Unlocking Your Inner Superhuman | Dan Metcalfe | 7 Pillars of Natural Health

What if the superhuman abilities you need aren't something you have to acquire, but rather something you were born with and simply need to rediscover? That's the transformative message Dan Metcalfe brings to this episode as he shares his extraordinary journey from West End ballet dancer to wellness expert.

After suffering a catastrophic spine injury that left him paralyzed, with doctors predicting lifelong disability, Dan defied medical expectations. Years later, when a traumatic brain injury forced him to relearn basic functions, he again demonstrated the remarkable resilience that forms the foundation of his "Born Superhuman" philosophy. These weren't just setbacks—they were awakening moments that revealed our innate capacity for healing and growth.

Dan breaks down his seven pillars of natural health (oxygen, hydration, sleep, nutrition, exercise, mindset, and challenges), offering practical wisdom that's transformed over 70,000 lives. You'll discover why 75% of Americans live chronically dehydrated, how changing one word in your vocabulary can revolutionize your relationship with food, and why the pursuit of comfort might actually accelerate aging. His insights on sleep optimization, circadian rhythms, and the healing power of sunlight challenge conventional wisdom while providing actionable strategies.

The most powerful moments come when Dan explains how reconnecting with childhood joys can revitalize your spirit—like his mother taking her first ballet class at 84, or his girlfriend finding her voice after being told as a child she couldn't sing. These stories illuminate how limiting beliefs often prevent us from embracing our full potential.

Take one small step today toward reclaiming your superhuman birthright. Whether it's breathing more consciously, reframing how you approach food, or rediscovering a forgotten passion, this conversation offers a blueprint for tapping into the extraordinary capabilities you already possess.

Connect with Dan at https://bornsuperhuman.com/ or on IG @ danmetcalfe_official

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (01:11):
Hello.
Welcome back to the podcastJourney to Well.
My name is Hannah, and today Iam joined by Dan Medcalf.
I am so excited.
I feel like I say that all thetime, but Dan and I had a
conversation a few weeks ago,and um it just really got me on
fire about overall health andvitality and wellness and all of

(01:35):
the things that I normally talkabout, but a completely
different perspective andeducation.
So truly, Dan, today we are hereto be educated and inspired just
by you being you.
So thank you so much for comingon the podcast.
I would love to open it up andallow you to introduce yourself,
who is Dan, what a little bitabout your story before we get

(01:57):
talking about being superhumanand all of these wellness
things.

SPEAKER_01 (02:03):
Thanks, Hannah.
What a beautiful intro.
And thank you for the time andto your audience.
Time's the most valuable thingwe have in life because when
time is gone, everything's gone.
So the fact sharing this timewith me means the most to me.
I won't waste a second of it,and it's really an honor.
So thank you.

unknown (02:20):
Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 (02:21):
So who is Dan Metcalf?
Well, I shouldn't be heretheoretically talking to you if
my life hadn't gone the way thatI thought it was going to go.
I went from being an athleteback in England to uh switching
over to dance.
I became a ballet dancer, jazztap at the starting at the age
of 18.
And by the time I was 20 yearsold, I was playing the lead in

(02:43):
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber shows.
For those people that haven'theard of Andrew Lloyd Weber, he
wrote the shows Cat's Phantom ofthe Opera, Jesus Christ
Superstar, Joseph and TetlacolorDreamcoat, Starlight Express.
And so I was touring the world,I was on the West End in London,
and life was fantastic.
Until I had an accident on stagein Starlight Express in Las

(03:06):
Vegas at the Las Vegas Hilton,where I fractured my spine, I
was paralyzed, and the doctorsaid that I would be disabled
for life.
So that was really the beginningof my next journey of
understanding the value ofhealth, the importance of the
environment that we create, andthe so much importance of the

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environment we create insideourselves first, because what we
create inside will determinewhat actually goes in and
affects us and what we need tokeep out so it doesn't pull our
life down.

SPEAKER_00 (03:41):
I love that you said the environment that we create,
because a lot of us kind of Iknow me included, I'm not
discluding myself, uh live inthis, you know, like, oh, life
is so chaotic and life ishappening to me.
And that was one of the things Ilove about Tony Robbins.
He said, Life is not happeningto you, it's happening for you.

(04:03):
And what is the life that you'recreating?
And so I love that you said lifeis the life that we create.
Um and I know a little bit aboutthe incredi I mean, it's not
even just that theater accident.
There was another accident thathappened, and there's so many
things I feel like theadversity, right, that has come

(04:24):
your way that you have bouncedback from and not just bounced
back from, but thrived from.
And and we can all hear yourstory, and you know, I'm sure
you to I know that you talkabout it all the time.
My question is how did thismindset come about in your life?
How did you come from yourtheater accident and then you

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had another bike accident whereyou where you fractured the the
back of your head, correct?
The back of your skull.

SPEAKER_01 (04:51):
Yeah, it was actually, I was okay.
So after I recover fromparalysis, and people were like,
tell me that story.
That's a whole nother story.
We're all born superhuman.
And Tony Robbins things happenfor us is great.
I believe everything thathappens to us is a gift if we
wrap it correctly.

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And then that becomes for us,right?
Because we see it as happeningto us, but if we wrap it
correctly, it's a gift.
And so again, I wouldn't be heretoday if I hadn't gone through
the people would you knowperceive it as a tragedy.
I'm so sorry.
I said, no, I am so fortunate tohave gone through what I went
through because I recognize thelessons it was teaching me.

(05:34):
Now, I will say right now, ifsomeone listening to this is not
interested in investing inthemselves and gifting
themselves, it's probably notthe podcast to listen to with me
because I really want to pushyou to be the best you and
understand that self-love is notselfish, it's essential.

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And we don't have a lack oftime, we have a lack of
discipline of time.
So if time is the most importantthing that we have in life, the
most valuable thing we have,what we do with our time shows
what's most important to us.
So as we get into this podcast,I'm so excited to share what
I've learned, and I've trainedover 70,000 people into better

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health and mindset.
Please invest in yourself.
Listen to this with an open mindand just take one thing.
Because I promise, if you listenthrough this, there'll be one
thing that you can take on thatwill change and start the
process of a healthier, happier,and more successful life with
the time we've got.

(07:03):
Yeah, I think it that's a greatquestion, Hannah.
I think it came from resilienceof wanting to be my best and
understanding every level hasits own devil.
So as we begin to progress,there's gonna be something
that's gonna stop us continuingforward, and we often see those
as roadblocks.
And from the age of nine, Iwanted to be a professional

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soccer player, football playerback in England.
And I had really, really, reallybad asthma.
Like I'd wake up on Sundaymorning, and my mum would be
like, Come on, Danny, we'regoing to church.
And I'd be lying on the floorafter two steps trying to
breathe, and I'd hear the frontdoor slam, you're in trouble.
And I'd be lying on the floor asa nine-year-old just trying to

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breathe, and they didn't knowwhat was going on at that
moment.
And self-survival came in.
And how do I not just survive?
How do I take that and figurethings out for myself?
And so I never sat back and putmore importance on other
people's impressions orinformation than I did my own

(08:05):
journey.
So I say to a lot of people, Idon't believe in hope.
Right?
The hope is not a word in mydictionary except for someone
else.
So, Hannah, I hope you have agreat day.
Everyone listening, I hope youhave the rest of your life that
you dream of.
But for me, it's about belief.
If I hope, it's aprocrastinator.

