Tom Bilyeu REVEALS His Daily Habits that Help Him Perform at an ELITE LEVEL | Health Theory
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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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