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Tom Bilyeu details his elite-level daily routine, which prioritizes longevity, cognitive maximization, and inflammation reduction through a specific sequence of morning activities. His day begins immediately upon waking with listening to educational content like books or videos before brushing teeth and feeding the dogs. He emphasizes that while priorities can shift between meditation and exercise depending on life circumstances—currently favoring the gym due to post-quarantine focus—the key is ensuring one high-priority activity happens first thing in the morning. His current workout protocol involves a push, pull, legs, and abs cycle performed five days a week, with a specific emphasis on deadlifting low weight at high repetitions rather than heavy loads to ensure longevity and prevent injury. Bilyeu argues that lower back pain is often caused by two factors: an inflammatory diet and insufficient strengthening of the posterior chain via deadlifts; he personally addresses this by focusing heavily on his mid-back strength before working biceps to avoid muscular imbalances. Meditation serves as a critical component of his lifestyle, which Bilyeu credits with saving him from emotional trouble during high-stress periods. He practices "just breathe" meditation using nature sounds via headphones for 20 to 30 minutes, often utilizing thunderstorm audio files to lock in focus due to their random intervals that prevent mind-wandering. Unlike traditional box breathing where all phases are equal, Bilyeu modifies the technique by maximizing pleasure during each phase of the cycle; he holds his inhale briefly but extends the exhale hold for 10 to 15 seconds until it ceases to feel pleasurable. This approach allows him to stay present with his breath and manage anxiety effectively without rigid timing constraints, a practice he maintains five days a week using the Calm app. Diet represents another pillar of Bilyeu's regimen, which he considers second only to loving relationships in importance. He adheres strictly to whole foods Monday through Friday, consuming eggs, grass-fed beef from ButcherBox, wild-caught salmon, sardines, and green leafy vegetables like bok choy and kale, while avoiding anything unrecognizable from its natural state. His approach is heavily influenced by the understanding that emotions are largely interpretations of bodily signals driven by a dysregulated microbiome; he posits that anxiety is 90% diet-related due to gut flora disruption rather than just thoughts. To support this, he practices intermittent fasting every day of the year with an average daily window of roughly 17 and a half hours, typically eating his last meal at 1:30 p.m., which helps him avoid glucose spikes from fruit that can trigger insulin responses despite fiber content. Beverage management is strictly controlled to optimize sleep quality; Bilyeu stops consuming caffeine by 1:00 p.m. and limits water intake after 2:00 p.m. to prevent waking up at night, relying instead on carbonated sparkling water which he finds filling without causing issues. He mixes nitro coffee with Caveman Coffee into his sparkling water, diluting it over time while ensuring no caffeine is consumed in the evening. Alcohol consumption is limited to four or five times a year due to its pro-inflammatory effects that cause joint pain. The foundation of this entire routine is sleep hygiene, which Bilyeu treats as religion by going to bed at 9:00 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, without an alarm clock for over 17 years. He optimizes his environment with blue-blocking glasses worn three hours before bed, a room temperature kept at 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and mouth taping every night to ensure nasal breathing, all of which contribute to getting approximately seven and a half hours of restorative sleep.
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Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Health Theory. Or I should say today, welcome to a very special episode of Health Theory. Today, I'm going to be walking you through the daily routine that I put together in my life after spending all of this incredible time with these amazing experts on Health Theory. This is a lifestyle that is designed to help me live as long as possible, maximize my cognition, lower my inflammation, and make sure that I can enjoy my day-to-day life to the max. So, all right, here we go. This is Health Theory in action. [music] Okay, now that the blinds are opening, we can actually see something. So, I keep my clothes right there next to my bed. Keep headphones right next to my bed. That way I am ready to rock and roll as soon as I get out. First thing I do is put my headphones on. Uh I start listening to a book or a YouTube video. Then I would come in, would brush my teeth. Uh again, I did all of this earlier because I didn't want to wake up Lisa. Um but just by way of recreation, that's it. Uh so, I