The Bell · Get Harder · 14 May 2025
Kristy Morris
How to beat OCD naturally and perfect your skincare routine.
Kristy Morris is the CEO of KAILO Group, Founder of KAILO Nutrition and Co-Founder of KAILO Wellness Medispa, leading a team of 48. Named 2024’s Best Luxury Wellness Brand CEO in APAC, Kristy’s wellness journey began in 2013 when she researched treatments for her son’s OCD. Her own diagnosis of Hashimoto’s disease in 2020 deepened her commitment to innovative wellness solutions, blending science, nutrition, and holistic health to redefine the industry.
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- Nick 0:00
Hi Kristy.
- Kristy 0:03
Hi, how are you?
- Nick 0:04
Very good, thank you. Um, for those who may not know you, can you share with everyone exactly what you do?
- Kristy 0:15
Okay, uh, well, my name is Kristy Morris. I'm from Brisbane. Um, I'm co-founder of **Kylio Wellness Medispa**, which is a wellness clinic in Brisbane at the Calile Hotel that offers everything from skin treatments to massage to IV to cosmetic. It's sort of your one-stop shop for all things that you want to do to look after yourself. Uh, and then since that journey started in 2018.
- Nick 0:36
That's recent. Yes. Wow.
- Kristy 0:38
Six years.
- Nick 0:41
Yeah.
- Kristy 0:41
Six years. Uh, we started with six employees and now I've grown to 33 practitioners in the business.
- Nick 0:46
Amazing.
- Kristy 0:47
And then in 2022, I founded **Kylio Nutrition**, which is a high-dose collagen and super blended greens for your gut health, uh, sleep health, and your immune system health.
- Nick 0:59
So what made you go down this path of health and longevity? Obviously we've all got stories, like what I got into this. What's your story?
- Kristy 1:07
Um, so when my son, who's now 15, when he was four years old, we were on a journey with him with severe **OCD** and **sensory processing**. And what was offered to us at the time in Brisbane was medication. And I just felt like for my little four-year-old boy, that wasn't necessarily the direction I wanted to go down. Yeah. So I just started searching the web. Long story short, ended up Google, Dr. Google. Um, and I was introduced to a friend who was, uh, in the US doing some treatment for her daughter who had autism.
- Nick 1:37
Yeah.
- Kristy 1:38
Uh, so, um, ended up moving to LA doing different modalities over there.
- Nick 1:41
Yeah.
- Kristy 1:42
And was able to completely reverse it, um, within two years and him to have a, like, completely normal life.
- Nick 1:50
Is that through diet?
- Kristy 1:52
A lot of it was through diet. Seeing a pediatrician out of Florida who specializes in, um, doing the like the genetic test and then supplementing him basing it on his like mutations, basically.
- Nick 2:06
And then so basically looking at his genetic test, yes, and then supplement, giving him the right supplements that suit his genetics. Is that correct?
- Kristy 2:12
Yes. So he had, um, certain genes that weren't functioning or powering right, which was then creating him to have the OCD. So he wasn't holding methyl B12 for example. Okay. Within six weeks of him having little mini injections, the OCD was gone. Um, the sensory processing, we had to do a program in LA that was, um, basically complex exercises done in a way to retrain the brain from birth.
- Nick 2:37
Is that neurofeedback training?
- Kristy 2:39
Yes, not similar. Um, but it's like you will stand there, for example, and you'll throw a ball against the wall like behind your head, turn around and catch it, but your eyes are closed. So it was all about that. Um, creating new brain, brain fibers, um, and doing everything the opposite. Not explaining it very well. It's something you have to see to understand it. And the 12-week program. So and the NFL players also do it to be, um, like sharper with their skills.
- Nick 3:03
Oh, really? Okay. So here's little Noah, four. He might have an NFL player next to him doing the same exercises, but it was a really special journey. Incredible. And that's what led you to starting health.
- Kristy 3:13
Yeah. So what happened while living there, um, I had met my business partner in Brisbane for the Medispa. She was on a similar journey. And when she met me just in the playland at school, I was telling her what we were doing in LA. Um, we literally met that day. Two weeks later, she called me. She said, "I'm coming with you." So her and I were on a journey as two moms with our boys.
- Nick 3:35
Amazing.
- Kristy 3:35
And then we just looked at all the things that were happening in LA and thought there's a big gap in Australia with that luxury wellness together. Um, and people are time poor, who wants to go to ten places for appointments across a week?
- Nick 3:46
Yeah, that's true.
- Kristy 3:47
So Kylio Wellness Medispa was born.
- Nick 3:49
Amazing. Yeah. I was reading your bio before this interview and you mentioned, uh, you had Hashimoto's.
- Kristy 3:55
Yes, I do.
- Nick 3:56
And do you still have it now?
- Kristy 3:57
I do. I, um,
- Nick 3:58
The reason I asked this question, a lot of our listeners will be suffering the same. Um, love to know how you treat it. Yeah. Um, and have you resolved it at all?
- Kristy 4:10
Uh, I would say I've definitely come a long way. So it was brought on by having Ross River fever. Often, uh, some form of virus can then lay dormant and then kick in your bad genes and next you know you have autoimmune. So in 2020, I was struggling a lot with I just gained all this weight. But I was eating really healthy. I couldn't exercise anymore. I was tight. I actually didn't know. I just thought it was the Ross River. Found out that I had Hashimoto's.
- Nick 4:34
And how did you find out you had it?
- Kristy 4:36
I went and did some Bloods. And then they said, "Oh, your antibodies are sky high. Your hormones are all out of whack." Um, and so then I went on a journey of naturally I'm always going to find what are other options instead of taking medication first. Not that I'm against it. But that's just me personally. And I, um,
- Nick 4:52
Have you ever heard of a medication called low-dose naltrexone?
- Kristy 4:57
Yes, I was using it.
- Nick 4:58
Okay. There you go.
- Kristy 4:59
So, um, I was really struggling. I was doing NAD IVs twice a week just to keep working every day. And I thought, "Well, that's not sustainable either." Um, so I went on low-dose naltrexone and brought my antibodies down. I was able to start working out again.
- Nick 5:12
What dose did you, was it 1.5 or 4.5?
