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Being STRONG is more than just how much weight you can lift.
The Strong New York Podcast is dedicated to inspiring you to become your strongest self- in the gym, in business, in relationships and in life.
Join Kenny as he sits down with his strong as fuck buddies and shoots the shit on what it takes to be strong willed, strong minded and physically strong. Season one features everyone from entrepreneurs and local business owners to doctors and industry leaders in the fitness and wellness space.
With over a decade of experience, Kenny Santucci has made himself known as one of New York City’s top trainers and a thought leader in the health and wellness industry. After transforming his life at 15 years old through fitness, Kenny made it his mission to transform the lives of those around him.
Kenny has trained some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Jon Bon Jovi, Liev Schreiber, and Frank Ocean, and has been tapped as a fitness expert sharing his training approach with Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Runner's World, SHAPE, Well+Good, among other publications.
Kenny is the creator of STRONG New York, NYC's only Health and Fitness Expo. Strong New York is an immersive day of workouts, wellness experiences, panel discussions, and inspiring conversations with the best in-class wellness professionals, industry leaders, and change makers who are sharing their expertise on today's hottest wellness trends and first-hand experiences on how to optimize your overall health and life.
You can find Kenny at The Strength Club, his private training and group strength training facility in the heart of Manhattan located on 28th and 5th Ave in New York City.
All right, we'll do the intro now, uh, 'cause we've been already chatting. We have so much to share and we're so excited about this. Uh, guys, welcome back to the Strong New York podcast. I'm your host, Kenny Santucci, and as always, we're living fit. So grab yourself a Celsius and live fit, uh, and we're here to get strong.
And I have two people here who I'm very excited to talk about, uh, the team from biohack yourself. I want you guys just to gimme a, a quick intro as to, um, who you are and how you guys wound up making this incredible, you know, I think there's a lost art here. Yes, right. The idea of like picking up a magazine every time I'm in the airport, I love grabbing a magazine and just flipping through.
You don't have it anymore, but I love the finish on this. It's very well done. Thank you. You know, you know nothing cheap about this, so thank you. Thank you. It's tech free wellness. I mean, our background. Seven years ago I used to be 315 pounds. I was morbidly obese. And so we decided to do something about it in the right way.
Get into fitness. We actually did a documentary called From Fat Lolly to Six Pack Lolly, the ultimate transformation story. You guys are New Yorkers? New Yorkers? Well, she's from our Armenia, but uh, we just we're New Floridians as of two years ago. Years. But New Yorkers born and raised in New York. Yeah.
And you guys spent most of your adult life in New York? Yes, most of our adult life in New York City. So that's what I always tell people. I'm like, I always love to get New Yorkers on. Whether they move somewhere, you know, they're, they're here now. The New York blood is still there. Yeah, still there. We own real estate in New York.
We love New York. And, uh, so yeah, the journey started where I was 315 pounds. Mm-hmm. My wife was on my back. I had exited a company. I had so much success, didn't have my health. Mm-hmm. We have two beautiful children I needed to live for. Theresa was Maha before that word was invented, before the word came out, it was Make Anthony healthy again.
And so. We tried everything to lose weight. I did the gastric sleeve, lost 50 pounds, gained 70, then got sleep. Apnea lost. You know, my BMI was off the charts. Finally, we said, I need a coach. You know, that's why stuff. What? What you are doing with this gym and your concept works? Mm-hmm. I'm living proof of that.
I hired a coach, followed the plan. I had actually flew him down from Ireland to live with me. We did a whole documentary. The documentary went viral during COVID. We released the documentary. That's very cool. Men from all over the world were like, me too, me too. I'm gonna do the same thing. We inspired so many people and that put us into the journey of like fitness, bodybuilding, competing.
We did a docuseries about her transformation, so our roles were reversed. Now it was like Beauty and the Beast, but then I was the Beauty and she was the one with a Dia Stacey Rec. I don't Mind Being the Beast or Dia Stacey's Recti. She had a mom bod. Well, I was actually always an athlete. Like I grew up, I was a ping pong champion, a competitive swimmer, a competitive Latin ballroom dancer, but I never had the physique that I got to when I was bodybuilding.
So after my second child, I really started feeling weak, frail back pain. All of that was happening. I discovered I had the diastasis recile, which is a separation of the apps. Mm-hmm. And so every time it was like, he was almost a year and a half, and every time I would eat breakfast, I would. Look like I'm pregnant again.
I was like, I'm not bouncing back. It's just not happening. I look sluggish. I feel sluggish. So he said, why don't I train you? Like, look at my transformation. I now understand muscle. I understand bodybuilding. Let me train you. So he trained me. We were now doing it together, meal prepping training together.
It not only brought us together as a couple stronger than ever. But it worked. I was able to close my diastasis, get a six pack, got to two time bikini Pro status. We competed in six different federations. Wow. Filmed the docuseries, brought our audience from the transformation world into the competition world and gained more audience really, that were fans of our work.
We were allowing to, to see the behind the scenes, what's going on in the fitness world. Mm-hmm. Is it just those muscly guys with steroids or is there more to it? It was a different angle too. It's like how to stay fit as a couple, keep a lifestyle, keep a family, run a business. It was a different unique perspective of, you know, couples fitness and just really just relationships.
Mm-hmm. And so we're very transparent, you know, even with the documentaries we showed, the loose skin surgery that I had to go to after I lost weight. The recovery, the suffering, the suffering that she went through. Butt wiping. Yeah. All that kind of stuff. And then it really put us in, uh, the trajectory of making amazing documentaries that are relatable.
So we all focused on health and wellness. Right. Currently we have 13 documentaries streaming globally on all the major platforms. And we have won 59 best documentary awards. Yeah. We did a bodybuilding one with, uh, the, called the Guru with George Farrah, Kai Green. I mean, Ister Jackson, like everybody. Wow.
Jim Manian, Taylor Manian. So you guys, what were you guys doing before this? Like, did you have any background in media or We had. A lot of backgrounds in a lot of things. Okay. Like I was a, an accountant with an accountant degree. Yeah. But I was also an actor with movies on Netflix with Cory Feldman. I was a recording artist and he was in real estate, but he was also a producer, which is basically the fancy way of.
People who put up the money for certain films. 'cause he always wanted to be around that. His house was being used for commercial use, like commercials and music videos. So we always had a knack for entertainment. When we got together, we, I actually kind of stopped my own career, so I engaged my two kids from the moment they were born, started managing their career.
So we were still in that industry. Our kids went on to book about a hundred jobs together. They made so much money booking national commercials and TV and Broadway that they ended up buying real estate and we're awarded as the youngest real estate investors. So in real estate, yeah, we had. A real estate brokerage company.
It was the largest rental company in New York we had, then we turned it national. Went from one location to a hundred locations nationally and sold it. I don't think people realize how young your kids are. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. How old are you? Two guys. They're seven and nine right now. Seven and nine. They own real estate.
Correct. There are people all over the United States being like, I can't afford a home. I got a seven and 9-year-old in my gym. Well, they didn't have expenses. They didn't have overhead. It's great. So everything was net and I didn't take my management cut. We've invested everything in there. Even though I was being coached by the managers and the agents like, Hey, you know, moms deserves to take the 15%.
I was like, what are you guys talking about? Yeah. In fact, we also made a rule. Anybody who wanted to come for birthday parties or anything like that, it was no gifts allowed. It was money only. So we put that also into their accounts. They had cougan accounts, child actors accounts. Okay. So when they were six and eight, we looked at the account and it was like, wow, there's a bit of savings here.
Mm-hmm. So we can actually go ahead and buy a property, put it in the Cougan account. Well, we had it in, in the market. It was under index funds. It was doing quite well. Mm-hmm. We kept opening up the computer, showing them how it's growing and then our son was like, oh, I can't buy a toy with this. Like what are you showing me?
A computer screen? That makes no sense. Yeah. So we said, why don't we just do a real estate transaction for them? Maybe they can live off the net proceeds or buy some toys. And we, that kind of changed their mindset around actually feeling the impact of cash flow. So what do you say to other parents who are.
You know, why don't you let them be kids, right? Mm-hmm. Why don't you know, because this is obviously a grind, right? Yeah. They're going to auditions. It's not easy. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's all perception, right? If you gamify it and you, um, make it look like that's what it is to be a child mm-hmm. Then that's what it is.
We also understand where to overload and where to offload. Like they're homeschooled. So we're not burdening them with waking up at six 30 o'clock in the morning and going into this robotic world of like learning certain subjects that you're never gonna use and, you know, being in, let's say school dramas, right?
Like that's so heavy on a child's mind versus, um, the characters that they're training for and the auditions that they're going for. Mm-hmm. And the adult environments that they're growing into, and they're really understanding the human beings that they're becoming. Um. Our son was in Martin Scorsese's daughter's movie as the lead actor, and that was shown in canned film festival recently.
Actually, two months ago, he was playing the young version of Robert De Niro and he's on set with Robert De Niro. So I'm just saying like, uh, be kid. Be a kid. You know? It's really how you define it. Our kids get the most amount of playtime I've ever seen in any other child's life because they're homeschooled.
They have free schedule to play unlimited amount of time. It's a different homeschool environment than our era. Mm-hmm. Because like, especially in Florida, that's like homeschool country. Yeah. And so before, back in our day at three o'clock, you'd have to wait for the afterschool programs to begin. If you wanted Muay Thai karate, whatever, wrestling.
Now it's eight in the morning and you're there. And there's other homeschooling parents. So our children have 15 sets of friends versus us, just our school friends. Well, I had a doctor on the podcast not too long ago, and she was telling me that there's all this research now, especially over in Europe and Italy, where.
People operate better if you're gonna go for therapy or if you're gonna learn it's better after you work out. Mm. So having exercise or any, any type of movement early in the morning Yes. Sets the rest of the day up for success? Yes. If you look at some of the most successful people in the world. Tony Robinson, A lot of these people, they all talk about how they work out in the morning.
Yes. And then that leads to the rest of the day. Yes. Yeah. I mean that's And to the point, our morning routine is, yeah. First of all, they wake up, they do their morning routines, they're self-managed, they have their check boxes. They do everything. They work out in the morning, then they go to their pickleball class, then they go to their boxing class, and by the way, they're doing this on their own.
They'll ride their bike to where the pickleball court is, and they're coaching with a private coach. Then they go to the boxing and they swap together. So now that they got all of this energy out of their bodies, they're able to better focus with their homeschool tutor. Mm-hmm. They come back and they do one subject a week for two hours in tents.
And there's also research behind that. When you're in a regular school and you're just switching between subjects every 40 minutes, it almost causes a DH, D. You're not really absorbing everything. No, we're versus you're in home with a private tutor. Two hours of math on a Monday and you don't touch math until next Monday for two hours.
