She was once known as the ultimate party girl, a regular face at showbiz events and part of the Primrose Hill set with the likes of Kate Moss and Sadie Frost.
Yet after ditching alcohol and stepping away from the spotlight, Davinia Taylor has successfully rebranded herself as a wellness guru, offering tips and supplements to her millions of followers in a bid to help them with biohacking.
She credits biohacking – small, strategic scientific-backed changes to habits and behaviours to improve things like cognitive function and weight management – with her new regime.
There’s few who know more about the subject than Davinia, who despite years of abusing her body, has managed to turn her life around so spectacularly that she now boasts a biological age of 20 – despite being 47 herself.
Notably, she had to kick her alcohol addiction, and in 2009 she flew to South Africa for a 12-week rehab stint.
Yet despite being glad that she managed to turn her life around, Davinia insisted that she wasn’t the hardest partier of the primrose hill set and many of her friends are still boozing.
Davinia Taylor was once known as the ultimate party girl and part of the Primrose Hill set with the likes of Kate Moss and Sadie Frost (pictured with Kate in 2007)
Yet after ditching alcohol and stepping away from the spotlight, Davinia Taylor has successfully rebranded herself as a wellness guru
Davinia, despite years of abusing her body, has managed to turn her life around so spectacularly that she now boasts a biological age of 20 – despite being 47 herself
Speaking to Daily Mail, she revealed that she feels better now than she did in her 20s, explaining: ‘I was drinking, I was knackered, had a hangover. I think everyone was in their 20s.
‘I mean, all my mates were partying exactly the same, and every one of my friends drank more than me, but they’re just not lucky enough to be an alcoholic.’
She continued: ‘So they’re still in the grey area, they still have a hangover on a Monday. That’s grey area drinking. So I’m pretty lucky to have gone sober at 30.
‘So my 20s were – everyone’s chaotic – but my 30s, 40s, 50s onwards, it’s been easy.’
After stepping away from her partying ways, the now-sober mother-of-four spends her time running WillPowders, her natural food supplements brand.
WillPowders has proved a successful and fast growing brand, sourcing the best ingredients from across the globe.
They have open sourcing and so are completely transparent where our products are made, for example the collagen is manufactured and made in Switzerland.
Davinia is the primary marketer in her company and leads the team on developing the exceptional quality of the ingredients.
Speaking to Daily Mail, she revealed that she feels better now than she did in her 20s, saying: ‘I was drinking, I was knackered, had a hangover’ (pictured with John Galliano, left, in 2000)
She has visited the farmers who rear their beef to film to show customers what values the company has.
Davinia is the only founder who has visited the farmers who rear their beef in Switzerland to show customers what values WillPowders have.
‘No founder would film at the disgraceful rancid fish farms or show what else is caught in the fishing nets like dolphins,’ she shared.
On what sparked her turning point to sobriety, she mused: ‘I suppose having my first son. Having a hangover with a kid isn’t fun. It’s really hard work and it requires a lot of energy, so that’s what I didn’t have.’
‘And alcohol is a massive neurotoxin,’ she continued. ‘It makes you feel depressed. Who wants that? So, obviously, with hindsight. 20 years on, you think, bloody hell.
‘You need to put the ingredients in your body that it wants to heal, because ultimately the body doesn’t want to just survive, it wants to thrive.
‘If you put the right ingredients into it, it’ll do that automatically. Just give it nature’s ingredients, what we’ve all evolved on. Decent meat, decent sunlight, great sleep, connection with your family, and it kind of does it itself.’
Davinia isn’t the only member of the Primrose Hill set to swap partying for wellness.
Supermodel pal Kate – who went sober in 2018 – launched her own wellness brand, Cosmoss, in 2022. Unfortunately, the business didn’t take off and it went into liquidation this summer.
Meanwhile, fashion designer Sadie has embraced clean living and is often referred to as ‘Britain’s Gwyneth Paltrow’ after swapping boozy nights for early mornings teaching yoga and Pilates.
She credits biohacking – small, strategic scientific-backed changes to habits and behaviours to improve things like cognitive function and weight management – with her new regime
Meg Mathews also overhauled her health and now helps to raise awareness about the menopause and women’s health, penning the book The New Hot: Taking on the Menopause with Attitude.
