From the Brink of Death to the Forefront of Healthcare Innovation | Jacob Peters

all right I mean you got mom who's sick you got dad who's in the military you guys were basically destined to be entrepreneur I mean you clearly are resilient you got the stomach for it we would go around to garage sales and we'd go to Walmart we buy like secondhand lots of like you know hundreds of pounds of Legos from kids who had just like discarded them and you know left them for for for for resale and then welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe dinna founder and CEO of Spartan races we're teaching you how to over overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course with Insight from the smartest most accomplish experts from every corner of the world get ready to elevate your life today Joe Desa here CEO and founder of Spartan and host of the Hardway podcast I got my buddy Jacob Peters here Jacob a son to a military lifer dad was uh was in the military yeah 30 years 30 years grew up absolutely Annapolis I love I love getting into backstories so let's start let's have the listeners learn where you came from you know how you got this mindset before we we get into where you are today yeah absolutely bit of an interesting upbringing so I had a dad who was in the Army moved around quite a bit didn't really have one place that I called home and then my mom was chronically sick so unfortunately she couldn't really work too much of her life or hold down a job because she was in bed five six nights a week and it was a really awful condition that the the traditional medical system just is not very good or equipped at solving it's called cluster headaches I don't know if anyone's listening is familiar with it but it's basically a rare form of migraine where the pain on like the way you measure the pain level is worse than childbirth and she was getting these things like four or five times a week which you know apparently 100 years ago before morphine became ubiquitous people that had this condition would literally just commit suicide so she was being seen by you know what was supposed to be the best neurology team at John's Hopkins University over in Baltimore nearby where I grew up and all they were doing was giving her morphine and torol no understanding of what actually might be causing this pain they would basically just give her the Band-Aid solution right which is kind of how the the the the the medical industry Works in a lot of ways they treat you know symptoms rather than underlying root problems so she was knocked out five six days a week you know having to take these really intense painkillers and I just get curious as a teenager and this is sort of like what led me on my entrepreneurial journey and got me into the health into the health space but I just got curious and I started Googling like what are cluster headaches how do they work and like within a few hours I'm stumbling down some Reddit threads and Rapid holes where people are just like biohacking themselves you know this was like well before the hman era where you know this stuff was a bit more mainstream I mean this was 15 years ago back when I was a I was a teenager and people were like you know ordering magnesium supplements from from eBay and Amazon and like you know hacking their homocysteine levels and like trying to like you know modulate different ways that the blood vessels would stop Dil so it was a whole sort of you know experimental process that me and my brother ended up like you know running on my mom to try and like affect her condition and we made a lot of progress just by like changing the food she was eating getting her on like a whole Regiment of more like holistic natural supplements and even doing things like removing different perfumes and stuff from her environment which like are known to trigger blood vessels via you know the smell and stuff so it was really really crazy how much we were able to how much of impact we were able to make on her disease and her doctors were effectively dumbfounded I'm intrigued by by the outcome of that but I'm also intrigued by you and your brother have parents that are tough as Nails in the military that are dealing with pain every single day you're seeing that so I would imagine but you tell me see you know watching that living through it you're probably pretty resilient you and your brother it's a muscle you know um and going through hard [ __ ] like it it just it fundamentally changes the lens through which you view the world and it just makes you know day-to-day stresses that much easier to deal with and well how tough is she how tough is mom who's tougher Mom or Dad mom's probably tougher than all of us combined times 10 because she had to be right yeah is really really sad you know um like all my friends like you know I'd go over their houses their mom was really involved in their life like my mom did as much as she could God bless her but you know it's tough when you have to spend over half your life in bed by no choice of your own and and did you guys finally come up with a solution yeah we we got her diet and her lifestyle changed you know were able to like decrease the severity quite a bit and now you know thankfully 15 years later there's a few more drugs in the market that you know do seem to actually have an impact on this condition but the biggest thing has actually been uh menopause because you know as like female hormones naturally change in their 40s and 50s um it affects you know various different biological processes and like there's some interplay between like the way estrogen you know Works in these blood vessels dilating in in migraine conditions so thankfully