would come in, brush my teeth, then I snatch up the dogs, feed them, then as of right now anyway, it would be off to the gym. [music] The key part of any morning routine is the order in which you do [music] things. So, for me, depending on what's going on in my life, I may prioritize the gym or I may prioritize meditation. But one of those two things is [music] almost always going to come first. It's going to be pretty rare that I don't do that. Now, as the time that we're recording this, we're going into the summer. So, right now I'm really prioritizing the gym. Also, coming off of the quarantine where I was maybe a little bit more lax, [music] hyper-focused on the business. Um the gym was something that [music] came a little bit later in the day. The problem is, depending on what your priorities are, and mine is definitely marriage first, [music] then business, then physique, that if something crazy is going [music] on in the business, and you know, I'm trying to get things done there, then whatever I haven't done first thing in the morning, it's possible that it just doesn't happen. So, right now, because I'm really focused on the gym, even though my ultimate priority list hasn't changed, the reason that we're recording this now is because as you guys know, I wake up so early there was nobody to film me doing the stuff. But, the way that I think about the gym right now, it's the first thing I do. So, I wake up, I put my gym clothes on, I immediately beeline to the kitchen, if I'm completely honest. I feed the dogs, and then I drink a bit of water, and then I head straight to the gym. I do a pretty simple workout routine. I do a push, pull, legs, and abs. So, push, meaning I'm doing chest, and actually I do it in a different order. [music] I do pull, then I do push, then I do legs and abs, then I repeat the cycle. So, typically, on a Monday, I'm going to start with my [music] back and my biceps, which are the pull motions. And I do that because historically, I have had a my back has been weaker than the rest of my body. So, I'm prone to getting injured if I don't really take care of focusing on my back and my core. When I do that, then I can avoid injury. When I don't, then I run into problems. And this is one of those guys from a health theory perspective, you're going to have injuries, like let's take the lower back. And you're going to think that, [music] well, I couldn't work out, or I couldn't deadlift, because I have lower back pain. Now, you need to seek somebody that can actually walk you through how to do this safely, because deadlifts in particular can be a risky thing, but I promise [music] you that if you haven't at least explored that getting strong is the answer to your pain, that working out, even though it seems like the riskiest thing you could do, is actually the thing that's going to solve your problem, then you haven't even begun to explore potential remedies. So many of the problems that people have are not from working out, they are from working out in a way that creates muscular [music] imbalances, or where you're just not working out enough to get strong. I have a hypothesis. It's a hypothesis. I could be wrong, but man, in my own life, I am so arrogant about the following thought. If you have [music] lower back pain, it is for exactly two reasons. Reason number one, your diet. [music] It's an inflammation problem. Change your diet and suddenly back pain reduces so dramatically. This from experience. Number two, you're just not deadlifting enough. You've got to get your legs, your glutes, and your lower back strong. And of course, there's the echo, so then your abs better be strong. So, you've got to get that whole chain of things strong. Every time my back [music] has hurt, one of two things or both have been true. My diet has been off point, so let's say it's the holiday season, I'm going a little bit crazy, all of a sudden I'll notice, "Whoa, I have pain in my lower back, but it feels like nerve pain." So, I'm like, "What is going on?" And then number two, I haven't been deadlifting. When I am religious about my diet and I am religious about deadlifting, my lower back pain is exactly zero. So, as somebody who has experienced lower back pain that doesn't feel diet related, it doesn't feel related to working out. In fact, it feels dangerous to bend over [music] and pick things up. So, I'm like, "Whoa, what's going on? Maybe I'm just getting older, whatever." And the punchline every single time to unwind that has been get my diet on point, low [music] inflammation, meaning I'm eating whole foods, which we'll cover in the diet section, and then to deadlift consistently. Now, personally, I deadlift, brace yourselves, five days a week. It's going to be way controversial. So, let me tell you how I do it and why [music] I do it. So, first of all, I'm deadlifting lightweight high rep always. I never I used to focus on low rep heavy and it felt awesome. It was so cool. I don't do it anymore. Uh I'm worried about just