In fact, there’s been no shortage of celebrity wellness brands, such as Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, Kourtney Kardashian’s Poosh and Elle McPherson’s Wellco.
Yet for Davinia, who spent years researching biohacking before creating WillPowders, she isn’t too impressed with the sudden influx of celebrity-backed holistic brands.
‘It’s aspirational purchases,’ she mused. ‘I mean, I’m certainly not going to buy a candle for 300 quid!
‘I’m sure it’s lovely, but to each their own. I mean, it’s a bit of luxury, a bit of fantasy, a scheme.
‘If you want to do that, it’s entirely up to you, but I’m more about decent protein and decent meals – I’d rather spend the money on a holiday [than a candle!]’
Davinia embraces a ketogenic diet – a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and moderate-protein eating plan that forces the body to burn fat for fuel – a metabolic state called ketosis.
‘As soon as I started leaning into a ketogenic diet and started using MCT oil as a fuel source to give my brain ketones, the lights went on in a few minutes,’ she explained.
‘All of a sudden, I was like, “wow”. I’ve got energy that I was getting from glucose and, well, 20 years ago, like, alcohol. And I didn’t know this fuel existed, and no one had told me about it.’
After stepping away from her partying ways, the now-sober mother-of-four spends her time running WillPowders, her natural food supplements brand
She has visited the farmers who rear their beef to film to show customers what values the company has (pictured at the farm in Switzerland)
Davinia supplements her diet with MCT, which is made from a type of fat called medium-chain triglycerides.
She described it as ‘the original GLP-1’, which is used by fat loss jabs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro.
Davinia noted that she now listens to her body to understand what it means after years of being ‘gaslighted’ by advice from doctors and nutritionists.
‘We’ve been told not to listen to our intuition,’ she shared. ‘Women’s intuition is super strong. We create babies, we know our bodies better than anyone!
‘And we’ve been told not to listen to that and to listen to studies and data, which really is just based on people who’ve got nothing to do with me.’
Yet while she has not used fat loss jabs herself, she revealed that she has no issue with them being used by those who genuinely need them, but was concerned by the side effects.
She has little time for celebrities using it to slim down for red carpet events, however.
‘We all know what they’re doing it for,’ she mused. ‘They want more clicks, more likes, more engagement, more content. It’s a business mode and it works.
‘They’re not doing it for anything else, it’s just the cash flow. We saw it in the 80s, the 90s, It’s exactly the same, people just want the shock factor.’
Despite completely overhauling her lifestyle, Davinia shared that it still doesn’t come naturally for her to prioritise her health.
‘I’ve still got to force myself every morning to go for a run,” she confessed. ‘But I’ll drink some nootropics [dietary supplements marketed to enhance brain function], I’ll have some MCT, put some music on, and I’ll trick myself into it, and before 10 minutes, I’m into it.
‘I’ve still got to force myself to do this wellbeing. It’s not like it’s easy. I mean, I love watching daytime telly, doing nothing, but I’ve got to take the dogs out and I’ve got to get into the office…
‘I know the best way for me to think is to spike my dopamine, and to do that, I need to run, listen to beats, take some nootropics, and then just go, go, go.
‘But it’s still tough going. It still takes a push, it’s not easy peasy.’
Davinia is the primary marketer in her company and leads the team on developing the exceptional quality of the ingredients
That said, Davinia still allows herself the odd treat, and shared that she’d be having a Chinese takeaway to celebrate her son’s birthday.
‘The junk [in takeaways] you’ve got MSG, sugars all that gets stuck in the liver. I feel hungover after it!
‘But I’m not going to say no. It’s my son’s 10th birthday, and I love a Chinese takeaway, we all do.
‘But now it doesn’t trip into sort of binge eating. Now I can detox from it really quickly, and I don’t have that chasing the dragon feeling, where you’ve got to have more sweets to try and bolster your mood.
‘I get it out and go back into ketosis again in the morning. So my body’s become metabolically flexible, I can dip in and out and I’m more resilient to takeaways.’