(08:26):
So I'm sitting there waiting forsomebody else to come in and
say, Oh, you I found thesolution.
Oh, yeah, this is the bestthing.
Oh, we can't really help you,but we hope you get better.
If I'm waiting for hope, I amliterally waiting.
But if I believe it's anactionable word, because when we
believe in something, we'll takea step to it, and that starts

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opening up the answers to thelessons that are challenging us.
So at the age of nine, with thisasthma, my grandfather was a GP
and he brought down thisinhaler.
And I was like, okay, great.
I took the inhaler and I feltbetter.
But something in me made me wantto question it rather than just

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accept it.
So I walked to the library.
People as young as you won'treally know what libraries are,
Hannah.
But a brick and mortar buildingwith all these books in it.
And I sat as a nine-year-old andread about the respiratory
system.
And I read that the body is madeto heal.
We are better than we believebecause we're impregnated with

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this thought that the doctor hasto heal you, or the drug has to
heal you, or something that'snot natural is going to heal
you.
Now, before I continue, I dowant to preface that by saying
I'm not anti-drugs, I'm notanti-doctors.
I believe sometimes we need akickstart, but I am
anti-replacement or dependency.
And that replacement, if ourbody's meant to make it, let the

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body do it.
Just give it a kickstart.
So I read that if I took thisinhaler, my body would become
lazy in being able to fight offthe asthma attacks itself.
And so I went and threw, Ididn't tell anyone, I threw away
the inhaler.
I would walk to the park near myhome, take off my jacket, run as
far as I could, and then I wouldcollapse on the ground, fighting

(10:12):
for breath.
I'm like, and I'd be lying andI'd make sure I fell so I could
see my jacket.
And eventually I'd just focus,get back to the jacket, get back
to the jacket.
Well, I would eventuallyrecover, I'd get back and I'd
run back to that jacket andcollapse again.
But over weeks and months, I ranit out of me.
I could run the whole field.
I went on to become a runner formy school and then went on to

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professional sports without everhaving to use an inhaler.
Now, I'm not telling anybody todo that.
What I'm saying is it discoveredin me the ability to heal and
the resilience, becauseresilience is not what's
happening to us.
Resilience doesn't come fromthat.
Resilience comes from what we'veexperienced to then use when we

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come up with a similar or achallenge that that lesson will
help.
Going back to the brain, I wascoming through my guard gated
community, and the guard broughtthe metal gate down on my head.
I was going pretty fast.
I was immediately knockedunconscious with a hit on the
frontal lobe.
I flew through the air, alreadyfrozen.

(11:16):
I only know this because I gotthe video, and it's not one I
watch a lot, but when I do, it'slike, wow, that's me.
I then hit the ground so hard Ibroke my coccyx, the lower back,
hit the back of my head so hardthat it broke the helmet open.
I was unconscious for aboutthree minutes.
Part of my brain died, and I hadto learn to talk again, learn to

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function, learn to move,overcome PTSD.
I put on so much weight, I puton about 30 pounds of weight
from depression eating, from notbeing able to do what I was
doing, and it became alife-changing moment of who am I
and what am I willing to accept?
And that's where everythingchanged for me in Born

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Superhuman came about because Irealized we are made to heal,
born to heal.
The information that we feed toour brain will determine how it
works, and that if we're willingto invest in ourselves and put
ourselves first, at times theresults are superhuman.

SPEAKER_00 (12:18):
So tell me about Born Superhuman.
It's a book, it's obviously thiswhole mindset and and and theory
that you've developed.
Um, but tell me about tell memore of this.

SPEAKER_01 (12:33):
Yeah, it's um it really came from my experiences
in life that were also fed byother mentors.
I speak in the biohacking world,I keynote speak around the
country, and listening to otherpeople continued to help me
understand who we all are at thebase foundation.
So within the pillars, the sevenpillars of natural health, which

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is we're born superhuman,there's the pillars that are
guaranteed to improve your life.
And again, having trained somany thousands of people from
world-class record holders,Olympians to people a hundred
years old, I was able to narrowdown exactly the important
things that we do every day.

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It's not something you have toreplace, it's how can I do what
I'm doing every day better, orhow can I reintroduce what I
should be doing that I'vereplaced out of either laziness
or lack of education, or I justfeel so overwhelmed and swamped.
And I'm sure everyone listeningcan feel that.
But what am I giving up is goingto affect me in the long run?

SPEAKER_00 (13:41):
Hmm.
So these seven pillars areoxygen, hydration, sleep,
nutrition, exercise, mindset,challenges.
Challenges is interesting to me,but I'd like to start at the
beginning.
Um, a lot of them make sense.
Oxygen, though.
There's a couple that I'm like,hmm, let's let's divulge more

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information here.
Oxygen, what do you mean bythat?

SPEAKER_01 (14:05):
Okay, so we know oxygen also has a byproduct for
carbon dioxide, right?
So they have to be able to workin tandem.
Our body needs both to be ableto function.
If we were 100% oxygen, we woulddie.
But I know you're huge on breathwork.
The reason I put oxygen first isnot because it's the one that is

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um going to change us thequickest, because we're
breathing now.
But if we went without it, itwould be the quickest thing that
takes us down.
So if you look at all thedifferent pillars that are in
there, we can go 40 days withouteating, which is why nutrition
is down at number four.
We could go, you know, a yearwithout any exercise at all and

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still exist.
But with oxygen, the problemthat we have is we breathe in
our upper respiratory system,and that affects our nervous
system.
So stress, which createsoxidative impact within the
body, can be relieved and put usin a better state to handle
issues, to handle the stressesthat come in.

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If we learn how to breathe, andyou'll know this better than me,
if we breathe correctly, ourwhole environment changes.
Now, it's not the first one thatI teach, but in me, for me, it's
the most important for our ownexistence and being able to
control the way we feel sosimply.
You can just change your breathwork, and in two minutes, your

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whole system can change.

SPEAKER_00 (15:36):
You you are opening my uh my breath work nerdiness
and and something that I'mthinking about that listeners
might know, might not, I assumeyou know.
But one of the coolest ways toexplain this upper respiratory
breathing versus pulling thatbreath really far down into the

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belly and fully expanding thediaphragm.
Is if you go back to well, evennot go back hunting, right?
Hunter-gatherers, but we allpeople hunt today too.
Um, when we are hunting, ourbreath becomes so shallow
because we are so hyper-fixatedon what we're hunting.