Again, you gotta wake up and with your Ws you gotta win in the morning. Mm-hmm. So, you know, when you're working out, you have a regiment, you get that over with, the hardest part is over. Everything else is easy. Mm-hmm. So working out is key. You're, you're born and raised here in New York. Yes. Where did this mentality come from?
Where'd you guys kind of develop this outta? Well, you guys are very progressive with this idea and I, I, I agree with it. I think one of the things that we've missed really. And this country is the way the schooling system works. Right? If you look at a school from a hundred years ago, it looks the same as it does right now.
And they're doing the same thing. And people are paying 40, $50,000 a year to send a 4-year-old to school nowadays here in New York City. But it's the same shit. Yeah. Well, can I tell you, we were actually in the middle of researching that when our daughter, our first born was 11 months old. Um, I took it upon myself, 'cause I'm from Armenia, born and raised.
I moved here when I was 20, so I really never knew about the schooling system in this country. Mm-hmm. I was like, okay, well I really don't know anything about the school, so I wanna choose the best option. So since she was 11 months old, I started going on all these tours and he was with me. He's like, this is too early, babe.
I'm like, no, no, no. I think it's gonna take me like three years to really understand Yeah. What is going on. So we literally toured. Every single type of school. It's a magnet charter, public, private. Um, there's the school widow, I don't know if you know, that's like the $50,000, like super expensive. We've gone to all these schools.
Um, what do they offer you at 50 Waldorf Montessori. Yeah. Yeah. So it's really, um. Like the building for example. Yeah. It's high end, super clean, super progressive. They go child led, right? Reggio Emilio Whittle offers that Regio Emilio psychology where there's different modalities of learning different modalities.
Right? So I wanted to understand that took us about two years to really. Spread it out and really understand it as science. The first choice that we made for her when she was three Montessori, that's really nice. When the kid is, is little. But I realized there were some holes for me personally. Mm-hmm. And so we switched to, um, a public school.
'cause I was like, you know, all the tours that we've done. I still don't get what it's like to be a student in these systems. Mm-hmm. We chose a public school in a high zip code. So it's like some people move certain areas for that public school people be there for the public, it blue ribbon, everything.
Right. Okay. Let's understand that. So we went there for a year. It was a very big disappointment. The, the learning, I mean, and I come from a Soviet, they're watching cartoons, like Yeah. They're watching. I come from a Soviet country, like Armenia was a Soviet country. So learning was beautiful there. Right?
Like, I loved to learn. I looked forward to learning. Yeah. Here they were dreading it. Um, there wasn't much being taught. And then the environment in which they were, it, it was just not there. And they were also mixing a lot of different styles of kids together. So some of them were totally sucking up the time of the teacher.
Then we threw 'em in a private school, a Greek, uh Greek, a Greek Orthodox, Orthodox private school. And uh, and, and that was nicer. Um, smaller environment, more boutique, but still had a ton of holes. Mm-hmm. And then when we moved to Florida, we went to the private school. That was my most favorite. They were offering just more education.
Mandarin, Spanish. The science was like real science, like they were doing stuff, they were flying parachutes, like they had the funding to do that. The founder of Spanx, I went there. It was really nice and clear water. Um, and what I, I was not liking was the environment. Like the kids, the kids that were just affecting the personalities of my children.
Mm-hmm. And I was like, why should other parents' mistakes become my problem? Because their mistakes come through their kids into my house. Of course. Yeah. And it's like, we always look at the, at the pure white milk, if there's like a drip of chocolate, it becomes chocolate milk, right? Mm-hmm. And we said, we like our milk pure, so let's just pull them out.
And also at that time, bio, no, we tried a hybrid system. We kept legend. We moved to another, uh, part of Florida. We kept legend in private school, which had like a big soccer program, was a big to-do. Then we tried the homeschooling. We did the homeschooling with our daughter. Man, it was night and day like just like week one, week two.
Like, do you have someone, someone comes to us? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We chose different people for different subjects. Just two. You know what's interesting in Florida, they actually pay you to homeschool. Like you actually get money from Oh yeah. It's state. Uh uh. If you, even if you don't need just because you're not using the resources.
You're not using the resources, but there's a marketplace, there's a lot of teachers that left certain states for certain reasons and are out there as independent country. Those are probably the ones you want. Yes. They're like principals. Yeah. Of others. They're really good and they're very selective with, they're interviewing you as you're interviewing them.
Yes. And so, and we're able to complete an entire grade level in five months, which is half the academic year. So literally yesterday, legend did his final test. He's done, so he's got the entire semester, and I'm not gonna push him to third grade. I don't ever wanna make him feel uncomfortable. Instead, we're gonna work on his autobiography or writing a keynote speech and learning that and going, you understand?
That's incredible. Yeah. We're doing debate classes, we're doing etiquette classes. We're expanding their, their horizon about life. Yeah. I was just telling a friend of mine yesterday that I just hired a business coach to help me just organize the way my businesses operate. Sure. Now that I have multiple businesses and then how it funnels into accounting and everything else, and I go, I was never taught any of this.
Right. I don't understand it. Now, here I am spending 15, $20,000 at 42 years old to learn this stuff. Yeah. It seems to me that they're getting this type of education earlier on in life. Yeah. I think that's so important. We have done such a disservice to the Youth of America and now it's like the shit that all that you hear about all the time going on in schools, it's bad.
Yeah. You're like, why are they, this should have no bearing on a child's life. Yeah. You know, it really is. It's, it's scary how, also the nutrition too. The water. Horrible. Yeah. The water fountains full of fluoride, the food, the lunch food. It's, and, and you know, I also noticed something, I'm a very, very health oriented person, right in our house, literally, I am the RFK of our house.
So I noticed the shift when they were starting to go, um, to school. I'm packing them olives and, you know, pickles and really healthy stuff. And the kids were starting to call their yum and y Ew. Mm-hmm. How do you say that they were yucking? My yum. They were yucking my hand. But basically every time they would go to school, they would open up, obviously like the foods that I was sending them.
They've got garlic and onion. It would smell, right? So the kids would always kind of, not bully, but say, Ew, what are you eating? They're eating gummy bears and shit like that. Exactly. Uh, goldfish. And so they would come home and it started rubbing on on them and they were like, you know, I don't want that anymore.
It stinks. My friends don't like it, so can I just eat school lunch? So it was starting to affect my. Beliefs. You know, there's so much in, in school that you just don't want that influence in your house. But again, like we have an amazing support team. Like we have my mother-in-law that lives with us, right?
So we constantly have somebody at home. So even if we have to go to work and work meetings, there's always someone watching them and the tutors come in and out of the house. Like that's our, our classroom. Our home is our classroom Business coaching is key. Yeah. In any, in any size of your business. Mm-hmm.
I mean, you know, even Tony Robbins at his level, he takes business coaching from people. So it's a great thing that you're doing that. On that note, our children watch, uh, people shows like the profit. They watch Shark Tank, that's a part of their curriculum. Restaurant rescue. Bar Rescue. Yeah. And what we do is we say, besides the concept of the show, what did you extract from the personalities?
And so a lot of times there's shows on the profit where the, the business owner inherited the business from their parents, but they actually never worked a day in their life and that's why the business is failing. Mm-hmm. And so they understand the principle of kind of earning it and having to work and understanding what's going on, understanding people, having people skills.
Well I was just telling a friend of mine, you know, I could send you a book on how to invest better, how to run a business better, better mindset, how to get in better shape. I don't think there's any books on how to, how to raise children in the right way. I don't think there is actually, there are books. I was eating them for lunch and breakfast.
Like there is so many parental books that can make you your best potential self as a mother. Yeah. And there's parenting coaches too. We got coaching. Coaching from breastfeeding, window coach, all that kind of sleep coach, all that kind of stuff. I went to breastfeeding coaching che league moms. I was in all these mom groups reading books.
But I feel like the, some of those things could probably become pretty political pretty quickly, right? Like they waiver on one side or the other. I feel like everything now has become, you're either super left or super right? Nobody, yeah. Or super crunchy or no. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I could, unless you have a worldwide look at life and you're not really subscribing to any one look at life mm-hmm.
And you just wanna pluck out the best that fits you. Yeah. Because after all, you have your own soul that believes in and thrives in certain ways, so it has to align with you. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, I think it's pretty impressive. I mean, I, I'm kind of jealous of them that they got such cool parents, you know? I, I really didn't it.
We come from a generation where it's like, all right, just go to school. Whatever you learn, you'll learn. And that's, yeah. That's the end of it. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, what's going on with biohack yourself? I mean, this is what we're really here to, to dig into. Well, you know, we are experiential documentarians and so one of the documentaries we made was called Biohack Yourself.
Mm-hmm. It featured Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, Bruce Lipton, junior, K Jr. 114 interviews. And so that really, first of all, we went through a whole entire biological transformation, really understanding red light therapy, PEMF, stem cells, all those things, and doing a deep dive and really building and cultivating deep relationships with the film, the people we casted in the film.
It was a pain to purpose story in a way, because our son, when he was born, he was misdiagnosed seven times. With what? So, um, uh, on the spectrum, Lyme disease, really restless leg syndrome, and with every diagnosis we were receiving medication. So I had my, um, kitchen table with the paperwork, the testing, the diagnosis, and the medication on top.
And I was just waiting to see which two are aligned, like is there two responses that match and there wasn't. So I completely shifted, uh, my research into functional medicine practices. I actually found Dr. Tam O'Brien, his book Autoimmune Fix. That was my morning, that was his morning alarm. And I was listening to his books.
I was listening to Dr. Steve Gundry and completely pivoting my understanding of what health should be in this country. 'cause I was raised in Armenia, super duper healthy, super duper organic. But with those beliefs, I was glyphosate toxic because I was eating salads and broccoli without really understanding the type of washing you have to do, the type of shopping you have to do, like all the details that you have to go into.
So starting from his, um. Misdiagnosis and us making that shift. Uh, we went deep into really understanding what biohacking is, and we managed to heal all of his ailments. He only had mold infection, and he had a two co. He had the two copies of M-T-H-F-R gene mutation, and our mold was in our HVAC system.
Oh, wow. So I'm just saying, it took me 20 functional medicine doctors to get to that, to solve the puzzle, to then detox him, to now have a brilliant child who was being diagnosed as autistic and given liquid iron, which would have made him autistic because he has the two copies of M-T-H-F-R gene mutation.
So when we dodge the bullet in such a massive way, we felt like we, we would wake up almost like crying every day from gratitude of how I was able to just dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. And I was like this R. Super exhausted mom. 'cause I couldn't sleep. He wouldn't let me sleep. So by the time he was like 10 months old, I had lost my mind.
