The modern diet has killed your gut health. Use these 10 tips to fix your gut:
1. Drink red wine and eat dark chocolate & blueberries. These foods are high in polyphenols (reduce blood pressure, inflammation, cholesterol levels, and oxidative stress).
If you sleep less than 8 hours a night, you’re more likely to:
1. Lose memory
2. Gain weight
3. Get diabetes
4. Have a stroke
5. Have a heart attack
6. Experience depression
7. Have high blood pressure
Want to avoid these?
Start doing these 9 habits tonight:
Your belly fat is setting you up for cancer, heart disease, & early death.
Follow these tips to shred your belly fat:
1. 120 years ago, we walked 23.5k steps/day. Now we walk 3.5k steps/day. Walk more.
At 16 years old, I washed dishes for min wage
Did I cry?
No
Did I adopt communist ideology?
No
Did I petition to raise the min wage to $25?
No
I skilled up and solved bigger problems than washing a dish
Every fitness lesson I learned after 8 years in the gym:
1. Exercise is a documented anti-depressant. CNN is a documented depressant. Adjust your life accordingly.
2. Sugar does not make you fat.
3. Eat as much fruit as you want. Nearly impossible to overeat.
4. Most people eat due to B.T.S. (boredom, thirst, or stress) - not hunger. Before you eat, ask yourself: "Am I bored, thirsty or stressed right now?"
10 gut health facts your doctor won't tell you:
1. The gut is called the "2nd brain" because 400x more serotonin is produced in the gut than in the brain (bad gut can lead to anxiety & depression).
I used to wash dishes for minimum wage.
Did I complain about it? No.
Did I petition to raise the minimum wage to $20? No.
I skilled up and solved bigger fucking problems than cleaning a dish.
Want to sleep 8 hours?
Follow these 9 tips before bed:
1. Take a hot shower
2. Optimize your room
3. Use light effectively
4. Cool your temperature
5. Limit caffeine use
6. Don't eat before bed
7. Create a ritual
8. Avoid intense exercise
9. Find your right time to wake up
Racism, sexism, and hate are 1000x less present than the media makes them out to be.
The vast majority of humans have good in their hearts.
Agree or disagree?
10 tips to fix your gut health:
1. Drink bone broth
2. Eat fermented foods
3. Avoid antibiotics when possible
4. Limit sweeteners
5. Get quality sleep
6. Eat a range of foods
7. Eat lots of fiber
8. Eat whole grains
9. Consume probiotics
10. Eat foods high in polyphenols
1. Use light effectively
To sleep better, your body needs to be cool.
Light is the main regulator of your body temperature because it signals to your brain when it's day or night.
There are 2 ways to use light to help you fall asleep...
5. Exercise is a documented anti-depressant. CNN is a documented depressant. Adjust your life accordingly.
6. A high-protein diet is the best diet.
7. Eggs are a superfood. Not a "food to avoid".
Get morning sunlight.
Sunlight triggers your internal ‘clock’ which will:
• Give you more energy in the morning
• Help release melatonin (the sleep hormone) at night
Make it a habit to get 15+ minutes after you wake up.
8. Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day.
9. Hitting 10k+ steps a day is the most underutilized yet effective fat loss habit.
10. 99% can overcome bad genetics due to epigenetics (your behaviors alter the way your genes work).
6. Create a relaxation ritual
1-2 hours before bed, stop:
• Working
• Exercising
• Watching TV
• Using social media
Do activities that’ll help you relax:
• Journal
• Meditate
• Read fiction
• Take a warm shower
It’ll become 10x easier to fall asleep.
Avoid blue light close to bed time.
Blue light is found in artificial light sources like screens and lightbulbs.
These trick your brain into thinking it’s day and keeps you up at night.
Limit your exposure 1-2 hours before bed.
Chronic stress shrinks the brain, increases risk of heart disease, & leads to early death.
Follow these tips to erase your stress:
1. Take cold showers. This will make your immune system better equipped to handle stress via "hardening".
3. Take a hot shower
Studies have shown, those who take a hot shower or bath 1-2 hours before bed fall asleep easier.
Why?
Warm water stimulates blood flow to the hands and feet, allowing body heat to escape quicker.
Lower body temperature = Easier to fall asleep.
Eat fermented foods.
Most fermented foods have bacteria with probiotic effects.
