Dr. Mark Hyman

You're a football player, or as we say here, a soccer player.

And we were chatting earlier.

You were saying you've always been sort of paying attention to your health.

But you kind of also grew up on crap food, like pie and mash and fish and chips in the east end of London.

And it wasn't a thing.

And you would go to Cheesecake Factory when you were playing to get your pregame meals.

And they gave you a few bucks from the team to play.

tell us about how you've kind of thought about your own health as a, as a player, because, you know, most athletes when we're chatting about this, don't pay much attention to what they're eating.

You know, some high performance Olympians obviously do, but the average people in major league sports, you know, football players, basketball players, soccer players, baseball players, or other football players, um,

don't really pay attention.

They're eating crap.

And I've seen it.

I, we were chatting, I've seen, you know, what players eat and friends have owned basketball teams or football teams.

And I'll go in and after the game, I'm like, they're just eating like fried chicken and pizza and pasta and no crap and burgers and hot dogs.

And,

I'm like, if you have a million-dollar racehorse, you're not going to feed it McDonald's and Coke and fries and a milkshake for a pregame Kentucky Derby meal, right?

I mean, like a snake thing.

What's the average football players?

And did you change over time in terms of what you were doing to maintain your health as you're playing?

And that's, that's how you stayed so long in the game.