Well, not just him. Our daughter had a golf ball size lymph node on her neck. Yeah, it was like sticking out. It was there. Evident. Just came because she was battling a high fever and her lymphatics kicked into fight the virus, but something got trapped. When it got trapped, her entire lymphatics got stagnated.
So what did you do to, well, we went through the whole documentary series, meeting, everyone asking for answers, going through the protocol, lymphatic massage, this, that, and towards the end of the documentary, 'cause we were actually researching. When we were filming, we were really trying to find answers, right?
How do you detox this? How do you do this? Finally we went and oxygen bath, hydrogen bath, red light therapy. Twice a day, seven days a week. And her entire lymphatics drained. Yeah. She would be laughing her tail off, running around in the hallways, pooping her brains out. Like everything came. We were shocked.
So what happened was we had a big premier at the A four m, I don't know if you know the American Academy of Anti-Aging. They have an, it's the Super Bowl of Longevity Conferences. Okay. Where is that? In Vegas. In Vegas. In Vegas. And so they, um, they said, you guys did an amazing job casting your Biohack Yourself documentary.
We'd love to host your premier at the, the end cap of our, of, of our big, it's like 10,000 attendees, a thousand exhibitors. You and I can't even go if you have to be a doctor or have some sort of initials on the back of your name, uh, in order to get in, because they're very serious. You get continuing education credits.
Okay. To, if you would just by listening to lectures. So we had to premiere 800 people, not, there was 300 people we knew already in our network that were part of the film, part of new films we were doing. And then the whole entire community came. So we titled it The Oscars of Longevity. Yeah. Because we recognized.
What these people are doing, they're the real superstars and they need that kind of recognition. So we laid out 10 red carpet stations while it was black carpet stations. Yeah. And we were, you know, press and media videography, photography. We had already turned our, our Biohack Yourself brand into a news and media company because what we do with our documentaries, we start priming the internet with shorts and reels and trailers.
We've never seen this type of reception. Can you heal me? Can you help me? What information? I love this part. Who do I go to? I love this part. People were saying, I love the documentary. I was like, it doesn't come out till December 15th. They felt like they saw it already. Yeah, they saw enough. So we got on stage with the children and we said to everybody in the room was 800 people in the room.
I said, I know what you're thinking. We are not gonna, 'cause what happens a lot in this industry, especially if people understand media marketing and they have some capital. If you have six minute abs, I'll invent five minute abs. Mm-hmm. And so we're like, we, the, the world doesn't need another pill potion in lotion.
But what we did recognize is that you guys need a voice. We want to be that voice for you guys. We want to support you guys. We wanna help you guys market, we wanna help you. We wanna shout from the rooftop 'cause you guys changed our life. We're basically gonna be the the ESPN. And the vogue for this industry and what we set out to do, we actually did by a January 20th producing a Maha Bowl for RFK Junior and being the only exclusive trusted media in the room.
And that was basically the launch of our media company. Wow. Currently we have about 30 journalists that work for us and we cover everything from UFC to Pickleball World Cup to Turning Point USA, whether it's a political event, biohacking event, biological dental event. Um, we're everywhere. Fashion event.
Yeah. Because everybody likes to A, share their information about how their healing themselves and what their morning routines are, and B, our viewership has is stunning. It's 10 million views a month because people are hungry to understand the real behind the scenes of all the people that they admire.
Well, there's so much controversy around a lot of this stuff. Right. You know, it took us till 2026 to flip the pyramid. That's right. You know, I think there's a lot of us, I've been shouting from the rooftops for the longest time, that strength training is what everyone should be doing. Yeah. The amount of arguments and, uh, you know, conversations I've had with people about how this should be the base of what you're doing on a daily basis.
Everything else comes secondary, in my opinion. I think the gateway drug to the best version of yourself is if you start lifting weights, anybody, 5-year-old kids to 105 year old people, it doesn't matter. I think it's the basis of what we should all be doing. Obviously, sleep and nutrition are the three columns that I think everybody should have.
Why do you think it took us so long to get here? Because there's all this research, there's all these people. Growing up when I was a kid, it didn't take, you know, a, a degree in education or a exercise science to understand that like. Well, if I wanna look like anybody, you know my dad was fat outta shape.
Old school Italian guy who never worked out, ate like shit. The only thing he ever ate was like pasta and pastries. And then I looked at something, somebody like Arnold Schwarzenegger and I'm like reading muscle magazines and here he is and he is eating tune out of the can and steaks and chicken. I'm like, why Should just do more of what he's doing.
Because him and my father are the same age. Right. And he looks way better. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm gonna do that. Yeah. You know, I think the answer to your question is identity foreclosure. I think a lot of doctors, practitioners, they don't wanna really change what their entire life's work was about.
What they are, professor they admired and respected was teaching them what the book said, right? Mm-hmm. And all of the recommendations they made to all the clients and the, you know, people that they've helped or gave prescriptions to. So that's one. Two is there's financial incentives. There was a whole entire industry propped up and supported.
And the sick care system, uh, three years, I think it, there wasn't enough, um, people getting fed up. I think there wasn't, you know, social media really brought things to light. Yeah. And then that's when some of the shadow, I think it exposed a lot of life. It exposed a lot. Yeah. The misunderstandings that we've had.
Yeah. You know, I obviously, I give it up to gab. She, you know, I, I said she was my doctor years ago. Yeah. And she was kind. Reinforcing the beliefs that I had. So now I think it was probably like 20 16, 20 17 when I started to really, you know, this is when the Ben Greenfields and the Dave Aspr and the um, mark Ens were coming to life.
Yeah. I see. But a lot of these guys aren't doctors, they're just guys who are super into Yeah. You know, and I mean obviously she's a doctor, but a lot of these people were just like, Hey, I'm just gonna play with this and keep playing with it and figure it out. Yeah. Um, and I think they've really changed the way we look at the world.
I mean, Andrew Huberman is obviously one of these people that people. Go to him for this type of information. Sure. You know, and you guys are bringing light to this whole world. Like that. This is what I wanted to do with my event here in New York, was I wanted to bring in these people. 'cause I was early on adopting a lot of this stuff that these people were saying.
Sure. And I was like, oh, if I could get them to come speak at my event, them people understand because I don't have the letters after my name. Yeah. For people to believe that I know what the hell I'm talking about. Yeah. But even the people who have the letters after their name now there's all this controversy.
It's like, well they're so far right. That's why they say these things and blah, blah, blah. But I think there's, there's truth to it. We're seeing the, the results and you know, it speaks for itself. Absolutely. For us, biohacking, longevity, wellness, that is our religion like or political view. Right. To us, it doesn't really matter.
All the political views or all the religions. Mm-hmm We all speak one language, being human being healthy, but there's healthy, there's misinformation. I think that's the problem. I think Pete, when you know. Somebody told me the other day, they're like, when you're building a brand mm-hmm. Whether you want to or not.
'cause I was like, I think everybody could get along and blah, blah. And they're like, well, you think so or not? You need an enemy. You need somebody who Sure. Yeah. Opposes what you believe. Right. Um, and I was like, yeah, you know what? I was like, if I had to pick somebody, it's all the people who say, Hey, it's okay to be the way you are.
And it's not. Mm-hmm. Because there's health risks involved, right. There's depression, anxiety, and all these things come from eating a poor diet, not exercising, you know. So for me it's like anybody who opposes the idea of like, Hey, I should take better care of myself. That's the common enemy. So I think there is some sort of, there are people who are like, all this stuff that you guys are saying is bullshit.
I think your, your kid should be in public schools and they should eat the same thing as everybody else. And you're like, well, no. Who the fuck are you to tell me how to raise my kids? Yeah. Who are you to. Tell me how to live my life. You know, our mindset is, 'cause we are, we don't do like controversial documentaries or pointing a finger or this government did that or this go.
We're more like, hey, a good analogy is like, okay, you wanna smoke? Great. Here's what we're doing by not smoking. Yeah. Like, you know, but you wanna smoke and die. Less competition for me, less competition for my kids. Yeah. Go ahead and do that. That's how I look at it. Yeah. Because just success leaves clues.
Mm-hmm. And just like you said, with the Schwarzenegger and all that kind of stuff, you can easily see what team do you want to choose the team of health or the team of, you know, all sorts of clouded judgment and sickness. Mm-hmm. So I think time reveals all truths and this is that moment where you can really see who was on the right side of history and the right decision making on all levels.
Mm-hmm. So you cleaning up your life. Yeah. What do you think really sparked that now? You were living here in New York at the time. Yeah. What was, what was the first step? Was it hiring the trainer? Was it looking in the mirror? I remember I talk about this a lot. There was a point I was about 13 years old, 12, 13 years old.
I was really heavy as a kid. Yeah. And I didn't know any better at that age. I mean, you don't know. Yeah. And the world is a very different place in 19 95, 96. Oh yeah. And I'm looking in the mirror and I'm like, I just felt so uncomfortable with myself. I was very unhappy. I was depressed. And I said, I'm gonna start going to the gym.
Yeah. I'm gonna, that's, that's the first thing. How old were you? 13. 13 years old. Wow. And probably 12. And I was like, I need to start working out and I need to start doing this thing. And I used to go up into my room and I used to do pushups and situps, and I wanted to start eating the right way. I remember when I told my grandmother, I was like, on Sunday, I can't eat pasta anymore.
And she's like, what do you mean? What are you going to eat? You're gonna die? Like, no, no. I'm just done with this. I can't eat this shit anymore. Um. And she's like, why? I am like, well, because Ronnie Coleman doesn't eat it, so I'm not eating it. You know? Yeah, yeah. Good for you. I think for me it was a culmination of, well, first of all, I tried nine times and failed.
And so the ninth time I did the gastric sleeve, uh, and I did it because she was on my back and I lost 50 pounds and I gained 70, so I stretched my stomach back out. Gastric sleeve is when you cut the stomach in half. Yeah. Yeah. Immediately lost weight, but I was losing muscle, and then I started getting sleep apnea.
My health was declining really fast at that point, and I told her, leave me alone. I want to die fat and happy with the mac and cheese in my mouth. I don't want to hear this mess anymore. I tried very vivid. Right. You imagine? But no, I, I get it. I have, I have a, I had a client here. Yeah. Who is very much like that.
Yeah. You know, he had the gastric sleeve and you know, he wouldn't listen and like his mother was paying me. This is a grown man. He's my age. Yeah. His mom was paying me. To train him. And it's like he just, he would get here and avoid doing anything. Anything. Yeah. And as soon as the hours up, he's like, all right, I gotta go to work.