like just naturally she's been been doing much better once she she hit that age so you and your brother are watching her progressively get better but still watching that happen dad's pushing you probably I don't know anything but probably pushing you I don't know did he push you to go into the military he did and you know what the the sad thing is between me and my brother we were both 0 for two on fulfilling his promise and his or his his dream um so to get into the into one of the military academies my dad went to West Point you know which is up up in Upstate New York and I was going to go to the Naval Academy my brother was going to go to West Point and you know we thought we were going to be like an Army Navy family and at the last second both of us decided to resend applications because you have to go through this whole like rig roll where you get a congressman to approve you I mean it was it was a whole thing you had to pass like a PT fitness test and like both of us you know were Boy Scouts and played Sports so we you know we had kind of all the right qualifications decent grades but man we just at the last second decided like is a big deal to like want to commit you know the next like basically 10 years of your life right to the academy and then to the service like I had this problem where I was like getting seasick when I'd go boating with my friends in Annapolis I'm like how am I going to survive 5 years you know on like a naval you know cruise line or so like we just decided to you know opt for a different a different life path um and you know ultimately now that we're both entrepreneurs we've found ways to I guess like you know serve Humanity in a different way well just going down a rabbit hole for a second my dream is to have every American uh boy and girl in that last year of high school or or right after high school do at least one year in the military but that option doesn't exist to your point it's such a huge commitment that it's hard for folks even military families like yourself right to to get your arms around that big of a commitment so I'm I'm actually working with um with the dod to figure out how do how do we create something that gets kids excited and gets them through a right of passage but you you and your brother had all right I mean you got mom who's sick you got dad who's in the military you guys were basically destined to be entrepreneur I mean you clearly are resilient you got the stomach for it and running and owning a business not to take anything away from the military is like going to war in a lot of ways yeah you know like you're eating glass every day and it's it's funny to see how I got the stomach for it because ironically I actually don't have a stomach so I um we can get into this in a bit um but you know one of like the crazier struggles I've been through is I actually lost half my intestines during a a life-threatening Health battle two years ago wow um do you want you want to tackle that one for I mean you just keep you just keep coming at us with these crazy stories so yeah so all right well wait before we get to that so you go what college did you go to where did you go I went down south to Virginia University of uh Virginia UVA so to connect the dots side projects and side companies while I was growing up in high school um my brother and I actually started a online Lego reselling company so we would go around to garage sales and we'd go to Walmart we buy like secondhand lots of like you know hundreds of pounds of Legos from kids who had just like discarded them and you know left them for for for for resale and then we would go to Walmart and buy like 30 of a set when it was like 50 60% off and then we would part out all the individual bricks from these big Collections and these sets we would buy and we'd sell them on the Internet and we had an online store that did close to like six figures you know when we were when we were teenagers and we had no other choice cuz like you know we didn't have that much um you know Financial you know Runway to fall back on so it was it was make or break like we had to find our own our own way and that's how we got our start you know building businesses Beyond just like you know hacking my biohacking my mom with with different with different supplements and then I ended up at University for a few years that took me to Wall Street so I ended up doing a year um in the banking world at JP Morgan up in up in New York and it was while doing that that I discovered technology and and software and ended up starting you know what ultimately became like a big software business and is what sort of put me on the path to to to where I am now and in between you know the obviously the health the health struggles before we get into to Wall Street because I did I did my decade on Wall Street my my boys now are they've got a little online business they're selling used wrestling gear which makes no sense to you and I it's dirty it's smelly who but it works every day packages are going out of my house I don't understand it well you know my brother and I used to wrestle ironically so we do understand it and we we would buy like OG used shoes from people on eBay like it's a thing like the the the the wrestling shoe space is uh it's a whole Secret market it's a secret econ get you on the phone with my boys um if you don't mind we're going to do that at some point in the next few days if you got time for it um give them give them some tips so all right so let make it happen you do a year on Wall Street you you stumble upon an opportunity in software yes yep so um well I was already working crazy hours but I decided to like you know make my life even crazier