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They can go in or out of my body. They test. I got the full workup for someone my age because of my living situation. I'm very far from emergency medical care. I'm not 10 minutes from the nearest hospital for 30 minutes, and I'm half a day from a really tear one hospital. If I have a major emergency, the hospital I want to go to, it's gonna take me several hours to get there at best. So one of the things that's become very important to me is taking great care of my health and had this health scare. They ran my blood pressure to start of the test, and my numbers were so high they wanted to put her on blood pressure medication. Fortunately, before I let anyone put me on a serious medication like that, I said, Let's do the test again. They retested. My numbers were fine. I was on the high side of totally fine. So not an excellent score, but like a B plus, if you will this year, I've written several very successful books on health. I've written several books on diets, several books on diabetes, on hypertension, all of these heavy medical issues I've written for some of my clients. I do a lot of ghost writing work on other projects and those books have generated millions of dollars in sales, and I've done so much research on all the medical elements. When I talk a lot about in my research, how I do a lot with Google Scholar, A lot of it comes from my research for medical projects. Any time I do anything in the medical field, I read every study I confined. I want to know the exact death statistics. I wouldn't know the latest research. I really want to be cutting edge so that I give maximum value to people on the stuff I teach about. And I learned from my research there. Apply in my own life and having gone through a little blood pressure scare reminded me how important it is to take care of your health. I've lost a lot of weight in the last year, but I'm still nowhere near and where I need to be. I still need to lose at least another £50 to get where I want to be, and that means being very strict about many areas of my life. When we fall into this lifestyle, when we start working for ourselves, it's very easy to drift into very bad health habits. I can lose track of time and usually work 18 or 20 hours straight without getting out of my chair. My girlfriend will bring my meals to me at my desk. Since I work out of our bedroom, it's very easy for you to take care of me. I only leave the desk that I care to go to the bathroom. I can live like that if I don't set up systems. My way to meet Lee starts going back up. In fact, today, my girlfriend a comment about my weight and she said, You sure do look fat now. I weighed myself yesterday. My weight hasn't changed a week. I weigh myself all the time. It hasn't been going down for the last couple weeks, but it hasn't gone back up. Five minutes later, I was on my exercise bike. Any time someone makes a comment or I get a little sign that my health is slipping, I take immediate action. I don't wanna start feeling depressed, don't want to take control of me. We need to be responsible for our own health in the West, in American England and a lot of countries, you know, we have amazing health care system. We have really strong infrastructure, always within five or 10 minutes of a hospital. Most people in America, when they have to choose between bypass surgery and losing weight, we're going on a diet. He'll choose the bypass surgery. People get massive surgery, other stomachs to lose weight. We make these drastic decisions rather than alter our lifestyles. I'm the first to admit that my overweight promised totally the result of my own behavior. My weight is the result of my decisions. It's a result of what I put in my body and how much exercise. There are so many programs out there that have these very exciting and big promises and flashy techniques from losing way if he's cool names and all these wonderful things, But at the end of the day, it's very simple. Exercise enough to take care of your body is very simple diet you can follow and you just control what you put in what you don't put in, and you end up losing all the way that you need. It's very important to make these decisions now. Our thought lives control our behavior and our behavior becomes our patterns. And if we have bad patterns now, it's going to hurt your health. It's going to have long term consequences. People die of heart attacks in their fifties and sixties instead of living to be 90 100 110. You can take control of your health by making an active decision and saying, I'm responsible for this. That's the first step. If you take total responsibility for your current living situation, everything can change. I'm a fat guy, so I know what I'm talking about. When I weighed myself last year and was 2 72 I would have a heart attack At 59 My body was more fat than anything else. I was like 60% body fat. That's a scary number there, a couple of simple things you can do to begin to take control of your health. One of the biggest problems we have is we don't understand how things work. Something that's always baffled me, and I've always hated is how secretive doctors are about taking your blood pressure. They act like it's this big, magical secret, and they don't want you to know what they're doing. You know, they record your numbers and they don't tell you what's happening. And oftentimes, if you don't ask, they won't even tell your blood pressure. That was something I experienced a lot When I was in college, I took an empty course. I was volunteering ambulance for year. I learned a lot of medical stuff during that time. Has even trained to deliver a baby, but no one ever let me do it. This secret information is ridiculous. It's one of the ways that doctors and nurses maintain this sense of power is totally unnecessary. Maybe they have these other reasons why they're secretive about it. But you should really learn what you're different numbers mean and what you need to know. That's the first step of taking responsibility for your health. Tracking your own numbers. You only need to measure a few numbers, and you could be in control of your life. You should measure your weight. You should know your height, which doesn't change very often. Significant. You're right once, and then you should know there's a conference like the measurement round your neck around your chest, around your belly button and around your bum. If you can measure those different locations on your body. You can really track everything. And if you don't do one just to your neck, neck is pretty shockingly. It's pretty much the best one to track. You can start to see your condition now. I own a blood pressure machine. Cost