[00:00:20] Hello everyone, welcome to Midlife Unleashed with Doug Dorsey. I know everyone is going to be really interested in this podcast. I know I am very interested, even though I am not hitting Midlife yet. But I will, so this is very interesting for me, and I know it's going to be very interesting for everyone.

[00:00:40] I am going to start by introducing Doug Dorsey. Please tell everyone who you are, tell everyone what you do, and tell everyone why you're here today. Hi, my name is Doug Dorsey. I'm a healthy lifestyle transformation expert. I've been in the health and fitness field for about 25 years, helping women predominantly 40 plus years of age,

[00:01:08] gain confidence, live a nice, bright, productive, vital life, or I should say helping them to bring back that vitality to their life. I'm also a college professor, so I bring a different kind of approach to health and fitness. And I'm here just to share what Unleashed Midlife looks like and try to help everyone to achieve it.

[00:01:39] Because Midlife can be good, right? Midlife is beautiful. It's beautiful. So, can I call you Doug? Yes, you can. Please do. So, Doug, let's go back in time and tell me about your upbringing. Your upbringing, sorry. Where were you born and raised, and did you always want to be an entrepreneur? Yeah, so I was born and raised in New Jersey, southern New Jersey.

[00:02:08] I grew up with six brothers and sisters. It was a house full of love and expectations and hard work and education and play. And I was a child during the 70s. And I think that was like one of the best times to be raised as a child in this country because we were outside, you know, and we were outside from as early as we could get outside after we did some chores.

[00:02:37] And we stayed outside for as long as we could, you know. So, but my childhood was, my parents were very big on education. Matter of fact, between the seven of us, we all have college degrees, master's degrees. Some have multiple master's degrees. I've got a sister with a law degree. Brother that went to United States Air Force Academy.

[00:03:03] I mean, so clearly education was very, very important in my childhood. And I still, that still carries on with me throughout my life as a college educator. I also played a lot of sports, right? If it involved the ball, during my childhood, we played it, especially if it had a season, like basketball, baseball, football.

[00:03:26] But I used to tell people that when I was a child during the summer, every day was a triathlon because we would go swim in the morning, swimming lessons. And our bikes were our mode of transportation. And we played and ran and did basketball and rec and any type of sporting event in our front yard, backyard, street, everywhere.

[00:03:52] So that's what my childhood really was like. It was about education. It was about activity. It was about family. It was about expectations. I think the entrepreneurship piece started when I was young. I mean, we got allowance when I was a child for doing chores around the house and that sort of thing. But when I was old enough, I got a paper route. And that was like my first business, right? I had to deliver these papers and collect the money.

[00:04:22] And as I got older, then I started to do other type of odd jobs to kind of bring in money. But it always was around helping people, right? So that was more of the entrepreneurship was a method for me to actually help people make money, but also kind of help people.

[00:04:45] So you just mentioned, I'm curious because you just mentioned how your life in the 70s or 80s was a life in the outdoors. And I am from the city, so I know it's never been like that for me. But I think it is still like that for people who do not live in the city. Is it still like that? Or people are not doing outdoor things anymore? It's not even close. It's not even close.

[00:05:13] You know, between telephones, cell phones and video games. You don't you don't you know, as I drive up the street, I don't see a whole bunch of kids getting out of the way so that my car can go through. You know, but that's the way it was when I was a kid. We were outside. We were playing. And you rarely see that now. And it's and it's always around. Even when you see kids playing sports, it's always organized around adults. Right.

[00:05:43] They're going to a practice or they're going to a game and they're playing. We made up the rules and played our own games without any adults being anywhere around. You know, so. So. So, no, it's not the same. It's not the same. I really would wish this on today's youth that they had the opportunity to experience that. But what they have today is not what we had. We had a unique time in history that was phenomenal.

[00:06:14] So, what was the turning point in your life where you realized that this work as health and wellness was your calling? Great question. I mean, it kind of came on flow through time. You know, when I got to high school, I started to actually exercise and work out for football.