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And back in hunter-gatherertimes, it was literally a matter
of life or death, right?
If we don't get this, we're in afamine, we don't get this deer,
we don't get this boar, we mightnot feed the tribe for the next
month and people might starve.
So there's there's so muchstress there.
And stress is a good thing, asI'm sure you can talk way more
eloquently about, but our breathpattern would change so shallow

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to so shallow that we just takethese little breaths in, little
breaths out.
And when we now fast forward,when we get stress as a human
race, we take these reallyshallow breaths.
And so that is something that wetalk about in breath work is how
it's not how fast can I breathe,it's how deep can I pull my
breath.
It's how much of a deep breathcan I take and how much can I

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exhale, which is interestingbecause we also don't exhale
enough of our air.
And when we're talking about theoxygen and the carbon dioxide uh
flow, we're not getting enoughof that when we're not fully
exhaling because we have all ofthis old breath left over in our
lungs, and we're taking inanother breath, and it's maybe

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50% of our capacity because weonly breathe out 50%.
So um, okay, super interesting.
I had to, I had to just do thatlittle education piece.
Let's just briefly go throughthe seven pillars.
Um, just I would love to touchon all of them.
So the next one, hydration.
I think we all hear that we needto drink more water.

(17:46):
What I found interesting on yourwebsite was it was it's not just
talking about drinking morewater, it's the bioavailability
and how your body is absorbingthe water.
So that's what I would love totouch on if you could.

SPEAKER_01 (17:59):
Yeah, I'll open this with a statistic.
75% of adult Americans areliving in a chronic state of
dehydration.
So if you're sitting in a car offour people, one of you is
hydrated.
That's it.
Now, the beauty of the body isthat it adapts to conditions.
We've all been there.

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So when you're dehydrated, thebody adapts to the fact that
you're dehydrated to feelnormal.
But when I was a head coach onthe Olympic program, we knew
that a 3% dehydration could beup to a 20% underperformance.
That's just 3%.
That's not chronic.
The reason being is our brainneeds water to function.

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And when the brain, which is ourpower force in life, it's our
center, when it feelsdehydrated, it starts pulling
moisture and liquid away fromother areas to keep itself
alive.
Because if the brain goes, youcan lose a muscle, you can, you
know, lose your leg and you'llstill go, but if you lose your
brain, you're gone.
So it's incredible how muchhydration is critical.

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And it's not just like youperfectly said, drinking.
For me, it's how we drink andwhat we drink.
And I did a lot of studies withan incredible uh mentor on this
that I really wanted tounderstand it better.
If I'm gonna teach it, I want toknow it like the experts do.
So we'll here drink eightglasses of water a day, drink 12

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glasses of water a day.
And what we do is we realize wehaven't, so we gulp it down.
Well, we've all been there.
You feel bloated, you feelheavy, you have to go to the
bathroom, you're not absorbingthe water, but you drank your 12
glasses a day.
Well, the problem is you're nothydrating, you can actually
drown cells or certainly swampcells of water where they can't

(19:51):
function.
So I have a program that is howdo I drink?
And it's so easy.
You can drink 14 cups of water aday without any issues and find
it so comfortable because you doit over a period of time rather
than this is the amount you'vegot to drink.
I teach when you need to drink.
And it's not when you feelthirsty, because by the time you

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feel thirsty, you're probably 70to 80 percent of your hydration
level, at least.
And so we never want to get tothe point where you're 30-40%,
because people then say I'mlosing my my memory, or I feel
dizzy, or I'm so tired, and welook at other reasons.
But the truth is probably ninetimes out of 10, you're

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dehydrated, and it's not coffeethat you're drinking that has
water because that can be adiuretic, it's not the sugar
drinks, it's not the obviouslythe sodas, it's not the caffeine
drinks, because all these bypassthe blood-brain barrier, go into
your brain, and createinflammation that then has
another issue itself.
So drinking water,bioavailability, which I'm a

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huge fan of the right hydrogenwater.
There's a lot of fakers outthere, so do your research
before you invest in hydrogenwater.
But for me, it is the best formof absorbing at a cellular
level, and then be careful ofdead water and uh dirty water,
those two things can cause yourfiltration system in your body

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to have to overwork as well ornot provide the ability for
oxygenation.

SPEAKER_00 (21:27):
How do you feel about the electrolyte powders
that obviously don't have thesugar in them, uh, or even just
salt in your water?

SPEAKER_01 (21:38):
I think it's critical, but I also think you
need to understand what you needand when you need it.
Because people couldover-electrolyte, putting so
much in their water, and you'regetting too much sodium, the
potassium you don't need thatmuch.
All the different pieces theygo, magnesium is obviously good
as well.
So you have to look at your day.
If I'm out in really hotweather, I know I have to

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hydrate more with theelectrolytes because I'm
sweating them out.
But if I'm just sitting in myoffice and it's not hot, the air
conditioning's on, I'm not gonnathrow that electrolytes in.
If I'm working out really hard,absolutely I'll take some before
I start the workout and duringand post because I know I'm
sweating out the electrolytes weneed.
Um, and then there's some dayswhere it could just be, you

(22:24):
know, a granule of salt thatgoes under your tongue, and then
you let it so it's really good.
But again, I think there's thisfor me, there's always this
balance of commercial sales andreality of what you need.
And so I would say evaluate whatyour conditions are and adjust

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accordingly.

SPEAKER_00 (22:48):
That's great.
Yeah, that's great.
I you mentioned hydrogen water,and I know we're spending a lot
of time on hydro hydration, sowe'll move on.
But I know that that's a bigbuzzword.
I definitely have met peoplethat have the little machines
that add that for the hydrogenwater.
Um, I've never personally donemy own research on it.

(23:10):
So I am curious if you couldspeak on the the educational
piece behind what is actuallyhappening and why is that
helping our body and helping usabsorb the hydration better?

SPEAKER_01 (23:24):
Yeah, great question.
And I'll keep this very simple.
H2O is two parts hydrogen, onepart oxygen.
That's how we create water.
And if I ask everybody listeninga real quick question, what
creates the most oxygen in theworld?
Do you know what that is?

SPEAKER_00 (23:41):
No, trees.

SPEAKER_01 (23:42):
That's what we've always been taught.
It's actually the ocean.
The ocean creates more oxygenthan trees do because it's two
parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.
Every time it's moving, oxygenis part of the process being
released, which is why when wego to the ocean, we always feel
tired or we feel relaxed, Ishould say, more than tired, but
it gives us that dream statebecause we're actually getting

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more oxygen than we wouldnormally if we were in land.
So when we start looking at thatand the power of water, we'll
then bring it back.
Um, hydrogen is the smallestmolecule in the in the world in
the galaxy.
And it's also so easy topenetrate into our cells.

