How a Wounded Special Forces Veteran Reinvented Brain Health
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How did Mike Chesney's combat injury lead him to brain health research?
I was injured in combat, got blown up in Iraq. That's kind of what ended my career. When your brain gets injured, it pulls all the glucose in your body straight up to your brain. It's like, man, if I can help my guys to not have this happen, that's what I want. And so that's why I got started.
Dr. Mike Chesney is a biotech entrepreneur, Army Special Operations veteran, and the founder of Tecton Catons. He helps individuals optimize their physical and cognitive performance through science-driven ketone technology, empowering people to think sharper, move stronger, and perform at their best. Tecton ketones, it's a liquid product.
It's something that you would drink, you could have it in a drink. It's really good, increases athletic performance and endurance, and just clears your brain, your thoughts, processes up. Human beings have been living and using ketones for 300,000 years. It's nature's answer to an energy crisis. Metabolic health, that's where we're moving towards the next thing. How do we treat people at the cellular level?
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Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of living your legacy podcast. I've have not had my morning coffee yet. I'm stumbling across that, but we have someone in the home state of Florida driving down from Orlando to be here, uh, former special ops. And it's great to have them here during the world cup fever of South beach. So, uh, introduce yourself, what's your name and what what's good.
My name is Mike Chesney. I'm a resident, like I said, just north of Orlando. I've been in Florida for about three years now. Grew up, born and raised in Louisiana, but left there in 17 when I joined the military and lived all around after that.
All right. So yeah, 17, joining the military. That's a lot of story of a lot of American Americans. Thank you, by the way, for your service.
I'll tell you what I tell everybody else. You guys are worth it. It's worth it.
Right on, man. Right on. Thank you. So yeah, tell us, 17, where'd you get shipped off to?
Right out of high school, I wanted to join the military. I took all their tests and everything. And they said to me, what do you want to do? I said, well, I want to be airborne ranger.
Okay.
And they're like, okay, you can do anything. We're computer sciences. We got communication. I said, I want to be an airborne ranger. That's it.
That's what I want to do. And why is that in your head?
My dad was an infantryman when he was in the service. I had a really good friend from high school who was in the Rangers when they went to Grenada in 1983. Just one of those things. As a teenage kid, I thought it was cool. It ended up being the best thing I've ever done.
Amazing. And why is that?
So the adventure, the adrenaline. Well, just like any other kid, I'm I'm living in a small town. There's not a lot going on, you know, from a not a wealthy, not even a middle class man. We're very poor family. Right on. I grew up my mom raising four kids by herself, you know, that kind of thing. So I needed something to get out of there. And, you know, it is if you've got no direction for me, that was the direction. And I went in, I thought I was going to be able to get some college money.
Well, personally, I've seen a lot of kids from high school that went into the military and they were the kids getting into fights. And I'm sorry, but some of them were F-ups, right? And now they're like, you know, very mature men and I see what it's done to them. And I'm just like proud of where they were and what, who they become, you know?
And that's a big part of it. You know, a lot of young, young people today just don't have direction. The same thing with me. I didn't know where I wanted to go. I thought I wanted to go to college. You know, that's everybody. That's what they teach you. You know, you want to go to college, you want to do better.
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