[00:06:40] And that was when I started to see how exercise could actually help change your body. It could also help change your mind. And I also found out it could help change your confidence. Right. And then I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to play football at the University of Maine.

[00:07:00] And while I was there, again, exercise, nutrition, taking care of your body to get the most out of other things that you want in life was, again, another lesson that I learned. And so, periodically through life, I kept getting that experience. I graduated from college. I worked in corporate. And when I worked in corporate, I took on that corporate softness. Right.

[00:07:29] Working an amazing amount of hours. And then 20, being out on the social scene, I saw my body begin to change in a way that wasn't positive. But at the same time, I was caught up in the things that I was doing and really didn't have the tools just yet to kind of make the switch. You know, and then after I left corporate, I went into entrepreneurship. I started an executive recruiting company.

[00:07:57] You know, you work in 80 hours a week and really just trying to build a business. So, you really aren't necessarily doing things that relate to health in the manner that I would have liked. But the turning point came. I was teaching part-time at a community college and I was hired full-time as a professor. And that gave me that stability in my life to actually start to address some of my own health needs.

[00:08:25] And that brought me back to the gym. Not necessarily for sports training, but for overall health and life changing. You know, and so as I began to apply these training concepts and nutrition to my own self and my body changed, people kept coming up to me and asking me, what am I doing? How can I help them? And that sort of thing. And that kind of sparked the light bulb.

[00:08:50] And it was during a time when Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey had kind of brought personal training into the limelight. Because they had personal trainers, you know. And so I saw trainers in the gym. I saw them trying to help people. And I kept thinking, boy, I would do things different. And I haven't seen that person's body change. But you're with them two hours a week working in the gym. I think I could do a better job.

[00:09:17] And because of that, I threw my hat in the ring and started personal training. And that just began to continue along that continuum of helping people. So I've been told you are known as the fitness professor. I need to know how you got this name and also what this title means to you and how it has actually shaped your approach to helping others. It's not.

[00:09:48] Well, the fitness professor was a name that I actually came up with. It just popped in my head one day. I wasn't thinking about, hey, I need a title or anything like that. But it really is a combination of what I do or what my life stands for or how I've spent my time on this earth.

[00:10:07] And so the fitness piece came from being a personal trainer and a healthy lifestyle transformation expert and helping people to transform their lives through health, nutrition, lifestyle habits, sleep, stress management, all those things. And then the professor side comes from being a college professor. I've been a college professor of business and accounting and personal finance for the past 27 years.

[00:10:36] And so I look at training or coaching and education as the same side of the coin. Right. They're both very similar because my goal is to educate. Right. To motivate. Right. To motivate. And then help people to make sustainable, last long, lifelong changes. Right. And I help them do it through education or their mind.

[00:11:03] And I also help them do it through exercise and nutrition or their body. And so the both kind of go hand in hand. And I use both strategies, strategies from training and education. And I use strategies from education and training. And they both kind of weave together to help people to get the most out of whatever they're trying to do to live a better life. Okay.

[00:11:32] This is a question that I have nothing to do with and it's not for me. I do not want to know because I am not there yet. Yep. Okay. Okay. But I will be there someday. Sure. Sure. What? Now. What is one common mistake people over 40 make when they are trying to lose weight or get fit?

[00:12:01] For those over 40. For those over 40. All right. So there's so many mistakes. But the most common mistake, and this just isn't for people over 40, but people over 40 and 50 also. But it's the most common mistake whenever anyone wants to lose weight is they don't start with their mind. They don't start with their mind. They start with some sort of diet or they start with some sort of exercise program.

[00:12:29] And that's not that short term. And they have to think long term. Right. Because if you want to lose weight and you're in a situation where you need to lose weight, your current level of thinking got you to where you are. Right. It's not going to get you where you want to go. So you're going to have to change something about the way you think because thinking drives your behavior.

[00:12:59] You know, so everybody wants to start in on something and they put the cart before the horse. Right. And what they really need to do is they need to stop and think and ask themselves some questions before they get started. Before they get started. And some real simple questions they can ask themselves.