- Kristy 5:14
I started on 0.5. I couldn't handle it initially. And then over two years, I got to the 4.5, which is where I'm at now. And then I went on an anti-inflammatory program with a gentleman I'd met in New York called Jay Cardiello. And that was only a year ago. And I think he has completely transformed my life.
- Nick 5:34
Through diet?
- Kristy 5:35
Oh, 100% through diet. Yeah, yeah. So removing all inflammation. It is. Absolutely. Yeah. And then stem cell treatment in November. So I'm still waiting to see how that pans out for me. My goal is to then come off the low-dose naltrexone and be like medication free. I was on it and I'm off it.
- Nick 5:54
And the reason I asked that question earlier, um, back in was it late 2023? I had quite a traumatic event and six months later my thyroid antibodies were skyrocketed. Both of them when I went and saw a doctor, they said I had, um, Hashimoto's disease. I, they wanted to put me on this medication. I said, "That's not going to happen." And I went doctor to Google. Went down rabbit holes. Yeah. And I started dosing, uh, high-dose Vitamin D, 10,000 IU per day.
- Kristy 6:22
Mhm.
- Nick 6:22
Over six months, all the antibodies went down to normal levels again. Yeah. And and they said, "Oh, it's gone. You don't need it anymore." I was doing LDN. Yeah, only for nerve pain, but it didn't do much for me. But I am a fan of it. Yeah. Um, but high-dose Vitamin D completely transformed my thyroid.
- Kristy 6:42
Yeah, I have heard a lot about. I do take vitamin D as well. And I have heard that that and I was tested for iodine and I was so low. But your normal doctor won't test for that. So you have to go a different route to get to the bottom of it. Yeah.
- Nick 6:57
Okay. And you do, you still take iodine at the moment?
- Kristy 7:00
Yes, I do. The reason I do is I do a spray every morning.
- Nick 7:03
Yeah. Okay.
- Kristy 7:04
Yeah. I, I just take it in a, um, liquid form every morning. And I just microdose it now. I don't need the higher dose. So yeah.
- Nick 7:09
And you also mentioned with your business, you focus on gut health. Can you talk me through that?
- Kristy 7:14
Yeah. I think **gut health** was 50% of Australians have gut issues. Um, and I think probably many people, I was going to say more that don't even know. And it's interesting when you start looking after your gut, you don't realize how bad you were feeling before.
- Nick 7:26
Yeah. Um,
- Kristy 7:27
So we worked, we, we were constantly seeing it in the Medispa and scripting people out of the business through our naturopath to go and take supplements. And that's why we created the Kylio Nutrition because everyone was suffering from gut issues. That was coming in. That was the number one problem. And since going down that road, um, it is our hero product. And people are, um, we've actually had people come in like crying. "You've literally turned around my life." Just from. And more so in the celiac space as well. Um, but I think the future as well with mental health, like if people understood that connection, um, we would be able to help a lot more people.
- Nick 8:07
How do you know if someone's dealing with gut issues? Like what's what do it tell the basically the warning signs?
- Kristy 8:13
Well, I can only go on my own experience and what practitioners in the business would tell me. But it's always reacting to foods. So you go to dinner and then after you've eaten your stomach's hurting, um, bloating, um, people often, you know, have constipation or or the other. Like it's one or the other. Yeah. Um, and when it starts to affect your day, if it's affecting your every single day where you're thinking about your gut, you definitely have a problem. Or they're not absorbing vitamins.
- Nick 8:42
Yes. And the reason I say that, my doctor mentioned to me that I'm not absorbing vitamins that well. And he's recommended that I go get a, uh, stool test and basically analyze where the issues are, 'cause I take a lot of supplements, but I'm throwing all these supplements in but nothing's really sticking.
- Kristy 8:57
You can't absorb it through the gut.
- Nick 8:58
Correct. And I'm not sleeping that well at the moment. They think it's an iron deficiency because I'm not absorbing iron, even though I eat a lot of red meat. Okay. So I'm down the rabbit hole now of gut health. So it's, it's just another thing I need in my life. Um, but now I'm taking probiotics and, uh, started taking a lot of nuts, legumes, try and resolve the issue.
- Kristy 9:22
And you finding a lot of people around you are struggling with iron because that seems to be a bit of an epidemic too. Where people aren't, and it's because of the gut issues and the toxins that are in our body, we're not absorbing nutrients anymore.
- Nick 9:32
Definitely. My wife definitely struggles with iron. Um, I never did up until about a year ago. And then in recent past year, my iron levels have tanked for some reason. And I eat a lot of red meat. I think I eat quite well. But something's going on. Yeah. I just don't think I'm absorbing that well. So, um, but it's all connected. That you gut. It's connected to your sleep patterns, your overall health, the way you build muscle. It's all connected in my, my belief is. And the doctor I work with, uh, Dr. MJ, which I had on the podcast.
- Kristy 10:03
Yes, I saw that. Yeah.
- Nick 10:04
He's a massive believer in gut health. And he's taking me down the rabbit hole with it at the moment. So in terms of your products, what do you offer? Because you said gut health products, but what exactly is that?
- Kristy 10:15
So we have, uh, Feel Well, which is high-dose collagen peptides. And then we have L-glutamine, aloe vera, prebiotics, probiotics. So it's in one formula. And then you just drink it in the morning. And most people within two weeks will start to notice a difference. Obviously, longer term, if you have gut issues, you need to be looking at your diet no matter what. That's the first thing you should do. And you should always be seeing somebody that knows what they're doing. Yeah. But for the everyday person who may not choose to go down that direction or have that education side where they want to learn, um, it's a great support to feel better. Yeah, that's how we look at it.
- Nick 10:52
And what's the plan to expand the range? Obviously you got the gut health range, the collagen. And what's the plan after that?
- Kristy 10:57
We do have, uh, a **longevity product** coming in a couple of months.
- Nick 11:00
Yes. Yes.
