The 10 Part Diagnostic Every Man Needs to Run in 2026

You stay there for one day and then you balloon back up. I'm gonna teach you my exact thought process, my exact protocol. We're gonna go through supplements, we're gonna go through peptides, we're gonna go through testing modalities, literally everything you're gonna need to transform your body. Twenty-six. Now and for the rest of your life. Stay tuned. Let's rock this. I've been doing body transformations for thirty years and and uh maybe maybe twenty-eight.

And you know, I started off knowing very, very little, but still getting really good results, just working people really hard. So early in my bodybuilding slash fitness journey was just really focused on I'm gonna work harder and I'm gonna eat less.

And unfortunately, 30 years later, there's still a lot of people out there believing that's the most effective path. And there's nothing wrong with working harder and eating less, of course, but it's obviously an oversimplified model that works for about three to five percent of the population who has.

unduring willpower and really good genetics, let's be honest. And why doesn't that work for everybody? Because what you're ultimately doing is you're putting more stress on your body. You're saying, I want to do more work. And that's great. That's awesome. When you put more work on the system, you often exceed what you're capable of recovering from. So you put yourself into this. functional deficit. You're kind of working in this deficit, this hole, you're digging a deeper ditch, so to speak.

And then you're also taking away calories, which is your primary recovery meth method or mechanism. We take away calories, now your sleep starts to fall through, your stress elevates, your mind is racing, and you're like, gosh, you know I can't do this.

good enough to do this, I must must not have the genetics. I must not have the discipline. I don't believe in myself anymore. So we stop setting goals. I know this is the case for so many young men and women, that they stop understanding or stop even pursuing the desire to understand. Fixing their body, understanding their body. One of the things that I'm most inspired to do in my life.

is to hand you the operating system for your body. I'm literally in the process of writing a book right now, which is some version of the operating system for your body in the 2026 and beyond ecosystem because everything has changed. In the last three years, certainly last five it started, but in the last three years, everything has changed. If you're still doing an outdated model, even something you did seven to ten years ago.

You're falling behind. And that doesn't mean you're not going to get great results. It just may mean that you're not doing things as effectively and efficiently as possible. What I believe we're moving into is something I'm calling man four point oh. We're moving from man three point oh to man four point oh.

And if you want to understand all the details of Man 4.0, you're going to have to wait for the book. But in this podcast today, I'm going to give you some of the foundational principles, some of the foundational concepts. that I'm using to ultimately help men from all around the world get the greatest results they've ever seen in their life in the most precise way possible. In order to understand what man 4.0 is, I think it's useful to to backtrack a little bit and understand man 3.0.

Ran 3.0 was me ten years ago. It was the bodybuilder who was doing everything right. You know, I was training really hard. I was doing cardio every day. I was getting the sunshine every morning. I was sleeping really well. I was taking the supplements that research says is useful. I was doing the coenzyme Q10 and the creatine. You know, I was taking 20 grams of creatine 30 years ago.

I was quantifying my life from the time I was eighteen years old. I was quantifying my blood work every three to six months. I was quantifying everything that I possibly could. So I could say, hey, is this actually working for me? Quantification happened in in some subjective ways, meaning like, am I actually getting stronger because I was meticulous with my journals?

It's like am I actually building muscle?'Cause I was always meticulous with measuring and photos and was am I am I um I was meticulous in checking my body fat, usually just photos or calipers. But it was still a good way for me to say, hey, this supplement works, this training protocol works, and this one doesn't. Even peptides. I mean, I've been doing peptides probably since 2000 and 2001.

Like well before anybody knew what they were, right? I was have Chinese sources of IGF and MGF, uh PEG MGF. And Mindy's different um you know, even Follestaten back then, which goodness, thank goodness I didn't experiment with for a long time,'cause I don't believe it was very good, but at least it was it was s certainly something that was on a radar.

25 plus years ago. And now what's interesting is now this stuff is all coming full circle and it's useful tools. And in this podcast and in many podcasts, I want to teach you about some of these tools that are going to help your life. be more effective to allow you to actualize the greatest potential of your human capacity mentally and physically. And that's really what drives me every single day. So in order to understand man 4.0, what's man 3.0? It's this guy who's training really well.

He's eating really well. He's taking all the great supplements. Maybe even taking some peptides. Probably doing some some daily time in nature. Probably thinking about meditation. Maybe you're doing peptides. Maybe you're doing saunas. Maybe you're doing red lights. Maybe you're doing cold plunges. And the list goes on. This is a million different things.

But you have no idea what's actually objectively working. You're just throwing shit against the wall and hoping it sticks. And for some people it works. And some people go, gosh, you know, I'm so dialed in, man. I'm I'm living the longevity lifestyle, bro. Are you? Or are you not?

And the gap between man 3.0 who's quote unquote doing everything right. And this is 80% of the guys that I get to meet, right? You're doing everything right. But are you for who? For whose physiology? For your own, for your own biology, for your own genetics? Or are you just doing it based on science? You know, science is a wonderful starting off point, but science is bullshit if you're pushing your body really, really hard. And that that's a harsh statement. And it's it's obviously nuanced.

But if you're pushing your body hard, the truth is you're pushing beyond what scientific data can keep up with. Scientific data takes time, it takes money. It's ten years behind what people are currently doing. This is why everyone's taking peptides now and nobody studied them yet, because that ultimately science is ten, sometimes twenty years behind what the highest performing, highest achieving athletes and executives are doing right now.

People in Hollywood, people at at the highest level of Olympic sports, they're doing things you've never even heard of. We are doing things you've never even heard of. And this is because science takes so long to catch up. So if you're basing your current protocol off of old science, you're ten years behind.

So, what is man 4.0? Man 4.0 is a fully optimized, precision-based version of you. Precision-based means, well, I need to put everything into context. Because even the most effective quote unquote supplement based on the most effective research is probably effective in sixty percent of people. What about the other 40%? Well, you know, maybe it's 30% of people get no benefit and 10% of people get a negative benefit.

Well that's interesting. What if you're one of the 10%? Everyone says you need to take creatine, but you're a non-responder or or a negative responder. Everyone sees need says you need to take methylated B vitamins, but or magnesium before bed. 10% of people are negative responders to this stuff. Well, how do you know? It doesn't mean you're a bad person. It doesn't mean you have bad genetics. It simply means you don't know that these things are working for you.

So throwing all these random supplements at you like I'm not sure if it works for you. So we have to test. So contextually, the beautiful thing about living in 2026 and beyond is you get to test everything.

And in this podcast, I'm going to tell you about my 10 part diagnostic that literally walks you through everything you need to know, everything you need to take into your ecosystem, everything you need to take into your AI learning algorithm in order for you to produce an effective precision protocol for your body. So let's start. What does a precision protocol look like? And and as soon as we're done I'm done telling you what this intake looks like.

Then I'm going to tell you the things you need to start with because you can throw this into AI and AI is going to spit out 200 different things you could be doing, but it doesn't know the order of operations. The law of sequence is extremely important. I'm going to explain it to you in this podcast.

So what do we do when you work with most intelligence as a as a company? Uh we do this 10 part diagnostic and and there's more things that go beyond this, but this is the foundational things that everyone should be doing. So if we listen to this podcast and you have the financial capability, then I strongly suggest you do all of these things. So let's walk through it. So first we're going to start with your genetics.

So genetics is uh extremely important. And t I think I told you ten years ago, I've done my genetics. Maybe fifteen years ago I did my genetics. I think it was twenty thirteen. Um maybe is after that, but somewhere around there.

And uh I got nothing from it. I was like, this is you this is cute, but not really useful. In the last two to three years, everything's changed. First, the amount of research that's come out of the genetic space. Second, the ability to take artificial intelligence and actually interpret it. Uh and now you can't interpret yes. Um genetics as a whole, like putting your genes into um something like ChatGPT or Claude or even uh Uh

Gemini is a is not a good idea yet. They're working on it, but even Gemini will tell you. They've got a AI system called Alpha Genome that they'll tell you is not yet there. You can't it's not quite useful. Why not? What you can't do is look at all of the studies in all of your genes and weight them. These are not weighted equally. Certain genes have a greater impact on your outcomes than others. And and what AI is currently still doing, at least as far as I know.

is it's weighing them the same. And that's not useful. You have to understand which ones are going to be most impactful, which effectively where you should place your time and attention. So when we look at a genome readout, we can see there's probably somewhere between five and eight. really important SNPs for you. SNPs being single nucleotide polymorphisms.

which is the uh sort of building blocks that we're looking at to interpret what's happening at a genetic level. Now, I have a team of people on uh on my on my staff that does genetic reads. We work with some genetic teams out of the UK. and they're just wonderful, amazing, brilliant human beings who spend all of their time understanding genes. Now, I think in a very short amount of time, AI is going to take over for all of us, which is wonderful. I think it's a gift.

And you should take your your genes and put it into AI at some point, but maybe not yet. So step one is genes and step two is advanced blood work. So going to your doctor and asking for a complete blood count, C B C is simply not adequate. If you're doing that every quarter, that's that's good as a maintenance thing, but at least once per year, you should be stepping into something that's a lot more advanced. And we need to look into uh advanced hormones. We need to look at um

uh fractionated lipids, which basically breaks down your cholesterol molecule. Cholesterol is not just a global molecule. It's not just one molecule. It's got many sub molecules within it, specifically LDL. So getting an advanced lipid panel is is really important. Now that could be really extensive, but we allow the genetics to drive the decisions on what blood work should be. So for someone like myself who does have elevated um inflammation genetically, well now I wanna see things like

HSCRP. I want to see things like interleukin six, interleukin fifteen, which are these pro and and anti-inflammatory cytokine levels. And if I can measure those things usefully, well, that's interesting, right? I also want to make sure my liver has the ability to process and metabolize things. If my liver is dysfunctional or my liver enzymes are not working really well.

That's a big problem. And my immune system, again, if you're not looking at your immune system on your labs, you need to be your it's generally on most CBCs. But you gotta be looking at your immune system. If your immune system is underactive or overactive, that's gonna cause a problem as well because that could be driving excessive inflammation. That could even be causing be driving uh autoimmunity within your

uh body. And again, we gotta heal the body first. And I'm gonna tell you how to think about this as soon as I'm done going through all the 10 parts of the diagnostic. So one, genetics, two, blood, three, urine. Urine generally looks at the metabolome, the end, the byproducts, the end products.

So we're looking at things that your body is excreting. Which is extremely useful. We can see metabolites of hormones, we can be see metabolites of metabolism. We can see metabolites uh in b by products and in products of vitamins and minerals.

So we can say, hey, what is my body doing really well right now? What is it not doing really well? So we can all see constraints in the system. This sounds interesting to you and you want to get a PDF resource that details out the 10 things that we are testing in the 10 part diagnostic. What we're testing for.

why you should be testing, what to look for, and ultimately the standard you're going to set for yourself, depending on your age. Just go ahead and click the link below this video and I will send you a PDF of the 10 part diagnostic. Literally everything we're talking about in this episode.

what you should be looking out for, what you can ask your doctor for when you're going to get your blood test, and exactly how you're going to measure up, what you should be looking for to measure up against people your age. So if you're interested in that, go ahead and click the link below this video right now. Don't wait. And I look forward to sharing this and so much more with you in the future.

Back to the show. So genetics, blood, urine, then we're gonna do stool. I think stool should be in everyone's protocol, you know, at least once a year, ideally, maybe even once every six months. Why? Because there's three things we need to be looking at. And by the way, I'm gonna talk more about this in a minute. But we need to be looking at your acid levels. We need to be looking at your enzyme levels. And we need to be looking at your micro.

And then we can add on top of that any type of pathogenic bacteria, parasites, um, any type of leaky gut. So there's sort of this wide spectrum of things that If your gut is dysfunctional at any one of those levels, you're not going to be operating well. Why? Well, because everything I eat, even the healthiest food,

can cause dysfunction in the body if it's going into a broken system. So if I eat the healthiest food I can find, I literally go to a farm and I watch them, you know, kill the meat and pick the vegetables and, you know, whatever, ferment the fruit. Um and I'm my stomach is broken. You all uh that's funny. I here's a funny story. I had a client come to me and said, about I eat carnivore. I'm like, great, why? Because well, when I eat broccoli, my stomach broken broken. I'm like

So your decision to be carnivore is based on your your fat the fact that when you eat broccoli, your stomach hurts. That's a problem. If you eat broccoli and your stomach hurts, What is that telling you? You're dysfunctional. You're broken. If you can't even eat a piece of broccoli, like that's the opposite of being resilient or anti fragile.

So the goal with health is to be anti fragile, right? You can eat crappy foods and still feel really good. You don't, but you could. And that's the goal of the ultimate resilience or anti fragility. So we have to make sure that we are able to eat all the foods. We could choose to to do carnivore because for some short term benefit. Great. We can choose to be keto for some short term benefit. We can even choose to be vegan for some short term benefit.

But uh not that I recommend or condone these things, but realistically you could. It's useful as long as it's not ultimately I have to. I've sort of backed myself into this corner and say, hey, the only thing I can do now is eat this type of diet. That's stupid. And ultimately the opposite of what you want. As you age, you should aspire to become more resilient.

More anti-fragile. Anti-fragile simply means the more stress that becomes, uh that comes on my body, the more resilient I feel, the better I get, right? You sort of push on that egg and the the harder you push on that egg, the stronger the egg becomes. And that's a really important concept. So if we're not testing your gut health, every single thing you eat could be causing an immune response, could be causing an inflammatory response.

could be causing uh just negative responses in your body. That's just not a good place to be. So that's the top four. We have genes, we have blood, we have urine, we have stool. Then we're gonna look at sleep. And sleep is as you guys know integral.

And there's a lot of layers to it. I'm not going to go into too much, but we look at circadian rhythms, your sleep-wake cycles, everything in the body works on a rhythm. So when we get up, it should be doing specific things. And we're going to bed, it should be doing specific specific things. And if your body is broken or dysfunctional, sometimes what happens is we flatten the cortisol curve.

And what that means is cortisol should be this really big peak spike in the morning. We should feel really energized, really amazing when we wake up. That's an indication of a really healthy circadian rhythm, really healthy hormones and endocrine system. If it's not, something's broken, you're dysfunctional. It doesn't mean you can't fix it. It means you get you have to know what the goal is, know where you're starting, which is what this diagnostic is, and then remove the barriers to get there.

So we have the diagnostic as our starting ground. Like, hey, what do you do right now? What does your body do on the inside? What does it do well? Does it not do? And if you don't have this, you have no idea where you're going. You're throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. And that's not a useful paradigm or protocol for anyone.

So the goal is to have a precision protocol based on your body, based on your digestion, based on your circadian rhythm, what you need, because your genetics are different than mine, your lifestyle is different than mine, your environment's different than mine. Those are the three sort of foundational aspects of life that must be in harmony.

Your genes, your environment, and your lifestyle must be in harmony. If your lifestyle is out of alignment with your genes, and lifestyle means training and nutrition and supplements and light exposure. And if that's out of alignment with your genes, you're going to have dysfunction in the body. You're sort of creating this. this divergence away from the homeostatic p set point that your body wants to be at.

So your body wants to be at rest. Your body wants to be calm. Your body wants to be in a parasympathetic rest, digest, and recover state. But because of the life you live or the l the the lifestyle society has created for us sometimes. Well sometimes stress is higher than we want it to be. Sometimes blue light is way more abundant than we want it to be.

Sometimes we're sleeping and bathing in elec electromagnetic fields, EMFs, whether that be from cell phone towers, whether that be from electricity, whether that be from Whatever the natural ones from the earth, these things can cause disharmony in the system. And disharmony in the system leads to overstressed adrenals. It leads to dysfunction at the cellular level. And if your cells aren't sending and receiving the signals, At its most mice microscopic level.

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Stress is there. We don't want l stress to be less. In fact, I want stress to be greater at some times. Like I want to be able to take on massive amounts of responsibility. To me, stress is responsibility. You could also say the opposite side of stress is burden. But I don't like to use that term. I think stress is simply like, well, how how much responsibility do I hold?

And personally as a man, I want to be able to hold all responsibility for my family, for my community, for my team, for myself, for my loved ones, for my children, certainly. uh for anyone who I interact with, I want to be able to hold the responsibilities that I commit to. And sometimes the weight of those responsibilities is heavy. You're like, oh man, this is a heavy one. I literally used that term. And so is that a bad thing? No, I think it's a gift.

But because I'm strong enough, I say, man, jump on my back. I got this. I love being the guy in my community, my family, my team that everyone turns to to go ask it. He's he'll help you. He's got he's got the resources, he's got the abundance, he's got the stress resilience. And I'll be honest, sometimes in my life I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who's a little bit overwhelmed. Sometimes I'm stressed, sometimes I'm frustrated, sometimes I just want to be left alone.

And I notice myself doing that. I'm like, ah, I see you. You're not showing up in the way that you know you want to, in the way that you know that you are. Inside, and you're not living up to that. So, where do I need to pull up my socks? Do I need to become more resilient to stress? And that's simple.

Right. Do the foundational things really well. The things we've just been testing, the cellular health, the hormonal health, the uh energy production, the stress resilience through uh aerobic fitness and sleep. digestion. So that's number six. So we go through genetics, blood, urine, stool, sleep, stress. Then we get into VO2 mess.

VO two max is a great indication of aerobic fitness, cellular function, the body's ability to bring oxygen into the cells and produce energy. Simple. So what's your VO2 max? Your VO2 max is low, you're gonna have low stress resilience. So stress and VO2 max have a massive overlap. They're not exactly the same, but VO2 Max is a great proxy for energy production. It's also a great proxy for longevity. So the greater your VO2 max, ultimately

The like the more likely you are to live a longer, healthy, vital, vibrant life. And we're gonna go into strength. Strength. Why strength? Because I want to be strong relative to my body weight. I want to have the ability to control my body weight, not just in one specific lift. But literally in every position I may find myself in, period, across the board. I wanna be able to do all things all times, play basketball, run, swim, jump, whatever, jujitsu, all things.

I need to have great physical strength relative to my body weight or relative to the things I want to be able to do. Following that we have body fat. Body fat is a great indication that we must be measuring, I believe.

And body fat also means waist to height ratio. So I mixed those ones in there. So we could also add some measurements in there because waist to height ratio should be at least two to one. So your height should be twice your waist. And if it's not, you're going to have some metabolic dysfunction.

So these are the spectrum of tests that we uh suggest everyone go through at least once a year. We call it 10-part diagnostic. Let's say we go through all this 10-part diagnostic. I want to make sure that your system is stable. The first thing I'm trying to do before I optimize the system, I have to stabilize the system. So many people are throwing peptides and hormone and hormones and

supplements and red lights and great, that's all it's useful. But we should be aspiring to stabilize the system. What does that mean? Is your body producing energy well? Are you able to turn off the nervous system to sleep? Are you able to uh Digest food well? Are you able to um, I don't know, wake up in the morning and have enough energy to do the things you want to do without 17 different stimulants?

So like what does stabilize the system mean? It means put everything on your blood markers in the green. Make sure you can digest food without terrible gas and and Constipation, right? So make sure the body starts to work. We want to have some flow in the system. Stabilizing the system just means like.

Are you doing things at a foundational level? And I've got a document on what actually phase one there's I think there's like fifteen to seventeen things, maybe fifteen to twenty things now that my coaches are making sure you can do. Before we start trying to optimize everything and like, I want to build a ton of muscle and lose a bunch of fat, I'm like, yeah, great. You're going to do those during the stable stabilization phase.

However, you should uh before you think about I wanna build as much muscle, lose as much fat, get as much energy, live long, we have to make sure we do these fifteen to twenty foundational things well. As a proxy for one thing, trajectory. I don't know the date of the outcome you're going to achieve. We can try to set a date.

But we're trying to optimize for a trajectory. And if you listen to this podcast before, you've heard me talk about this stuff, but we want to optimize for a trajectory. And the way we do that is we want the steepest possible trajectory in the direction of my goals. I mean I want to move as fast as I possibly possibly can.

Stabilize before you optimize is a really, really useful uh foundational framework. So once you've stabilized the system, there's a couple more things we can add in. Usually this happens around day 90.

So there's two specific tests, and actually three, but uh the first two are maybe most important. We we're gonna look at your epigenetics. which is specifically looking at the rate of aging and ultimately the function of every different organ system in the body. We can literally look at the age of your heart compared to the age of your brain, compared to the age of your organ your uh immune system, compared to the age of your muscles.

Relative comparison to your chronological age, how many years you're alive, we want that uh biological age of the uh tissue or the organ system to be less. So we first we're gonna do epigenetics. That happens around day ninety second we're gonna do an omega index. Because we want to have an idea where your omega-3, six and nine ratios sit. to understand s optimal cell function, optimal brain function. This is more important for some people than others.

Some people are going to have great brain function no matter what they do because they have great genetics. Some people, like myself, need a little extra support on having a higher omega index. You want to strive for about 10 to 12% of your omega index being from omega-3s. for optimal brain and cellular function. You could literally test this stuff. Science is now telling us we can test things like

uh the amount of plaque in our system. We can now test things like if there's any cancers growing in our system, whether through a PRNO scan, which is a full body MRI, or something called the Grail test, which is looking at in I think it's over a hundred different cancer marks.

So if you're somebody's concerned about cancer, you have a genetic history of cancer, do those things. But at the end of the day, you can do them, but you may want to do the foundational stuff first because the healthy system Has cancer growing in it every day and takes it out. I believe it's about 10,000 cancer cells grow every day in everyone's body.

After being fully grown as an adult, but your immune system takes them out. When you have a healthy functioning immune system, your body just takes them out. And so if it doesn't take them out, what starts to happen? It starts to accumulate and you start to build these little tumors. And then if the immune system still continues to not work well, then the body can't get rid of these tumors and it becomes a really big problem.

So this is how we approach uh optimization from a long-term perspective. Why is this useful? Because once you stabilize the system, you're not fighting against yourself anymore. You're not starving for nutrients. I think the reason most people overeat is their brain and their cells are starving for nutrients. You can eat and eat and eat.

And your body's not getting the signal because you're inflamed. You're not getting the signal because your insulin levels are high and your glucose levels are high and the cells are dysfunctional. You have these protein issues, these issues with proteins uh folding, misfolding proteins.

that ultimately causes dysfunction. The mitochondria are dysfunctional. You know, the the membrane layers, the folded membrane layers of the mitochondria are dysfunctional. So you're not producing energy well. You're often just spilling over additional reactive oxygen species.

So we have to fix that stuff. And this is where supplements and peptides can be super useful. So again, this is a lot of information and sort of a brain dump of how I think about taking someone who That was pretty good. You're awesome. You know you're doing really well.

You're making all the decisions right. You're training every day. You're getting the cardio and you're getting that sunshine. You still have a good sex drive compared to everyone your age. But I'll tell you what, who cares about everyone your age? Don't be good for your age. Be good, period. Right. My goal in the next five years was is to be good compared to kids that are twenty one years old.

You know, I'd be honest, I get busy too. I have two amazing kids who I spend every minute that I can with. And I have an amazing business and I'm sure I'm being, you know, I got to produce content, which, you know, is takes time. It takes time to prepare these things. It takes time to sit down and record. It takes time to edit and get them out. So it's a lot of stuff. You know, I could go 20 hours a day. And I do many days. I love it. I love what I do.

And so I understand what you're s what you're coming from. It's like, man, the goal is not to do more. And I think that's the big reason why this whole man four point oh mission and uh method has begun is because the goal is not to do more. The goal is to have precision protocols for everything you do.

You want a precision brain protocol? Well, I shouldn't give you my brain protocol. I can, but it's not going to be the most exactly precise thing for you. Will it work? Probably. Will it work with precision? You know, for some percentage of people it will, for some percentage of people it won't. So I can give you my mitochondrial protocol, and it's gonna work really well for 60 or 70 percent of people, and 30 percent of people are like, yeah.

You know, I the gift of who I am and what I do is I get to work from with men and women from all around the world and I get to see them literally do my protocols or do a protocol for them and I get to see what works. I'm like, hey, oh, that's not working. You know, as an example, peop some people take modafinil or they take uh some type of nootropic.

and they feel terrible headaches and they feel worse. So other people can take them and they feel great. Well what's the difference? Well you're probably just not making enough acetylcholine or maybe you need to support supplemental acetylcholine or maybe you need some B vitamins and maybe you need some additional blood flow, some magnesium. Let's check that first.

Right, what are your levels? We checked it when you started with us in your 10 part diagnostic. So you can say, Oh, I'm not deficient in any of these things. Or sometimes people have so overgrown microbes in their stomach or underground microbes in their stomach, they literally can't eat certain foods. Like gosh, if I eat a piece of broccoli, my stomach's destroyed. Well, instead of avoiding broccoli, why not fix the problem that's there so you can enjoy the things that you love to enjoy?

Right, isn't that the goal of life is to be able to have the most resilient anti-fragile body, live Forever, ultimately, as long as you possibly can, at the highest possible capacity. Longevity is a myth to me. I think the goal is like how long can I keep this body young? How long can I keep this mind young? I think longevity I don't live to be 150 if I'm frail. I have amazing genes. Everyone in my family lives to be over 100, or at least in their 90s. We have an incredible gene pool.

But I don't want to lift to be anything past seventy or eighty if I can't function well, if I can't run, if I can't play, if I can't lift, if I can't, you know, I don't know, engage in the things I wanna do. Why? What's the point? So I believe in the next three to five years. It's all gonna change. In fact, I believe it's all changing right now. And that's why I'm doing this. And I stay really up to date with

everything to do with longevity and and ever what's at the tip of the spear? Like what are the people who are the smartest in the world saying when it comes to like what actually works? And I'll tell you now, there's a s a small number of things and a small number of people who you should actually trust. And I'll I try to carry them on this pocket. And there's there's a there's a large number of people who are just regurgitating bullshit who really don't know what they're talking about and

That's okay. That's okay. Like and this is the reason, by the way, that I continue to work with men and women, because I want to be at the tip of the spear. I want to be in the trenches, be able to work with people and get the result and show that I can do these things or I continue to do these things at the highest level.

So people were working with me so that they get access to the highest level protocols, the highest level technology, the highest level testing. That's what I love to do. We literally have a team of people now that are researching what are the what are the best uh technology protocols, what are the best testing protocols. What are the best research-based peptides that are gonna help myself, my clients, and my team operate at their best? And that's really what drives me most.

Uh to continue doing what I do. So I said I'd tell you a little bit how you can start operationalizing this because this is a lot of information. Like, man, where do I start? What do I do? Well, do those 10 things, right? Do the if you if you're someone who's committed to being the best version of yourself now and forever, it doesn't have to be a lot. In fact,

A little bit of time, effort, and sacrifice, a little bit of investment up front, pays dividends long-term down the road. Why? Because I could take away 50% or 80% of the supplements you're taking, because they're probably not useful. The irony of how this stuff works is I go into people's houses and I throw eighty percent of the supplements or sometimes a hundred percent of the supplements or taking the trash. We all open our medicine cabinet or our supplement cabinets like this.

Array of this sea of crap that nobody ever needs to put in their body. So instead of doing uh 700 crappy vitamins and supplements. My suggestion is like, why don't you find the ones that work for you that your body actually needs right now? So we probably need somewhere between six, you know, five to eight things, six to eight things on a consistent basis. And everything else is situational. So you've heard me talk. So what do you need to do? Stabilize three systems. What's it?

Stabilize your gut digestion and immunity. We we lump those together because they're one. So if your gut is dysfunctional, that means your immune system is dysfunctional. Your immune system is going to be constantly running on high alert, and that's going to become a problem for you no matter what. Because every food you eat is going to cause dysfunctional. So then what does that mean to fix gut health? Poop it a hot dog tray, send it back to the lab.