[00:13:18] And I do I do a lot of work with people on this mindset and helping them to kind of get clear what it is that they want from their health, because then it becomes much easier once, you know. Right. Because you don't know what you don't know. And so the first thing that they have to ask themselves is how did I get here? Right. How did I get here? Right. Because you got to do a little bit of a self-assessment. OK.

[00:13:47] You got to know what it is that you're doing that may not be conducive to what you want. And you got to do some self-analyzation or self-analysis of how did you get where you are? Right. Problems don't just pop up. They build over time. You know. So how did you get there? Right. Right. And then the second thing you got to ask yourself is what do you want from your health? Like, what do I want from my health?

[00:14:18] Right. It's not just about losing 20 pounds or getting ready for the summer or going on a trip or whatever it may be. There's there's you want to play this weight loss or healthy lifestyle game for the long game. And so you got to know what it is that you want, because if you know what you want, then it's easy to say what you don't want. Right. And so you got to ask yourself, what do you want?

[00:14:43] And you got to think about that and you got to really get clear or maybe even write it down what you want. And then the last thing you got to do is you got to ask yourself, what are you willing to give up? And that's a question hardly anybody asks before they want to lose some weight. What are you willing to give up? OK, because there's going to have to be some sacrifice. Right. That's just part of the game. You know.

[00:15:06] But if you ask yourself that up front, then when it comes time to make those sacrifices, you're ready. You're ready. You may not handle them the best each and every time, but at least you knew it was coming. And you're like, oh, I've been waiting for this. You know, this is the strategy I'm going to try to handle that situation. But but the biggest thing that I see is people just don't. We all start at the top. We all start at the top. And when you're in midlife. Right.

[00:15:35] That's even more of the time to start with where you are. Right. Mentally. Right. And thinking about what you want for your health and what you want out of it. And then it really becomes much easier to lose weight when you start that way. But, Doug, it is so hard to live a healthy life because every single day it feels as if rules were changed.

[00:16:01] Ten years ago, they told us that you had to drink one glass of wine a day because that was good for your heart. Sure. So he asked that if you drink wine, you're going to get cancer. It's like, what do we do? Sure. Well, the information is evolving. So sometimes, I mean, I remember, you know, when my mom was young, they said cigarette smoking was good for you. Right. Right.

[00:16:28] And so there is information that is changing over time. And it kind of is our responsibility to stay up on because it's our health. Right. We're the ones that are going to be impacted by it. You know, so so it the the information is going to change. But there are certain sound principles of being healthy. Right. Quality nutrition is a sound principle of being healthy.

[00:16:56] Exercise is a sound principle of being healthy. Now, exercise has changed over the time, too. Right. Remember Jane Fonda? Well, you may not remember Jane Fonda with the little three pound weights and the five pounds and all that stuff. And now that's out the window. Right. Right. Midlife women and men need heavy weights. We need to lift heavy stuff. Right. If we're going to maintain our structure and maintain our muscle, which is our fountain of youth, you know.

[00:17:25] So even that's changed over time, you know. But but there are some sound principles and managing your stress and getting a good night's sleep and drinking water. All those things are very sound principles in part of being healthy, particularly during midlife. So now that I have you here. Yeah.

[00:17:47] Going to ask you, what are some misconceptions about health and fitness during midlife that you're excited? Because I can see you're very excited about it. The bunk on this show. Well, there are a bunch of misconceptions out there. I mean, it's it's I talk to people every day and they come in with this information that it's like, where did you get that from?

[00:18:12] You know, so so one of the first things I will talk about is not being able to change your body in midlife. You know, feeling that your metabolism is stuck and that you are where you are in your sentence to be there for the rest of your life. And that's and that's just a misconception.

[00:18:33] You know, I mean, there are so many examples out there, people in their 50s, 60s, 70s beyond doing these amazing things, changing their bodies, getting healthier. I mean, if you look at Ernestine Shepard or Joan McDonald, I mean, these are women that have absolutely transformed their bodies in their 60s, 70s years of age.