And he'd hide in the bathroom and do all this shit. And I'm like, dude, I'm like, it's not even about the money. I don't care about the money. Like, it's not, you're the, even if I was charging you $500 an hour, it's not gonna move the needle for me. Right. I need you to change the way you operate. Yeah. You need to change your habits and you need to look at this more of a, as an enjoyable thing than you look at it as like an avoiding thing.
I needed a why. Yeah, because I had success. I had love, I had a, you know, a beautiful family, my wife, and it was really my wife kind. Staging it where I had to do it because she, she's a whole movie production. Yeah. It's a whole how to get him to have that why she put a, a picture of a person with six pack abs and my face on it, plastered it all over the house.
Oops. You know, affirmations, uh, vision boards. Vision boards, yeah. Um, the kids were very active in their child acting career. They got older and now they were booking family shoots. They want a mother, a father, a daughter, a son. Um, and I swear one of the shoots they booked a guy almost looks like him. Right.
It was like, it was actually, I'll show you the picture. Um, and they, I couldn't even play my own kids' dad. I was doing b bts. That must have been a kick in the ball. Uh, first I was avoiding book, like even submitting for those jobs. Yeah. But then when we did the dream board photo, I was like, Hmm. Submit. And then I had my son and that, like you said.
You know, you were a son and you're looking at your dad versus Arnold, and I know that feeling and I'm like, I don't want him to look down on me. Mm-hmm. Then I was the worst influence at restaurants. I'm the one eating off the kids' meal. She's over there giving them all the healthy food. The kids were old enough to see that dad's eating a different meal than them, and they wanted to eat the mac and cheese, the fries.
One of those incidents, she got fed up. She told our daughter. Don't eat that you're gonna get fat. And kids at a certain age, they don't know certain words. Like, what's fat? She showed her a video of obese people. Mm-hmm. She looked at those people in the YouTube video at the restaurant, and then she looked at me like, oh, you're one of those, like, you're not normal.
And that really hit me and that then everything started like when you see, when you buy a red car, you see all the other red cars. Every other clue started coming to me, like the personal trainer that was on my back talking to me, that my friend introduced me to. It's like anytime, anywhere, whatever, like all those connections.
Um, then I started searching and then the algorithm algorithm started feeding me stuff before and after pictures and, you know, then I stumbled on this word. I didn't wanna be Jared from, you know, subway with the oversized pants, but still have your shirt on. Mm-hmm. I'm like, that doesn't erase what you did.
Then I discovered this word transformation. And my algorithm started feeding me people that completely transformed, like had the loose skin did, but lost weight, had the loose skin, and did the surgery, looked amazing, started doing stuff. I'm like, whoa, there's a world out like, like that. Mm-hmm. That was the world I want to be in.
Similar to what you're doing here, right? This is a different type of workout world that you have here. Mm-hmm. There's a certain caliber and quality of person that wants to come to something like this. Of course. Well, I think it's, it's more of a serious clientele. Correct. You know, like, and not to say that people who go to big box gyms aren't serious, those are the people who already have the discipline to show up and do what they need to do.
Uh, however, I would challenge most people that if you have a workout partner, a trainer, or a group around you, you'll get 30 to 40% more outta your workout. A hundred percent yeah. Than you will doing it by yourself. Yes. People wanna workout by themselves, nothing against it. Every once in a while, I like doing it.
I would rather on a daily basis workout with one or 2, 3, 4 other people. And be in that community because one, it gives 'em that opportunity to hang out and socialize, but also get more out of what I'm trying to do. Yeah. So, you know, once, um, I was in the business of losing weight and fighting for my life, I treated it like a business.
You mentioned business coach. I needed a coach. I'm like, I'm outta my core competency, right? When you recognize like, I have something here, I want to take it to the next level. So I tried, I tried my normal tricks, my, my fake diets, and I lost like 10, 20, 30 pounds. Like every fat guy has that upper sleeve.
We know how to lose weight. You always have three sizes of suits and clothes in your closet. But then I said, no, no, no. I'm hitting a wall here. I'm about to hit a wall. Let me get professional help. Similar to what you said, I want to scale, I want to grow. It's getting a little bit, this is not fun anymore.
Well, because you, you'll spend years trying to figure it out, right? When it's like. How do you biohack? Well, it's a cheat code. How do I figure this out faster? Well, I just hire somebody who's better at it than that's it. That's it. So once I did that, I started investing in all of the right infrastructure.
Like I would a business transaction. Let's say we do a building, who's gonna be the architect? Who's gonna be the builder? Who's gonna be the electrician? Mm-hmm. Bring in the trades. Yeah. You can't have just one guy do it All right. And that's the, that's the miss. Information I think out there is like, oh, there's one person that has all the answers.
And it's not, no. You know, if, if, if everyone, if this one person worked for everybody, that'd be the only guy in the business. But there's, I think the success also very important was the team was important. Yeah. Because we allocated all the duties. 'cause meal prepping, for example, was super important, right?
To maintain. Mm-hmm. To, to lose the weight and gain the muscle. You have to be on the meal prep. So his mom jumped in, was like, okay, I'm gonna take this. My mom moved in with us and she was like, okay, I'll be the person that wakes up at night to watch the kids. 'cause you know, you're, you're so busy in the morning so that he has to rest.
So it was a team effort, like his mom, my mom and our kids, and myself and him and a nutritionist. And then your. Other trainer. Yeah. The guy that actually passed away. Yeah. So, you know, another thing for me is relatability. Working out with someone that you respect or mm-hmm. You know, taking mentorship. That guy, um, happened to be a barber.
Uh, he got into personal training. He was amazingly fit and he was trying to launch an Airbnb business. He owned like two or three properties. Mm-hmm. And there was a value exchange. I'm like, I'm gonna mentor you on how to be a real estate, you know, mogul and you're gonna mentor me on how to get in shape.
So he trained me. The guy, uh, the, the nutritionist I flew into from Ireland, he's now a millionaire. I'm, when we did a Zoom call, he had a tattoo on his arm and I was interviewing him and I said, it says millionaire on your arm. He said, are I said, are you a millionaire? He said, not yet, sir. I said, live with me for a year.
I'll make you a millionaire. I said, you gotta make me a health millionaire. He said, deal. And so that's what, that's what it was. I built, I, I gamified it. So where do you guys live in Florida? Boca Raton. Okay. So a friend of mine lives in Delray Beach. Yeah. He happens to own. Uh, TRX now. Okay, nice. Okay. Yeah.
And, uh, his name's Jack Daley. Great guy. He was in, uh, he worked for Goldman Sachs for a long time, obviously knows the business world. And one of the things he had said one time we were talking, he goes, I try to teach a lot of these finance guys that they'll run out of their health before they run outta their wealth.
Mm sure. And there's so many people out there because we're seeing this divide in the, in the world, and their people are making a lot of money. Mm-hmm. And they're hoarding it all away. Mm-hmm. And then you have other people on the opposite end aren't really making anything. So we're seeing this divide, but at the same time, there are so many people making tons of money and what's the point of having it if you're not spending it?
Sure. And what I think is more important is your health. Yeah. That's the real wealth. Yeah. So it's like you could have health across the board. I mean, one of the things I try to teach people obviously like being in New York and we live in a bubble, but like. There are so many, there's so much information out there, and there are so many ways to get in shape because one of the things I want to ask you guys about, you know, there's obviously people don't have the resources.
You don't, they don't live in Florida. Like, I think there's a lot of opportunities that you guys have that most people don't, but I want them to learn from you guys. I don't want them to be like, oh, well they have everything and that's why I can't do it. It's like, no, you could do it too. You just need to just figure out how to do it on a budget or find the right place.
I think I, what I always said, why I called the company Strong New York was because I said, if I can make it viral to be healthy Yeah, yeah. And take care of yourself in New York City where everything becomes cool, well then we could do it everywhere else, right? I, I addressed that at the end of the Fat Lolly, the six Pack Lolly documentary.
I said, I know you're watching this because I was very transparent about my success and all the different things, and you're thinking he has money. This is why he had access to coaches, but. Our answer to that was our docuseries. So in our docuseries, we started working with coaches that only charge 150, $200 a month.
And when we were competing, we were there with single moms. If you needed to be a millionaire to compete, then we would, that would've been networking. Mm-hmm. We would've, you know, met a lot. It was regular people. Mailmen were competing in, especially in the transformation category. Um, so it doesn't take much and it's actually more expensive to eat bad, eat out Uber Eats.
Yeah. It's just all excuses. Yeah. It's all excuses. I agree. You know, it comes down to self-discipline and you're why and how committed you are to that. Well, funny story, I, I love Oprah. I, I I do. I think she's such a, she's the American dream. Yeah. She, if you had to pick like three people to be the Mount Rushmore of the American Dream, she would definitely be one of the heads up there.
But she was saying something the other day on the View that has gone viral on the GLP one thing. Yeah. Well, just saying like, there's a fetching. I go. It's more of a discipline gene. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Like do you have the discipline to tell yourself like, Hey, this isn't great for me. I'm gonna get this value out of it right now and I'm gonna enjoy, I'm gonna somewhat enjoy whatever I'm eating now, but I'm gonna reap the aftermath of that.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Discipline is, and habit changing is what I try to get my clients to understand. Can I actually add to that? Sure. I do agree with understanding your genes and genetic mutations because that has made a whole difference for our ourselves. For sure. Yeah. And I, I understand like for example, 10 X health, right?
They have an amazing gene tests where they can understand what genes are affecting your certain abilities to detox or obesity gene, like there is that exists. So when you take the supplements that are super customized for you that they make, after understanding your genetic makeup, your life does become much easier.
I, I 100% agree because I have friends who work in the fitness industry now, everybody, because I work in the industry and I've been doing it for so long, everybody's like, well, you always look like this. I'm like, no, I don't. No. If I stop working out for a couple days. I have the obesity gene. Have the fat kid Gene.
Yeah. He's Italian. Yeah. I mean, it's like I gravitate towards eating like shit. Wow. Um, but I have to be super strict with myself. Yeah. And you know, there's a. There's definitely drugs out there. I mean, GLP ones and peptides, all this stuff could absolutely make the job easier, but I think it starts because you could take all that shit too.
You're blue in the face. You could pump it through your eyeballs. Sure. But if you have no discipline Yeah. And you don't change the habits, yeah. Then you're gonna resort back to it, just like you said. Yeah. You know, you got the sleeve. You gained more weight back. Yeah. You didn't actually change you, you just changed your genetic makeup for a little bit.
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. And by the way, he didn't, we didn't know his genetic makeup when he transformed. So it is possible to do it without all of that. Mm-hmm. But yes. Does it help? Like our kids, both and myself, were on the gene supplements. Mm-hmm. And lemme tell you, like the bloating has completely stopped. Of course there is so much like the vitamin levels regulated without taking vitamin D, for example.