from a longevity standpoint. That just could be because I'm not doing it well. I'm super open to that reality. But now what I've realized works extraordinarily well for me is low weight high rep. Um and [music] I do a single set 3 days a week and I do 2 days a week where I do [music] multiple three to four sets. Um so, that I have found works incredibly [music] well. And when I reduce that to say 3 days a week, which I've tried, I just find every now and then I'll feel a little twinge in my lower back. Something to explore. Okay, so let's finish going through the pull push legs abs. So, on the pull day, I'm doing things for my back. I'm doing things for my biceps. Anything that's a pull. Now, I separate my legs, so you could certainly say that your hamstrings are a pull because they are. Uh but I isolate that to leg day just to make sure that I give my back proper time. I do [music] four exercises to one back to bi. [music] So, I do a lot of back exercises cuz I found if I'm trying to strengthen my bis, which look cool, but if I'm focused on that, I end up hurting my traps or my scalenes. So, by focusing on my back my back my back, especially my mid back, keeping that strong, then I can work out my biceps. But if I just focus on my biceps, I end up getting injured or just really tight, really uncomfortable. [music] So, that's really important. Then on push days, I'm doing chest, I'm doing triceps, I'm doing shoulders. And by grouping those up, you're taking advantage of the compound movements. So, when you're working your back, you're also working your biceps. [music] When you're working your chest, you're also working your triceps and your shoulders. So, by grouping those up, you're hitting them really comprehensively [music] on that day. And then, legs obviously speak for themselves. So, I'm doing quads, doing hamstrings, I'm doing [music] calves, and I'm doing abs on that day. Uh not everybody groups them like that, but that's been very [music] easy for me to remember sort of where I'm at my cycle, to make sure that I'm hitting everything. And of course, within those days, I will vary the exercises that I do from day to day. But, you know, so for the back, you have, you know, a dozen or whatever different exercises that you're going to rock through. Same for my push day, same for my leg day. Although, if I'm honest, I'm far less varied on my leg day. Keep that pretty basic. Um but by doing that, you're making sure that you're hitting all the different little muscles in different ways, [music] so that you don't get prone to a muscular imbalance, which I've struggled with uh pretty profoundly. [music] Partly just out of laziness, because I like to do very simple things over and over and over, so I don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Um [music] but yeah, that's my workout routine. I've stayed on that routine, which explains why I don't look like [music] a bodybuilder. But, I've been on that routine now for 10 years. Now, I will say that is not optimal. I'm just saying for my lifestyle, where that falls [music] lower in my priority list, that's been a great way to make sure that I maintain, I show up, I put in the work, [music] um and I'm consistent. And as they say, the workout that you do, even if it's a little wonky, is better than the perfect workout that you don't do. So, that is my gym routine. Meditation is one of the most important things that I've added to my daily routine. I'm not joking when I say that I would say it saved my life. That's probably a bit of hyperbole, but woah, did it keep me [music] from getting myself into real emotional trouble in the hardest periods of my life and the most stressful where there was the most on the line. It was so comforting to know that I was never more than 45 [music] minutes away from total equanimity. And the only way for me to achieve that is through meditation. So meditation is a critical part of my daily practice. It [music] is really simple. So I do what's called just breathe meditation. So I'm going to take my shoes off here. Any couch will do. Anything that's comfortable. Any chair, wherever you're going to be comfy. And [music] I sit just in a nice simple cross-legged style in a position that I think I can maintain. Usually I can maintain sitting [music] like this for about 20 to 30 minutes before my feet start going numb. Uh and I found for whatever reason that when I touch my hands together that [music] it creates this sense of like the the energy looping. I don't know. That feels so silly to say, but it was one where I started out doing this and then I just found myself wanting to do this to [music] rest my hands, not interlace or anything, just really simply in my lap. I sit comfortably. I don't over try to, you know, um have like really strict posture. I actually find the more I sit up the harder it is to breathe from my diaphragm. So I have a slight curve to my spine. I sit [music] super comfortably. And then I just breathe. Now the key thing for me is these