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So when you have two partshydrogen, one part oxygen, we
can drink, we're gettinghydrogen into our body already.
But hydrogen water increases theamount of hydrogen that's
actually in the water.
pH, when we talk about pH,stands for potential hydrogen.
When we say you have a pH 9, youhave a pH 7.5.
Well, this is the problem with alot of the hydrogen bottles that

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are out there.
And I tested so many, I met withso many people because I wanted
to find out with the 1800studies they've done, who's
actually taking the scientificdata and copying what was used
to get the results in theirproduct.
Because a lot of people areusing the data, but they're not

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using the same process to buildthe hydrogen bottles, and you
can actually get toxic water.
So when hydrogen goes over a pH10, you now can have a water
that's actually toxic in yourbody, but so you have to have
counterproductive um mechanismsto actually make sure the
hydrogen's up, but it's healthywater for you.

(25:31):
Um, and so I it's all I drink ishydrogen water.
I have an incredible system inmy house that I did all the
research for.
I don't get dehydrated anymore.
I'll go out on my bike rides andtrain.
I don't get the dry mouth.
You can have a little bit ofthat compared to the amount of
water you need.
And what you're really doing isyou're allowing the water to be

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broken down by the hydrogen thatwhen it enters into your gut, it
carries it into the cellsthemselves rather than being
resistant because it's a liquid.
Now it can carry itself throughthe cellular process into your
mitochondria, into your cellularfunction, and so you'll actually
perform better, be awake better,have more energy.

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And it's incredible foranti-inflammatory because you're
feeding the cells to be able tofight the inflammation, the uh
disease, and and the resultsthemselves.
I urge people go and read aboutthe true impact of hydrogen.
I should say, the true impact oftrue hydrogen water.

SPEAKER_00 (26:36):
Yeah, I feel like we could spend a whole podcast just
on that.
That is so interesting, andyou're definitely inspiring me
to go do way more research onhydrogen water.
Um, thank you.
Thank you for that.
So let's move on to sleep.
Everyone always says I need moresleep.
Um I am assuming it's more thanjust getting more sleep.

(26:59):
So I would love to hear a littlebit about that education on the
quality of sleep that we get andhow that plays a role in our uh
ability to function at itshighest potential.

SPEAKER_01 (27:13):
Yeah, it's everyone would know.
I mean, I haven't had a goodnight's.
I actually last night was okay,but I had like three nights
where I didn't get good sleepand I felt horrible the next
morning, but it's because I hadso much work of education to get
ready, prepare for a talk that Ikept waking up excited about it.
But I could feel the difference.
So it's not always that I haveto have the perfect night's

(27:35):
sleep every night.
But if we're consistentlyundersleeping, then that's going
to affect our health.
It will affect our weightbecause the cortisol is created
when we're not sleeping becauseof the stress that then gets
built up.
So people will be doing diets,they'll be doing exercise,
they're not sleeping well, theystill can't lose weight.

(27:56):
It's a massive part of ourphysical health.
Sleep also is the time the brainresets itself.
It takes out the memories of theday, detoxifies yourself, helps
heal the body, and prepares youfor the next day.
So think about carrying a50-pound weight all day.
And then instead of letting itdown and putting it in its

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place, you decide to hold on to30 pounds of it, and then the
next day you add another 50pounds to it.
Now you're carrying that 80pounds.
At the end of the day, you putdown another 30 pounds.
Now you add a 50 pounds, nowyou've got a hundred pounds.
So this when I say that, I'mtalking about the body's healing
itself in preparation.
But I spent some time with Dr.
Maya Krieger, who um was thesleep guru who discovered sleep

(28:43):
apnea.
And he's probably the OG,everybody that goes to sleep,
you know, school and studies hasto read his books.
And he said, we're not all builtthe same.
So when someone says you have togo to sleep for eight hours,
nine hours, some people need sixhours.
Some people, if they're superactive athletes, need ten hours.

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It all depends on the work, thestress, and the um exercise or
the demand the next day.
So there's times we can go outand party, we're doing great,
the next day we're off, weeither sleep in or we get up and
we just relaxed.
We don't need as much sleep.
And there's night owls andthere's morning people.
We can't make a night owl into amorning person if their natural

(29:29):
biorhythms and chemistry setsthem up.
So we have to celebrate who weeach are, but make sure we're
getting the sleep we need.
The last thing that I'll addhere, because I know we've got a
lot to go into.
Sleeping for regular people thatyou know get up early in the
morning and go to bed at night,between 10 o'clock at night and

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12 o'clock is critical.
That's when we'll get our mostREM, our deep sleep before we
then go into the other states aswe begin to go through the sleep
and wake up, our light sleep.
And most of us will wake upthrough the night a number of
times and not even know we wokeup.
It's a momentary wake up andthen we're asleep again.
So studies have shown thatsleeping between 10 o'clock and

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12 o'clock at night will giveyou more recovery and rest than
sleeping from 12 o'clock to fiveo'clock the next morning.
Because of the deep state we gointo.
So I urge everybody, if you canadjust your sleeping habits, get
rid of the blue light.
Everyone knows about thescreens.
Either put up these blackoutcurtains and put yourself the

(30:35):
room slightly less temperature,you know, cooler than um the
rest of the house.
If you like sound, put on somerelaxing sound, but get to
sleep.
And I'm also about going to bedand reading for her.
See if you can be asleep betweenten and ten fifteen each night
and you will have so much morerecovery.

SPEAKER_00 (30:53):
Mom.
Love that.
I I go to bed like between nineand ten every night.
And it really does.
It really does make adifference.
And I love that you brought upthat the night owl and the
morning person, because I thinkthat we do spend a lot of um A
lot of grief of over like, oh, Ihave to go to bed earlier.

(31:14):
I have to I have to wake upearlier, and and maybe that's
just your natural biorhythm andreally leaning into that.
I've it's changed my life to nothave to set an alarm anymore.
And I know that that's not thecase for a lot of people if you
have to get up for work.
But what I have found is that Inaturally wake up at six between

(31:34):
six and seven every single day.
So I still have plenty of timeto get ready for work.
But when you're getting thatgood sleep, your body doesn't,
at least my body, yeah, we'lljust be my body doesn't need to
sleep.
I can't possibly sleep until 9a.m.
anymore.
I wish sometimes, but that'sjust not the case.

SPEAKER_01 (31:55):
I want to add in here as well, Hannah, because I
think this is so important.
We have our circadian rhythm.
That is when we wake up and whenwe go to sleep.
And it is governed from ourancestors to when the sun comes
up and when the sun goes down,before electricity.
We're made to function at acellular level from that energy
of the sun.

(32:16):
So many of us that don't getenough out in the sun, the
vitamin D, all the differentthings that we need, which is
sun-related, will affect oursleep.
So if you can wake up in themorning and get out in the sun
or sit, if a lot of people liketo have a morning coffee or a
tea, I'm a big water fan.

