Dr. Mike Pierce

So if somebody is there and they're in that level of just really sick and unhealthy,

Um, I call it why times seven, meaning that if I ask you, why do you want to get healthy?

They're going to say, well, I want more energy.

We both know that's not the real answer.

So I would say, well, why do you want more energy?

And they go, well, I want to be able to play with my kids.

Why don't I play with your kids?

And you ask the why seven times, and eventually you will get down to a very deep, emotional rooted reason.

Whenever that person is going to start making health changes, it doesn't matter what the health change is.

You can just tell them to start drinking more water.

They will break out of that habit and not be consistent if they're not rooted to a very, very big emotional why.

So true story.

My dad was so unhealthy.

And I genuinely say this, that there's five times in my whole childhood I can remember my dad playing with me, throwing a ball, being outside, doing anything physical, engaging.

And he was a good dad, but he just didn't have the health to do it.

My deep rooted why is I saw what happened to my dad.

I saw him be so unhealthy.

He could not play with me and he had to say no.

And then I saw him have the heart attack and what my family went through.

And now I have three little kids, a beautiful wife.