These probiotics help restore balance in your gut and support digestion.
Great options to incorporate in your diet:
• Kefir
• Yogurt
• Pickles
• Kimchi
• Sauerkraut
• Kombucha
2. Cool your temperature
Your body’s ideal temperature for sleep is between 60° - 67° F (15.6° to 19.4° C).
Schedule your temperature to cool down 1-2 hours before bed.
8. Optimize your room
Your comfort plays a huge part in your sleep quantity + quality.
To help, buy:
• A quality pillow
• Blackout curtains
• Weighted blanket
• A quality mattress
• Air conditioner/fan
These are investments, not expenses.
Don’t cheap out on your health.
11. Drink sparkling water or black coffee to suppress your appetite.
12. You can't target specific areas for fat loss.
13. Minimize liquid calorie sources like soda, cooking oils, & starbucks "coffee". These are the easiest calories to overconsume.
14. Muscle confusion is not a real thing.
15. Your self-identity drives default actions. So STOP calling yourself "lazy" or "fat piece of sh*t".
16. You can eat foods like pizza, ice cream, & burgers and still lose fat if you eat clean 80% of the time.
4. Avoid high-intensity exercise before bed
To fall asleep, your body needs to be relaxed.
• Low heart rate
• Low state of arousel
• Low body temperature
High-intensity exercise causes the opposite of this.
Make it a rule to avoid it 2 hours before sleep.
17. Minimize seed oil consumption.
18. Eat the frog first. If you struggle to consistently hit your workouts, do it 1st thing in the morning.
19. Working out 3-4 days/week is more sustainable long term than 6-7 days/week.
And I'll leave you with this:
It doesn't matter if you gained 70 pounds, got divorced, or lost your job in 2022...
2022 is dead.
2023 is alive.
REINVENT YOURSELF.
5. Limit your caffeine use
Caffeine blocks the sleep hormone, Adenosine.
But here’s the thing…
It can take up to 10 hours for caffeine to leave your body.
So, make it a rule to stop consuming it long before bed.
8 hours of sleep will benefit you more than 2 cups of coffee.
Drink bone broth.
Bone broth has high amounts of gelatin.
Gelatin is essential for connective tissue function.
It absorbs water and maintains the layer of mucus that keeps gut microbes away from the intestinal barrier.
Eat lots of fiber.
Certain bacteria in your gut can digest fiber, which stimulates their growth.
Great food options to get more fiber:
• Lentils
• Beans
• Apples
• Popcorn
• Bananas
• Broccoli
• Chickpeas
• Artichokes
• Raspberries
• Whole grains
The food you eat is causing fat gain and setting you up for diabetes, heart disease, & early death.
And it's not seed oils, carbs, or diet soda you need to worry about.
This is the
#1
thing you must fix to get in shape:
Exercise is a documented anti-depressant.
The fact that many doctors WON'T even suggest this and go straight to prescribing pills is disgusting.
Pills tend to mask problems.
Behavior change tends to fix problems.
23. Get 15+ minutes of sunlight in the 1st hour of waking up to set your circadian rhythm and fall asleep later at night.
24. Ice baths and cold showers are great tools to minimize stress.
25. Skipping workouts because you're "tired" is the reason you're tired.
20. Being as little as 2% dehydrated leads to significant decreases in gym performance and impaired decision-making.
21. 8 hours of sleep is a performance-enhancing drug.
22. Lack of sleep increases your hunger hormones during the day, making it harder to lose fat.
Your gut is one of the most important (and ignored) parts of your health.
Your gut bacteria influences your whole body:
• Sleep
• Energy
• Weight loss
• Chronic pain
• Inflammation
• Mental health
… and much more.
Here are 7 tips to fix your gut:
9. Stop eating before bed
When you eat before bed, your body temperature is raised because of digestion.
This disrupts your sleep.
Aim to stop eating 3 hours before bed to let your body relax.
7. Find your perfect time to wake up
Waking up during the wrong phase of sleep can cause you to feel tired when you wake up.
How to avoid this?
Use a bed time calculator like
This will show you the best times to wake up for your sleep schedule.
1) Misinformation
Cosmopolitan & many others are guilty of spreading LIES.
"You can be healthy at all sizes."
WRONG.
Obesity puts you at a greater risk for:
- stroke
- diabetes
- heart disease
If someone trusts this misinformation, it could very well COST them their life.