(32:38):
I'll go walking as often as Ican at sunrise.
It helps set our sleep patterns.
And then at the same time, ifyou could walk later at night or
just get out as the sun's goingdown, the light that's emitted
from the sun going down is verysimilar to a candle.
And when we put candles on, itmakes us relax.
And so if you're having a hardtime going to sleep, you don't

(33:00):
always have to look at yourenvironment.
Look at what you can do tonaturally stimulate your body to
want to wake up and want to goto sleep.
And for those people that haveuh do night shifts, and this is
really hard on the body, even ifyou're a night owl, when you go
home, have blackout curtains.
Have something that makes theput on a mask that shuts all the

(33:23):
light out.
Because you need that to allowyour cells, your brain, your
sleep to have that opportunityto recover.
But then get up and get out inthe sun.
Because most people that worknighttime sleep through the day,
they're not getting sun.
So if you can't get in the sun,please look at um red light
therapy.

(33:44):
Look at um the um certainprotocols that you can use.
There's a company, a couple ofcompanies that I love with red
light therapy, and I'm not goingto share them here, but if
people are interested, they cango to near my website.
But um it's incredible thevitamin D that you can be
creative from red light.

(34:05):
And I'm a huge fan, as I knowyou are as well, of red light,
um, therapy and the impact itcan have.
So if you're really sufferingfrom sleep, please look at the
solutions, don't look at theproblem.
The solutions are there, andyour cells need sunlight early
morning for your circadianrhythm, nighttime, or when the
sun's going down for circadianrhythm, between 10 o'clock and 2

(34:27):
o'clock for your vitamin D for10-15 minutes, or find a
replacement.
And a lot of people with vitaminD tablets, they probably need
vitamin K with it as well, K1,because it's a transportation
through the body of the vitaminD.
So it's not hard, it's justknowing.

SPEAKER_00 (34:47):
I know, I know, and that's why I'm so appreciative
of you coming on on this podcastand really sharing your
expertise because I mean, eventhat, I my mom shared something
about that, that it has to bethe vitamin D K.
And you can get these drops onAmazon, and sometimes she will
supplement uh in the winterbecause we do just the this the

(35:10):
vitamin D that we get from thesun is just less, and or we have
trouble going outside when we'rewe're in New Hampshire, is where
she and I are, and it's notalways the warmest weather.

SPEAKER_01 (35:22):
Can I add on to that as well?
And I know I'm delaying movingon.

SPEAKER_00 (35:25):
No, you're good.

SPEAKER_01 (35:26):
I've got so many friends that, you know, African
American and they got the darkerskin.
When they live in non-sunlightenvironments, they suffer more
than white people do.
They need to supplement more,which is why we have higher
cancer rates.
We have different health issues.
It's because they their skin wasborn to be in hot countries and

(35:47):
absorbed.
So they need more sunlight topenetrate to help this vitamin D
process in their body.
And we know sunlight is criticalfor health.
Back in the 1800s, they used toput beds on top of hospitals and
put people up on the roofs tohelp them get sunlight because
it was the number one healer.

(36:07):
And then we got fed thatsunlight's dangerous for us,
it's skin cancer, all thesedifferent things that come in.
And we won't get into all that.
That's you know, people's own umwishes.
But if you look at the placeswhere people live so long,
they're in sunlight naturally.
And so please find sunlight.
It's critical for your health,and it's an incredible healer.

SPEAKER_00 (36:31):
This past winter, I mean, we're heading into winter,
but last winter, I went outsideand walked every single day.
And you're talking about thesunlight for the circadian
rhythm and and waking up in themorning and and walking and the
evening and walking.
Same thing.
You're getting almost, you know,double whammy when you go out
and go for a walk, and you'realso getting that vitamin D,

(36:53):
even in the winter.
And again, going back to yourmindset, that's what I told
myself.
I'm like, I can do this.
It's not, it's not too cold.
And it was four degrees out somemornings when I went out.
And you just bundle up.
I had my little hand warmers,and it is about mindset and what
I think a lot of what life comesdown to is the why behind the

(37:14):
thing.
And when you know the why behindyour walk, I'm getting, I'm
helping my circadian rhythm, I'mgetting my vitamin D, I'm moving
my body, I'm getting out innature, I'm grounding.
When you know the why and youconnect to your own why, and
those might not be your whys, itmight be other reasons to get
outside, then you're more likelyto go out and do it.

(37:35):
So don't find sunglasses.

SPEAKER_01 (37:36):
Yeah, find your way.
Don't wear sunglasses earlymorning, late in the evening.
It blocks the sun's rays goinginto your actually getting
penetrating into your brain,into your system and helping.
So um obviously don't lookdirectly at the sun, but once
you start getting to nineo'clock in the morning, nine
thirty, and the sun raises upand changes the UVA, UVB rays,

(37:58):
put your sunglasses on.
You need to, but early morningnight, let the rays get in.
It's critical.

SPEAKER_00 (38:05):
I know that you talk about Andrew Huberman and you
shared that in one of yourvideos.
Uh, he has a great podcast.
If you're interested in learningmore about the science behind uh
going out in early morning walksand all of the benefits, I'll
try to find it and link it downbelow.
But I know that he has a reallygreat podcast, as well as
millions of people do.
But that's just an additional.

(38:26):
Yeah, love him.
Um, so I'm I love that you putSleepy for Nutrition here in
your seven pillars, but let'stouch on nutrition and and such
a wide variety that we could goto.

SPEAKER_01 (38:41):
Okay, so I'm gonna keep this very short because
there's a lot of dietitians outthere, there's a lot of
nutritionists, people have theirown ideas of what's needed, but
we're all unique, and what worksfor one doesn't necessarily work
for another.
We need to feed our body, notcopy somebody else's diet.
So there's some diets that workgreat for some people, but the
Mediterranean diet will actuallyput weight onto other people.

(39:04):
So you need to know who you areand what you resonate, and the
best way for that is to get aproper DNA test that would tell
you what foods are good for youand what foods aren't.
I found out rice isn't good forme.
I found out that um nuts arereally bad for me.
So, you know, fish is reallyimportant for me, and I never

(39:24):
ate fish.
You know, organ meat is muchbetter for me, but red meat is
not good.
So, you know, you discoverthings, but this changed my
life, Hannah.
This is maybe the tip thatpeople can take away that will
be the one thing that they'lllook at.
After my brain injury, I put ona ton of weight.
I went, I was racing bikes ataround 173, 173 pounds.