for God knows what reason but so I started spending like you know the few nights and weekends that I did have working with a friend who I'd met uh hacking on some software Concepts so he had like sold a company before he was like you know a bit more of an experienced entrepreneur than me I was learning a ton from him and we just decided that we wanted to build something we didn't know what it was and uh it was you know a long like grueling nine months of hacking things together and eventually we we discovered a problem that big companies were were were willing to pay for well don't leave me hanging what was it basically the the the the area of the bank that I was working on was more on like the the AI and data science side so you know I was doing some like heavy Quant trading and I ended up getting together with a few Ai and data interested people from from JP uh We've paired up with like a few people from like MacKenzie deoy Microsoft and we were all getting together like on week nights sort of just like learning about the frontier of the industry and this and this was back in like 2016 you know when before large language models before chat GPT like you know we were it was it was a different era effectively um and one of the places that we would convene sometimes on week nights was was Microsoft and Microsoft they had this like free open co-working meeting space in Times Square in New York that they would host us at and I just got talking to some of the the employees that were working there and like was asking you know why do they give this free office space and they were talking about like oh it's because they want to build community around their product they want to get like engineers and smart technical people to like be building on their ecosystems and eventually build companies and those companies become customers and it was like an entire marketing funnel and flow um so then I sort of take those insights and marry it with like the things that I was hacking on with this other friend who was more of like a software guy and we realized like wow there's actually an opportunity to like solve that problem for companies like Microsoft because they have just like no concept as to what the return on investment is for you know all these community events and like this community budget so like you know Microsoft ads these companies are spending like you know like 10 20 30 40 $50 million a year on like developer and engineer marketing and just had like no concept of like how you know that Community spend was was translating back to like the bottom line of their business or bringing in sales it was just like a giant blind spot for them so we basically got the idea to build software around this paino and you I mean that sort of the the the highle backstory but it it really ended up taking on a life of its own um you know we raised $70 million of outside Venture Capital dollars for for for that business uh it's now a very large like multi million dollar company I've since moved on from from from the startup but uh you know was very instrumental in the early days of getting it from from 0 to one and you know kind of got to retire so to speak at at at 25 I love it I love it and your and your brother was not with you what was your brother doing yeah no my brother was actually working on a company of of his own so he's he's still building that business it's it's um more in the financial services space so he's kind of carved his own his own path but we we're best friends we talk every day you know I'm his biggest Advocate and he's and he's mine so it's it's it's special being in the same business you know as your your next of kin I'm I'm 54 now I worked on Wall Street for over a decade I've started businesses since I'm 13 and in all those people that I've met all those businesses all those handshakes there's very few in their late teens early 20s that build a business like you built you know what I mean it's it's it's pretty it's pretty rare most people go to college get a job what what do you think that was that was that the Lego yeah uh it's it's probably all the things you know like it's it's so hard to um you know hindsight 20120 it's it's so hard to connect the dots looking backwards but yeah I'd say it's I'd say it's probably a few things one like you know the beautiful thing about Legos is you like it's like it's a certain way to like train your brain right like you look at a giant pile of like hundreds or thousands of of bricks and then you kind of know in your brain like what you want the final creation to be and like they can get connected in like an infinite number of ways right to to build something really big and and impressive and I kind of almost view business the same way right like or markets like I sort of see you know there's just like a million little problems or pieces or components you know that exist out there and you just have to have a very clarified end vision and you can Stitch things together in like a pretty remarkable way to build something to build something big and and unique and um it's just how I look at the world you know like I see kind of see the world as like you know just like one giant pile of of Lego bricks like you know I can bring that Designer into to help us build that I can do a marketing campaign in this way like oh we can you know hire that person to do this like we can you know build this product feature and put this button here and like you know you all of a sudden you make like 5,000 those little micro decisions um it's called like you know each decision being the analogy for Lego block and then you start to got this you start to have this creation and like a constellation