Right. Because my daughter and I have this gene that's not methylating, vitamin Ds, for example. There's all of that. That helps a lot. And this is why we love biohacking and we love the world of biohacking because there's so much happening on day-to-day basis. Currently it's a $3.3 trillion industry and it's, it's gonna double in the next two years.
Oh, I believe. Yeah. So there's a lot of people coming into the industry. There's a lot of. Hidden talent that is coming out of their bunkers as well. So we're here in the front lines with our documentaries, with our print magazine, with our media company, bringing that to the masses. We have become that bridge that speaks the everyday person's language, and we even engage our children to do more journalism to speak and simplify these languages.
And we bring these amazing innovators, this amazing bubbles into the mainstream. For example, biological dentistry, lemme tell you. Love it. I'm so into this right now. Oh my gosh. After interviewing 114 people for biohack yourself. Yeah. Then we went straight into producing a women's health documentary. 80 experts interviewed there only because I met JJ Virgin, who you probably know.
Mm-hmm. And she said, look, there's a big problem. 80% of women are struggling with autoimmune conditions. And you know why? Because there's no research being done on women's health, and all women are being treated as small men. So this is what JJ Virgin told me. She's like, what if we just produce. One documentary that is just focused on how do women need to biohack themselves.
So it turned into a three part documentary. It is actually set to premier during the Can Film Festival. So now Hollywood has taken interest in us. The president of Film, USA invited us to Premiere. It gave us an entire theater. So we're headed out there, or incredible. May 15th you should come. I would love to, I would love to invite you.
I would absolutely love to. Perfect. I'm so like, I eat, sleep, shit and breathe. Health and wellness, biohacking. People are always like, oh, you're going to that too. I go to everything. I go to everything because I, I wanna optimize what I know and my own health and wellness and help as many people as I can.
Mm. I can't give you, you know, people always ask me, well, what do you think of GLP ones? Now it's getting a little bit more accepted. Yeah. But two years ago when people are like, I, and I tried it, I did it. I did Ozempic. Maybe twice. And it made me so nauseous. I felt terrible on it. Um, but I said, I go, I can't tell people about this until I try it myself.
Sure. And I think it's a great catalyst. Absolutely. In a great way. Like I've been trying to get my mom to do it. She refused to do it. Do you prefer Ze though? Tze? Yes. But Ozempic Ozempic was like two years ago. Yeah. That was the beginner one. Tirzepatide is now the more advanced version. Yeah. It's a better form.
I believe in it. And then there's, what's the new one? Uh, Reddit. Tru Tide. Reddit Tru Tide. Yeah. I, I, you know, as a. Former fat person doing fat documentary, like working with really people 500 pounds. We did another documentary called Skin Deep. Mm-hmm. There was, the kid was 500 pounds, he lost 300 pounds, he had 300 pounds of loose skin, one body boot, like, uh, transformation competitions.
We paid for his surgery. 35 pounds. 35, yeah. 35 pounds we actually weighed. And uh, and uh, so that struck a quick 'cause when you're fat, there's like the guys that are 500 pounds, they considered us skinny. Like, they're like, you guys are nothing. Yeah. So they don't even respect us. And so that's a whole nother level when you're 500 pounds.
That's, it's like, you don't respect me losing 25 pounds. Yeah. So like, so, um, so anyway, but what the GLP ones are, if it's, it allows you to do a bankruptcy, that's what it is. If you have a bad business and the creditors are coming, you just can't get out of it. You're like below negative zero. You have to file for bankruptcy and to give you a fresh start.
Now whether or not you're gonna do the right things when after the fresh start, it's up to you. So you can't do that and not work out, not take protein amino acids. Mm-hmm. Like the whole part of starting over, building your credit again, is to do that. So that's a tool that allows you to reset, you know, and file for physical bankruptcy, but then get the right training, the right help.
Right. And then. Build brand new, and that's supposed to be the art of the comeback. Mm-hmm. Really just coming back you, because I've noticed a shift with people when they lose weight, they start acting like the person that goes to the gym, they start doing the exercises. I agree. They start even faking it on camera, on social media, but then they start saying, whoa, I actually look good in that angle.
Right? And then they start doing the workouts and like, maybe I could do a pull up. Maybe I should do that. And they start adopting that persona. Mm-hmm. And then it goes from there, but, but take that pill off or that shot off. If you don't have the right mindset, the right coach, the right understanding of meal plans, it can quickly balloon you back up.
For sure. I think a lot of people, if you are out there and you're hesitant about doing it, I think you should definitely try it if it's something you need. Now where it gets abused is like there's a lot of men and women out there who are already thin, who are. Jabbing themselves for no reason. You don't really need it.
I think it's abuse of the product. It's the same thing with, you know, I'm on testosterone, I take testosterone, but I'm not taking, you know, 2000 milligrams. So I, I'm, you know, I'm not trying to be a bi Yeah. I'm, I do it to feel better. Sure. You know, and if, if the goal is to get yourself to, uh, some sort of optimal level, that's great.
But I know a ton of guy, I, I think the risks, people don't understand the risks of overdoing a lot of these drugs and they need to be monitored by a doctor. And there are so many great companies out there and so many great doctors out there who could walk you through the pro process. There's blood work has to be done.
I think that's one of the things that people don't realize is that that needs to be one of the first steps you take. I walk clients through it all the time. I think it's so important and I think there's so much research that now it makes it socially acceptable as well. I think prior to. Three years ago, maybe people weren't as willing to try different things.
No. You know, if you want the best results, in my opinion. Mm-hmm. What worked for me was to combine Tirzepatide Withone, and I've done it one time. Mm-hmm. So you're just doubling down on getting the apha. Mm-hmm. You, you know what that means. Yeah. Yeah. You're getting rid of the dead cells. You're actually doing a major cleanse and losing the fat for five days.
You're doing a fasting mimicking diet with ProLon and eptide helps you close the appetite. Right. To then be able to do the The fast. Wow. Yeah. So if you do it that way, you're getting double the benefits. Yeah. You're losing the fat, you're getting rid of your dead cells, your zombie cells. You're actually coming out of it as a brand new person.
Well, I tell people, people ask me about fasting all the time. You know, it's one of these things, it's like, oh, the best bio hack. I think it's a great way to reset your, your body and your system and get rid of a lot of the dead cells. Yeah. I think, and ProLon is basically that. Yeah. ProLon is great. It's a fasting mimicking, so you're not completely doing a fast.
Mm-hmm. You still have like a cracker or an olive. Sure. But if you use the tr appetite at that point, it makes it easier. Yeah. It's just, it, it makes the use of it purposeful. Mm-hmm. You know, rather than just, you know, using t appetite and eating the same way you want to eat. It shifts something in your mind too, that you just uplevel your integrity about yourself.
For sure. Well, I, I think that's what people are missing nowadays. Right. Everybody, um, you know, we live in this state of depression. So many people, like even us, we're in great shape. There's probably things that get us down, but we could come out of it. Sure. I, I know how to hack. Getting people in the gym, right.
Like when people are, I don't wanna do this. Yes, a program works better than just mindlessly going to the gym. But I teach people all the time, it's like, all right, get in the gym, start swinging a bell, throw a ball, do something that gets your heart rate up and then you'll start to wanna work out. Yeah. I think there's like different ways to enter into the, like pick an exercise that you like it doesn't have, and Yeah.
And just start doing that. Mm-hmm. And then you're like, okay, I feel pretty good. I'm gonna start working out. Mm-hmm. But a lot of people, you know, either avoid the gym 'cause they don't want to go, or they just don't know how to get started. Mm-hmm. I think there's a lot, but I think GLP ones are a great way to start to understand like how good you could actually feel because so many people live in this state of, I don't even know what to call it, where you're, you're just okay with being in pain.
Mm-hmm. Sure. And you're okay with that mental crutch of being overweight and outta shape. You don't realize how good you could feel. Yeah. When you start to really take care of yourself. Yeah. When you dive into a, a muscle building journey, also, our research on ourselves has shown that even when you're bodybuilding, you need to be understanding what you're wearing.
What fabric are you putting on yourself. Mm-hmm. Bras like, did you know that foam brass are full of toxic? And if you're sweating in them, you could get breast cancer down the line, so you gotta replace it with non foam, a hundred percent cut in brass, for example. Mm-hmm. Your Lara Trump actually has her athletic line that is a hundred percent cut, made in the USA.
So like all those little shifts actually make a much bigger difference, rather than just going and sweating and working out and getting the plastic into your body. Well, I know a couple of us here have our NADS boxers on s We loved it. Yeah. Yeah. You wear them? No. Oh, I don't know anything about 'em.
Percent, a hundred percent cotton. Really? Yeah. There's no dyes or any, uh. You know, polyester in there. That's right. Yeah. I think it's important to, to really, like, if you're embarking on a journey, let's understand everything. Mm-hmm. When you go into it, take it as a college course. Right. You're starting it the right way.
You know, you're gonna graduate, this is your path, you're gonna bunker down and you're gonna study for something. Yeah. And that's something is your best life ever. And, and I think a lot of people want to bite off more than they could chew. Mm-hmm. I mean, this is one of the things that's January right now, and everybody's like, all right, I'm gonna start red light therapy and I'm gonna cold plunge and I'm gonna sleep well and you know, wear this thing and do this.
I think it's taken a step at a time. Mm-hmm. You know, figure out what your gateway drug is. Sure. Mm-hmm. Um, for me, I always try to get people in a communal setting where they feel like they're at home. Yeah. It feels warm and comfortable. So now, okay, this is a good place where I could work out. Yeah. Now I'm starting working out, I'm working out really hard.
I should start to watch what I eat. And now if I'm working out really hard and I'm watching what I eat now, I could figure out how I could sleep better and optimize my sleep. And I think those are like the gradual steps. 'cause trying to do it all at once, some people can, but very few. I mean, we've seen it.
Yeah. Year after year, people are like, all right, this year I'm gonna change everything about myself. Yeah. Yeah. You know, look, we have varying opinions on that subject matter. I think you're doing it the right way. Uh, but you're babysitting, you know, but, but a psychologist, I, I, I'm a glorified babysitter.
Yeah. I feel like, 'cause you know, sometimes depending on certain people that we platform, they're like, oh, well they're not a doctor. They're selling snake oil, this, that. But the thing is. This same person that's discovering this person, because we have different level of functional medicine practitioners.
Mm-hmm. And like the real people that cure cancer do certain things. They're like, I don't have the budget or the persona, but I actually help people privately. You know? Uh, like for example, Gabrielle Lyon was your private functional, now she adopted the persona to be able to be on a magazine, do all sorts of things, do things with like Chris Williams and, um, but you know, it takes time.