- Kristy 11:03
That we formulated. Um, what's it's got, you, you, I can never say Urolithin in it. Uh, CoQ10. No, I'm... No, it's, um, it's what all a lot of sports people take it. And we've formulated, um, it does have creatine in it as well. Okay. We've actually formulated it with an ex-NBA player who was really passionate about his journey as an NBA player. But yet you're not given necessary the best foods. And so he went down this road. So we've worked them with a naturopath, nutritionist to make sure, give us all the best ingredients. Chuck it in there. And then we'll get someone else to formulate it, basically. And then we've worked with our naturopath, nutritionist to make sure that those work well together. And then we have gone to our manufacturer. And we're just going down the road now. And we have also worked with a leading fertility specialist. And we're, um, also launching fertility products later this year. Because that's a very growing that and menopause and premenopause. Obviously a huge right now. But it's, um, something we're really excited about.
- Nick 12:10
Is most of your clientele female?
- Kristy 12:11
Yes.
- Nick 12:12
And in terms of supplementation for females of just say any age actually, we just say from ages 30 and above, what supplements would you personally recommend? And this is not advice. Yes. This is your recommendation that you would personally take.
- Kristy 12:28
I take obviously all of Kylio Nutrition. So the sleep health is my personal favorite because I have worked really hard on my gut health. So I don't need to take the gut health as often. I feel for me, **high-dose Vitamin C** is really important. Uh, **probiotics**, really good probiotic. But you need to know that you're on the right strain because you can go too far the other way. So you definitely need to work with a practitioner on that. I take all my **super greens**. I feel are really important. Yeah. Um, I do **NAD**.
- Nick 13:00
Do you do NAD IVs or injections?
- Kristy 13:03
Just do little self-injection. The little ways at like 100 milligram or 200.
- Nick 13:06
I do the 200.
- Kristy 13:07
200. How often would you do a 200?
- Kristy 13:09
I do it once a month. Yeah. And **glutathione** is another really important one.
- Nick 13:12
For you find it NAD makes a difference?
- Kristy 13:14
Oh, especially if you're struggling with any form of like brain fog or exhaustion, stress, burnout, definitely.
- Nick 13:22
Do you find when you take the injection it kind of not trip out, but it's like gives you a bit of a head rush?
- Kristy 13:28
I think what we've noticed in clinic is men seem to get more of adrenaline rush and the female side seems to feel more unwell. Yeah. So men seem to be able to do do the IV much faster as well.
- Nick 13:38
I'm not a fan of NAD IVs and the reason being when you do them, it's a journey. Yeah, it's a journey. It's a journey. It's a two, three-hour journey. I'm like, oh, I'm sitting there. My stomach's all over the place. I'm like, this is not pleasant at all. I'd rather do the injection in the butt. Yeah, get over and done with. And then, yeah, get on with my day.
- Kristy 13:55
Yes. Well, I'm with you. Yeah. I, I used to do the IV all the time. I just don't have the time.
- Nick 14:00
Yeah. And you have to work yourself up for the journey.
- Kristy 14:01
Correct. It's a, it's a journey.
- Nick 14:03
And how about glutathione?
- Kristy 14:05
Yeah. Glutathione has been something I've been passionate about since my son started his journey because they were giving him glutathione. So that's when I learned about really how it also supports with, yeah. So they would, um, little patches for him. Obviously not IVs or, um, and we saw a big difference in his behavior when we first started that journey as well.
- Nick 14:26
Kids. Little patches.
- Kristy 14:27
Yeah. There's a brand called Lifewave that do the glutathione patches.
- Nick 14:31
And what did your child see? What results?
- Kristy 14:36
It was more about around the, um, antioxidants that support the brain for the regulation of his behaviors. So they do it a lot also for children who have autism. It's apparently really amazing for them as well. Yeah, you know that. Yeah.
- Nick 14:50
And any other supplements you would take?
- Kristy 14:52
Oh gosh, I feel like I take so many. And I'm just trying to think of **Vitamin D**, 100% with you on the Vitamin D. Um, Vitamin with K2. With K2.
- Nick 15:03
Yes.
- Kristy 15:04
And take with K2 can get calcified. And nighttime I always take **L-theanine**. And that is just for me personally, living, um, a busy lifestyle and traveling a lot for work.
- Nick 15:15
Do you sleep well?
- Kristy 15:16
Uh, I do. I do. And then every now and then, um, I, I won't like, I'll go through a period of like a week or two where I used to be shocking.
- Nick 15:23
Oh, really?
- Kristy 15:24
I used to be the worst. And that's definitely a Hashimoto's thyroid issue. Um, but you can't sleep very well. And I think also just have come out of burnout. Yeah, it definitely went down a burnout stage.
- Nick 15:35
Interesting. Do you take L-theanine, anything else with your sleep?
- Kristy 15:38
Yes, I take, um, **passion flower**. It's all in the sleep or formula. So passion flower, tart cherry, which helps your body create its own melatonin. I'm not a fan of taking melatonin. I think you need to be very careful.
- Nick 15:53
I disagree with you on that one.
- Kristy 15:55
Okay, great. Let's talk about that.
- Nick 15:56
So **melatonin** is a powerful antioxidant. And there a book I read called *The Miracle Molecule*, yes, by Dr. John Alexander, I believe. And he mentions that melatonin's been demonized for no apparent reason. Okay. And high doses of melatonin can potentially prevent and treat cancer. And it's not addictive. It's not going to disrupt your circadian rhythm. And every single person on the planet should be taking melatonin. That's his theory.
- Kristy 16:20
Okay.
- Nick 16:21
I take melatonin personally. I haven't had any issues with it. Um, but I was was doing high-dose melatonin. Uh, I think I was doing 200, uh, milligrams.
- Kristy 16:36
Oh, wow. Very high dose that is. Were you tired the next day? 'Cause that makes me groggy the next day.
- Nick 16:40
No, I was perfectly fine. But the issue is I started finding that I started having muscle twitches at that dose. And I think I went from 1 milligram to 200 milligrams too quickly. And I started getting twitches. And the reason I was doing 200 milligrams, he recommended that. So I said I'll test it out. I don't do it now. But I take between, um, 300 micrograms and 2 milligrams per day at the moment. And I tested it. I wasn't a fan of it. But I do believe melatonin is a powerful antioxidant. So I'm not a doctor. I've just read the research around it.