of bricks and they all fit together in a unique way and that's a business right um and yeah so I think there is probably something there as far as you know the pattern recognition ability that I owned just from being like stupidly obsessed with with Lego blocks and how that you know translated into into business building but even beyond that like it's definitely all the family stuff man like you know when you are forced to fend for yourself like your parents can't go on vac take you on vacations like all your friends can like you know it's I'm not saying you know I grew up in a trailer park and you're dirt broke like I don't want to you know like it seem like this is some crazy Rags riches story but like you know generally we were like you know probably like like lower middle class in in America you know it's not like I was waiting to see where my next meal was going to come from like but I mean the military does take care of you to some degree but like it was still hard man you know like we kind of had to raise ourselves and become like very self-sufficient and seeing your mom like in bed for most of your life from young age like it just forces you to grow up at like a much more accelerated Pace like I'm only 28 now and people think I'm like 35 you know just as far as like maturity level maturity level goes I know I would I would agree with that you know I I heard something recently that uh most people that do something great later in life when they when when we look back and we look at their childhood there was some trauma there was something and and I I guess tell me what you think but I guess if we had a a whole farm full of plants and most of them grew in the greenhouse and had no trauma but others grew outside and had wind storms and hail that they had to like those plants outside that dealt with the quote unquote trauma would probably be more likely to survive resiliency is learned you know tell me about the health scare because it's you know people are listening and like oh this guy has had it easy made a couple hundred million dollars went to JP Morgan what happened with your health well it all started with the covid vaccine believe it or not so it's March of 20121 I get the shot and instantly I knew something was wrong I don't drink coffee and it felt like I had drank like six cups I mean my heart was and I told the um you know the the the nurse who like did the shot and they're like do you have any symptoms I'm like yes something's definitely wrong I don't feel I don't feel very good and I kind of knew that instantly something was wrong and they're like no this is normal you know you're fine and I was like okay I guess you're right but later that night it just kept getting worse and I I had like a a sick sense that something was really wrong fast forward two days later the symptoms haven't gone away I'm like having all this like you know heart pain and and I never felt anything like that before so it was a very like foreign you know feeling and I'm in the kitchen with the girl I was seeing at the time and I just like collaps in her arms like I totally faint I've never done that before in my life like I didn't even realize like fainting was the thing you know like and next thing I know um it's all gets super hazy you the the paramedics are coming you know the EMS and they um they put me on a stretcher they hook me up to an EKG they're telling me like I'm having a heart attack I'm like what the heck you know the whole thing was pretty surreal and they kept asking me how old I was and I'm like 26 years old 26 years old they're like What's your birthday and I tell them like eight times and they were so like flabbergasted that I was so young and having like you know on the spot what you know to them based on the EKG looked like a heart attack that they didn't believe me they thought I was just like you know confused or dehydrated or something and like you know that I was really 46 but I was like no I'm 26 years old sir like here's my ID and um they they were just like we never see anything like this so I get to the hospital and after being there you know for the whole night they basically formally diagnosed me with myocarditis which is like an autoimmune condition where your heart your immune system effectively attacks you know like the muscles of your of your heart and it causes like a really big inflammation storm in your body and um that lasted for a few weeks so I did not get discharged from the hospital for a few weeks dealing with like this heart inflammation and um now the studies are coming out that show young men age 15 to 35 are I'll send the papers you know in the show notes if anyone's curious like this is not you know some antiva conspiracy stuff like this is genuine hard cold science um if you're aged 15 to 35 you were more likely to have um complications with heart trauma as a byproduct of vaccine than if like you were unvaccinated and like got Co like it's actually like netet more dangerous you know for certain people to get this vaccine and I you know being like a very like much like you know empowered citizen scientist I decided to dig into like why this might have happened and come to find out there was a few issues one fiser madna they rushed the vaccine delivery very much so that like the quality control was pretty horrible in the early batches so I was like probably you know one of like the first like five 10% of Americans in the US to get to get vaccinated like I was lucky you know lucky um just because you know where I was in LA at the time like they had they had openings but because like they rushed it to Market apparently a lot of people got like THX the dose of mRNA and like others probably just got saline because like for whatever reason the way that the vaccine was like you know created in these Vats like they basically didn't distribute it evenly into the vials when they ended up like you know bringing it to bringing it to to the distribution sites so who knows I could have gotten like you know a much higher dose of Mrthat just like put my body you know into like a complete like autoimmune shock yeah the second is like you know if you look at the the studies from the human trials they actually knew that like you know 0. 