If your algorithm has ever tried to sell you a serum that “balances hormones” or an ice bath as a personality, Eleanor Hoath is the corrective your feed has been waiting for. A registered Nutritional Therapist (NT, ANP & mBANT) trained in functional medicine – and known in the industry as the ‘Queen of Green’ – Eleanor has built her reputation translating actual clinical research into wellness advice you can use without a PhD or a panic attack.
“The industry loves selling optimisation. I’m much more interested in what actually works and what makes you feel like yourself again, not a project you’re managing,” Eleanor tells The Modems.
Her CV reads like a masterclass in credible wellness: previously Editor at science-led retailer Healf, then Educational Content Director at Bon Charge – overseeing evidence-based education across light, recovery and performance technologies – before founding The Well Edit, her practitioner-led editorial platform, alongside her own practice, The Well Nourished Clinic. Her specialist subject is the gut–skin axis and women’s health, a rabbit hole she first went down for entirely personal reasons: bad gut, bad skin, and, in her words, “absolutely no useful advice anywhere”.
Don’t mistake the rigour for tech-scepticism, though. This is a woman with an Oura ring she treats as “a nervous system check-in rather than a report card”, a Brick device that physically blocks her phone, red lens glasses for late-night deadlines and a five-word philosophy we’re stealing immediately, “Green time before screen time”.
Refreshingly, she’s just as clear on what doesn’t deserve your money – and her cold plunge take may ruffle some very chilly feathers. Scroll on as Eleanor shares the gadgets, rituals and evidence-backed essentials behind her calm, clever approach to biohacking beauty…
Biohacking Beauty With Eleanor Hoath:
The Well Edit is…
A practitioner-led editorial platform that sits somewhere between influencer content and the kind of clinical material most people never get access to. I also run my own clinic, The Well Nourished Clinic. My work centres on the gut–skin axis and women’s health, and everything I write and build comes back to one idea: living well, not perfectly. The industry loves selling optimisation. I’m much more interested in what actually works and what makes you feel like yourself again, not a project you’re managing.
My journey into biohacking…
Was just me, trying to sort my own health out. Long before ‘gut-skin axis’ was a phrase anyone threw around, I was living it, bad gut, bad skin, and absolutely no useful advice anywhere. So I trained clinically and went down the rabbit hole of understanding what’s actually happening under the surface: skin, hormones, nervous system, all of it. The ‘biohacking’ label came later. For me it was never about hacking anything, it was about finally understanding what was going wrong so I could stop be well.
The beauty-tech I can’t live without…
My Oura ring, no contest, though I resisted for ages because I didn’t want to become one of those people obsessed with their sleep score. What flipped it for me was using it as a nervous system check-in rather than a report card and as someone who previously had such issues with their menstrual cycle, tracking my basal body temperature was truly amazing. If my HRV’s tanked or my resting heart rate’s crept up, that’s my cue to back off instead of pushing through like I used to (and sometimes still do, I’m a founder at the end of the day).
Functional testing…
Has honestly changed how I practice from a science perspective. App wise love the Flo App for women’s health and the Brick device has been something I swear by to keep myself in check with my screen time and truly truly blocking my phone. Beyond that I enjoy tech like red light therapy, obviously my Oura and my Fellow kettle but I prioritise the basics if I’m honest.
My morning ritual is…
Green time before screen time, always – it’s basically my whole philosophy in five words. I get outside and get light on my face before I let myself look at my laptop, and it does more for my cortisol than anything in a bottle ever could. Then it’s filtered water with my added-back-in electrolytes (currently using bodybio, a gut-friendly breakfast with proper fibre and protein with a matcha and skincare that’s more restraint than ritual, vitamin C, SPF, done.
When it comes to my evenings…
Screens off a solid hour before bed, magnesium glycinate, and my kindle with a romcom on it rather than doom-scrolling something that calls itself ‘relaxing content,’ which I think is one of wellness’s funnier little contradictions. I’ll pop my BON CHARGE Red Light Mask on whilst I’m reading and wait for my Oura to tell me the next morning whether any of it actually worked and I also have introduced a Pulsetto every now and then to really activate my vagus nerve to calm me on those days I need it.