- Kristy 17:15
Yeah, I have heard, um, people talk about that side of melatonin. It for me personally, I just don't like the way it makes me feel the next day. Yeah, it's a I get that groggy feeling. And I know some people get that, some people don't. But for me, and methyl B12 is, is something I, I don't miss. I take that every month as well. It's very, like, just once a month I do an injection.
- Nick 17:33
Okay. You don't take B vitamins?
- Kristy 17:35
It's already in the Kylio Nutrition. So yes, I do. But I, it's all in one.
- Nick 17:38
Excellent. Okay, that's good. My, uh, sleep stack at the moment is, uh, melatonin. I stopped L-theanine because that was waking me up during the night. Magnesium L-threonate, apigenin, uh, and magnolia bark.
- Kristy 17:55
Yeah, magnolia bark, I don't know anything about.
- Nick 17:59
And and I spray my pillow with lavender mist. It's ridiculous what we do to sleep. And I usually sleep fine. Last night though, don't know. I'm doing, um, I'm doing sleep restricted, no, diet restricted sleeping at the moment. So basically, instead of sleeping from 10:00 till 7:00, I'll sleep from, uh, 11:00 till 5:00. And then next day, I'll do 11:30 to 5:00, 12:00 to 5:00. And it builds up sleep pressure. And then theory is time once enough sleep pressure is built up, you can fall asleep instantly and go back to your normal hours.
- Kristy 18:34
Wow. I have not heard about this. I need into it. Because I also didn't sleep well last night, which I had been sleeping like a dream for weeks. And I'm like, "Why am I?" It was like, and you just keep like, "Why am I?" Was it getting into sleep or trying to stay asleep?
- Nick 18:47
I just couldn't get into sleep. It's like, you know, when you're almost asleep, that feeling all night. And in the end, I just, I just watched TV. It was like 2:30 in the morning and then I dozed. But it wasn't deep. It's the worst. Yeah. Last night I could, I was almost in his sleep. I'm like, like glazed over. I'm like, "I'm there. I'm in." And then my night, mine just went racing again. Yeah. I was like, "Oh my God." So and then I got up, read a book and did that dance for two hours and then went to bed around 1:00. Yeah, you're having a bad sleep. 'Cause I measure my sleep with my Oura Ring. Okay. And if I get a bad sleep score and below 80's bad, I'm like, "Damn it, I need to re-look at my stack." Yeah. So anyways, it affects everything though, when you don't sleep well. It's the worst.
- Kristy 19:30
Yeah. No, it is. It's not with your health, it takes lives of like the end of your life. And I've got friends who are genetically gifted in that area. Friend of mine, every night, almost 100% sleep score. No supplements, no nothing. Whereas I'm taking this and that. I've always been a notoriously bad sleeper. Yeah. So it is partly genetic, unfortunately.
- Nick 19:50
I think you're right. My husband's amazing sleeper too. And I look over really like, wherever we go in the world, no jet lag, just sleep. Doesn't matter. Any time zone. Just kills me. Sleep sitting up on a plane, whatever. I'm like, "Really? How do you do that?"
- Nick 20:05
So talk to me about your business. So you've got a health and wellness clinic in Brisbane.
- Kristy 20:09
Yes.
- Nick 20:09
I've got one in Melbourne. Yes. They interest in businesses. Yeah. Tell me what are the plans for it? Are you going to expand it? And why people should go and see it?
- Kristy 20:22
Big question on the expansion. We've had a couple opportunities over the years to expand and each time we've gotten closer, I've not wanted to go down that road.
- Nick 20:29
Why is that?
- Kristy 20:30
I just feel we've done really well with our reputation and to manage people at that level every single day from an elevation. I'm really particular around culture. Yeah. And then if we've had a lot of opportunity down in Melbourne and come down to Melbourne.
- Nick 20:47
You'll compete against me, please.
- Kristy 20:50
Now we're in different spaces. And I think it's just, it's got to be the right location. We're in the Calile Hotel. So it's the perfect location. How do we match that? You know, it's been a big question for us. We almost went down into Sorrento around that COVID time. And then we realized that was not the right.
- Nick 21:07
No. It would have been challenging for Staffing.
- Kristy 21:09
It was the staffing. I always look at your people are your business. They everything.
- Nick 21:13
What about Sydney for you?
- Kristy 21:14
Sydney. Again, it, this, it would be hard to find the space. I think we're almost a 400 square meter space. Like finding that space in a beautiful location.
- Nick 21:25
A lot of people are like, "Where would you do that in Sydney?" Do you think having a luxury next to the clinic is a massive bonus for it?
- Kristy 21:31
I think the interesting thing is the clientele is probably only 15% of our business. We have a huge Brisbane. We have people following. We have people from Melbourne and Sydney fly up to come to our clinic. They'll stay for a week. I think it has given us great traction to have the Calile behind us. It's such a beautiful, such a good brand.
- Nick 21:50
Amazing brand.
- Kristy 21:50
So we've, it's finding that. My personal thoughts, we've also had opportunity in the US. Was Kylio Nutrition has gone into the US and launched. And we, we have interest. Do we do that?
- Nick 22:05
US is tough. US is tough. And the reason I say that, remember I got some advice from a gentleman called Lord Sugar. He does Apprentice UK. And he, okay. I said to him, "I'm going to launch a business in the US." He goes, "Don't do it." I said, "Why?" I said, "I can make it work”. He goes, "Do not do it." I said, "Stick to your market or stick to the Europe, but don't go to the US." I was like, "Mate, I'm going to smash it in the US." Launched in the US, probably had the wrong people running the business. Ended up losing a ton of money. I was like, "Lord Sugar, you're right this time." But I'm not going, I'm going to do it again until I get it right.
- Nick 22:41
Yeah, the US is quite challenging, especially if you don't have the right people on the ground. What I should have done is actually move there myself and run the business. But I relied on others and then they ended up screwing everything up.
- Kristy 22:49
Yeah, I think that's probably where my worry sits if I'm not there. How do I know that delivering that of service when you're you're dealing with people's health too? Like whether it's their skin health, whatever you're doing, it's a big call. So you need to, um, but the nutritional side is, um, growing really fast for us. Um, we're launching, we've launched into the US. Launching, uh, I think today, you're buying on Saturday. We're launching over.
