Video: Getting And Keeping Yourself Healthy

What are the key things to keep healthy?

Okay, number one: sleep. If you need seven hours, get seven hours. If you need eight hours, get eight hours. But monitor and guard your sleep. In our house, we have a hard nine o’clock—everything stops. And by 9:15, lights are out. I get up at 4:30. I usually wake up before the alarm, even though I set one.

So get enough sleep. I track my sleep. I’ve got a Garmin, I’ve got an Aura ring. First thing I do in the morning is check what my sleep score is. If I’m in the middle to high 80s, I got a good night’s sleep. If I’m overtrained, if I’m overtired, if I’m overworked, then I try to rein it back. Sleep is really important.

I guard my food. My wife and I were talking the other day. We were in St. Pete for a triathlon—St. Anthony’s triathlon. And we’re saying, “Oh, let’s go out somewhere and eat.” And it’s very hard to find anywhere to eat. We went to a restaurant and I had a hamburger—like a bear hamburger. It was terrible. Our food is really good. So we eat organic, and I’m mostly carnivore keto. I find it’s hard to go somewhere and eat because of the oils they fry it in. You know, I can do it, but I don’t like it. So we eat most of our meals at home. Food is really important.

So sleep and food. I think you also have to get exercise.

You have to get sunshine.

You have to handle your relationships so that you’re not walking around mad all the time, or depressed all the time, or victimized all the time.

You have to figure out what it takes. Usually, if you’re doing good food, good sleep, and good exercise, the best antidepressant is exercise.

When situations come up with your spouse or your siblings or anywhere else, handle them right away. What is an agreement that we can have so we don’t drive each other crazy?

You’ve got to have a bowel movement every single day, no fail. That might mean more magnesium, it might mean more fiber. Again, you have to adjust it to your body.

In today’s world, because the toxin level is so high—food, air, water, personal care products—the toxin level is outrageous. You’ve got to be able to support your body’s detox and energy systems. I don’t think you can go without having a big supplement program. I’ve got a big supplement program, and that supplement program keeps my body on track.

Next month I’ll be 78 years old. I can do an Olympic distance or a half-Ironman triathlon. I can work a full week. I can have a good day where I feel good, I’ve got energy, my brain works, and I can assimilate information. And it takes supplementation. You need amino acids, you need essential fats, you need vitamins and minerals, and most people need methylation support.

The other thing I do is we give everyone that comes in here a peptide stack. These peptides are messenger molecules, and our bodies aren’t making them. Peptides to improve mitochondrial function, to help with inflammation, to help with hormone function—these are all really important and they really make a difference.

Then you can live long and you can stay away from doctors because the biggest risk factor for any given person is a medication or a procedure that they’re going to get at their doctor’s office.

Now, I’m not anti-doctor, and emergency medicine is very good. I was an emergency medicine doctor for 25 years. If you’re having a heart attack or you’re having a stroke or your appendix is hot or you need a C-section, medicine is first-rate and it’s really good.

But if you have a chronic problem—chronic headaches, chronic joint pain, no energy, you’re depressed, you can’t sleep—most likely a regular doctor is not going to help you. They’re going to give you drugs, which are going to make you worse.

You need to find a nutritional solution or a clinic like ours or a health-oriented practitioner. It might be a chiropractor, a naturopath, a nutritionist to help sort out your system so that you can get better.

If you have a serious illness, then you need to find a place like ours—for cancer or Lyme disease—where we can actually figure out what’s wrong with you and actually get you better.