Regenerative Aesthetics & Longevity with Dr Keiron Lord

Regenerative Aesthetics & Longevity

with Dr Keiron Lord & Nita McEvoy

Dr Keiron Lord and Nita McEvoy sit across from each other in a podcast studio, talking during an episode of Ageing Disgracefully, with microphones, water glasses, soft lighting, and indoor plants.

Dr Keiron Lord joins Nita McEvoy on Ageing Disgracefully for an in-depth conversation on regenerative aesthetics, longevity medicine, and the future of ageing well.

If you think aesthetics is just about freezing a frown line and sending someone back to Tesco, you’re a bit behind the curve.

On this episode of Ageing Disgracefully, I sat down with Dr Lord, regenerative aesthetics and longevity doctor, baby-deliverer, menopause brain, and the kind of man who’ll talk NAD+ and hair transplants in the same breath without flinching.

He’s based in Manchester, still works in the NHS, runs a regenerative aesthetics clinic, and somehow manages not to look permanently exhausted. I needed to know how, for my clients, and frankly for myself.

The Doctor Who Delivers Babies… and Longevity Protocols

Dr Lord started where most doctors do: as a junior in the NHS, doing the usual brutal shifts for not-so-brutal pay. He’ll tell you straight that he got into aesthetics initially to earn extra money rather than do even more on-call hours.

But here’s what mattered: once he stepped into aesthetics, he didn’t treat it like a side hustle. Over ten years, he built a serious practice while still working in acute medicine, then in obstetrics and gynaecology, the world of labour wards, pregnancy complications and women who need calm, competent care at 3 am.

He still does at least one day a week in the NHS. Financially, it makes no sense. The paperwork, the portfolio, the appraisals, the constant need to “prove” competence when he could easily walk away and live a much simpler life in private practice.

And yet he stays.

Because of the buzz of the labour ward, the team he’s grown up with, and the purpose of looking after women at their most vulnerable? You don’t swap that out for a nicer car and fewer emails. It keeps him grounded, and it gives him a very different lens on ageing, hormones and women’s health than your average injector with a ring light.

Longevity, Supplements & Why Your Lifestyle Shows Up on Your Face

We got into the bit most people are pretending to understand on Instagram: longevity.

Dr Lord hates the fluff around the word as much as I do. He prefers “health optimisation”. In plain English: your toxin and your “glow” facial are not going to save you if you’re sleeping five hours a night, fuelling yourself on beige food and pretending wine is a coping strategy.

He built his clinic around the idea that you cannot separate skin from health. You can needle, fill and boost until kingdom come, but if your mitochondria are exhausted, your hormones are crashing. Your nutrition is an afterthought; your results will always be limited.

That’s where supplements come in, but not the “whatever’s on offer at the supermarket” kind.

He sees women and men every week who are overwhelmed by bottles: vitamin D, Bs, multivitamins, magnesium, collagen, mystery “anti-ageing” blends, and no idea what actually does anything.

Before you throw money at supplements, you need:

a half-decent diet,
some level of sleep hygiene,
and then targeted, good-quality supplementation that actually absorbs and is right for your sex, age and stage.

Otherwise, you’re just making expensive wee.

The Day I Nearly Had a Stroke… and It Was Just Vitamin D

At this point, I told him my own story, because it still shocks me when I think about it.

Years ago, I was 34, working stupid hours in a basement concession, trying to have a baby and feeling increasingly strange. My vision went fuzzy when I was doing brows. My hands felt weak. One day, I came over to the clinic so odd that a client basically ordered me to A&E because I “looked weird”.

Within hours, I was in an ambulance, blue-lighted to UCLH, with the words “possible TIA/stroke” being thrown around. They scanned, monitored, admitted, and then… nothing. I was sent back to my GP for follow-up.

He ran more bloods, and days later, a letter landed through my door with a prescription already inside it: severe vitamin D deficiency. Start treatment immediately. Come back in four weeks.

Within 10 days, the weird symptoms began to melt away. My vision, my grip, my brain, everything felt like it plugged back in. A few months later, I fell pregnant with my daughter, Giorgia.

I’m not saying vitamin D magically made a baby. But my body clearly wasn’t in a state to grow anything when my bones, brain and hormones were that depleted.

Dr Lord wasn’t surprised. To him, vitamin D isn’t just a “nice little supplement”; it behaves more like a hormone. It’s central to calcium and phosphate metabolism, bone health, and a wide range of downstream processes. When it’s low, multiple systems go off.

What he hammered home:

If you’re feeling “off”, weird neurological symptoms, fatigue, muscle weakness, mood changes, don’t just assume you’re broken or old. Get bloods. Sometimes it isn’t a catastrophe. It’s a deficiency.

And if you’re taking vitamin D, don’t lazily grab the first bottle you see. In many cases, you want vitamin D3 combined with K2 so the calcium you absorb ends up in your bones, not your blood vessels, which is the difference between random supplement shopping and medical guidance.