You have to learn that craft. Mm-hmm. And not all of the practitioners that know what they're doing know how to do that. So there's better marketers out there for sure. But I'm like, this same person was eating a glyphosate cheeseburger. They would've never been your customer. They would've never entered.
So like. I look at it like, let's just get them in the church. Whether you want to come in the church, you wanna wear red light hat and the type of baric and the whole, you know, thing right underneath your hands. I'm like, just get in there. And then the right people such as yourself will be like, come here, let's get rid of all that.
Yeah, yeah. Let's do it this way. But we gotta get 'em in the church first. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And so there's different people doing different things, getting people to think about health and then once they're here, it's game over if they really wanna do it. Mm-hmm. It's discoverability. Well, I talked about this at Eudemonia.
I was talking to Andy Galpin. Mm. And he had said, um, he goes, it's only as of now that people realize that they have to do something. They might not be doing anything yet, but they, they're aware that there are things they could do to improve their lifestyles. And I was like, I totally agree with that. Yeah.
And I think going to events like that. Uh, you know, my event is the same thing. I just want to give people a place where they can learn, where they can make better decisions, where they could actually work out and do something. I think the thing that I've noticed about a lot of the biohacking events, the, the event that I saw you guys at and stuff, there's not enough room for people to start moving.
Right? Yeah. Like, I don't wanna fucking talk about it. I wanna start doing, I love that. I love that. Let's start doing it. Yeah. Like, don't tell me all this shit and then not allow me to do it. Yeah, let's talk about it. Let's do it and let's move on. I love it. I love it because then now it's like I have this community of people around me that believe the same thing.
Sure. Like, I love going to these events because it's just reinforcing what I believe. And now there's more people out there talking about it. And I think to me, I always felt that just like you said, this is your church. Right. It's the same thing with me, like the gym is a church. It's a place where people go on a daily basis to be around other people who share the same mindset and.
It, they leave feeling better. Yeah. That's what church was meant to do. Yeah. So whether you believe in the iron gods or you believe in the God in heaven, it doesn't matter. Have some belief. Yes, yes. That makes you better. You know? And I think Absolutely. Yeah. Love it. Love it. So now what's, what's the next step with this?
You guys are in town, you guys here? Here in New York and we're filming, filming, filming the biological dental documentary. Yeah. Because after having 190 interviews and launching the media company, launching the magazine. Mm-hmm. We then discovered the world of biological, well, I almost died in July. I had a sinus infection from a bad implant.
This is after biohack yourself? After working with Bobby. What tooth implant? No. Yeah, a tooth implant, an implant that actually punctured his sinus and the bone grafting material went in and blocked everything. So I was full of mucus. I was so distracted with work and everything, and I was taking antibiotics.
Um, I started losing my eyesight and hearing. And I went to, uh, close. It was bad. So close. Yeah. You know, the sinus infection can take you. Yeah. I've never gotten sinus infections before last year. Now I've had two of them. Mm. And I, I call my doctor and I was like, it feels like somebody stepping on my face.
Yes. Yes. Like what? It's in my eye, my nose and my tooth. What is this? Yes, yes, yes. But then imagine if it's done, um, artificially. Yes. Imagine if there's, imagine an actual foreign body inside your sinus blocking it. 'cause if you get a sinus infection regularly, your body's somehow gonna find a way Right. To find it out with homeopathics or whatever.
Mm-hmm. To find a way out. But in his case, it had to be surgically done. Yeah. So we discovered this incredible world renowned maxillofacial surgeon, also a biological dentist, Dr. Andres Fernandez. We went to Costa Rica, flew in emergency. He cleared his calendar and he laid him down. He is like, dude, like this is like no good.
So after a six hour of, was it six hour? Yeah. Seven to seven hour served. Seven two. Well, they had to drain it. They removed my entire sinus. It's like the documentary is very, very, very graphic. It shows you all of that stuff. Do they have to cut your face open? No, they went from under here drilled and, yeah.
It was, it was really old. I mean, we, we've documented everything. Like I'm over there, I don't know, to pray for my husband and to like be nervous or to get the right shot. So I'm like direct our head and a wife head. But we got everything. We captured everything. Yeah. It was very dramatic. I like, I've never experienced such a, um, split personality and when he woke up from his anesthesia, he was like trying, he was like, Arnold Schwarzenegger, like trying to rip it open and just get out.
'cause I don't know what happened with his subconscious. Right. He's experiencing trauma. Well I think that's a dosage of anesthesia. 'cause I've actually had that happen to me. Yeah, you had that. Yeah. Where like. Woke up and I start freaking out and pulling. Yeah. Yeah. It's like medical PTSD for me. And, uh, I think it's the dose of anesthesia.
Yeah. And I have to say to our videographer, I'm like, Adam, keep filming. Can we get help? Keep filming. Can we get help? Like men, we need men to hold him down. It was crazy, but thank God for, for his skill level, he was able to biologically contain everything. Yeah. And even had to create a new drainage pathway.
Mm-hmm. And through his nose. And so thank God it's almost been seven months. We're seven months out. No repeated instances. And then we did her mother, she had, uh, 23 metal implants, complications. Actually we counted 25 complications. Okay. My mom at 62 years old, og biohacker, by all means, self cured from everything, fixed me from a chronic bronchitis when I was like two with just homeopathic stuff.
Right. Like OG. And a were like onions and, yeah, exactly. Onions on your feet. Literally. I was gonna say, stepping on onions, she actually did urine therapy for 21 days to fix her ovarian cyst, which disappeared. Explain that to me. Okay. So she was diagnosed with an ovarian ovarian cyst that it would become cancerous.
You have to remove it surgically. Mm-hmm. And somehow out of desperate, uh, research, she found this guy who's a Russian doctor, he got the platform by the way, but he had this book, self Heals Self. Um, so she found about urine therapy and it made sense to her. She's like, yeah, this is like my own body. The inte, the innate intelligence, whatever.
She's very godly, very God fearing, God believing. So it made sense to her at that moment. She used that 21 days of just drinking her own urine, drinking and water, and that's it. She goes back, the cyst has disappeared. So she threw through, she. Always taught us, don't believe in anything. Question everything.
Your health is your responsibility. Do not ever outsource your health to anyone unless it makes sense to you, unless you're desperate. Mm-hmm. And you still have to see five opinions before you settle for something. So that belief actually led us to, to this journeys. But at 62 years old, she's experiencing massive memory loss.
She's experiencing kidney stones. And I'm like, what is happening? So we started deep, deep research. We're now biohackers. We're the directors and producers, and we've done all this testing, mold tests, parasite tests, blood tests, and everything is checking out, but she's just sluggish and memory loss. Turns out 25 complications in her, in her mouth.
16 of them were root canals, dead teeth sitting on a pile of. Metal. Yeah. Basically. And metal posts with metal caps. So these are two different types of metals mm-hmm. That are consistently giving you galvanic shock because you're constantly around EMF and wifi that attracts that too. Um, and just the bacteria.
Yesterday we removed the remainder of her cavitations, which is basically the, the dirty ponds that were left inside of your mouth when they do an extraction Right. They take a tooth out, but they don't cleanse the area properly. They don't really Ozonate and red light therapy and laser therapy. Mm-hmm.
And put a bone graft to pack it in, like cement. They kind of give you a gauze and then you leave. Right. But in this case, they put you on a bone healing protocol. Pre-surgery, post-surgery, it takes you about a year to get one tooth extracted and replaced with ceramic. There's a scene, there's a scene in the film where, on where we her first surgery with the same Dr.
Jay Gandhi. They remove one of those metal on metal things, little mold. In it. Like you, a lot of mold gangrene. She's living with all of this. Yeah. And turns out after all the abuse that she was getting from just her mouth, um, we went to a brain rewiring expert, Dr. Dres, um, and Dr. Tiff. Mm-hmm. They're a couple together.
We went to Santa Barbara and they checked her brain levels and she had a lot of brain atrophy. So can you imagine all that metal is consistently abusing your brain? So everything was happening here. Thank God everything was like clean here. We rewired her brain, which meant taking her brain to the gym, constantly giving her this pulse electro, I can't even tell you what they were doing.
I didn't really study it. Mm-hmm. But she came out of it almost speaking some English. She looks 10 years younger. She looks 10 years younger. Wow. Everything has gone out of her mouth. We replaced it with ceramic bone graft material, which is called inroad. We found that that was the best one. They're featured in our documentary.
It absorbs for blood absorption, blood flow, and then ceramic implant, which is the most non-inflammatory implant, and it's very sturdy. They're now proving that it's more strong and sturdy than the metal. Mm-hmm. And it's, it's got no harmful things happening. And it allows for energy flow. Can you imagine?
'cause if you have all these other bacteria and metal implants, you don't have meridian flow, so you're just totally blocked and your teeth are actually connected to some of your organs. Mm-hmm. So if you have cavitations, bacteria and mold, they're bleeding into your blood flow and your lymphatics. I believe it.
So I went, I just started going to this place Smile House downtown. They just opened. Yes. Yeah. I, I, I see 'em online. Yeah. How are they? They're, they're, they're good. They're real good. They're great. And they do, they do a really extensive, um, kind of over like a mouth mapping. They call it cone beam scan. Yeah.
Yeah. But they do a jaw, a nasal mm-hmm. Uh, passage and. They're taking out some of the metal fillings that I have in the back. Yeah. From when I was a kid. Mercury. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, get that out. Let's redo everything. But there's another great company out of California. Have you heard of? I think it's called Pheno.
So it's a, a little device that you hook up this like mouth guard to, and you stick it in your mouth and brushes all your teeth and it's got all little Oh, I think so. Yeah. The bristles on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the absolute coolest, interesting tool. I've seening. Wow. I'm in love with this thing. Yeah. I like, I, they gave it to me.
I got it. What? Friday or Saturday? I've used it every day. I brush my teeth now more than I've ever brushed my teeth before. You're enjoying it Because I enjoy it. They've like reshaped the way I look at brushing my teeth. Wow. It's faster, it's easier. You, it just feels better. Wow. It has this like foam toothpaste that you put along it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's convenient. It's a really cool, it, it's definitely a cool product. You guys check that out. I that, yeah. But there, there's, they're doing all this research on the importance of like your mouth. It's you, there's no biohacking you could do, and if you don't fix the metals Yeah. It's, that's it.
That's the stop gap. And literally everything starts and ends in the mouth. Yeah. Like my father had, um, diagnosis for a heart condition and he was being pushed to get a heart surgery. And the danger was that he's approaching his seventies and by the time he's like 76 with this condition, he's at risk of a heart attack.
Mm-hmm. Turned out he had 17 complications. He had so much puss under his teeth. Cavitations. It was intense. We went to Connecticut to Dr. Yuri May. He's one of the best at cleaning your jawbone. He cleansed everything like OCD, you know, he just, and he was like laughing the whole time. He's like a Picasso.
