Ari Meisel

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford · The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel · 29 Apr 2025 podcast

But if you say to somebody like, what if you only had an hour a day to get things done? At that point, it's really not a question about what would you do? It's wouldn't you do? And if the things that you wouldn't do still need to get done, then who or increasingly what is gonna do them for you? It's just like a very mind bending kind of experience.

So that question is what really led to me starting to experiment with all sorts of different productivity methods. A lot of the things that I teach are very counterintuitive to what a lot of other productivity people teach. And it worked and it's grown since then to coaching, speaking, writing, all that stuff.

Second question is what?

Yeah, so it was definitely an interesting experience. There were definitely things that I did that did not help. There were some things that made me feel worse. But ultimately what I learned, so I tried all sorts of things. I tried a vegan diet, a vegetarian, pescatarian. At this point, I can pretty much eat, I mean, I eat anything I want.

But I believe that the best diet overall, it's not about being gluten-free, it's not about pescatarian or anything, it's that it is low in sugar. and very, very high in saturated fats. So grass-fed butter, pastured egg yolks, heritage-raised pork, grass-fed beef.

I think butter should be prescribable, honestly, because one of the things that a lot of people don't realize is that butter is called butter because of butyric acid, and butyric acid is one of the main ways that probiotics in your gut or the bacteria in your gut communicate with each other. So butter it up.

It's incredible. And then there's a bunch of supplements. I think that the supplements are kind of easy. There's some weird ones I definitely try and I don't take those anymore now. It's just probiotic and krill oil and vitamin D and some zinc I think is what I'm usually doing now. But The other one is we don't have enough like fermented foods in the diet in America as far as I'm concerned.

So things like sauerkraut, even pickles, like real pickles and kimchi and other fermented foods, fermented foods and real yogurt, like all that kind of stuff, I think is really good for Crohn's disease. But ultimately, it's really an inflammatory condition. So stress is a big component. And that's really kind of where less doing played into this.

So nowadays, I wouldn't say that I'm particularly biohacking at this point, but I am using ChatGPT to do all my meal logging, which has been incredible. Through all of this process, I've never found a meal planner or not meal planner, a meal logger that I liked. They're all flawed in a lot of ways. And what's nice about ChatGPT is that you can be proactive.

So you can say to it, and I just did this at lunch. So I have a cold right now. And I was, I said to him, I was like, I don't feel great right now. And I'd kind of like to have dessert, which I don't normally have. So I took a picture we have from Costco, banana, not muffins and pound cake. I said, which one would be a better choice?

And it said, do go with the pound cake because it's a little bit lighter. Your protein's looking great for the day. So great.

I'm taking pictures. Uh, and it's up your plate. Yeah, it's really, really good. And, but I can, I find it to be really accurate and it understands what my goals are. Right. So I'd like to sort of lean out a little bit. Um, I want to increase fiber. I think a lot of Americans also, we don't know fiber. Um, Also, it knows the vitamins I'm taking.

The other day, it was like, you've been taking zinc for five days. You should cycle off it for two days, which I was like, I never knew that was a thing. I asked it why and it told me. The other thing that's really cool with that is that you can take a picture of your fridge and your pantry. You can say to it like, hey, I just had this sandwich or whatever. I'm still hungry.

Like, what can I add to it? That would be a good choice. It will say to me, and it has said to me, it's like, take the, take one of the apples from the fridge and the, the Indian yogurt and put that in it with, with, you know, and if you want something sweet, add a little bit of honey. It's great. It's wild.

I mean, I have five kids, man. Like, you know, there's a limit to how much biohacking gadgets I can do. We had an infrared sauna, which we just sold. We're moving to another house and I may get another one. I love my sauna.

I hate the cold. I hate it. But I have tried the face in the bowl of water a couple of times, which actually I think is pretty good. I do like that. Uh, but I also, I work out twice a week. Like I, I just, I don't drink either. That's another one.

So I used to, and I probably will again, but at this point in my life, my sleep is generally fairly shitty just because of the lifestyle that we have, um, with the kids. And I work one overnight shift a week on the EMS squad. Like, so recognizing that my sleep is shitty, like it's not worth it to bring to have a drink because I'll just feel like crap the next day.

I have. I mean, I don't need a tracker to know that it's not great. So I operate pretty well, honestly. I'm not that much sleep. I don't know how long I'll be able to pull that off for the rest of my life. But yeah, I've used the Oura Ring. I think the Oura Ring is the best tracker there is.

But currently, I go through these phases where I track a lot and then I don't track anything because I kind of have a sense of things. but I do do my own blood testing every six months. So that's usually, that's like the big one too for me. And that's as well.

Yeah, absolutely. So one of the things which I think is a really cool sort of thing to talk about now is I've, you know, in my career, I've worked with hundreds of VAs. I've outsourced thousands of hours of stuff and spent tens of thousands of dollars on it. I have not had a team or any support staff in any shape or form in the last two years because I do everything with ChatGPT.

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