1% of men in the trials were getting carditis and like heart related symptoms like they had the data um but this is sort of like the Fatal flaw in their calculus is that if you're going to give the vaccine to two billion people and like you know point Z 1% of people all of a sudden that's like 20 million you know men that are going to potenti that becomes a very material population normally most drugs you know when they go through human like they are going to be distributed to like a population of like a few hundred thousand a few million people Max you know 10 20 not billions not billions so like the math starts to break when you see like statistical anomalies with symptoms and like you know uh side effects and stuff so it it's like they knew the whole time um and you know they knew there were quality control issues they rushed the vaccine out you know and it's just it was a total A total nightmare so that's where my health what do the numbers look like how many how many 15 to 35 year olds had this issue I'll have to to to pull up the studies after the fact but it's it's it's material and the um the third thing that's really crazy about all of this is uh allegedly there are like very strict reporting requirements for what can be even considered in those statistics so in my case believe it or not the way that the doctors at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles which is where I was you know being treated wrote my intake was they put myocarditis of Unknown Origin so the data that's coming out now that's showing you know there's a certain population of men that are getting carditis that is only if the doctor um you know writes in the in the hospital writes that it was vaccine related mine was not so imagine how many others are just not even part of the statistics so it might you know unfortunately be way worse than we even we even know and it's really it's really sad and sickening and that was you know ultimately the the Catalyst for you know what almost killed me so I'm in the hospital for a few weeks with carditis and then because they can't get this inflammation storm under control with my heart it ends up leading to a sudden onset diagnosis of a different autoimmune disease called Crohn's so I'd never had you know Crohn's disease or autoimmune I'd never even heard of this stuff you know until that that day in the hospital where I start um I start [ __ ] blood there there I'm like nurse something's wrong you know like this doesn't seem normal you know and they they end up doing like a colonoscopy and they're like you now have Crohn's disease I'm like what the heck is that and it turns out you know when your immune system is just like so overloaded and dealing with like you know an issue like carditis sometimes things just break and it BEC becomes like the perfect storm you know moment for the the mirror to shatter so to speak and that's what happened to me so the the the heart inflammation led to you know the inflammation basically spreading to my colon and uh they my body just couldn't handle it so I got diagnosed with sun onet Cron's disease a second autoimmune condition it gets worse though I'm in the hospital dealing with the heart inflammation still and now the newly diag you know colon inflammation in my stomach they're like okay we want to do like a biopsy of some parts of your colon so they put me under to do like um you know the biopsy needle in my stomach and during the procedure they accidentally puncture my left lung and I didn't know until I woke up so I wake up from the surgery you know my heart hurts my stomach hurts and now my lung hurts and I'm like nurse something's like really wrong with my chest and they're like you're probably fine it takes them like 14 hours to get a chest x-ray because the hospital was just like so backed up with with covid and they finally do a chest x-ray on me and my lung is literally the size of a golf ball like they had shriveled up because they accidentally punctured it you know with the biopsy needle so now I'm ailing from three major organs you know and it's been like over a month in the hospital at at at this point um and they have to put me on like a chest tube to reinl my lung it felt like I was a polio patient you know with this big tube around me um you know helping me reflate and like keep my lung inflated while it naturally healed so it was just like a nightmare of a a health situation and it it culminated in them having to remove half my intestines so they couldn't get the inflammation under control and my colon swelled up to two times the normal size it's called toxic meacon it's basically when like the organ just like doesn't know what to do so it goes haywire and it's like you know [ __ ] like we can't deal with this much information we're going to explode like that's basically you know what was about to happen so I was you know very near like impending death organ failure from organ failure and they're like the only saving grace is we have we can like take out your [ __ ] so you know now I'm like basically down um a major organ and they finally like are able to get my health under control