Same thing with Dr. Jay Gandhi, that we were here for my mother's surgery. Mm-hmm. These guys and my mom too. And so Gladys also was with Dr. Jay Gundy. I'm telling you the stuff that came out of their mouths. I can't wait to do the post testing and really see what happened. Well, this documentary is global.
We went to Germany to get her stuff done. Dr. Dom Sitz, do you know? Yeah, he, he's a, he was a speaker. He's famous. He is a speaker at Eudemonia. Actually the only biological dentist at Eudemonia. He actually did my surgery. Yeah. I didn't have a condition. Mm-hmm. But guess what? I had four cavitations in, in the place of the wisdom teeth.
Yeah. Mold. There was mold in my mouth 24 7. And I had one root canal that was the tooth number 19 that's connected to my intestines. And I always had just digestive issues and leaky gut. So after we did my surgery, my skin got real life Photoshopping. Mm-hmm. And I was like, I didn't know you were an aesthetician.
Well, I, I think there's a lot of people who don't realize how the body does keep the score. Yeah. And they're so, and how it's all connected. Yeah. Just like I was saying before, I had acupuncture the other day, they pinned the inside of my ear. Mm-hmm. And they were like, we're going to. Tap into the vagal nerve through your ear.
I woke up. I, I was like, I feel like a million bucks. This is the best I've felt in two weeks, three weeks. Wow. So I, I, I tell people all the time, do not rush to doctors and look for surgeries, obviously. Yes. There's a lot of great doctors out there. Yeah. They need it. They need it. I'm not bashing Western medicine, but.
There, there are definitely ways around this stuff and go into events like EMO and things like that. Yeah, yeah. And reading your magazine and you know, seeing what you guys are doing there, you can learn a lot from that. Yeah. I think people are, it's, we're at the birth of a lot of this stuff. Yes. We're at the forefront Yes.
Of learning about a lot of this stuff where it's 20 years from now, 30 years from now, it's gonna be common sense. It's like mm-hmm. You didn't know you could just get your mouth cleaned, you know? Yeah. So I think it's, it's really impressive. I'm excited to see what you guys are doing with this. Yeah. Yeah.
Guys, if you haven't seen this bio, hack yourself. I love, like, I love the concept of magazine. I love that you're bringing this back. Well, it's tech free wellness, you know? You know EMF wifi. Yeah. And then also because of all the shadow banding, you know, this is not something that could be taken down. It's print, it's intentional.
It's forever. So it's a love language item. It's a collector's item. It's really to start the conversation so people could go on your site, they could watch all the, the documentaries. People go on the site, they watch the document. Once you're in, our algorithm was Amazon Prime to watch all of our documentaries.
Once you search Biohack yourself. Yeah, all the rest of our content. Content. We're on Hulu, we're on two B, we're on plaque, we're on hoopla. Apple. It's on all the major streaming platforms. We're in like 11 different ways you could discover, because nobody can bio. You have to biohack yourself. Mm-hmm. Nobody can do it for you.
Yes. That's the main objective. That's the perfect title. Theresa came up, she's like, are we biohacking ourselves? We, is that what we're doing? And she said, no, you gotta biohack yourselves. And then one time he walked into the room and I was like, just go biohack yourself. We were just talking and that became the slogan.
Yeah. So now every time somebody finishes their interview Yeah. We say, Hey, go biohack yourself. Yeah. Yes. It makes, it makes sense. Mm-hmm. Because you have, there's so many different remedies and so many different things that could go wrong. Yeah. And everybody's like looking for this one magic pill or one thing that works for everybody, but it's not, you have to work on yourself individualized.
And I think this is another thing that I believe, maybe I'm crazy, maybe I'm not, but if you are worried about taking care of yourself. And you think about how long it takes you to understand and learn and listen to all these people, well then you're not worried about what you, the lady down the block's doing or the guy at your job.
Correct. You're worried about yourself, which makes you more focused on what you are doing. You can't pay attention to two things at the time, the same time, correct? Correct. So if you're focused on what you're doing to. Not worried about somebody else and you're improving your life. So there's less animosity, less hate and stuff.
Yes. Thank you. But you guys have done such a good job with this. Obviously you got Gary Breck, you, Gabrielle Lyes. You got the best of the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All these people in there got Brian Johnson coming. Yeah. But I didn't know who you guys were until I saw this lovely young lady over here. Oh, love doing all these interviews.
Yeah. Yeah. At the health, uh, wellness Oasis. Yes, yes, yes. Very impressive. I love, like, that's the coolest part. I think what you guys have done is so impressive. I love what you're doing. Thank you. I'd love to be a part of everything and anything you guys have going on. Thank you. But I think the most impressive thing is what you've guys have done with your kids.
Thank you. I think you guys are setting the standard for what people, how people should raise their kids. Thank you. Uh, if anybody does do a book on it. I think you guys should He, he, he kept calling me Mother Teresa. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, you gotta do a book, mother Teresa. Yeah. Yeah. But I, I think, I think this is all great stuff.
Thank you. I, you, I love it. I look to, uh, to see what you guys have coming up in the future, because I think this is the future of health and wellness. It's the future of fitness. It's the future of everything. Yes. Yes. Um, I think when people could understand how to make their lives a little bit better, then it makes a whole lot more sense.
Yes. Um, but where could everybody find you? How could we, uh. Biohack yourself. I mean, all are you biohack yourself.com. Uh, biohack Yourself Media on Instagram, obviously. My personal name. Anthony Lolly. L-O-L-L-I. Theresa Lolly, T-E-R-E-Z-A. Instagram. We're big on social. Yeah, we are. You know, we wanna be where everybody's at.
We wanna meet people where they're at. Mm-hmm. So if it's print, if it's a website, he does on YouTube as well. We're on YouTube. Yeah. We're on everything. And we're in the streets. We have 30 journalists. You met Claudia. Yeah. You've seen our kids. I, yeah. All different demographic. We got you. I was, I FaceTimed Jeremy.
He used to be 350 pounds. Now he's a bodybuilder. Now he's a journalist with us. He's out events. So we have like, it's kind of like the WE of journal. It's like one, not one character. Everybody's their own person and everyone has their own transformation story. Like Claudia's brother had cancer, and that's really why she got into this whole industry.
So every single one of our journalists has a paint to purpose story, and they are still healing themselves. Mm-hmm. What's your guys' presence here in New York? Are you guys, do you have a um, we have, you have a journalist? Yeah. Samantha. Yeah. We're, we're starting to anchor ourselves because of people like yourself.
Yeah. Yeah. There's definitely a big movement happening in New York, and we're here to cover that. There's a lot of new wellness clinics that are opening up, just like Extension Health. So we're doing a clinic spotlight on them. Dr. The best BBC just invited to do a story on us Oh, wow. About being the first biohacking family that's doing it with the young kids.
I think you're, what you guys are doing is a little bit more user friendly than the Brian Johnson stuff. Yeah. I, no, I, I like. Brian Johnson. I like what he's done. Do I think he's, you know, the end all, be all? No, but I think he's one of the first people through the door. Sure. Talking about it, using himself as a Guinea pig to try all this wacky shit.
And he's deloading by the way, we spent the whole day. 'cause he's on the cover of our next magazine. Yeah. Okay. And the dude's like, here's my room. He walked us into his thing. He's like, it's like a quarter of what it was. He says, I tried everything. I tried everything. I'm deloading now. He's like, I figured it out.
Less is more. And he is there, but I had to try it. Mm-hmm. And what he's done has worked because he has this thing called Longevity Olympics, the Dunedin Pace Olympics. He is obviously top one in his own Olympics, and it takes you two years to test your biological age, your aging pace, like all your matrix.
He's aging zero point 48% per every year that he's aging. I'm actually top 96 in his Olympics. Oh, wow. I'm aging 78% per every year. Incredible. So I was like, Brian, I'm coming after you. Like, I wanna get that top two spot. He, he considers himself to be a longevity athlete, so he's like a pro. You understand that?
It's like, you know, pro, right? Like some people lift weights and work out. He wants to like win the Olympia. No, I get it. Yeah. If you guys don't mind me asking, how old are you guys? 48. 38 and a half. Okay. Wow. Oh yeah, you, yeah. I mean, you guys look, yeah, I mean, you look younger, so I would've said 32, 33. Yeah.
Like biological minus 29. Okay. Um, and yeah, like, so we're working on. Aesthetics and all that stuff. We're doing microneedling, so we're doing salmon semen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard about this exosomes, like, you know, all of that. It's working. Yeah. No, I mean, listen, you, you're hooked up with the best people here in New York.
I mean, Dr. Cos my guy, I love him. Yeah. Yeah. He's fun. I did the IBU with him. He's actually doing I on both of our moms as we are here. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. He's, he's, so, after having such intense biologic and biological dental surgeries two days ago mm-hmm. They went to him to detox the anesthesia out of their body and also the dead cells.
He did IBO on Me too. Yes. But what I'm saying, it's so important when you go through medical, uh, procedure and you're taking painkillers or even like a dental procedure, go to Extension Health and get your ebook, cleanse your blood, AATE your blood. Who are three people that, uh, you know, I, we know a lot of the big names, right?
Yes. Gary Bres, Gabrielle Lines. Mm-hmm. Who are three people you guys are, who are coming up the ranks that you think people should look for? We were doing some really cool stuff. You know what's interesting, right? What we took with this magazine, it's not just Gabrielle, but in the magazine we have contributors.
Mm-hmm. So you typically in a magazine, you have like an A-list star on the cover, and then maybe like another, a-list or a blister and another story. And then you have the company writing. You know, we have like the best, like the contributors are Dr. Mark Gordon, uh, uh, who's in this, uh, Dar, Dr. Darshan shop.
Dr. Ellen Langer. Ellen Langer, Harvard. Like the, the people that we hand select, it's invite only to be a contributor in a magazine. You have to be and you have to be like top of your field. Like some of our contributors could be on this cover. Mm-hmm. That's how big they are. Dr. Dr. Gti too. Yeah. Like he, he teaches biological dentistry in Tufts University.
He's one of of the most renowned, so he's a contributor in our expedition. Nice. We have Dr. Jerry Ola, Dr. Jay Gdy. Like all the dialect, biological dentists are also contributing to us. All the biohacking vets are also contributing to us. 'cause you can actually biohack your pets. You can put them in happy oxygen, put them on TRT.
I've seen like all of our biohacking buddies, they're dogs like up like this. They're on peptides. They're like, that's great. 25 years old. It's like, what? And stem cells. Well, I'll tell you what, because I don't think it just stops at exercise, sleep, and nutrition. Yeah. Because my dog is seven years old.