What treatments actually make a difference…
Lymphatic drainage, hands down. Facial lymphatic work (I see Shell from Quartz Bloom and Olivia Johnson) and dry brushing have made a genuinely visible difference to puffiness and congestion for me, in a way I can’t honestly say about red light. I’m not anti-gadget, but I do think the beauty-tech conversation jumps straight to devices and skips right over the boring basics, sleep, digestion, stress, that actually decide whether any of it will work in the first place.
When it comes to supplements…
Vitamin D and omega-3 are about as close as I get to non-negotiable, especially living in the UK. Everything else, magnesium – because we’re burning through it in this stressed out, tired but wired world – and fibre. I rotate based on testing, not habit, which is very much the functional medicine influence talking. I’m honestly a bit sceptical of the whole ‘fixed stack’ idea. Your gut and hormones shift through the month and the year, so why wouldn’t your supplements?
When it comes to cold plunges vs. infrared saunas…
I’ve done both. Sauna I love and use all the time, it’s genuinely well evidenced for cardiovascular health and recovery and supports the natural detoxification pathways in the body. Cold plunging I’m much more careful with, because for a lot of my more burnt-out clients, an ice bath is just another cortisol spike disguised as something to help you. For women in particular, depending on where you are in your cycle can have a massive impact.
The wellness-trend that’s completely overhyped…
Extreme cold exposure as a cure-all. It photographs beautifully, I get the appeal, but it’s being sold as this universal fix for fatigue and inflammation when actually, for a lot of women running on empty already, it’s the last thing their nervous system needs.
If you could invent a beauty-tech gadget tomorrow…
Something that actually connects gut, skin and nervous system data in one place instead of three apps that never talk to each other. Right now you can track your sleep, test your gut, photograph your skin – but nothing joins the dots and tells you ‘here’s what’s actually behind your flare-up.’ That’s the thing I’d build if someone handed me the resources tomorrow.
Science-backed skincare I swear by…
Niacinamide and azelaic acid do more for barrier and clarity than almost anything else out there, and the research actually backs them up. I’m also loyal to a decent vitamin C in the morning and a spf every day- unglamorous, unfussy, and honestly what I’d tell any client to prioritise over some elaborate ten-step routine. I’m also a HUGE fan of Clinisoothe, it comes everywhere with me
Screens are a huge part of modern life but…
The ‘blue light is ageing your skin’ claim is weaker than the marketing wants you to believe – UV is still doing most of the damage there. What I do think is real is the indirect route: being on screens late into the evening messes with cortisol and melatonin, which wrecks your sleep, which upsets your gut, which then shows up on your skin. It’s the nervous system I’d actually worry about, not the light itself. As much as I’d love to get rid of screens from 8pm, it’s quite unrealistic when I’m working across time zones so I wear red lens glasses on those days to mitigate the effect, never use overhead lighting and pop a red light panel on to mimic the natural sunset.
I wish the beauty industry would stop using…
The word ‘detox’ on anything that isn’t your liver or kidneys, please. And these vague ‘hormone balancing’ claims slapped on products with zero mechanism or dosing behind the, a serum cannot balance your hormones. Closing the gap between what sounds scientific and what’s actually been studied is basically my whole job.
One wellness practice that’s radically changed my life…
Treating my gut as the starting point instead of an afterthought and realising my blood sugar needed some work. Once I properly sorted those things out, with actual testing, not a juice cleanse, my skin, energy and mood all shifted in a way no serum ever came close to.
If I could give my 18-year-old self one piece of advice it would be that…
It will get better once you actually look at the root cause instead of chasing the next product. I spent years treating my skin like the problem when it was really my stress levels and my gut screaming for attention. Deal with what’s underneath and the rest tends to sort itself out.
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