with like a few other you know biologic Pharmaceuticals which like also tamper your immune system down to control information and that's the state that the hospital system left me and it was all catalyzed by the covid vaccine sorry about all that I mean that's a terrible terrible story but you're alive now you feeling okay I'm I'm feeling okay and it's um it's only thanks to some really amazing doctors that I had to go out and discover on my own that the traditional system wants nothing to do with and that my um you know my insurance would not would not cover so I ended up posting about my story on Twitter it went a little bit viral and thankfully I got connected to a whole host of really high-end concierge Physicians where you know these folks are practicing what I consider real medicine so they like have access to the frontier of tests they look at your whole body holistically they try to understand like the state of your nervous system you know are you kind of chronically in fight or flight uh you know what's what does your HRV rate look like how are you sleeping what are you eating what are your nutrient stores look like what are your antioxidant levels you know do you have any like genetic Snips that might put you at risk for various diseases or you know impede your ability to like absorb certain nutrients like MTHFR which affects your B vitamin store like all these things it was like a whole another world it was basically what I was doing with my mom but times 100 in like a real medical you know MD driven context and that's the only reason I'm sitting here talking to you today and you know continuing to build companies and like you know wanting to fix the healthcare system is because like I've seen what the frontier looks like I've seen like a whole new world of healthcare but it's not evenly distributed distributed and it it's not accessible to most people and like most people don't even don't even know about it so imagine if we could take this you know Elite level of highend care that only folks like myself who were blessed you know and had like a few hundred, out of pocket to pay for it and like had the right connections to be able to get the warm introductions to these Physicians and get off their multi-year long weight list like what if everyone had access to that like chronic disease would basically not exist I um I was lucky my mother found yoga Health Food meditation became a vegan in the 1970s her mom was sick with cancer so I got introduced to a lot of this um outside thinking open-mindedness um Ed but most 99. 9% of the people don't like you found it but most folks just blindly walk into any hospital and now the reality is hospitals do do a lot of good yeah they didn't do so good they didn't do so good with you um but the idea of supplemental care with some real pros so so is that the business you're in now in in a sense yeah so so um you know it's it's here's here's the reality technology is making people more empowered in every way right it's sort of the inevitable Arc of Technology it takes what was once only available for the few and democratizes it to the many indoor plumbing in the 1800s only like the richest of the rich in America had access to that right like clean running water in their homes now it's effectively everywhere right because utility companies decided hey like we can actually make a business out of productizing this for everybody Uber black cars used to only be you know accessible now everyone has on their smartphone like you know the ability to call Private driver like personal computers man companies in the 50s they like you know were the only ones that could have form these for these massive Mame frames that like took up entire rooms like now you know we're having this you know conversation on like a laptop and it's it's it's happening in health and like this you know highend world of con health is kind of the next Domino to fall so you know effectively what we're doing is we're taking you know what like these Elite practitioners do and we're building a lot of it as code so that everybody can have you know access to some of the same features so we have a a Marketplace that we build that we've built that takes like a lot of like the most scientifically robust inv vetted products and tests uh and things that like really on these these high-end doctors generally know about or access to and make it easy for you to access you know click of a button order it you know to your house just like ordering door Dash um nurses come straight to you and then the second thing is this idea of Health sovereignty for your health data right like today if you wanted to know like what the status of your health is like it's trapped in like a bunch of PDFs from Lab Corp and Quest and like or it's you know in some janky hospital system you know portal that like you'll never why does everyone not have their Health Data you know on their smartphone like they do their Instagram account like it just doesn't exist so like that's the second big component of what we're trying to to build is like make people health Sovereign right like it's crazy that you can be your own bank and have a Bitcoin wallet on the blockchain but like you can't be you know the own your own Steward of your health data like it's just it's it just doesn't exist um so that's really what we're trying to do is like you know democratize access to a lot of this you know higher end world of concierge integrative care and also you know make people Health sovereigns that they can have all their health data in one place on their smartphones see how their biomarker levels are trending and tracking and changing over time which like you know