[00:18:56] You know, and so that misconception that's out there needs to change because midlife is an exciting time in our lives. Right. And you utilizing that mindset that, hey, I'm stuck here. This is what I have and this is the rest. This is what I'll be living in or utilizing for the remainder of my life is a big misconception. You can change it. It takes some time. It takes the right information.

[00:19:25] Right. It takes the right behavior changes. But clearly, if that's something that you want to do, very, very, very manageable and doable. And there are examples out there of people doing right. Another misconception out there is that to lose weight, you got to eat these like rabbit diet ballads. And you can't eat carbs. I mean, it is.

[00:19:49] Outrageous, the things that are out there, but not eating carbs to lose weight is probably one of the biggest misconceptions out there. You know, I've been working with people for the past 20 years, started off working with female figure and bodybuilding competitors. And I've never helped anyone lose weight without eating carbs.

[00:20:14] All right. They are your energy source and they are an important macronutrient in our diet. So you can't cut one of them out and think that you're going to have great long term success. It's just naive, but it almost is you have to force people today to actually eat these carbs, you know.

[00:20:35] And I'd say another misconception, and this one really gets me like fired up, is that you can lose weight walking. That walking is good exercise for weight loss. Walking is like the worst exercise for weight loss. I mean, it does not boost your metabolism. It does not build any muscle and it really doesn't even get your heart rate up, you know.

[00:21:03] So we already know that a low calorie diet and cardiovascular exercise does not lead to long term weight loss. Well, how can walking lead to long term weight loss? I mean, if you think that walking is going to help you lose weight, you're so uninformed. And the thing about it is so many people are doing it. And I somewhat blame the medical industry on this, telling everyone to get their 10,000 steps in. Right.

[00:21:33] And it's just it's a participation trophy for weight loss. And that's really what walking is. Right. It's not going to be an effective form and it's not an effective use of your time if you want to actually lose weight. You know, it's great for your head. It's great to clear things up. It's great to get out and walk and talk with people.

[00:21:58] And it's probably even better used after you've lost weight to kind of keep the weight off because movement's important. I'm not saying that movement's not important. What I'm saying is that's the worst form of exercise for weight loss. Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. Oh, my God. I'm not going to get excited about the 10,000 steps anymore. No, no. Put that put put your little Fitbit away. You can throw it in the trash because it really doesn't matter.

[00:22:28] Like I said, it's a participation trophy. People love to see those numbers and it makes them feel good. But the fact that the matter is you're still calling me asking about weight loss. And when I ask you what you're doing for exercise, you're saying that you're walking. So obviously it's not working. Well, another misconception.

[00:22:51] And this, I am going to own it because as women, when we see like celebrities that are 60 years old and look amazing, what we tend to think is, well, of course, she's got lots of money. So she's done a thousand surgeries. So that is why she's so fit. Oh, of course. Of course. Well, we love to pick on other people, right? And say, I don't look like that because I don't have this.

[00:23:21] But the fact of the matter is you have everything you need. You might not be going to the right information source, but all you need is a body and the right mindset and some real good habits. And you can look and feel as good as you want to feel. I mean, and that's the reality. And that's the reality.

[00:23:43] Yes, those that have extra disposable income have a much better opportunity to recruit resources that can help them actually live healthier. But there are people in this country and all around the world who do not have those resources, who are living damn good, healthy lives. And so you've got everything that you need.

[00:24:11] How would you describe Midlife Unleashed in one sentence? It's a movement. It's a movement that's dedicated towards empowering people, 40 plus, 50 plus and beyond to reclaim their health, to reclaim their confidence, to reclaim their vitality, just by embracing practical science, scientific strategies for living a healthier life. Right.

[00:24:38] We need to debunk this concept of what midlife means. Right. We have to change that. And then we have to take on some behaviors that actually help us to unlock our full potential. Right. Midlife is just a new chapter. It's not like a sentence. It's a chapter. Right.

[00:25:01] And so what I'd like to do is just take this podcast and utilize it with the rest of the movement that we're that that is going on to kind of empower people, particularly women in their 40s and 50s, to go beyond what we know midlife is supposed to be. Well, and this is not an excuse.