Perimenopause, Supplements & Why Men Need to Step Up Too

Perimenopause and menopause are where Dr Lord really comes into his own. He sees women who feel like they’ve aged 10 years “overnight” – joint pain, fatigue, hair thinning, low libido, brain fog, skin changes, the lot.

From his point of view, that “overnight” shift is actually the result of decades of gradual collagen loss and then a brutal 30% drop in the first five years after menopause. The scaffolding goes, the hormones decline, the inflammation rises, and suddenly your face, joints, energy and mood all file complaints at once.

Fundamental supplement pillars he leans on for this group are:

Vitamin D with K2 – for bone health, immune function and cardiovascular protection.
Omega-3 – to calm the inflammation party that tends to kick off when oestrogen drops.
Magnesium – for sleep, muscle function, and general nervous system calm, ideally in a well-absorbed, liposomal form.

Then there’s the hotter topic: NAD and NMN.

He explained it beautifully. NAD+ is in every cell and is crucial for mitochondrial energy production. As we age, our mitochondria get tired, our NAD levels drop, and suddenly our cells have less energy to repair DNA, make proteins or keep tissues youthful.

NMN and NR are precursors that the body uses to make NAD. NMN tends to perform better in research, and combining NMN with NR can be beneficial, but again, the delivery system matters as much as the label. If you “absorb” none of that 99% pure powder, you’ve just bought very fancy dust.

He’s a fan of good liposomal formulations, a few drops under the tongue, ninety seconds, and you’ve actually got something on board. For some clients, IV drips have their place too, especially when they want a fast hit and then maintain with oral or sublingual doses.

The key theme is constant: no blanket prescriptions, no “everyone needs the same infusion”—Case-by-case, based on bloods, lifestyle and goals.

And for fertility? There is no magic vitamin. But a body that’s replete, rested and less inflamed is far more likely to conceive and maintain a pregnancy than one running on fumes. Men are not exempt from this. Sperm quality can change week to week depending on stress, alcohol, sleep and diet. If you’re trying to conceive, both parties need to behave like it.

Hair, Scalp & The Psychology of Keeping What’s On Your Head

We then moved into hair, because if there’s one thing that terrifies both men and women, it’s watching their hairline retreat.

Dr Lord has seen a significant increase in men coming into the clinic, not just for injectables but also for skin quality and hair restoration. Women in perimenopause and menopause are also quietly panicking as they notice thinning at the temples, parting or crown.

For a lot of people, the current pattern is: ignore, ignore, ignore… and then suddenly fly to Turkey when it’s severe enough for a transplant.

He argues that there’s a whole middle ground we’re not using.

Exosomes with microneedling, PRP, targeted scalp protocols and now dedicated products like Revive HS (exosomes plus PDRN for hair and scalp regeneration) can all be used to:

support the scalp before hair loss becomes dramatic,
prep the environment before a transplant,
and maintain results afterwards, so you’re not wasting a costly surgery on a poorly nourished scalp.

He’s just launched a dedicated hair and scalp clinic in Manchester, built around exactly that 360° approach: treatments, supplements, lifestyle and ongoing maintenance rather than “one procedure and good luck”.

Because yes, hair is cosmetic, but it’s also deeply psychological. For men, it’s tied to identity and confidence; for women, especially around menopause, it’s about femininity and feeling like yourself. You can’t dismiss that as vanity and expect people not to care.

Regenerative Aesthetics: The Long Game, Not the Lunch Break

One of the most critical parts of our conversation was this: regenerative aesthetics is not fast aesthetics.

If you want big, immediate change, filler can absolutely remodel a face in an afternoon, for better or for worse. But if you want a face that still looks like you, just healthier and better supported in ten years, that comes from collagen, elastin, mitochondrial energy and long-term protocols.

Dr Lord is a strong advocate for biostimulators such as collagen stimulators, exosomes, polynucleotides, skin boosters, and carefully chosen toxins, used with restraint.

They don’t give that instant “done” look, which is why some patients get impatient. But he described seeing clients six, twelve, eighteen months down the line looking better and better, even when the last session was months ago, the skin’s quality, texture, and light reflection change in ways filler alone cannot mimic.

It’s the gym analogy: one heavy session won’t give you biceps. Consistent, smart work over time does. Regenerative aesthetics is the same. The result is quieter, but it lasts longer and actually supports your biology rather than fighting it.

Pair that with sleep, diet, movement, hormone management and emotional health, and the glow stops being just a filter. You become one of those annoying people who “just look well” in a tracksuit, no injectables signpost in sight.

If you want the full conversation, the science, the humour, the real talk about ageing, health optimisation, and regenerative aesthetics — the full episode is now live on Ageing Disgracefully on YouTube. It’s the kind of episode you watch once to learn, and again to rethink everything you thought you knew about ageing: