, I regularly speak to women who tell me they have started “cycle syncing” as though it is a trend to try. Each time, I find myself clarifying the same point. Cycle syncing is not a method, a plan, or a routine. It is simply data. It is the process of understanding your body’s monthly rhythm so you can stop blaming yourself on the days that feel heavier. This is the essence of female biohacking, understanding your physiology so you can finally work with it, not against it. When women feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or inconsistent, they are often told it is a mindset issue. In reality, it is usually the body asking for a different approach. Female biohacking gives women the clarity to recognise those signals rather than forcing themselves into systems that were never designed for them.
What biohacking actually means for women
At its core, biohacking is about awareness, noticing the patterns that shape how you feel each day. This includes energy fluctuations, sleep quality, cravings, appetite, digestion, mood, stress sensitivity, and overall performance. For women, there is an additional layer, the monthly hormonal rhythm that influences each of these factors more than we realise. Female biohacking is not about constant optimisation or striving for perfection. It is about making small, strategic adjustments that support how your body naturally functions, rather than forcing yourself into routines that ignore your biology or your responsibilities.
What female biohacking is not
Female biohacking is not a rigid routine, a set of rules, or a strict protocol. It is not extreme dieting, it is not an all or nothing approach, and it is not meant to add more pressure to your already full life. It is not perfectionism disguised as self care. It is certainly not about completely changing your routine based on your cycle. Instead, it is the practice of understanding your patterns so you can respond with compassion, intelligence, and flexibility.
Why women need their own version of biohacking
Much of the mainstream biohacking guidance comes from research conducted on men, whose hormonal patterns follow a stable 24 hour cycle. Women, however, operate on a 28 to 35 day cycle that influences strength, mood, sleep, appetite, focus, and stress tolerance in a far more dynamic way. None of this makes women inconsistent. It simply reflects a different physiological rhythm.
When you add the emotional labour, childcare duties, demanding careers, and societal expectations placed on women, it becomes clear why generic health advice often misses the mark. Female biohacking respects these lived realities. It allows women to align their habits with their actual bodies and lives, rather than forcing themselves into rigid programmes designed around male physiology.
The system has failed women so we learned to optimise ourselves
Women do not pursue biohacking because they want extremes. They pursue it because traditional systems often fail to give clear answers. PMS, PMDD, PCOS, endometriosis, gut issues, and chronic fatigue are still frequently minimised or misdiagnosed. I have personally had to explain my own conditions in A&E because the system had not prepared clinicians to recognise them. I have worked with women who were eating 1,000 calories a day because a previous coach convinced them that starvation was discipline. These experiences are not personal failures. They highlight a gap in women’s healthcare and general health education. So women look elsewhere for clarity, for understanding, and for tools that finally make sense.
The pillars of female biohacking
Female biohacking rests on several core pillars, all of which help women feel more grounded, informed, and in control.
Hormonal mapping gives women clarity on how each phase of their cycle influences mood, energy, appetite, and performance. Some people frame cycle syncing as a rigid method, but in reality, it is not something to “follow.” It is information. Tracking your cycle is not about redesigning your entire routine, it is about recognising patterns and offering yourself grace on the days that genuinely feel heavier.
Nervous system regulation is essential. Many women live in a near constant state of stress without realising how much it impacts their emotions, cravings, and ability to stay consistent. Supporting the nervous system through better sleep, structured recovery, breathwork, or lifestyle boundaries helps reduce reactivity, stabilise mood, and create space for healthier choices. It is not softness, it is physiology.
Gut and inflammation support plays a major role too. When digestion is unsettled or inflammation is high, everything else becomes harder. Energy dips, mood shifts, cravings increase, and training feels less effective. Supporting gut health builds a foundation the rest of your habits can rely on.
Targeted recovery support includes modern, science-backed tools that help women repair, sleep, and function better. These approaches are not extreme. They simply offer the level of support women often need when juggling demanding lives.
Cellular and longevity support is another key aspect. Anti-ageing, in a female context, is not about appearance, it is about maintaining vitality, strength, and resilience as responsibilities increase. Reducing inflammation, supporting metabolism, protecting muscle, and promoting hormonal stability are all part of long-term wellbeing. Longevity work is not about chasing youth, it is about investing in the health of your future self.
Finally, precision training and nutrition bring everything together. This means adjusting your training intensity according to how your body feels across the month, using protein to stabilise cravings, structuring carbohydrates for energy and mood, and listening to your recovery cues instead of pushing through a plan that does not match your physiology.
Female biohacking is efficiency, not intensity
Women do not need more intensity, pressure, or routines that demand perfection. They need strategies that meet them where they are, strategies that recognise the realities of their daily lives. Female biohacking offers this by focusing on what genuinely moves the needle, stabilising mood, reducing cravings, supporting hormones, improving recovery, and making training feel productive instead of depleting. It is not about doing more, it is about doing what works.
Awareness is not weakness, it is strategy. It is not about doing more, it is about doing what works.
The gap between who you are and who you want to be closes when your body stops fighting you
Women often assume they lack consistency or willpower, but more often, they are trying to build habits on top of hormonal imbalance, stress, or chronic exhaustion. Sustainable change cannot happen in a body that is dysregulated. Female biohacking strengthens the internal environment so your habits finally have something to anchor into. When your body is supported, your routines become easier, your mindset becomes clearer, and your goals stop feeling like a battle.
You do not need to push harder. You need a system that understands you.
Your body is not the problem. The blueprint you were given was. Female biohacking is the updated version, designed with your reality in mind.
Start your journey today
Understanding your female physiology is the first step. Acting on that insight is where change truly begins. Feeling out of sync with your body is not a personal flaw, it is a sign that your fitness approach has never been tailored to your biology. Once you understand your hormonal rhythm, your energy, motivation, and consistency start to make sense.
If you are ready to build a system that works with your body rather than against it, book a coaching call today (link to my coaching website). Together, we will create a personalised strategy that supports your energy, confidence, and long-term success.
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Amritta Kaur Dhillon, Online Fitness Coach
Reets is a women’s fitness and mindset coach who began her journey trying to lose weight and feel confident again. After years of chasing every fad diet and extreme approach, she discovered that most fitness advice was male-led and didn’t account for hormones, mindset, or the realities of a busy life and the weight of holding it all together. That realisation led her to create the Buff Rewire System, a method that helps ambitious women get strong, lean, and confident without burning out.
Blending strength training, hormone-informed coaching, and sustainable habit design, Reets now helps women around the world ditch all-or-nothing thinking and finally achieve results that last.
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