[00:25:25] But when I go to the gym, it takes about four months for me to see like a tiny muzzle trying to pop. Sure. When my male friends go to the gym, they're there for 24 minutes and then they have built the triceps. Mm-hmm. Is it harder for women to lose weight and to get fit or is it a myth? Absolutely it's harder.

[00:25:55] Absolutely it's harder. Much more of a complex human being women are versus men. There's a lot more going on. And so it absolutely is much more difficult for women besides just the scientific part. But there's also the fact that oftentimes women are the caregivers of their families. So they're caring for other people so they don't have as much time.

[00:26:23] And so there's a lot more stresses and a lot more activities that women are involved in that make it harder, as well as the dynamics related to just the health. You know, men in terms of exercise have a lot more muscle on their body. Right. And they also have a lot more testosterone in their body. Right. So those help to build muscle.

[00:26:50] And, you know, a lot of times guys are in the gym for a lot more than 24 minutes, too. They're in there for hours for sure. Looking in the mirror most of the time. But still, they're in there and they're doing the weights and they're doing the things that will help with weight loss.

[00:27:11] A lot of times women are really starting to come around to strength training as a key component to maintaining your health as well as losing weight. And the more women that I see in the weight room, the happier I become, because that's truly going to be one of the biggest components of boosting your metabolism, maintaining your structure and actually preparing you for the remainder of your life. Midlife.

[00:27:42] But how about that idea that women do not want to go and do weights because they don't want to look bigger? Yeah, that, you know, I remember that when I first started training and that was 20 something years ago. And that stuff is still kind of out there, but it's just it's just not going to happen. Ladies, it's not going to happen. You don't have enough testosterone in your body to start building these big, bulky muscles.

[00:28:09] And I got to tell you what is important, especially at midlife, is maintaining your bones and making sure that they're strong. And the only way you're going to do the only way you're going to do that is you have to stress your bones and your joints by lifting heavy weights. I'm not talking about so heavy that they're going to crush you, but weights that you can do four to eight times, multiple sets. That's the only way you're going to do it.

[00:28:38] And I got to tell you, women have been doing it for a long time. And the ones that you see with these big, big, bulky muscles, they're usually doing some sort of something else to enhance that ability to look like that. And if you're not doing that, then you don't have to worry about it. Get in the gym, lift some heavy weights, have fun. So I am sure that there is someone, I think there is a lot of people, but there is one particular person listening today. Okay.

[00:29:08] Whether it's a woman or a man, and they are feeling stuck or overwhelmed by midlife changes because it's not only the body, it's also the mind. So what is the first step they can take to start their transformation? Because the first step is the hardest. It is the hardest. And what I like to do is make it the easiest.

[00:29:37] So the first step is start small. Start small. Okay. Because what you can do and what is easy for you to do, you'll do. And so you want to take a nice small step. Now, if you notice, I'm not telling you what they should do because it's different for everybody. Right. Right.

[00:30:01] If somebody is eating a very high carb breakfast, then maybe the first small step for them is to put more protein in their breakfast. If somebody is staying up late at night and not getting quality sleep, then maybe the first step for them is to turn the TV off 30 minutes earlier. Right. I didn't say don't turn it on. I said just turn it off a little bit earlier. Right.

[00:30:26] If someone is not doing any form of exercise, then maybe 10 minutes of exercise is what they need to do. So it's going to be different for everybody. And so don't buy into what so-and-so is doing or this person is doing. Look at your life. Remember those questions that I told you to ask yourself. The first question was, you know, how did I get here?

[00:30:53] So you can identify something that you're doing and just start working on that in a very, very, very small scale, because if you do it, then you'll build some confidence. And as that confidence goes, then you start to build up. Right. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither were will your healthy lifestyle. You got to start small and just little and then build from that.

