I stopped improving my health and did this instead.

Chances are, you're obsessing about your health way too much.

You try to improve EVERYTHING.

You research every little detail, try to avoid every little toxin and want to perfect your health.

But this is a huge problem.

When your live revolves around your health, you get internally disabled.

On top of that, obsessive healthmaxxing makes you UNHEALTHIER than if you just used a bit of your intuition and did what I'll talk about in this email.

It's a loose-loose situation. You have a shit life and you're not even healthy.

The best example for this phenomenon is the one and only Brian Johnson.

Let me explain:

The Brian-Johnson-Paradox

You all now the guy, spending millions to "live forever".

But that's not even the bad part. I respect someone risking lots of money for a goal.

The real price he pays for his healthmaxxing-autism isn't money. It's his life.

He says he wants to live forever, but doesn't even live in the first place.

He is already dead.

What's worse, the things he's doing are obviously unhealthy, so he's not even getting that benefit.

And still, he restricts every part of his life, tracks everything like his life depends on it, is a complete weirdo and he doesn't even live his life, because he has a ginormous stick in his ass and can't do cool shit because he has to be in his "perfect" routine.

And you might think: "I'm not like that."

And yes, you probably don't obsess that much over your “health” and don't spend millions on it, BUT you might be surprised that you're a lot closer to this than you think.

Is this you?

I'm just gonna make a wild assumption:

• Your health is very important to you

• You have spend hours, maybe even DAYS on podcast and videos about health

• You're trying to cut out all toxins from your life

• You get freaked out if you eat some seed-oils

• Going to bed later than normal throws you out of life completely

• You have a strict routine

• You say "no" to a lot of people and activities, because of your routine

• You are not spontaneous, AT ALL

• You stress about minor things like touching a receipt once

• You're not even as healthy as you'd like to be

That wasn't even an assumption. It was a pretty close description of my past-self. And some points probably match with your life as well.

This is NOT healthy. In fact, it's quiet the opposite.

1. Anti-lifemaxxing: With this lifestyle, you're miserable. All you do is your mundane routine. You say no a lot. You don't have fun. You're worried about 10g of seed-oils and missing your bedtime.

2. Nocebo: You stress yourself when doing something "wrong". When doing something "unhealthy", you make it even MORE unhealthy, be noceboing and stressing about it.

I was this guy. And, honestly, I'm still kinda this guy. I catch myself wanting to stay in my comfy little routine way too often.

But, I've made good progress in the right direction.

Over-optimizing your health isn't good. But where is the line between actual important steps for your health and healthmaxxing-autism?

What can we do to get out of this?

USE your health

Of course, with all of this I'm not saying to shit on your health. That isn't good obviously.

But you need to know where the line is.

And that's pretty simple:

Do the basics. This doesn't need ongoing effort.

Redesign your life ONCE.

You need to plant the tree only once and then wait and pick the fruits you get from it.

So get your diet fixed ONCE. Build strong habits. That's not hard.

Go through your wardrobe ONCE and throw out all synthetic fibers.

Swap out all your bathroom products ONCE.

You get the point. You need to focus on health for a short time to build a very solid base. Then just keep those habits running.

Now to the second part of the tree-analogy. You have planted it, and most people stop right there.

But you need to pick the fucking fruits. Don't plant a tree, water it and then sit there and plant more trees if you didn’t even pick the fruits.

For what have you built your health? To sit around and do fuck-all?

Health isn't the end goal. Health is a tool.

With good health, you can truly enjoy live. You can do everything. You don't have limitations.

But a highway with no speed limit doesn't matter when you don't hit the fucking gas pedal.

→ Build your health through the basics. Then USE your health to lifemaxxx.

And when you eat the 10g of seed-oils, don't stress.

You have built a healthy body so it can deal with bad shit.

I think most of us underestimate the power of our bodies. A little bad shit won't do ANYTHING to us.

Use your health to live.

When your healthy you can try things out, have adventures and have fun.

But when you don't do these things and use your health, you might as well get unhealthy again because it doesn't serve you.

Don't healthmaxxx. Lifemaxxx.

Stay on the search for the truth.

Fabian.