- Nick 23:15
Well, congrats.
- Kristy 23:15
Thank you. In retail. Yeah. So we in the US, we've launched into **Neiman Marcus** in February last year. In two weeks, we launch into **Bloomingdale's**.
- Nick 23:26
Oh, wow. It's huge.
- Kristy 23:26
Um, yeah, it's been an ex, it's been a really fast 12 months. Um, and we're in **Erewhon Juiceries** in LA. I don't know if you've ever been to Erewhon Juiceries. They're sort of like the Airwan, but just standalone. They've been around a lot longer. So there's 24 of those stores. We launched into there. And then we're launching across 43 retail spaces in **Dubai** and opening a smoothie bar. Um,
- Nick 23:49
Your game.
- Kristy 23:50
Yeah, yeah. Well, in collaboration with them. So operationally them, but we're the brand if that makes sense. Yeah. And into **Kuwait** and, um, where else we? And then into **Germany**.
- Nick 24:06
Oh, wow. Yeah. All in the next four months. Now you have a co-founder in the business, in the Medispa. The Kylio Nutrition is mine.
- Nick 24:12
Oh, really? Yeah. So I, I did that on my own. Um, and...
- Nick 24:16
Well done. Smart.
- Kristy 24:16
It's been, um, yeah, it's definitely been a wild ride and one that I'd never foresaw what's unfolded. So I think it's catching your breath and trying to make sure you're making good sound decisions as you go because is I'm trying to slow things down a little bit.
- Nick 24:30
How's the relationship between you and the co-founder in the Medispa?
- Kristy 24:33
Amazing. She want to join the nutritional business. Her and her husband already have a successful business outside of the Medispa, doing coffee. So, um, they have been nothing but supportive and she's the first person to champion me when things unfold. And I think, um, just different stages of our lives too. Yeah, yeah.
- Nick 24:54
Did you raise money for the business or or...?
- Kristy 24:55
Or. And that's a question I'm facing now because I've gone all in. Um,
- Nick 25:01
Wow. Yeah, yeah.
- Kristy 25:02
All in. All in. Um, and my husband has had to leave his job to support and manage all the compliance for the countries. And, um, so then husband and wife sort of working together has been really an amazing journey of learning for us as well. Like we probably had our first few arguments and then we're like, "Well, this is tricky." And now we've come out the other side of that.
- Nick 25:25
Has it brought you closer as a couple?
- Kristy 25:27
Yeah. And then he travels. I travel. So we're not, I'm not as a mom with three children leaving. I was struggling with always leaving. Yeah. I'd have to go to the US, set up, train, go across, you know, all the different states doing training. And then come home and then your kids are like, "Oh, where's Mom gone?" Yeah, yeah. So now at that stage of matching the opportunities, do we need to go down the road of investment? I feel like we're there. And we're starting to put decks together and go down that because otherwise what we could do in two years, might take us five or seven. Yeah, on our own. Um, even though my parents sometimes, like, "Oh, surely you can, you can just keep going." I'm like, "Gosh, it's hard though."
- Nick 26:07
No, if you can raise to fast-track the growth, then I'm an advocate for it. But don't give away too much equity. Yeah.
- Kristy 26:13
All of these things, I don't know enough about. So I'm trying to surround myself by the right people to learn. So that when that opportunity comes, we make a really good decision. And one that we don't regret. Yeah. So it's exciting.
- Nick 26:26
Excellent. And back to the Medispa business. So obviously you got a business partner in that one. Would she consider moving to the US opening the clinic or just going to keep it as is?
- Kristy 26:32
We'll keep it as is. Um, and we do have some interest, um, in investors right now into that space to take it further. So we're just looking at that at the moment. Deciding if we go down that road.
- Nick 26:48
You got to come down to Melbourne.
- Kristy 26:49
Yeah, we, it is. It is. It's funny for Kath. Her name is Kath. Kath and I, um, we love Melbourne. And we always like if anywhere we would choose Melbourne.
- Nick 26:59
Have you thought about partnering with another hotel chain?
- Kristy 27:04
Yes. They would just need to be at that boutique Calile vibe. Yeah. I don't know too many. I don't know Melbourne enough to know. I know there's one in Sydney. Is it Eva or something that's open in Sydney? Someone was saying, "Should have gone in there." Um, but yeah.
- Nick 27:23
Excellent. Let's talk about your stem cell journey. Yes. We mentioned this briefly, briefly before we came on air. Yeah. Can you talk to us about the stem cells you've done, where to do them and who with?
- Kristy 27:32
Okay. So lucky enough to see **Dr. Adil Khan**, the king.
- Nick 27:36
He's the best.
- Kristy 27:37
He's the best. Uh, I had reached out to him to talk about our Wellness Summit that's coming up this year. And that's why he's come to Brisbane in May. He's coming to Brisbane and May. He'll be seeing patients at Kylio, uh, which is great. So when I initially reached out to him, his books were closed. And so we just had the conversation around him being a speaker. And then, um, they allowed us the opportunity to go see him in Dubai. And so I went, um, for mold. I had, we had a house that had really bad mold in. And we went through a really tough journey dealing with insurance here. I won't bore you.
- Nick 28:11
You need for that for mold. It's called a, I believe it's called a HOAC.
- Kristy 28:13
Oh, yes. That's what you were talking about before. Yes. So if you've got mold in your body, basically HOAC, I think it's pronounced HOAC. It's, it's basically a giant egg and you sit in this device.
- Nick 28:24
Yeah. Your head's popping out of this device.
- Kristy 28:25
And within the device, it's a sauna. It goes up to about 50 degrees. Okay. And it also pumps in ozone over a 30-minute period. And over that 30 minutes, literally, heavy metals, mold is detoxified from your body over that 30-minute period. And as you leave the device up to 30 minutes, you see the heavy metals and the toxin and the mold on the ground.
- Nick 28:49
Oh, wow. No. You see instantly. That's confronting. But in a positive way.
- Kristy 28:52
In a positive way. I've been doing, I've done nine sessions in the past three weeks. Okay. And I use a white towel on the seat. And when I jump up, like, holy crap, there's heavy metals on the seat. And there was one woman who came in before me and she had been living in a house full of mold for 10 years. Her whole towel was black with mold.