bad boys. [music] So I'm not sponsored by a headphone company, but having the headphones over my ears [music] that really blocks everything out. I listen to the sounds of nature. So I'll either do, uh if it's a rainy day outside, I'll do a thunderstorm. If it's a nice day outside, I'll do the sound of waves crashing. If it's really early and so I sort of get to pick what kind of day. I'll usually do a thunderstorm. There's something about the thunderstorm that I find really locks me in and I think it's because the actual sound of the thunder comes at random intervals. And so that reminds me to be really present with my breath, to not let my mind wander or start thinking about things. You're really just trying to breathe. [music] Um I do a simple four-part cycle that I learned from Mark Divine. Um I do it differently than he does. What he does [music] is a four equal parts breath. So you do an inhale, an inhale hold, an exhale, and an exhale hold. And I found that by trying to make those four [music] equal parts, which is known as box breathing, um that I felt a little out of breath, which was not making me relax. [music] And so finally I just said, "What if I tried to maximize the pleasure of each part of the cycle?" [music] So I would hold the inhale hold for instance for only as long as it felt good. I would exhale in a way that felt good. So for me it's just a a release. I don't try to time it or prolong it. Um [music] and then I found for whatever reason the exhale hold was actually the most pleasurable part of the cycle. So on the inhale I might only hold [music] I don't know, 4 seconds, 3 or 4 seconds. It's really quite brief. But on the exhale I found myself holding for [music] 10, 15 seconds. And again I would just start breathing again the moment it stopped being pleasurable to hold that exhale. [music] And by doing that and so the the length of time may vary as I'm doing the meditation, but by doing that and really being conscious to maximize the pleasure of each part of the breath cycle, then I'm not my mind isn't wandering. I'm there with my breath. I'm there with the pleasure of just breathing. And by doing that um sometimes if my mind is really going crazy it might take me, you know, [music] 5 or 10 minutes to get into a zone. When I first started and my life was incredibly stressful, [music] like I said, it could take up to 45 minutes for me to finally get lost [music] in my breath. Um but the fact that I knew that if I just sat there long enough uh doing that, [music] just bringing my thoughts back to the breath every time they would wander, back to the breath, back to the breath, nothing complicated [music] about it, um that I was good. And that has been transformative and is a big part of why uh I meditate [music] every day, five days a week, let me not lie. Uh I'd only meditate on the weekends if I was really in a stressful situation. Um but it's really a game changer. So, I put [music] the headphones on. I use Calm the app again. I'm not sponsored or anything by them. It's just what I use. [music] And I make my selection and then I meditate. And so, I'll let you guys [music] see what a quick cycle looks like and uh we'll take it from there. [music] All right, everybody. One of the most important things that you were ever going to do in your routine is to get your diet right. [music] I think that this, outside of having a loving relationship with my wife, I think my diet is the most important [music] thing that I do. And focusing on loving relationships, diet, [music] and sleep, like those are going to be your top three things. So, getting your food right is [music] critically important because um this is the easiest way for me to anchor people around why diet [music] is so important. So, first of all, you literally are what you eat. Literally, at a cellular level, you were made of the things that you consume. So, [music] every cell in your body is from something that you ate. So, let that one sink in. And then on top of that, the largest nerve in your body known as the [music] vagus nerve, 85% of the signals traveling on that nerve are from your body to your [music] brain, not your brain to your body. So, we all have this illusion that we are this consciousness that controls everything when in reality, the two work in concert [music] and that the vast majority of the signaling is coming from the body. So, your microbiome is a huge thing. And when you [music] dysregulate your microbiome by eating things that cause disruption, then you're now getting all these signals [music] that your brain is forced to interpret. Okay, this is one of the Read [music] Lisa Feldman Barrett's book How Emotions Are Made. All of the things that [music] you feel, whether it's happiness, sad, um anger, frustration, hopelessness, all of that [music] stuff is your brain interpreting the signals that it's getting from your body, from the outside world. [music] And once you understand that emotions come from the body first, and then your brain