Eight years old. Yeah. And she went blind in one eye. You know, we have her on all types of medication. 'cause she had anxiety and bad skin and all this stuff. She needs an emotional support animal. Yeah. You know the funny part was one of the funniest things that's happened in the last two months. I was walking her outside, she's blind in one eye and like losing sight in the other, and she walked into this sign and this woman hangs her head out the window.
She's like, Hey, why don't you get the dog a walking sta? I go, yeah, yeah. What hand do you want her to hold with my a walking? She's like, well, it's rude that you're letting her walk like that. I go, what do you want me to do? Carry her around all the time. It's so funny. Can I tell you though, like we're in New York just for a month here filming and everything.
Wow. People are tense sometimes in this city. Yeah. Yeah. Is it because of the hustle? Like I, I forgot that this used to be the norm. It's not that experiencing Florida and how like people just let you go. Everybody's just, yeah. They're just honking at you. They're angry at you. It's the gun laws over there in Florida.
You know, it's, that's the difference, you know, it's a combination of things. New York's always had this like gritty feel to it. Yeah. But I think now more than ever before, it's like disconnect the divide. Yeah. Yeah. There's just like, there's no regard for human life anymore. Yeah. Um, and you're seeing it in some of the bigger cities, but that's why everybody's migrating to Florida.
Yeah. There's just a better way of life. And if, when you talk about biohacking, I feel like Austin. Florida. Those are like the two places where everybody's gravitating towards to, to live a better, healthier life. Even Vegas is coming up these days. Yeah. Vegas, California. Yeah. There's a ton popping up there.
Yeah. Next Health is opening up locations left and right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. To answer your question, I wanted to, um, to say who's coming up? Yeah. To us, like most impressive interview was Andrew Tate. Wow. And he's known as like a controversial figure, whatever that he's known for. Mm-hmm. But he was never known for his health hacks and how he feeds himself and how he just drinks water.
Like the guy never drinks alcohol. He eats super clean. He fasts almost all day. He eats one dinner, which is just super healthy organic meat and vegetables. And his gut is probably the cleanest, which is why we were just looking at him. And he's on the cover of our next issue. And we call the issue, um, like check Tate.
Right. Like check mating systems and checkmating everything. Why? Because he has such emotional intelligence, such, uh, like health gut, brainin connection is real. Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. It's second brain. And so I think he was super shockingly impressive. Yeah. For us as biohackers. And he's like, I don't even know what biohacking is.
I said, oh, so I am a biohacker. Yeah. Because he doesn't even do the gadgets. He doesn't even do peptides or any of that literally. But although after the fight nutri, I, you know, I think he's gonna consider it, you know, after that fight. But the fact that he hung out there with a guy who's 26 Yeah. Who was technically the world champion, think he's coming up because he already understands food, nutrition, mental strength, uh, working out and all of that, and chess and focus and all that.
But I think he's now starting to really like the biohacking world after also meeting us and interviewing. So I think looking out for him and what he's gonna do in this field, he's really curious too. Like, uh, when we did the interview, we were with him for like eight hours. He came down, you know, met us down at the lobby and we were the first people in his apartment moving day.
Mm-hmm. And he greeted the kids. Where does he live? Dubai. In Dubai. In Dubai. And uh, he gave us the whole full tour. We, we took a picture with them and he hung it up in his living room and then he started push up Challenge with our son. With legend. Yeah. He started doing, but yeah, I gotta challenge him. He took, yeah.
Yeah. You please, please do. Legend. Get ready, get ready. Ledge your arms ready? Yeah. You ready? Warm. Come on warm. Let's go. Yeah, now come. Let's get ready. So he ended up, we gave him, um, we gave him all the magazines and he's in his promo. He put the Biohack Yourself magazines in his table. He started posting it.
Oh, nice. So he's like, he super interested and he's texting us. How'd you guys get in touch with. Him, you know, at this point we, we know a lot of people we're one phone call away, and, and a lot of it's all relationships. Yeah. At this level of, and, uh, and we're very like bipartisan, very neutral. And, uh, and so he, I mean, we're also one call away from like, um, mus Moham.
Ssam, yeah. Yeah. The Prince of Saudi. Right. Oh, great. Yeah. Yeah. Like he, he may be in one of our next movies, the feature film that we're, we're interesting. Yeah. I bet you those guys spend a ton of money on the biohacking. Well, they're actually, you know what's interesting? I'm so into it. We met with so many heads of state in Saudi.
We did a, we produced an event, uh, called the Zenoss Health Conference. One of the products that are in the magazine, in Saudi. In Saudi, it was the biggest, it was like the Edmony of Saudi. Mm-hmm. And very boutique, very upper echelon, very much like the who's who came there too. Cha challenge themselves.
It's like five 10 grand a ticket and you gotta fly there. And it was like really, like top of the, like you're there. We're hanging out. Uh, Breca is there, um, mark go, Dr. Mark Gordon is there. Um, Dr. Uh, mark Hyman rather is there and you're there for on the right. On the right. Everybody's there. Ma actually, who's the owner of Zeno's conference and Zeno's the supplements.
Mm-hmm. He did an incredible job, just like upleveling what the conference should be, especially when it's abroad. And he said, you know, I wanna build this middle, like the Saudi, he calls this the baby or the golden child of the Middle East. And he says everybody is suffering with so much health issues.
Yeah. And his heart is there to help. So like flying all the speakers out there, flying all the exhibitors out there and just. Creating such an amazing family vibe gave us a whole understanding and respect what a conference should be. Yeah, it's great. It's, it's amazing, you know, and that world is really trying to buy and purchase the best minds from the United States.
They're like, whatever you want, I want you to open up your clinic here and I'll pay for everything. Yeah. Wow. They're sparing no expense. The, their main TV channel MSV, um, M-B-S-M-B-S, we had a meeting with MBS. They're like, we wanna give you an entire channel, like the Weather Channel, just talk health all day.
Like, they would take your concept and you, but they would want you, like, they would like 10 10 of these. Right. Immediately, as long as you're game to live there and all that stuff. They, they, they want their, they spare no expense. Yeah. They just paid Tom Brady $30 million to, to do a, a, a football game for a day.
Like, and we went to their film festival, the Saudi Film Festival. The entire thing was lit. Like when you say it was like upscale. We went and met the film commissioners and they're like, we wanna welcome American productions. Give you guys tax in incentives. Come film your next movie here. Well, I feel like Hollywood's kind of lost their edge a little bit.
I mean, I think they're, they're suffering now. They're moving. I mean, all these companies are now moving. Netflix is moving out to New Jersey. Jersey is crazy. This is becoming another hub. Yeah. Zachary Levi, who you also remind me of a little bit, that he's a professional actor. Oh yeah, you're right. He looks a little bit like Zach.
Do you know Zachary Levi? Spy Kids and Shazam? Oh yeah, yeah. I've actually met him. Guy. Yeah, I met him. Purple crayon. We actually, we met the Maha Bowl, became really good friends. He's actually gonna be in our next documentary called The New Woo. That's a new one now. That's the next level. Next level you're talking about energy healing, quantum, the scientific proof, psilocybin and, uh, mushrooms actually.
Psychedelics, mushrooms, psychedelics. That's what this is about. We should talk. We were researching that. Oh, really? I did the hoppe and the cambo. Yeah, I did that. The frog poisoning. I actually microdose some mushrooms this morning. Oh wow. Oh, I had a, uh, a gentleman who, um, you should definitely check out Paul Austin.
Okay. Uh, he's, he spoke at my event this year. Nice. He's one of the lead guys on, uh, psychedelics and teaching people how to microdose and things like that. We should definitely, yeah. Yeah. He's, I'll put you in touch with him. We searching now we have s guru. We have Wim Hru. Great. Confirm already. And what we are understanding is the, the new Woo, which is the quantum stuff is gonna be tomorrow's.
Yeah. So we're saying Woo, before was red light. PMF stem cell. Now that's like mainstream. The new woo is this next level. Yeah. Like you said, microdosing. I agree. I think, I think like microdosing, I think it's always been, uh, so taboo and, you know, the dose at which people were doing it, it's like it's putting you in this psychedelic state, but when you, when you micro dose it, it just puts you in a I just feel better.
Yeah. You know, I'm in a better mood. It levels me out. I think it's so important for people to try it. We need to take coaching from you. Yeah, I love it. 'cause we have no idea. Oh, I don't know. I I'm learn. I'm learning. You're learning too. I'm still learning too. I wish I knew more. Ledge. Where are you? Come here.
You keep walking off set ledge. Come here. Push up time. Just them on a screen that I've watched, by the way. Yeah. Only 'cause we don't want them to see. All right, so legend. How old are you? Uh, seven. You're seven years old. Come in, come in. Come in here. Say hi to everybody in there. Seven years old. He looks jacked already.
Oh, you wanna take here, let's take this off. Let's show the guns. So rumor has that you could do 50 pushups. There comes the supportive kink. The two. So you could do 50 pushups. Yep. All right, well let's see it. Okay. And then I'm gonna try to beat your number. I don't think I can though. And one, look at this guy.
Those are good pushups. Four, five. Those are legit. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19. Head up. 21. Head up. 22. 23. 24. Four. Look at this guy. Go 26. Six. 20, 20. 28, 29. 30, 30. 30. 1, 32, 30, 33. 34, 35, 36. 6 30, 7. 38. 8 30, 39, 40. Come on. Last 10. Come on. 42. 42, 43, 43, 44, 45, 46. He hasn't eaten any breakfast by the way.
40 or lunch? 49. 50. Keep going. L, you got more in your, come on. You got a couple 50 all the way down. 54. You're bending the shape baby. 55. Come on. Efficacy high. Efficacy Posture. 57. Break it. Break it. Three more. Three more. 58. Literally nine, nine and 60. Oh yeah. Great job. Give it up for this guy. A man after my own heart.
What a legend. Great job. A legend. Great job, son. What? Let's do the, show him the flex. Show him the Flex Give Arnold. That is so impressive. Charlie actually teaches some kids classes over at my gym in Jersey. Nice man. And this is, and I, everybody's like, well, when could I get them started? I go immediately, immediately get them started immediately.
Get them doing pushups and pullups. And those are, those are things they're just gonna naturally do on their own. Yeah. It was such an honor to have you guys here. Thank you so much. We're just gonna, I wanna do a quick little video with you guys at the end. We'll just rank some, uh, absolutely. Some of the most important biohacks that people should doing.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But thank you guys so much for coming. Guys, as always, like, share, subscribe, check out Biohack yourself on YouTube, on Amazon. Grab the magazine, Instagram. Uh, you guys are changing the way people are looking at biohack. So, and changing the way people are gonna start to raise their kids.
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