- Nick 29:13
Yeah. It just drains all the toxins out of your body. Okay. So if you've got issues with mold, consider a HOAC.
- Kristy 29:22
I will definitely look into that because, um, we've only been out of the house for two years. And so when I to see Dr. Khan, he did the **natural killer cell treatment**. He said that should help with detoxifying some of the mold out of your system.
- Nick 29:36
I've done that treatment. Yeah. How did you feel? I got fevers. I, I went into my whole body. Like I was on fire.
- Kristy 29:43
I didn't feel anything.
- Nick 29:43
Oh. I was so unwell. Sneezing and sneezing and sneezing. And he was like, "This is good. Your body." It's like, "Literally the best reaction you could get." And then they just had to tell me that I got nothing. No, I literally had high fevers, like real fevers from it. And then as soon as it stopped, and then I felt really sick for about three days. And then I had the stem cell, the new stem cell treatment from him then, uh, and so that was in November. That was an IV. It was an IV.
- Nick 30:17
And how many, how many stem cells were injected?
- Kristy 30:18
I don't look. I probably 50 million. Yeah, it was definitely in the millions. But I, I couldn't remember the exact dosage. Um, so yeah, that was November. And now I'm starting in the last week. I've started to see some changes. I'm not feeling the fatigue. I'm feeling like I get through a day normally. I'm mentally going to struggle. And I'm like, "Oh, I can keep going." That's like a positive.
- Nick 30:40
And do you believe that's the stem cells? Are you 100% sure?
- Kristy 30:43
I'm not 100% because it could be supplements. It could be there's so many things you and I do in our correct routine. To me, I'm like, "Is it this or is it that?" I genuinely don't know. And I even said to my husband, "I have started to see some changes." And he's he's noticed. Yeah, like I'm way more energetic. And he was like, "I can see the changes now." Whether it's the stem, I don't want to get too excited yet. I don't want to hold it that that's it because of course you want it to be, you want it to be the stem cells. And obviously you paid a lot of money for those stem cells. Please work. Yeah. And I, um, so let's I, I will see what happens over the next few weeks. If I continue to feel this way, I can't see why it wouldn't be. Because why would I just wake up and start feeling better? And I don't have, I normally would always wake up my eyes are always bloodshot and that's gone. Which that's great. I've noticed.
- Nick 31:35
Did you do exosomes as well?
- Kristy 31:37
No, just the stem cells and and the cell **myostatin**. That's it. Yes.
- Nick 31:44
What I do to myostatin gene therapy. Um, we were just talking to him and he actually just offered it to my husband and I. He said, "Oh, because I'm coming to talk at the summer..."
- Kristy 31:54
For free or did you pay for it?
- Nick 31:55
Maybe for free.
- Kristy 31:55
Okay.
- Nick 31:56
And he said, "I would love for you and your husband to try this because when I come to the summit, you can talk about your experience." Uh, and my parents, they're in their '70s.
- Kristy 32:09
Oh my gosh, they will like energize the bunnies within five days of having that. They both felt significantly different.
- Nick 32:16
For those who don't know, myostatin gene therapy is basically an injection that improves your bone density and your overall muscle strength. Yeah. So as you, as you age, you lose muscle quite easily. It helps to rectify that. So I've done the therapy myself. Yeah. I did get benefit from it. Yeah. Um,
- Nick 32:32
Did you find it more when you would go to the gym?
- Kristy 32:34
Yeah, if I, if I went to the gym and I, I just ate, okay. Uh, I, I think I put on six kilos in four weeks. Okay. It definitely does work. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's quite expensive still. So it's not for everyone. But I think the prices will come down eventually.
- Nick 32:51
Yeah. All of that will change in time as there's more access. Correct. Correct. Yeah.
- Nick 32:58
And so you've done stem cells, myostatin. Have you done exosomes before?
- Kristy 33:02
Only through skin needling for my face. It's illegal in Australia to do IV exosomes.
- Nick 33:08
Yeah. Do you do exosomes in a clinic?
- Kristy 33:10
Yeah, we do. Yeah. For skin and hair.
- Nick 33:12
They make a difference.
- Kristy 33:13
We do. And I think it's not necessarily always understood. It's about the, you need to do it quite regularly to get that regeneration of the skin cells. So I think a lot of people do it once, I go, "I didn't see any benefit." Well, you need to go on a journey. Yeah. At least six to 12 times is what...
- Nick 33:28
Oh, really? Yeah.
- Kristy 33:28
And I've spoken a lot. Once a month for 12 months.
- Nick 33:31
Yeah.
- Kristy 33:32
Some people do it fortnightly. These things are expensive. So of course, it comes down to you want to see benefit sooner rather than later. What you will notice is a definite glow in your skin. People who have skin issues will probably see a benefit faster because it will start to reduce the inflammation. But I've spoken a lot to Dr. Khan around how often he's like, "If you have the means, you should be doing it fortnightly." And then for...
- Nick 33:57
Interesting. Yeah.
- Kristy 33:58
And then for hair growth. And for hair growth, we do it as well.
- Nick 34:02
Yeah. How often?
- Kristy 34:03
Well, they say every two weeks, I think up to eight times and then you go to monthly. Mhm. And I, um, have started that because I got a lot of hair loss through Hashimoto's. I've started the journey as well.
- Nick 34:16
Got you. So I'll, I'll let you know on a year. I was doing, um, PRF for my hair.
- Kristy 34:20
Yes. So basically PRF is PRP on steroids.
- Nick 34:22
And basically they take your own blood. They spin it. They take out the plasma and they inject it either in your face or your hair. I was doing PRF for about a year. Didn't really do much for me. Um, I did PRF into my eyes. Yeah, that made a difference. And you mentioned earlier that you're doing salmon DNA. Yeah. Over the entire face.
- Kristy 34:43
Yeah, face, neck, you can do your hands. Um, also great for any form of scarring. Post-Cesarean, there's lots of different. It's all in the technique.
- Nick 34:49
What exactly is salmon DNA?