goes, "Hey, the last time that I got these sensations [music] from all over my body, what did that mean?" And then your body assign or your brain, excuse [music] me, assigns a story to that feeling. [music] And now all of a sudden, when you have a dysregulated microbiome and the microbiome is crying [music] out for this, that, or the other, all of a sudden your brain adds a story. And I'll give you an easy one, anxiety. In my own life, I will tell [music] you that I've struggled profoundly with anxiety, only to at first think [music] this is entirely in my head, and then finally to realize, "No, no, no, this is largely How largely? This is again a hypothesis, but I have a gut instinct [music] that this is Anxiety is probably [music] 90% your diet and then 10% [music] what you're thinking about. Meaning, what you think about is stepping on the gas. But, if there's no gas in the [music] gas tank, then you're not going to go anywhere. And by dysregulating your microbiome through the things that you eat, you put [music] gas in the gas tank of anxiety. And then your thoughts step on it, boom, there's plenty of gas, and now you're [music] off to the races. So, I'm not saying that your thoughts aren't important or what's going on in your life isn't important to triggering anxiety. I'm saying it won't [music] escalate the way that it does if you are eating a diet [music] that keeps your gut flora nice and happy. So, that's something I think a lot [music] about. Now, we're filming this at just before 9:00 a.m. [music] And I'm still in a fasted state, so that's a really important part for me in terms of how I live my life is [music] I intermittent fast every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, even on Christmas, [music] I'm going to intermittent fast. That's the one thing that for me I've found is so profoundly impactful. It's one of those that, "Oh my god, would there have [music] to be some compelling science that would make me move away from how it makes me feel, how it allows me to maintain [music] my body composition, and how like I actually discovered how profoundly impactful [music] intermittent fasting is during Christmas because I found that if I woke up cuz during Christmas I can eat whatever the hell I want. I let myself [music] totally go crazy. And I found that I would get an upset stomach if I didn't leave big gaps in between [music] when I ate. But, if I left big gaps, I could actually get away with eating cake, cookies, ice [music] cream, chips, literally whatever I wanted, but I had to leave, say, 18 hours gap between my feeding window or I, you know, eating in a, what would that be, a [music] 6-hour feeding window. So, as long as I left 18-hour gaps between when I was eating, then I was A-OK, and it was absolutely wonderful. So, I average probably about days [music] a week, uh between my feeding windows. I might shorten that a little bit on the weekends, but you're still looking at something north of 14 or 15 hours [music] um on the weekend. So, that truly that lets you know that some days I'm doing 19-20 hour windows, [music] um so that over the week it averages out to about 17 and 1/2 hours, and that's year-round. [music] Um that's really impactful. Now, my diet itself, I I In fact, [music] let's see if we can just take a peek into the Yeah, this will give you a pretty good idea of [music] exactly uh what things look like. So, irony of ironies, I won't I won't [music] uh put them on blast, but I used to drink uh a lot of [music] diet sodas, and what I found was that that was I can literally correlate that to my anxiety. So, even though I have some in the fridge, I might have five in a year. So, [music] very, very rarely do I have that. My mainstay is eggs. I eat a lot a lot of eggs. [music] I eat a lot of um ButcherBox. So, those full disclosure I am sponsored by ButcherBox, but let me tell you, I've had a relationship with those guys for a long time because of [music] the grass-fed um grass-finished nature of their meats. Um [music] I would not have believed that that matters 10 years ago until Lisa [music] went through what she went through with her dysbiosis, which ended up putting our lives on hold for a year. [music] It was absolute insanity. Um and so, seeing how all the [music] things we had to learn and do to get her back on track, I realized that what your food ate really does matter. [music] So, you have to be really thoughtful about that. So, I eat a lot of eggs. That's definitely my mainstay. [music] I eat a lot of beef, but all grass-fed, [music] grass-finished, um wild-caught salmon. I eat a lot of sardines. Um [music] that is that's my mainstay from a meat perspective. And then I'm eating a lot of green leafy vegetables, kale, [music] bok choy is a personal favorite, collard greens, um green beans, asparagus. Um if I'm out, I'll do broccoli, but [music] I almost never cook broccoli for myself, even I'm not sure why. Uh but that is Oh, and carrots. I eat a lot of [music] carrots. Um whether that's