me, I think 30 or $32. I went to a pharmacy and bought one, even where I lived. They have him available here. I live in middle of nowhere, and I was able to get one quite easily, so you can buy one, and you can also buy a blood pressure cuff stethoscope on your own. Same thing. They summon eBay all day long. There's someone Amazon all day long for like, 10 bucks or less. The most important number to track is your blood pressure. There's so many diseases and causes of deaths that are the result of blood pressure problems. I was watching this movie a couple of days ago. The New Kickboxer movie and the guy who dies early in the movie started to spoil the movie, which the same plot is the original one, which came on 80. So hopefully if you've seen you know this guy was an insane shape. He was a professional martial arts actor. He was a stunt double in a lot of movies for really big actors and then some of those B level kung fu moves. He was a start. This guy was in amazing shape, Shredded. He played the world kickboxing champion in this movie, the start of the movie. He died in his sleep from a heart attack recently. You don't always have to be overweight to have problems. Many, many people in America have diabetes. We don't control certain behaviors. So before I tell you all these different rules, you have to follow. That's too much. No one likes that. I'm not here to be your dad. What I want you to do is take responsibility for your own health. It's not up to your doctor. Every year in America, many people die from hospital mistakes. There are these recent studies I was reading in. The CDC doesn't accurately track this particular statistic, but there's new research starting to show that hospital accidents might be the third cause of death in America. Just going to the doctor increases your risk of something bad happening. It's not surprising having been on the other side of the medical emergency. And even if you just watch the TV show E. R. One of those other doctors shows, when you're handling in an emergency room dozens or hundreds of patients a day and there's all this Matthew have to d'oh all these little things. Mistakes creeping in our statistical guarantee. If you make 1000 decisions a day and you only make one mistake a day, that's not very much. That's a statistically significant numbers, and it's 1/10 of 1% of your decisions or mistakes. But over time is a doctor, a nurse in the hospital. Those numbers add up and people start to die, and it's inevitable because no human is perfect. Even a totally robotic system would have little mistakes like that. The more you engaged the health care system, the more likely you are to die earlier. I do everything I can to avoid having to deal with doctors. I take great care of my health because of that. I'm at that age now. Where have these two young kids and we'll have more kids? If I were to die right now, my kids wouldn't be taken care for the rest of their lives. They would be okay for four or five years, but they're not covered until they hit 18. Yet I don't have all the pieces in place that I won't have a place to take care of them. And so I'm very cautious about my health right now. I used to be very wild and very risque, eating horrible foods, smoking, doing extreme sports. I combined all the worst things you could possibly do is an adult. But now that I'm totally responsible for my health, I'm responsible for taking care of my kids for protecting my family. There's so many people depend on me, all of that change. When you start to have kids when you're your own boss, you really have to take responsibility for your health. And I'm sure some of the people listen to this episode are in great shape. I know that several people in the fitness that people who are personal trainers in amazing shape do follow me. So justus Muchas I Perhaps no more about writing books or building a particular type of business. They know a great deal more than me about health. So rather than give you a ton of health advice, I would say Start with a few very simple steps. The first is to take responsibility for your health. Say, you know what I'm in charge of how long I live. Stop. Depending on your doctor, doctors have a tendency to prescribe. First, that's their first decision, and the amount of money that goes back and forth between pharmaceutical companies and doctors is horrifying. How often medications have to be recalled is horrifying that entire industry is something you don't want to interact with if you can. The goal of Ah prescription medicine is to keep you sick enough that you have to keep taking the medicine, but not so sick that you die. That's the dream result, because that's the maximum revenue point. If you take their medicine every day for years and years, then that's why those companies are billions and billions of dollars. They told me that I would be taking heart pills for the rest of my life, but it was a lie. It wasn't necessary. The doctors were wrong, the pharmaceutical companies were wrong, and oftentimes you can remove yourself from these medications that you think are necessary. Doctors businesses are structured in a very unfortunate way in our culture. The more patients of Dr Seize the day that more money makes. Most people are go to the doctor's office because they eat poorly. They don't take care of their health. They smoke those of the main reasons the three causes most all of our health problems. So one of them, it's the main cause of Type two diabetes. It's being causes hypertension, other heart problems. It's all these of the problems you know are caused by things that we d'oh, your doctor would have to spend all day lecturing every single patient. And most of us don't want to hear it. It's not new information. You aren't surprised by anything I'm telling about give you any new information. The difference is that when you work for yourself, you have a lot more responsibility. You have to be a lot more serious. The infrastructure to take care of your health disappears. You don't drive to and from work, so stopping at the gym on the way home on the way to work no longer makes sense. It becomes a much more active decision. I have to actively decide to exercise every single day or I just don't think about it. Some days I don't even leave my bedroom. I get up, I said in my desk and work, I go to the bathroom. I go back in my room. Maybe I sit on the porch a little bit, but I don't even leave the house at all. It's very easy to do that if I'm not paying attention. So you have to be very proactive deciding to trust someone else with your health. When that's not how the business is structured, the doctor sees patient after patient. Sometimes you win our issue doctor for five or 10 minutes