- Kristy 34:52
So it's salmon sperm. I was going to say, friend of mine, I should say this. Call it salmon sprog.
- Nick 34:55
Yeah.
- Kristy 34:56
So, um, yeah, we say salmon DNA because it's obviously a lot nicer to say. Um, when you say to people, "Salmon sperm," they're like, "Oh, am I putting that in my face?" Um, but yeah, the results are incredible. Like literally almost instant.
- Nick 35:10
Yeah. I see my wife come home and she's literally got little dots, like mountains of dots across her entire face. I'm like, holy moly. Just covered in sperm.
- Kristy 35:20
Yeah. Yeah. And I think that yes, I genuinely, we've done a lot of before and afters. It's, it's about the fine, like they're really fine. And if you do it early enough, people who eventually do Botox or fillers, which are not good for you, um, not that I'm not an advocate. I've definitely done that in my lifetime. No, I'm definitely somebody who has done that. I'm not denying, um, having done.
- Nick 35:41
Botox. Is Botox bad for you?
- Kristy 35:43
I think any toxin you're putting into your system. That's fair. No matter what it is, whether it's, you know, skin product. You got to be careful on everything that you do. Even on products now, you should be read the label. There's an app. You can actually read the back of the label saying, uh, that is 10, 10, mean the worst. Zero means this is great for your skin or healthy.
- Nick 36:03
When I see nine, I'm like, "Throw this in the bin."
- Kristy 36:05
Yeah. So yeah. So I think DNA will, salmon sperm will be the future. And there's so much more coming out with that company in the skincare as well. And people won't have to go down the road of injectables, which will be amazing.
- Nick 36:19
Salmon DNA is a great for say, eye bags. Yes.
- Kristy 36:23
Working in the cosmetic space, what would you recommend for people with eye bags? Uh, I think PRP, salmon DNA, exosomes. A no filler is a big one. Like we see a lot of people coming in actually a lot of men who come to Kylio for, um, under the eye.
- Nick 36:39
It injected in fill around the eye socket.
- Kristy 36:41
Yeah. You got to be really careful. But there's one, um, that does brightening. But I personally think if you can do the salmon DNA, that's, that's the direction I would go down.
- Nick 36:51
Painful?
- Kristy 36:52
Yes. Yeah, there is. It is. It's...
- Nick 36:57
I looked at it. I'm like, "Oh, it's quite painful." I didn't find under the eyes painful at all. But once you start going down here and your neck.
- Kristy 37:07
Yes. Yeah. Have you done your neck?
- Kristy 37:10
I have been a bit more where we, because obviously you have your own clinic. Um, we mix it up in, have you ever seen the stamp? There a stamp with needles. And so I get the girls to mix up and stamp it in because I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. Whereas my business partner Kath is, "Oh, it's like little needles." Like little. Yeah. And you can stab it. So it still goes in deeper, but it doesn't, it's not as light. And I have found that to be.
- Nick 37:34
In terms of skincare, what skincare regime would you recommend for either male or female or both?
- Kristy 37:40
Sunscreens are a must every day.
- Nick 37:42
I don't use sunscreen. Yeah. Um, I think when you're looking at anti-aging, so we definitely need to get out in the sun.
- Kristy 37:48
And mineral-based sunscreen.
- Nick 37:50
Mineral-based sunscreen.
- Kristy 37:51
Uh, I definitely think if you only could do one thing for anti-aging for your skin, and you'll hear a lot of plastic surgeons talk about this, **skin needling**. If there's only one thing you could do, like obviously doing your regime at home, you need to have a dermal therapist who can tell you what skincare is best for your skin because you and I would be different. Your wife and I would be different. But skin needling because of the trauma that it creates, then you get the collagen. And that is by far, if you can start early enough, again, avoiding having to do other things later.
- Nick 38:25
Can you do skin needling with exosomes?
- Kristy 38:27
Yes. So where you go the needle in first and then the exosomes on top. So what they do is they put the exosomes all over you and then they needle it in like with the skin needling pen. Yeah. So you can do that. You can do glutathione. You can needle that in as well, um, for brightening. Um, there's lots of different things you can needle in.
- Nick 38:48
And how often would you recommend someone skin needle their face?
- Kristy 38:52
Every month, every four to six weeks.
- Nick 38:55
Once a month. Mhm. Is it quite intense?
- Kristy 38:58
It's not. It's not painful. It's uncomfortable. Like it's not like you're getting injections. It just is a bit because it starts to feel a bit raw as well because you go over once and then you go over again, fine. They also skin needle scarring.
- Nick 39:13
Yes.
- Kristy 39:14
But you need to make sure who you're seeing knows what they're doing. And that they understand that sometimes it will get, you can even with stretch marks or, um, scarring, things can look worse before they look better. So you need definitely need to make sure you're under the right care there. You need to make sure your your therapist is dermal qualified, which means degree qualified.
- Nick 39:34
Does your treatment, does your clinic treat scars?
- Kristy 39:37
We do. We have, um, a machine that does the BBL and the hero. Yeah. So we, we have a couple of laser, laser specialists in the business that do that.
- Nick 39:46
Okay. Excellent. Yeah. Always be careful now. Talk to me through your, your day in terms of your longevity routine. Everyone's got their own routine. I wish I could say it was as amazing as it used to be. Let's, uh, let's say when you wake up to when you go to bed, all the longevity treatments you do in one day.
- Kristy 40:02
Well, if I'm being really honest, if any, I, I can honestly say the amount of travel I do right now is hard to bring in many things. Um, I'm often home for two or three weeks and then gone and then back and forth. So what I try to do is focus on, uh, making sure that I eat really well.
- Nick 40:22
Yeah.
- Kristy 40:22
I meditate every day.
- Nick 40:25
And diet, meat, vegetarian?
- Kristy 40:26
No, I do have meat. Okay. Yeah. Uh, I eat an anti-inflammatory food. So I stick to that journey. If I had the time right now and I, I'm 2025 is the year. I want to bring back doing **hyperbaric chamber** is definitely something I would bring back in. Massive fan. Massive fan. **Infrared sauna**.
- Nick 40:42
Yep.
- Kristy 40:42
Uh, there those two things. Path. Um, I haven't come on. Do it. It is if I could choose any one longevity hack, it would be an **ice bath**.