[00:31:19] I mean, I just had an example in one of my health businesses just the other day. I was I was talking with a woman and she's making some changes with the new year and she hadn't been in the gym all of last year, all of last year. And she was talking about how she was going to start doing working out an hour a day. And I was like, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:31:49] We're going to start with 20 minutes and that's all. We're just going to do it two days this week. We're going to work out for 20 minutes for two days. That's it. Can you do that? Yeah, I can do that. Good. Then go do that. And that's it. And then eventually we'll increase the time and then we'll eventually add a day, you know, but but what you want to do is everyone's trying to shoot for perfection. And that doesn't work with weight loss. What works is consistency. Right.

[00:32:18] And so if you can make and build good, consistent habits. And then what you want to do is build up. Right. And so stop trying to be perfect. Don't try to start with some elaborate plan or scheme. Right. Because that's what happens every New Year's. And then we know Quitter's Day coming up and everybody's going to be back home and they're going to stop. Just start with something small. And then progress.

[00:32:47] And then progress. And just be consistent. Because I think that is one of the biggest problems. Because we wake up one day and we'll look in the mirror and say, I don't like the way I look. So starting today, I'm not eating any more carbs. I'm not drinking any more alcohol. I'm going to the gym every day. I'm going to be there for a half hour. And then like a month later, you're like, no, this is not for me. I'm going back to where I was. Yeah.

[00:33:16] And it's a spike. And people keep going on that wheel and they keep trying it. And then the only thing that changes each time is it might just be a different eating plan. Or it might just be a different exercising plan. Or, you know, always something different. But the key is start small. You know what you have to do. Right?

[00:33:43] And so what you want to do is you want to dive into it with small steps. And just be consistent. And I got to tell you, that consistency, that builds motivation. It makes you feel confident because now you know, oh, I can do this. I can do this twice a day. Okay. I can do this protein with my breakfast or I can do this. And then build upon it. Build upon it. Build upon it. And then just keep getting better and better.

[00:34:13] And then you'll start. And then the next phase of your healthy lifestyle, maybe it's stress management. Who knows? Maybe it's sleep. But you start that the same way. You start it the same way. You start small. You build. You build. You build. You be consistent. And next thing you know, you're transformed and you look completely and behave completely different than you once did.

[00:34:39] You were just talking about the exercise plans or the eating plans. Yeah. And I know lots of people. I am one of those that usually go on the internet and find like an eating plan, an exercise plan, and then go ahead and do it. And it's like, it's not working. Right. How do we manage our own anxieties and not just jump on the first thing we see on the internet? Yeah.

[00:35:06] Well, first of all, you got to understand it is the internet. So you got to take all the information you get from the internet and Instagram. You know, you got to be real careful with that. You know, and keep in mind, especially on the social media, everyone's showing the fantasy, not necessarily the reality. All right. And the reality is that being healthy is a kind of mundane, boring thing. Right. Right.

[00:35:35] Eating healthy sometimes can be boring. It doesn't have to be once you learn how to eat healthy. But as most people are just starting to do it, they find it somewhat boring. Right. And the same thing with exercising. You know, you go in and you're doing these pushing and pulling and squatting and lunging and bending and twisting. And then you're kind of like, well, like I got it. Like I did that last week. I want to do something different. You know, but it's like, that's the thing that's going to do it. You know?

[00:36:04] You know, and so the foundation of health is it's it's it's not new to us. Right. This was at one point a very healthy country country. Now, 70 percent of the people are overweight and obese. And a lot of what we need to do is just to go back to what we used to do, but just take into consideration the advances in science in terms of what we know is healthy and just put it in the play. You just put it into play.

[00:36:32] But but you mentioned something earlier about how you'll go to the gym and it'll take four months for you to see just a little bit of change and a little bit of this. But people need to commit to that length of time. You know, don't look to be super healthy in three weeks. It just doesn't work that way. It takes a little bit more time. You know, it really does.

[00:36:58] But if you do and you and you're consistent over those four months, you will see significant progress. Your body has no other result but to change. Well, I know that if I was not hosting this show with you, I would definitely be one of the listeners. Yeah. So what can listeners expect from the next few episodes of my midlife and leash? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:37:26] So, well, what we're going to talk about the things that matter the most that can help us to thrive in midlife. Right. We're going to talk about strength training and exercise and how that's our fountain of youth and how we need to do that and how we can allow that to be a significant like player in this next chapter. You know, we're going to debunk some of the nutrition stuff and talk about these fad diets and all that. We're going to talk about stress.