(39:47):
After my brain injury, I went upto 224 pounds.
Depression, and I was in ahorrible state.
But what happened was we thenhave depression eating.
We then have this, you know,ideology that I like that food.
It tastes good to me.
With that, it becomes a dopaminerelease from the um sense at the
back of your tongue that goes, Ilike this, and then it goes into

(40:10):
the brain, and the braid goes,Oh, I like this, so we have
more.
I could sit and eat a whole boxof cookies, no problem.
Give me two boxes, because I gotaddicted to it.
I went down to about 180 pounds,and I was at a 21.2% body fat.
It's not horrible, but for anathlete, it's I'm out of sh

(40:30):
majorly out of shape.
But I had a hard time losingweight until I heard this one
tip, and it's what I'm gonnashare.
When we're hungry, what do wedo?

SPEAKER_00 (40:41):
Open the fridge.

SPEAKER_01 (40:43):
And there's one word, it begins with E.

SPEAKER_00 (40:46):
An E.

SPEAKER_01 (40:47):
Eat, right?
E, we're hungry.
It's eat.
So anybody knows, oh, I'mhungry, I'll just grab that.
Why do gas stations make moremoney off of candies and food
that they sell than they do offof the gas?
Because people pull over, oh,I'm kind of hungry, I'll just go
in there, I'll grab somethingand we eat it.
It satisfies our thinking thatwe're eating, but then we find

(41:10):
because of the sugar, because ofthe other additives that are in
there, we want more or we needmore.
So I heard this and it changedmy life.
I went from you know, over a 21%body fat down to an 8.2% body
fat with no change, zero changein a diet or specificity, it

(41:31):
changed the way I thought.
When you're hungry, don't thinkof eating.
When you're hungry, replace theword eat with the word nourish.
It was incredible.
Because now, when I put thatword into my vocabulary, not
only did I look at cookies andcandy and chips and chocolate

(41:51):
that I was eating way too muchof before I got into the whole
born superhuman program, but Ilooked at it and went, that's
not nourishing.
And I began to cravenourishment.
Well, when you cravenourishment, you don't need as
much food because it's good foodthat fills you up and satisfied
you.
So suddenly, instead ofchocolate, I'm looking at fruit.

(42:11):
And it wasn't a consciousdecision of, okay, I've got to
stop eating that and I've got tostart eating this.
I started enjoying the food, mytaste buds changed.
I could eat more and not put onthe weight and my body, my
visceral fat, and for those thatdon't know, visceral fat is the
fat that surrounds your organs.
So we have the fat on theoutside of us, subcutaneous fat

(42:34):
that we can see, but the moredangerous is the visceral fat
that's around our heart, aroundour liver, around our kidneys,
all this stuff.
I went from a nine number, whichwasn't bad, but it's not great.
Just by chance, I went to athree.
It's one of the healthiest youcould be.
And that was without making anyconscious decision to follow a
diet.
I literally changed the word eatto nourish.

SPEAKER_00 (43:00):
Wow.
Thank you.
That's such a beautifulreminder.
And it's such a great reminder.
It's such a great tip becausewhen we have this, I can't eat
that.
I'm trying to lose weight.
I can't eat ice cream anymore.
I can't eat the potato chipsanymore.
When we tell ourselves that wecan't do anything anymore,

(43:22):
that's all we're thinking about,and that's all we want is to do
that.
And so when we think of, I wantto nourish my body, uh, love
that.
I love that.
Thank you for sharing.

SPEAKER_01 (43:32):
And I'd love to get your feedback.
I'd love to get your feedback.
Or anybody that's out there,leave, you know, leave comments
on your podcast.
I'll go in and read them.
But I'd love to hear how peoplejust for a week change the
thought, eat to nourish.
How does that resonate with you?
I'd love to hear your account,Hannah, of how that works
because it's fascinating,because it's mindset change.

(43:55):
It's nothing else.

SPEAKER_00 (43:57):
It's so interesting.
You probably don't know thisbecause I don't share it all the
time.
My mother has an undergraduatedegree in nutrition.
So I feel very blessed to havegrown up knowing how to read a
nutrition label and knowing thatif it says low fat or no fat,
that doesn't necessarily meangood and fat is not bad, and and

(44:19):
learning the differences insugar.
And she educated us, you know,this this is sugar, that's
sugar, that's sugar.
If it says no sugar, look at theingredients in the nutrition
label, not just the calories,the sodium, the fat, the sugar,
the protein.
Um, and one of her biggest wordsis nourish your body.

(44:40):
And that's what she has alwayssaid.
So it's a huge piece of my life.
And I and I and I I eat candy,of course.
Occasionally I'll eat, I'mactually a chocolate person.
Of course I'll eat chocolate.
Of course I eat ice cream.
I'm not this person that onlyeats like, you know, the
healthiest food all the time.
But that is, that is my mindsetfor sure of like, how can I

(45:05):
nourish my body and and how canI, if I am hungry, I'm not much
of a I think that you turn intonot much of a snacker because
the snacks really are that likeour traditional snacks that we
think of are like chips and andI don't know, peanut butter
crackers and candy.
And I just I tend to say I'm notmuch of a snacker because it's

(45:28):
what can what whole meal can Icreate for myself and eat to
nourish my body versus againgoing in the pantry and and
eating some crackers orsomething like that.
It's it's yeah, I've I feel veryblessed.
I feel very blessed to have thateducation uh firsthand.
And that was not something thatI even really had to do to

(45:50):
educate myself.
This was really how how I wasraised.
But these are mindset shifts andlifestyle changes that I mean
you you made it so simple.
Instead of eat, let me nourish.
And how can I nourish my body?
Start there.
It doesn't have to be this dietor pulling this thing out or
adding this thing in.

(46:13):
Thank you.
But yes, please let us know howthe nourishing goes.
Um, I want to skip exercise fora minute because I'm gonna loop
it back in at the end, but let'slet's end let's finish with
mindset and challenges.

SPEAKER_01 (46:29):
Mindset is the first thing that I teach.
It's it's everything, it reallyexposes who we are, and the
magic we seek is in the work weavoid.
We know we should be doing it,but we don't do it.
And we avoid it, we look forcomfort over looking for
success.
And it's often because we'redrained, we're not excited,

(46:51):
we're not passionate about whatwe're doing, we've given up so
much of our life for our family,for our husband, for our
partner, for our children whenwe're talking to the female side
and they just want to get abreath, a breathe, please.
I just I just need some rest.
And we're not investing backinto our own health because we
know that mindset is critical toall success.

(47:15):
As a coach of professionalathletes, I knew that 80 to 90
percent of performance ismental.
Whoa, we're all in the game oflife.
So why don't we ever spend thetime training the mental side to
be able to handle the obstacles,to learn the lessons, to then be
able to exceed society'sexpectations.