good or bad, I'm actually not sure, but I will say that it it cures my sweet tooth. So, my big thesis [music] with food is whole food only. So, Monday through Friday, I don't eat anything that I can't recognize from its natural [music] state. So, I'm eating my eggs, I'm eating my meats, I'm eating my vegetables, [music] um all in like their actual vegetable state. So, my bok choy [music] still looks like bok choy. It's like all bunched together. I literally rinse it off, I cut that [music] and then I put it into a frying pan with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil. Um and then on the weekends I'll be a little bit more [music] lenient and I'll have some things that are processed foods that are hyper-palatable, ultra-delicious, but I have to be careful because I don't want to dysregulate my microbiome because it then [music] propels my anxiety. And as somebody that's struggled with anxiety and now realizing how much of a diet connection [music] there is, I find that by eating whole foods as much as not humanly possible, cuz of course I could be on a pure whole food diet, um but I find [music] that on the weekends it's fun to be a little more flexible. Um Yeah, [music] during the week I don't have anything that I don't recognize. But even like something like a nut, um I won't have much [music] of that during the week. Now, it may just be that I have a particular sensitivity to nuts. [music] Um, it may be that over the years because of all the different, um, diet [music] things that I did when I was younger and didn't know any didn't even know the microbiome existed and then taking antibiotics that I just created enough dysregulation in my microbiome that I am now sensitive [music] to them, but I find that that's not perfect. Um, if I'm absolutely dying during the week for like a quick little snack, I might have a handful of [music] almonds, which seem to be the thing that I can get away with the most. Um, but for the most part, it is just literally meat, [music] eggs, vegetables. And that is the sum total of my diet. Oh my god, I eat a lot of avocados. [music] A lot of avocados. I keep my fruit intake to a minimum. I do have some [music] fruit during the week and some berries, especially on the weekends. That's sort of my big treat. Uh, the reason I do that, even though there's fiber intake and all that, I wore a continuous glucose monitor for about 6 months [music] and fruit, even though it has, um, the fiber in it, it still [music] does spike my glucose. Not crazy like candy would, but it does spike [music] it and it spikes it pretty significantly. So, um, for the most part, I save that for when I'm, um, what I call cheating. Uh, so I [music] know that people are going to get up in arms about me calling fruit cheating, but I would just say if body composition is something [music] that you're thinking about, if managing your glucose levels is something that you think about, um, if not spiking insulin cuz you might still even be able to regulate your blood [music] sugar, but you could be spiking your insulin more, um, than is necessary. Uh, if that's something that you care about, then I would be very thoughtful about [music] your fruit intake. Everybody is different, so I would highly encourage [music] you guys to wear a continuous glucose monitor so you can see what affects you in what way. All right, [music] that's my diet. When I break fast, which I will probably do about 9:30 today uh because I eat my last [music] meal. This is going to freak some people out. I eat my last meal at 1:30 p.m. So, my window today will be from [music] about 9:30 to 1:30, and then I eat literally nothing except water is the only [music] thing that I will intake. I wish I talked about caffeine. You guys ready for the way that I approach drinking cuz this is going to be something that I think a lot of people are tripped out by. [music] Um so, I eat in that narrow window. I have my last meal at 1:30, so I'm [music] I'm hard to invite to dinner. Uh and then I stop drinking caffeine [music] at 1:00 p.m. and I stop drinking water in any meaningful quantity [music] at 2:00 p.m. Now, I find if I do that, I sleep through the night. If I drink [music] later than that, then in any sort of meaningful amount, then I'll wake up in the middle of the night need [music] to pee. And then once I'm awake, it's much harder for me to fall back asleep. So, um that's something that I use to manage uh my sleep. [music] I drink mostly carbonated water. I find that it fills me up. Um I won't be too surprised if somebody comes [music] out with a study at some point though that that's problematic. Um so, I'm just sort of holding my breath waiting for that. But as of right now, [music] I feel good. Um when I drink it, I don't uh experience any problems that I recognize. How about that? So, that and then I have I do have a little bit of caffeine. So, um what I do is I mix This is [music] really going to trip people out. I mix these two things. Again, I'm not sponsored