Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body

When we originally put this phrase on the website a few years ago, our thinking was that you did certain activities to optimize your body, and you did certain activities to optimize your mind, which is a bit like putting gasoline in your car and connecting the wires and electrical systems to the battery, resulting in two independent systems that sort of work together. In my old school days, if a client came to me to run a faster Marathon, we would put together a program of strength training, speed drills, and the usual mileage program.

However, now that I have learned so many new things in the world of biohacking and functional medicine, I no longer see the body/person as two separate entities but a single amazing system. Now I understand the level of interaction between the brain, heart, and gut microbiome systems.

And now I realize that, to train the physical body with its bones and muscles — what I call the outside system — to get stronger and faster, I need to also train the inside system of gut microbiome/nutrition to make you healthier and younger; and to train the heart/mind with breathing and meditation that help control your emotional states. Train the inside and the outside results in Younger, Stronger, Faster.