(47:36):
I can actually take this backinto how born superhuman even
starts.
When we were babies, the doctordidn't look at us and say, Okay,
are you ready?
I'm gonna cut the umbilical cordnow.
No one asked us.
We were babies, and for thefirst time since conception,
when that umbilical cord is cut,we're on our own completely.
We can no longer rely on ourmother to feed us, to gift us

(48:01):
the ability to survive.
Now we have teams around us,doctors, nurses, family,
friends, everything, but thatfirst breath, and you can take
this back into breath work, thefirst breath a baby takes is a
big breath because it's neverbreathed, it's trying to figure
out what do I need to do.
And that first breath is painfulbecause it has never been

(48:23):
engaged before, the system'snever felt it, and then you'll
notice the baby then willthey'll take smaller breaths.
So the system's already figuringout how do I eliminate pain.
And then we have to figure outhere's my brain cells.
What am I hearing?
What am I eventually seeing?
What am I smelling?
All these things start kickingin as we age.

(48:44):
Look at the brilliance of thatbaby.
We're all born superhuman.
I don't say we're born perfectbecause perfect is an opinion,
but we're born to take on thishuman form and ability, which is
superhuman.
But then we get to a certainpoint where society builds walls
around us.
They tell us who we're gonna be,how we're gonna be, what we're

(49:06):
gonna want.
And not everybody is exactly thesame mindset of what's gonna
work for them.
So we have to break down thewalls that are stopping us from
being seen for who we truly are.
And when I talk, I get morereaction out of females than I
do out of males.
When I say, go back to thinkwhen you're a little girl, think
about the things you love to do,think about the playing and the

(49:28):
dreams that you had, whether itwas Prince Charming, or whether
it was becoming a nurse, orwhether it was you know having
loads of kids and all thebabies, and you push your
little, I don't know what youcall them over here, uh stroller
around with your baby.
Yeah, and you go to dance classand all these different things.
You were alive, you were living,you had this passion that slowly

(49:51):
gets worn out of us off ofexpectations because we signed a
contract without even knowingthat we would do and believe and
trust what society tells us,thinking they had our best
interest in heart.
Well, if you start going backand thinking like that little
girl that's still inside you,and finding one little thing to
do that made you smile, it couldjust be putting music on, a song

(50:13):
that you used to love, even ifit's seen there's a song that uh
I still sing, and my girlfriendalways laughs at me because um
you know here I was playing thelead in the Android Weber shows,
and it's about a little mousethat lives in a windmill in
Amsterdam, it's brilliant.
It's like I saw a mouse wherethere on the stair.
And I sing, it makes me feelalive because as a kid I used to

(50:36):
imagine this little mouse.
And when we can go back into whowe were that's still alive but
been shut down, and we get ourmindset to then build into the
things that make us happy and wecommit to it, it's amazing the
changes that happen to us fromthe inside out, and that will
improve our health, but it willalso open new opportunities and

(50:59):
ways of thinking that you canstill live the life that you
dreamt of because we don't stopplaying because we age, we age
because we stop playing.
Nobody should tell you that youcannot do what you love to do.
No one should ever say you'resilly for doing it because it's

(51:20):
not their life, it's yours.
And I urge everybody dosomething today that makes you
smile from when you're a youngkid and laugh and notice the
difference that happens rightaway.

SPEAKER_00 (51:33):
It does happen right away.
I remember when I I um Ifractured my foot, and so I was
held up on the couch, and it wasalso a very tough year of my
life, and we switched schools,and I didn't have a lot of
friends, didn't love the school,and my mom, again, wonderful
woman, she said, I'm gonna putyou in singing lessons because

(51:57):
when you were a kid, or sheasked me how would you like to
do singing lessons because whenyou were a kid, you would sing
all the time when you werehappy.
We would be driving in the backof the car and I would just be,
I would just be singing.
Apparently, I would just sing,You make me happy to my mom.
Um, and she's like, You wouldsing all the time when you were
happy.
How would you feel if you tooksinging lessons again?

(52:18):
And her favorite part of thestory is I lit up.
And I said, Absolutely, yeah.
But every time I sing, it makesme happy.
And I used to do that all thetime when I was a child, and so
that would be my thing.
Um, that would be my thing thatwhenever I'm feeling sad or
down, and it doesn't even matterthe song, I just put on some
music and I just sing, and thatmakes me happy.

(52:39):
That lights me up.

SPEAKER_01 (52:41):
My mom grew up during the war, uh, second world
war back in London, and herdream had always been to be a
ballet dancer, but she wasn'tallowed to be.
She was kind of like theCinderella, the caretaker of the
family.
My sister went on to become aballet dancer.
I was a you know, male balletdancer, um, and she never got to
do that.
She had a stroke at 79.
I created this product thatwe'll, I'm sure we'll talk about

(53:04):
with exercise.
And I sent it to her after thestroke, five days after using
it, she went back to linedancing that she had to give up.
That was her only pleasure andpassion in life for herself.
But this is what's amazing.
At 84, she came to visit me.
I'd spent some time working on anumber of different modalities
with her.
At 84, she took her very firstballet class ever.

(53:25):
And I'm not talking aboutsomeone holding her around, she
did the bar work, she did thecenter, I got the videos of it.
It is absolutely incredibleseeing this lady who dreamt of
being a ballet dancer at 84,being a ballet dancer for a
moment.
She rode a bike for the firsttime ever at 84 that same week
because we changed the mindsetand she thought she'd never do

(53:45):
it.
And I'll and I'd love to justtouch this story.
My girlfriend, she has she wasdiagnosed with MS.
It would take her 10 minutes towalk 10 feet.
We changed the mindset, wechanged the lifestyle to
stress-free or minimize as muchas you can.
Because I'm I like you saidearlier, I do believe some
stress is good, but good stress.

(54:08):
Eating healthy, sleeping,exercising, all these different
things.
She took her first ballet classat uh 47 46.
She took started doing it, she'dalways wanted to do it.
But like you said about dancing,she got told as a girl she
couldn't sing, she wasn't a goodsinger, her family always made
fun of her, and she never sang.
But I said you got a good voicefor Christmas.

(54:29):
I bought her singing lessons.
Now she's singing on stage,she's singing in French, she's
got a lovely, lovely voice, andit's her number one passion.
But she avoided it becausepeople told her as a little girl
she wasn't good.
Keep your mouth shut, just mouthit.
Don't let anyone see you singingin the choir or hear you.
And now it's her number onething.

(54:49):
So, again, do something that youlove and find out that what the
or the information you've beenfed has nothing to do with you,
it's just their opinion.

SPEAKER_00 (55:03):
What good stories.
Oh my goodness, andcongratulations to both of them.
Um, let's move to challenges.
What does challenges mean?
That's the one that I had notresearched.