in the time to tell you all that other stuff has to give you the quick or she has to give you the quickest solution with the most effectiveness. Let's say Take your doctor an hour to talk you into changing your diet health. Now, instead of seeing 40 patients a day, your doctor sees eight. In order to turn you around, your doctor would have to take a 75% pay cut. Nobody wanted it. I certainly wouldn't be willing to that I was a doctor, so I totally get it the problem is the structure of our system. The problems that people don't listen. So doctors, oftentimes they turn to the easiest solution and most profitable solution rather than the best solution. Take control of your health. Start making serious decisions. So what? I recommend you. D'oh! It's start today. You can start by making the decision that number one. You're totally responsible for your health. Whether you're healthy or unhealthy, you're now in charge of it. You're not gonna pass the buck to a doctor. There were two. You're gonna start tracking different parts of your health. You're gonna know your numbers. You're gonna learn what different things mean. As you reach different ages. They start testing for other things in your blood. You should learn the numbers. You need to know what's different. Screen HDL and LDL. What's good versus bad cholesterol. What type of numbers do you need to see? What are the warning signs that something's wrong? Knowing these numbers will change your life. I've been there where a doctor or a nurse misinterpreted the data or they're using a different scale. As much as we want to pretend that all people are the same different sized people of different genders and even different ethnicities. We have a different mix of chemicals in our blood when I'm in Thailand and they're measuring my numbers. Guess what? 105 kilo white guy is gonna have different numbers than a 60 kilo time in diet. We have the way our bodies are structured. It's not all identical. And if I have to choose between being healthy and accurate and pretending that everyone's exactly the same inside their blood, well, I'm gonna try and live well. I'd rather live longer. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but we all have different blood chemistry. That's just reality. My girlfriend. You have totally different blood chemistry. My son will be completely different because he's from two different races. Be responsible being adult about your health information. Every time a doctor recommends medication, look it up on Google. Several years ago, they had to recall a diabetes medication because it was killing about 40% of people that were taking it huge number. You could be on a medication that they're close to recalling without even knowing it. Never take a medicine you haven't looked up online. Always ask your doctor for multiple options. Did you know there's two different types of insulin? 90% of doctors don't even know that they usually prescribe what's called human insulin rather than animal insulin. Most people use use animal in some. They would take the blood or the insulin from animal, or take one of the organs, mash it up and create insulin using animals. Unfortunately, a small percent of people wanted 2% of people. Diabetes are large of Daniel insulin, so the whole culture switched to what's called human insulin. And that's a trick name it tends not to do with Humans have made from bacteria no human involvement. It's just a better branding name. Human insulin is cheaper to make and costs more. Pharmaceutical companies love using it. But guess what? There are some people that are allergic to that type of insulin. There are people out there who discover that diabetes they go. The doctor, the doctor puts the one human insulin, and the person gets sicker and sicker and sicker. And it can't feel what's going on at the doctors, often times. And they did a study in England of the Digest 92 99% of the doctors. There have no idea that there's two types of insulin now. They don't even know there's a second option. You have to do your own research. Stop depending upon your doctor, and it's totally reasonable. There are every day thousands and thousands of medications approved. The process for medication approval in America is horrifying. All they have to do is turn into studies with positive results. They can run 500 studies and informed and 98 of them. All the patients die, but they have two positive studies they're through. I also recently read some research. Almost all of the medical journals are owned by one company and at least 50% of studies published in them now our suspect, because of the way those girls will run. So even the material that you're doctors reading these journals is not always accurate. Because of the way pharmaceutical companies operate, they'll do whatever they can. I mean, come on, Big Tobacco still says that cigarettes don't kill you. Nobody believes that nobody could possibly believe that. It's so ridiculous. Everyone knows it's bad for you, but they just keep saying it cause they keep finding doctors and scientists that will put out these studies again. If you run 1000 studies, you're gonna have that one operation where no one gets sick and then they can say, Oh, that's the real one. Take responsible. If your health track your numbers by the tools you need. Don't have 20 or 30 bucks to buy a blood pressure cuff that could extend your life 40 years. That's the difference. You could increase your life span from 60 to 100. That's a huge number. So if I could leave you with one message today, it's that as you transition into this life where you're responsible for your business, you also need to become an adult who is responsible for their health. This would like to live longer, spend more time with your kids and actually enjoy the fruits of our projects. I don't want to make you rich and then you die. Shortly thereafter, that were very sad for me. I want you to follow me and have that great adventure. And that's what I'm really excited about taking responsibility for your health, learning with all the different numbers mean and researching any medications you're taking and looking up alternatives and finding all of the information out there. That's the first step on the path to extending your life. Having total health and enjoying physical and health freedom. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master. Make sure you subscribe, so you never miss another episode. We'll be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to escape that rat race. Head over to serve no master dot com forward slash podcasts Now for your chance to win a free coffee of Jonathan's bestseller Serve No master. 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