by any any of these people. Uh this is just what I do. So, [music] uh nitro coffee, Caveman Coffee. It's I think three espresso shots in one can. So, what I do [music] is I save another can so that I always have two cans going, and I [music] pour out a third into an empty can, and then [music] I pour a third out. I know, but I pour a third out, so in each can I only have a single shot, and because coffee can mold, I don't want to [music] um leave it too long, cuz it'll take me a day to a day and a half to drink one of the espresso shots, [music] because I mix it with sparkling water. Now, at first it was weird, now I'm so used to it when my coffee doesn't sparkle, I [music] am sort of taken aback. Um and yeah, that's it. And so, as I sip on this, I'll add water back in [music] um until I've probably diluted about 1 and 1/2 cans of water to the uh one espresso shot. And I just [music] nurse it throughout the day. And again, I stop, I don't intake caffeine after 1:00 p.m. After 1:00 From 1:00 to 2:00, [music] then I'm going just on the sparkling water. Um and that's it. [music] That That is my beverage routine. I don't drink alcohol unless it's like a special occasion, [music] um just because it's so pro-inflammatory, and not even like pro-inflammatory in an abstract way, like it makes my joints [music] hurt. Um so, as much fun as it is, I really limit my alcohol intake to probably four or five times a year. Um and and that's it. So, water, little bit of caffeine, and [music] we out. Okay, any routine, whether it's morning, your full day, it all starts the night before. [music] Getting a good night's sleep. I cannot stress this enough. As somebody who absolutely resents [music] needing to sleep, it's still the number one thing that I prioritize. So, that is critical that you prep for that. So, number one, I start wearing blue-blocking glasses at least 3 hours before [music] bedtime. I actually use a little device that zaps me, but I'll save that for another video since I'm on the board the advisory board of that company. [music] Um, but I do everything that I can to make sure that I sleep optimally including cooling the room down [music] um to very chilly. So, we sleep with our room at 68°. And that way you can snuggle up in your blankies and there's something about when your body temperature drops [music] that triggers you to get sleepy. Um, so getting the room nice and cool is another um big tip. I go to bed [music] at 9:00 p.m. every night like it is a religion. I should say Sunday [music] through Thursday night I go to bed at 9:00 p.m. I allow a little bit later bedtime on Friday, a little bit later bedtime on Saturday. But other than that, 9:00 p.m. [music] and I don't set an alarm ever unless I have like a super early flight or something like that. [music] Um, and I've been doing that for like 17 years now or something like that. So, I built multiple successful companies [music] without setting an alarm. So, trust me it is possible. Now, the reason I do it is so that I'm optimizing my cognition and getting as much sleep as [music] I need. Um, so for me that's about I don't know, 7 and 1/2 hours probably on average. I sleep [music] with headphones right next to my bed. In fact, as you can see they are right here. And I do that because [music] I often times wake up in the middle of the night. Put these bad boys in. And I can fall right back to sleep listen to a book very very low volume so that just so that if I put a tiny bit of pressure on my ear that I can hear it [music] and then that way as I roll around it will come ever so slightly out and then I just fall asleep [music] and I forget that the book is there. So, that was a game changer for me. I don't know if that'll be as useful for anybody else, but I used to lie in bed for hours in the middle of [music] the night trying to fall back asleep, this has been a game changer. And that's it. I sleep in nice, loose clothing. [music] Um Mouth tape. Oh, yes. So, here [music] it is. I'm so glad that you reminded me of that. This is why my wife is here filming it. I tape my mouth closed every night. Uh I did an episode with James Nestor. [music] You should check that episode out. He talks about um breathing through your nose and how important [music] it is. So, I literally tape my mouth closed. That also significantly improved my sleep. So, [music] I wouldn't have believed it until I tried it. So, now literally every night I kiss my wife, [music] I tell her I love her, and then I put tape over my [music] lips. A single piece about that long, and then I just put it over my mouth. Shall we? And this will be my goodbye. All right. Here we go. Tape. [music] This is just uh medical tape, first aid tape. Looks like uh 1.5 cm. And I do a piece about [music] that long. Mhm. That's it. I tell my wife I love her. I love you, baby. Love you, baby. And then I [music] tape up. Tape up. So, all right, guys. Till next time. Be legendary. Take care. 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