SPEAKER_01 (55:15):
Yeah, it's critical.
Think about again when we wereyounger, or anytime we've
progressed in life.
Anytime we progressed in life.
It's all been because there wasa challenge in front of us.
Something that meant enough thatwe went through it because we
wanted the end result bad enoughto continue through the journey.
Right?
So I look at it and say, a goalis only worthy of the effort it

(55:41):
takes to achieve it.
Let me say that again.
A goal is only worthy of theeffort it takes to achieve it.
And before every greatbreakthrough is a greater
breakdown, because that's wheremost people quit.
And the elite, those that tapinto themselves, can only find

(56:03):
who they truly are withchallenges.
But when we were when you're alittle girl, Hannah, and you're
growing up, and there werethings that were out there, just
learning to walk was achallenge, but we overcame it,
and then we laughed more, weenjoyed it, we had more freedom.
We then went to school, we hadour exams.
You took your exams, you werestressed about it, it was
challenging, and then youachieve, then you can go on to

(56:25):
college if you did.
I never went to college, butthen you go on to your job.
Hopefully, you get a job thatyou love, or a mother that's
never given birth beforesuddenly has to learn to be a
mother, even though they'venever been there, and everyone's
giving them advice, they stillwant to be it themselves, but
look at what ages we werethriving, and then I look at it,

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aging is the excessive pursuitof sedentary comfort.
Aging is the pursuit ofexcessive pursuit of sedentary
comfort.
In other words, we don't wantchallenges anymore.
We just want to relax, we wantto sit on a nice sofa and watch
TV.
I'm tired.
I don't want to, I don't want achallenge anymore because it's

(57:11):
tiring.
And yet our greatest happinessand successes haven't
necessarily been achieving thegoal, it's been the journey to
that that we could learn fromand feel that sense of
accomplishment.
So for me, the seven pillars ofhealth, going through them all,
ends with challenges, which isthe last thing I teach.
Because when everything else isin place, you're ready to take
on much greater challengesbecause you're set up for

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success.
But if you don't challenge, ifyou don't add stress, anyone
that goes to the gym will know Ilift weights because it stresses
the muscle.
When it stresses the muscle, themuscle gets stronger.
We've got to have positivestress to keep our cells at a
young age, to keep our bodyfunctioning far beyond the

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ridiculous age of 78 they saythat we should live to.
We should be living to 122.
That's the way our cells aremade up.
But again, it's not always whatare we going to do?
It's what do we eliminate fromour lives that opens up the
things for us to do.
So everyone honestly says thesame thing.
Why challenges?

(58:15):
Why is that part of the pillarsof health?
But when you look at health,when we were the healthiest,
that was a major ingredient.

SPEAKER_00 (58:26):
It goes back to the resilience thing that you were
saying, that we need thechallenges, we need the
resistance to build theresilience.
So that I love that.
Thank you.
Uh, we are running out of time.
I don't always have a hard stop,so I'm so sorry, but I am gonna
use this.
I would love to have you backand talk about this Total

(58:46):
Balance Company and a little bitmore about that story with your
mom and how you really worked onthe mindset.
And I and I know that there's somuch there and there's so much
wisdom.
So maybe we'll do anotherpodcast and dive into the
exercise pillar and then thetotal balance company.
I will link, of course, all ofyour websites down below.

(59:06):
Um, before my last question, Iwould like you to let people
know where they can continue tolearn from you and where they
can learn more of you.
Um, and I know, and and feelfree to take a couple minutes to
talk about the the Total BalanceCompany since since I'm kind of
dropping it and leaving.
So feel free to take a coupleminutes, and then I will, of

(59:28):
course, link all of those downbelow where we can learn more.

SPEAKER_01 (59:33):
Thank you so much.
It's been a great conversation,so I really appreciate you
giving me the time as well toshare.
The um you can follow me at bornsuperhuman.com.
That's one word,bornsuperhuman.com, which is my
website with the seven pillarsof natural health.
I have free giveaways on therefor looking at your own health

(59:56):
and how you can do it.
It shouldn't cost us loads ofmoney to get healthy, it should
be free.
And so um, you can also followme the same on Instagram,
bornsuperhuman.com, and then DanMetcalf underscore official is
where I share a lot of thethings that I do as well.
But Total Balance Company is a,and I'll keep this very short.

(01:00:17):
If you know anybody that hasbalance issues, that has
Parkinson's, that has MS, thathas atuxia, stroke survivors, or
athletes, ladies that want tohave abs, thighs, and buns that
are super firm, especially aftergiving birth, because we can
train in 10 minutes, you know,while your baby's sleeping.

(01:00:38):
I have an incredible programthat I started again, trained
over 70,000 people on this, fromOlympic athletes to people over
100, because I focus on thebrain-to-body connection.
And if I can come back on, I'dlove to.
This is what with AndrewHuberman and and the you know
research that I've done, it'slife changing.

(01:00:58):
People with good balance willlive eight years longer proven
than those that don't.
And we know the longevity.
Of life is not just aboutexisting, it's about living.
So I urge you go tototalbalancecompany.com.

(01:01:18):
Again, totalbalancecompany.comand see the lives and people
that we've changed, people thathave been in wheelchairs,
backwalking unaided.
I work with incredible groups,massive groups with Parkinson's
MS, because for me it's allabout brain-to-body connection.
Because if someone's losingtheir balance, we don't take

(01:01:40):
them to a gym to help them learnto walk if we look at the
system.
Babies didn't go to the gym tolearn to walk.
It's all the proprioception.
It's all the brain-to-bodyfeeling, the sensory messaging
going back, and then we getstronger.
Why do we suddenly send peopleto the gym to strengthen their
brain?
It doesn't.
And so if you have anybodythat's interested in learning

(01:02:03):
and understanding my books, Ihave Born Superhuman, the seven
pillars of natural health onAmazon.
But I have a book called GetYour Balance Back.
It would take you through thewhole process of brain to body,
and it's life-changing.
Falls are the number one causeleading to death for people over
the age of 60.
Take action, preventative, getfit, live the life because

(01:02:27):
movement is everything.

SPEAKER_00 (01:02:30):
Yes, I would love to have you back on because I mean
this is a whole podcast initself, but I was checking out
that website and and the videosthat you've posted in the
education, and it's fascinating.
Our brain body connection.
And I mean, we I know this, butit's just a completely different
perspective.

(01:02:51):
And we know this, but it's uhyeah, it's just different
perspectives.
So fascinating conversationtopic um and and research and
data that is that is shown fromthis this topic.
So would love to have you back.
Um, I will link all of thatbelow.
Last question is it is a morephilosophical deep one.

(01:03:14):
If you could come to the end ofyour life and have people
remember one feeling, if youcould have this one feeling that
you share with everyone and helpthese this one feeling for
people to feel, um, what wouldthat feeling be?

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:34):
I love that question because it's so easy to answer.
I want people to realize howamazing they are.
If my mission in life has beenachieved, it's because people
can look at themselves and go, Iwas born superhuman, I can live
superhuman, I am superhuman, Ibelieve in myself, I love

(01:03:57):
myself.
And it's just yeah, it'll bethat feeling that they can be
and do anything they put theirmind to and feel special about
themselves.

SPEAKER_00 (01:04:10):
Thank you so much, Dan.
This is such a fun conversation.
I I truly value your time andappreciate your time.

SPEAKER_01 (01:04:17):
Thank you and love to everybody.