And they're gonna send you back an analysis of your microbiome, tell you what parasites you have, what overgrowth you have, what undergrowth you have, if you have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, if you have uh H. pylori, they can tell you all these amazing things. If you have uh any type of dysfunction in your gut, when you figure it out.

Determine the protocol for that specific thing. Generic gut protocols don't work. It's not useful to do something generic. It's useful to do something that's precise. Start there. And if your immune system is overactive and underactive, it always starts. So moving on from there, the second most important thing, and again, you could arguably say these two are interchangeable, is circadian rhythms and sleep.

And so what do we do for cascading rhythm? Simply wake up at the same time every day and get your butt outside and go for a walk. If you do that and nothing else, your life will start to get better. The harder you work in the day before 12 p.m. the more effective your life's gonna be. I try to get all of the hard work done, all of the excessive blue light outside, all of the workouts done before noon, every day. And the end of the day from call it twelve to eight. Now I'm doing things that are

uh maybe more relaxing. I'm doing things that are I'm doing some meetings. I'm doing book I'm reading books. I'm maybe taking courses. But the morning side of the part of the day is gonna be most of my food. It's gonna be most of my blue light outside. It's gonna be all of my exercise. That all happens early in the day because I wanna get as much effort and stress and cortisol as I can early in the day.

At the end of the day, now we're doing the things that are going to be filling my soul, filling my cup, connecting with my children, connecting with my loved ones, doing the things that really are uh the things that drive me, right? It's the family, it's learning, it's growth, it's supporting my my community, my men. Uh so that's what we do and that's that's um really really important. So King rhythm means

Sleep really well, wake at the same time every day, and front load all of your stressful things. And number three, you gotta fix your metabolism. Metabolism, most people are hearing about metabolism being hormones and being mitochondria. And the answer is it's everything.

It's how your body does everything at a cellular level. Like how it does it produce hormones, how does it produce energy? It's this whole metabolic cascade of things that happens in the body that you gotta fix. If you wanna live well and you wanna thrive and you wanna have great focus and energy and you want your brain to work really well.

You got to fix the metabolism. And that doesn't mean throwing another cup of coffee at yourself. I love coffee, I drink coffee every day, but it doesn't mean I need. So my suggestion is hold your coffee for the first 90 to out 90 minutes to two hours every day and see how you feel. And if you feel like crap, all the more reason you gotta wait.

So my suggestion is to do what you need to do to fix the metabolism. Now that's the reason why all those testing protocols are there. So can I give you an exact protocol to fix your metabolism? No. Should you be fasting? I don't know. Right. If you have a dysfunctional metabolism, I'm not a fan of fasting. I've seen way more people do cause more harm to their sleep, to their stress levels from fasting than I've I've seen people do good. If you're someone who's healthy already

Fasting's amazing. If you're someone who has metabolic dysfunction, you're gonna cause more problems. Like across the board, because you're driving more free oxy uh ro reactive oxygen species, free radical damage, you're probably causing more sympathetic arousal, which your body's already overwhelmed with to begin with, stress.

You're probably just causing more sleep dysfunction. It's a terrible idea. And if you want to fast, try reverse fasting by eating in the morning and then nothing later in the day. Right? I consume eighty to ninety percent of my calories most days before. You know, maybe before two. But generally it's like everything I eat, two meals

full in the morning and then maybe at night I'll have a protein bar or maybe I'll have something really small, some berries. But very, very little. If I eat family dinner, I'll have a salad and a little piece of chicken. So I'm getting two, three hundred calories out, you know, later in the day. And I sleep amazingly well. I was like, Ben, how do you sleep?

Eat well. I do everything early in the day. These are things I do. If your goal is to optimize for long term, don't rely on Pepti. Don't rely on supplements. Peptides are amazing. Supplements are amazing. Your workouts are amazing. There's all important parts, but they're only tools. So learning how to view everything in your life is a tool. Am I using red light? Yes. Every day? No.

Am I using saunas? Yes. Every day? No. How do I know I use it? Well, I know what my body needs, these things, right? So I create protocols based on my unique genes. Some people respond really well to saunas and cold plants. different, but some people don't. Some people respond really well to statins. I had a client recently start low dose Cialis and it messed them up. Most people can take low dose Cialis because it's gonna work. It's it's a long, it's now longevity medicine, right?

Well, low dose is is a ED medicine, but if taken at a low enough dose, like two and a half milligrams, can be potentially beneficial for long-term prostate health, potentially beneficial for long-term cardiovascular health. But is it good for you? I'm like, I don't know. How am I supposed to know? Look at your genes. I can't tell until I look at your genes. And so that would be a place where putting your genes into

Uh AI would be a good idea. So if you throw your raw genetic data into AI and you say, hey, tell me about my genes for utilizing statins or utilizing uh Cialis or my brain health genes like ApoE, for example, or my methylation support. Like if you ask specific questions, it's great. If you asked AI to create generic protocol or protocols for your um genes, I wouldn't do that.

