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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
So pure vanity was really what, you know, I think got me into it in the beginning.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
It was just wanting to stay as, you know, as healthy as I could.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
But like I said, your priorities change as you get older.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
And I think that that's kind of where I'm at now.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
Well, you know, I played sports my whole life.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
My mother was very much about health and eating well, even before it was a thing.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
I remember as a kid back in Montana, North Dakota, she would order an egg white omelet.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
And me and my sister were so embarrassed that she would make them take the yolks out of the eggs.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
This is back in the early 80s.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
And she was always very conscious of what she fed us and how we ate.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
And I think that that was kind of the beginning of it for me in a lot of ways.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
So yes, I guess I've always had a curiosity about it.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
But it hasn't been until the last few years that I've really sort of...
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
I dove in and tried to learn as much as I can.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
I'm no expert by any means.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
I'm just a guy who's trying to learn what I can and pass it on, really.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
Because there's a lot of things that... One of the main things is guys don't want to talk about this stuff either, especially the TRT, like low levels of testosterone.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
aging and low energy and these types of things, guys don't want to talk about it.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
And I think that that's one of the main reasons for this as well is just to open up the conversation, shine a little light on it and make it like a thing that's okay to talk about.
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543: The New Rules of Men’s Health, Aging, and Performance | Josh Duhamel
I forget what it was, what the initial sort of test that I got, but I remember I wanted to, it was, again, it was more because I was having a hard time and I was injury prone too.