no practitioners or the a lot of traditional hospitals are EAS able to do and what what are the obstacles to getting this done well it's a it's a hard technology problem um so that's um that's that's that's one of the biggest blockers the other thing is like you know we haven't really seen any healthc care companies build large respected consumer brands in a lot of ways right like take one medical no one's walking around wearing a one medical t-shirt you know like they might have um you know a DEC big footprint but like no one really has like deep consumer Affinity now cont contrast that to something like Alo yoga you know every company wants to do a brand collaboration with with them they are like you know everywhere in popular culture it's cool you know to be like associated with that like can we create a similar type of social movement in the healthcare space like perhaps and that's like part of the inspiration behind my new company name which again we're still in private beta we have not publicly launched too hard yet um but you know you can find us after the show it's at superpower.

comom and that's the idea behind the name is we want to build you know what we think can be like a really really big Lifestyle brand in this health space that you know stands for what it sounds like which is superpower People's Health like what what's your superpower it's like you know we think of things like Iron Man and you know these like big strong Heroes that are supposed to save us but like the reality is you know we need to save ourselves from from poor health and like being the best like most superpowered version of yourself is is um you know is ultimately what I think is going to make a long fulfilling life while you're building out superpower have you come ACR and and going through your own health Journey have you come across three things everybody should do every day to maximize their health and wellness something I've recently started doing which has been like a massive Improvement for my health is 45 minutes before bed I don't look at my phone and I don't just like put on my nice I actually put it in another room and that way I'm not tempted and when I wake up in the morning I don't have to look at it first thing like I used to be stuck in the loop where like I'd be scrolling up until 5 minutes before I go to bed and then I wake up and I start scrolling and like one it disrupts your sleep there's so many studies to prove it two like you just get like bombarded with this massive you know juice of dope like hit of dopamine in first thing in the morning it really screws up your ability I think to to focus um you know and to get dialed in and and kick off your day right so like that's been one of the biggest things number one that I think the second is a practice of gratitude so you know I I like to think of myself as like a pretty you know scientifically rigorous person and I don't know you know how many studies are offered for this but I will say for me personally n of one study like it it this [ __ ] Works um every morning I wake up and I just try to like you know thank my family thank my friends thank thank God than just really really deeply like you know imbue like a sense of gratitude you know like life is just so amazing and like after you've been through some hard stuff you know when it comes to Growing Up or like after you've been sitting on your deathbed like it just changes the lens through which you view the world in reality and like you know it makes you really truly grateful like I actually don't think you can fully appreciate life as much if you haven't like been faced with your own mortality so I really try to like just adopt a hugely grateful mindset every single every single morning and and the third um you know that's been like really really impactful is I stopped eating out at restaurants like I generally eat pretty healthy but even when I go to restaurants and I think I'm eating healthy getting a steak you know you don't know if it's cooked in canola oil like it's probably not grass-fed beef like if you're not eating meat that's fed by grass it's probably grain-fed which means the polyunsaturated fatty oide content is going to be way too high and it's going to translate into like your cells like we are what we eat and like no one thinks about this stuff the pans they use the restaurants are probably cooked you know scratched te gets into your food the heavy metals leech in they don't use organic vegetables or fruits because they're trying to save money so you're just ingesting a ton of glyphosate you know we do a ton of tests at superpower you know to help you measure like the levels of environmental toxins and stuff and like me who's a pretty healthy person I realized that like my levels of BPA and glyphosate and all these like horrible pesticides and Plastics were way too high and I'm like this is crazy because I'm so diligent about what I put in my body like where's it coming from and I've realized it's probably the fact that I eat out like three four times a week and even when I think I'm eating healthy you don't realize what's going on in the kitchen behind the scenes like I've just completely gone you know started eating at home started cooking um and you know just becoming more self-sufficient yes it takes a little more time but like I like the level of control and I and I ultimately feel better so those are the three things you know just being hyper diligent about phone not um eating at restaurants and like you know ultimately just trying to be like as grateful as possible because like life is is amazing I love it how do people find you find me on uh superp power. com or on Twitter twitter.