[00:37:56] The S's, I call them. Stress and sleep. We're going to talk about how to make sustainable changes. We'll talk about advances in technology and medication, you know, RF technology and low-level light therapy and GLP-1s. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about menopause.

[00:38:14] We'll dive into that as well and just talk about all these changes that kind of happen during midlife and how this is an opportunity for us to actually continue to live and not only live but thrive by living our best lives during this time.

[00:38:35] Well, after talking for about 40 minutes, we know that there are no miracle exercises or miracle diets, but we want to leave people with something uplifting.

[00:38:51] So, um, I would love if you could give everyone three advices, the things they can start doing right now that if they're not going to lose 20 pounds, they're not going to be the healthiest person, but three things that they should start doing right away. Good. And that are going to take them on the right path. Path. Boy, you're great at what you do, Ursula.

[00:39:20] Very, very good. Um, three things. Let's, um, let's first start. I gave them one. They got to work on their mindset, right? You got to think about, especially at midlife, what do you want from your health, right? You really got to get clear on it and you got to talk to yourself about it because what is it that you want? You know, like, do you want to be, um, healthy to travel the world?

[00:39:46] Do you want to be healthy to get on the ground with your grandchild and play? Like what, what ultimately is the goal? Because 20 losing 20 pounds is not the goal. That's not what you want for life. You want that for a reason. What's that reason? They got to dig, dig, dig, dig deep on that. The second thing they can do is take a holistic approach, right? And this is, this is kind of big and I told you to start small, but start small, right?

[00:40:14] But you, you can't just look at this as nutrition and exercise. We do have to consider sleep, stress management, and hydration, and these other factors, especially at midlife, right? When, when, when, when we were younger, we could have done any diet and lost weight. And, and all the, all the listeners know this because I hear it all the time. Like it doesn't work anymore now that we're midlife.

[00:40:44] It just doesn't work anymore. I stopped eating bread for two days and now. And there you go. Well, well, well, it doesn't, that doesn't work at midlife, you know? And so we got to take a holistic approach, all right? And then the last thing, well, actually probably two things, two things. So I'm gonna give you four. The third thing is pick up some weights. Pick up some weights. That's the fountain of youth. That's, that's our fountain of youth. That's our metabolism booster.

[00:41:14] That's the one that allows us to play and have fun in terms of eating and drinking without putting on weight. And it will also help us to lose weight. So your fountain of youth is weight training. I've said this for more than 20 years. It has been the number one thing that I have done since I was 15 years old.

[00:41:35] And I see all the people who are out here who have either changed or transformed their life or who are living very healthy during this midlife time. They all lift weights. They all lift weights. And then the last thing I want to tell you to do is commit. You got to commit, right? Right. So many people are interested in being healthy. Well, being interested and committing are two different things. Right.

[00:42:03] And there are some people out there who are just participating. Right. Those are the walkers. Right. They're participating. Okay. They're there. They're not at the level of the people who are interested. The people who are interested, they'll dabble here, dabble there, maybe go to the gym once or twice, maybe two to three times. They're interested. They're not really changing their food around and they're not really addressing some of the other things.

[00:42:28] But those who are committed, they get the insights opened up to them about what it takes to actually be healthy during this midlife. And they have the most fun, you know. So the last thing I would say that they need to do is you got to commit because if you don't commit, you don't get the jewels. You keep playing around with the surface information. You don't get the good stuff. You got to commit to get the good stuff.

[00:42:56] So the question to leave for everyone would be, what are you willing to do? What are you willing to do? What are you willing to do? Great question. Thank you so much, Doug Dorsey. I'm looking forward to the next, the second episode of Mind Midlife Unleashed. I know everyone is also looking forward to it. Thank you so much for your advice. And please invite everyone to listen to the second episode of our podcast.

[00:43:25] Absolutely. I look forward to bringing you more jewels. Just stop back in and don't just listen, implement. Action's important.