- Nick 40:50
Yeah.
- Kristy 40:50
Okay. To me, everything else is secondary only because my body is prone to inflammation. Yes. As according to my genetics.
- Nick 40:58
Yeah. I have ice baths and I'm bang. I feel like a new man.
- Kristy 41:01
Yeah. And **sleep health**. Sleep is, if you, to me, if you're not sleeping well, nothing is functioning.
- Nick 41:08
Agreed.
- Kristy 41:09
And looking after your gut health. But for longevity, yeah, hyperbarics, infrared. Yeah. NAD IVs if you can.
- Nick 41:16
Do you fast at all? Do you wake up in the morning and have breakfast straight away?
- Kristy 41:20
I eat 11:00. I do two meals a day. So I eat 11:00 and then dinner. That's it.
- Nick 41:26
Yeah. And any other in the morning, like what's the first drink you would have in the morning?
- Kristy 41:30
Well, coffee. I get up at 4:00.
- Nick 41:32
You have coffee straight away.
- Kristy 41:33
I get up at 4:00, have a coffee by myself and then just like have an hour completely to myself.
- Nick 41:39
You get up at 4:00 every day. And what time do you wake up this morning?
- Kristy 41:43
Um, well, I've kind of been awake since 2:30 off and on. But...
- Nick 41:47
And what time do you go to bed?
- Kristy 41:49
I go to bed around 9:00, 9:30. And this morning and last night, uh, the same. Yeah, just, yeah. But if I was in my normal routine, I go to bed 9:00, 9:30. Wake up at 4:00. Yeah. Get up, coffee, an hour to myself. Think about what I need to do for the day. Plan what's happening for the week. Just get into that zone. Because then all the kids get up from 5:00. And then it's school routine.
- Nick 42:13
Oh, yeah. Yeah. The three kids. The...
- Kristy 42:14
The three kids. The, you know, I've got to go to football training, wherever. You've got to take everyone.
- Nick 42:19
Yeah.
- Kristy 42:20
And three different schools. So that's a bit of a challenge. And then yeah, I go to work and I just get, I get excited to go. I never not want to go into work.
- Nick 42:28
Excellent. Yeah. What's one thing you would recommend that everyone should do in their daily life? One treatment to look after themselves.
- Kristy 42:38
Oh, that's a big one. **Meditate**. Meditate. I would say meditate.
- Nick 42:43
How long for?
- Kristy 42:44
Minimum 15 minutes. Yeah. Um, yeah. Calming the brain and just breath work, some maybe three, five minutes of breath work. Okay. Excellent. Yeah.
- Nick 42:55
Can we also talk about what are your thoughts around the future of wellness?
- Kristy 43:01
What I'm seeing and I think there is a huge movement towards one, **wellness travel**. So people are going to different hotels around the world where they have the doctors. And you do the genetic testing before you arrive. And it's that personalization. Yeah. So I think it's the tailored health to your individual needs because it's not a one-size-fits-all. Yeah. And so I'm seeing a huge trend. And we, we have seen that even in the Medispa where people are wanting more. They don't just come to get their skin treatment. They're like, "Well, I've got this issue. I've got that issue." So we're seeing a lot of tailored health. I feel like that and **more mental wellness**. So I don't want to say mental health because they're very different. But I think mental wellness, meditation.
- Nick 43:39
Yeah.
- Kristy 43:39
Well, I just think the world is so fast and there's no disconnection anymore. You're on 24/7. And people have had enough. So what I'm seeing is people are saying, "I'm actually setting a boundary and I'm switching off. And I'm disconnecting to now reconnect into my life and focus on my own health." Yep. Yeah. That's what I'm seeing.
- Nick 43:57
I personally believe I think within 20 or 30 years, GPs will become redundant. I think AI will become your very own GP. So to diagnose any health conditions you may have. It'll give you protocols to improve your health. Um, potentially treat any potential diseases you may have. I listened to a podcast recently with Bear Grylls. You know, Bear Grylls. He was in the car last week.
- Kristy 44:19
Oh, really?
- Nick 44:19
Literally. There you go. And he, he mentioned he goes, "I'm not 50 years of age." Yeah. "I've lived 25% of my life because I firmly believe that I'm going to live to 200 years of age with the tech that's on the horizon." So I'm 25% through my life with the tech. I'm going to live to 200 years of age because of AI. And that's what I firmly believe as well. I think it's all going to change. It's all, it's coming so quickly.
- Kristy 44:46
Do you see, I, I see it's already going like that.
- Nick 44:48
Concierge type doctor as well has become. There's a few in Australia that are incredible that are already working in that space where you pay them a retainer. And then they look after your...
- Kristy 44:56
Yes.
- Nick 44:57
I pay a doctor monthly retainer. They look after my blood work, my health. Yes. But also it's still human.
- Kristy 45:04
Mhm.
- Nick 45:05
Whereas AI has all the data and can make rational decisions based on millions of pieces of data. And I think that's all going to come. There's a clinic now open in London. It's owned by the co-founder of Spotify, I believe. Or the founder of Spotify. And you go in then it takes a thousand photos of your body. And then measures your blood pressure, other readings. And then determines what's wrong with you and how we can improve it. You just go in there and stand. It's crazy. So that's AI doing that.
- Nick 45:36
Because I know there's scans that you can do where it can pick up like one cancer cell.
- Kristy 45:39
Yeah. That's separate.
- Nick 45:41
It's, it's all separate. It's a new clinic. You walk in there. Unbelievable. Do you see any downsides to that journey in the future?
- Kristy 45:46
I think bedside manner. Yeah.
- Nick 45:49
Okay. Lack of bedside manner. The connection.
- Kristy 45:51
Yeah.
- Nick 45:52
But they can also program that AI. Yeah, yeah.
- Kristy 45:56
True. You're going to be okay. You're going to be fine. They can probably program to be even nicer than some doctors.
- Nick 46:02
So I think that's I think where AI is headed. It's going to massively improve the health and wellness of the community. Which is exciting.
- Kristy 46:10
It is. Yeah.
- Nick 46:11
Thank you.
- Kristy 46:12
Thank you.
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