If you want to pick up genes from me in less intelligence, you can go to dnaperform.com. You can get just a test. You can get the test plus nutrition protocol based on your genes. You can get tests. Plus nutrition, plus full coaching for 90 days as well. All the options are there. Um, I think we have a wait list on a couple of those, but if you do want to go just get the genetic test, we do offer that.

And if you do want to do all of your testing through us as well, so we can ultimately read, interpret, and create an AI agent for you, that's something we're doing now, as well as a value add to our long-term customers and long-term supporters of the Must Intelligence Podcast. How was it? Did you guys get some value?

Hopefully so. Um as you hopefully can hear, I'm constantly sharpening my sword. I'm constantly reading, taking courses, meeting the smartest people in the world, hiring the smartest people in the world to come work with us here at Most Intelligence.

Uh we are expanding quickly now, all due to this muscle uh man 4.0 protocol. Hopefully that was And if you are interested in working with muscle intelligence right now on this man four point oh protocol, we are always taking a limited number of people every month because we don't have unlimited

And uh this is only for people who are committed to being the best version of themselves, truly committed to going all in, because what I hate and what I refuse to work with is people who uh aren't committed. And if I'm more committed to your outcome and I'm more committed to your goals, your life and your success than you are, it's not gonna work. I love to push people hard. You know, I really believe you're capable of more than you realize you're capable.

We can do so much. And I think the idea of Man 4.0 is allowing us to actualize the greatest and best version of ourselves, physically and mentally. Why is that important to me? Because I want you to be there for your family. Not just for a long time, but I want you to be there, really truly be there at the best version of yourself. Be able to run, play, jump, think, be Like I truly want you to be there for years and years and years to come, but not just to watch from the side from the sideline.

Yeah, here's a funny story. We're in Costa Rica a couple years ago and took a group of I think it was fifteen, twelve to fifteen guys. We climbed this or hiked this uh mountain and we climbed into this giant waterfall. It was we were the first ones up the up the climb, jumped into the waterfall. It's amazing we've done it a couple of times.

And um we get into the waterfall and we spend an hour in there, like this this incredible peak experience, right? We're like celebrating, we're hugging each other, we're screaming, we're sh we're we're um swimming under this amazing waterfall with so much pressure. It's like coming, it's probably sixty, probably more than sixty.

probably like eighty or ninety feet. I'm making it up, but it's a high. And um it was this amazing peak experience. We're in there for an hour, hour and a half after a couple hour climb. And we were the only ones there to start. We get out and uh the place is packed. It was like this tourist.

uh like tourist destination I guess and these people were standing there with you know their their sunglasses on and their sun hats on and we were like shirtless and you know barely you know wearing a little short

And uh these people are all standing there taking photos, you know. You can see these people with their sun hats on and their their Hawaii shirts on and they're taking photos. So they're standing watching while we're in the thing, you know, like I said, in the arena, we're in the waterfall. They're standing back. And that to me was the best example of what muscle intelligence is.

It's like we're the men in the arena. We're the men doing the work. We're the men who want the worthy adversary to challenge us, to push us, to allow us to understand and finally actualize what we're capable of. You know, sometimes I talk like a trucker, sometimes I cuss, sometimes I want to push people hard, but it always comes from a place of love.

And if you're someone who wants to be the best version of yourself, then the Muscle Intelligence Man 4.0 community is where you want to be. We have an unbelievable community of men which growing every day, growing every month. And so if you're ready to take action to be the best version of yourself in twenty twenty six and for the rest of your life, not because you want a six back.

I don't give a shit if you have a six pack. I don't give a shit if you squat your body weight. I don't care. I uh w I do only in as much as it's an expression of the man that you are.

It's a side effect of the men that you are. It's a side effect of the character, the discipline, the effort that you're putting in every day. The body you have is a side effect of your life, side effect of your decisions. It's well you know, in your early twenties and thirties, it's a primary goal. It can be a primary goal in your forties and fifties. It's totally fine. But it's so much more useful and so much more sustainable. Instead of making it a temporary one time goal.

Man, I just train every day'cause it's who I am. Right, I eat really well every day'cause it's who I am. I'm not it's not me playing this game of like reward and punishment. I'm gonna punish myself for three months and I'm gonna starve myself and I'm gonna make all these sacrifices and then as soon as it's done, I'm gonna eat all this junk.

That doesn't work. You know what? If that was you if that's your mindset, this isn't the right place. I I'm not saying you can't do it, but it's just not the right place. What we're trying to do is we're trying to create soldiers who can show up for their family at the highest and best possible level for them. Ladies and gents, thanks for being here.

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