Rejuvenate Your Mental Health

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Hey, my friends, it's Brandon Burchard and welcome to a special episode of the Brendon Show. Hey, I'm Brendon Burchard and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. With this episode, I've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior change and writing, coaching and training literally at the top levels on the topics of motivation, focus, productivity, confidence and more. My goal, inspired by my own personal journey, is to help you and my audience live love and matter. Which means to feel more vibrant, more connected and and more fulfilled in every area of your life. That's what we're doing today. If you liked today's episode, grab a screenshot and share it on Instagram. Just tag me Enonbuchard so I can see you and give you a shout out or a hello. And if you want to go to another level of personal development in your life this month, be sure to join me live every month in my coaching program. Just visit HPXCoaching to get signed up. I teach a brand new personal development session every single month. Meaning it's like a personal development seminar for you. Live every single month on the first of the month and then after I teach that for about 75 minutes, then we do live breakouts where you get to meet new people, network with people, set your monthly goals and establish real accountability for your growth. Listen, you know that expert guidance and real consistency and an inspiring community is critical to your growth. So join me this month on the 1st. Just go to hpxcoaching.com that's hpxcoaching.com it's time to level up, my friend. It's time to take your year back. It's time to find that focus and that confidence and that vibrancy and that vibe. Again, go to hpxcoaching.com and and let me be your coach into fuller levels of high performance in every area of your life. Now, without further ado, let's jump in to today's episode.

Bust out your journal right across the top.

Brain health.

And then let's get into this conversation.

Couple things.

First and foremost, I am not a doctor. So if you're having any issues that you feel are really impacting the positive quality of your life in any area, I want to make sure that you know that it's safe and it's important and it's highly recommended, go see a doctor. It's really important, particularly in brain health. We'll be talking about different types of doctors today that you might go see. I just wanted to be very clear for everybody joining us, I'm not a doctor. I am really incapable of having stayed in college that long.

I just couldn't have done it.

I mean, I think I could have passed, but I definitely could not have done that much more in schooling. But for me, my life has been a big lab and I focus so much on figuring things out for myself in personal self experimentation, but also a lot of research with a tremendous number of psychologists, neuroscientists and medical doctors. Not only for my own treatment after my multiple injuries, but also so I could make sure when I recommended something, at least most people would say pretty basic, pretty fair and pretty safe recommendation. So I just want to urge you, if you have any issues, make sure you always consult your doctor. I want to share too with you, if you had something in terms of your brain, make sure you see a neurologist and get a brain scan. It's so basic, but so rarely taught and so rarely recommended. I want to share with you my short story. In 2011, I was down in Mexico on a bachelor party trip with some friends and we went out for an ATV day in the sand. So meaning we rode four wheelers in the sand. And it was a pretty technical ride that day. We were going very, very fast up and down, lots of dunes. I mean lots of crazy stuff. But all of us had a lot of experience. I grew up on four wheelers, so there was nothing we were doing that was crazy. And in fact, by the end of the day where I actually got hurt, I had come to a very long flat stretch of beach and I was riding along the ocean and it was very flat, so I had to open full gear. I was going 38, 40 miles an hour on the four wheeler, which where I was at seemed pretty safe. And I was going ahead and I think there's just a moment maybe I lost presence, I'm not sure, but I didn't see. There was a little pillow of sand in front of me, just a tiny little one. But I was going and all of a sudden I hit this little pill of sand. It lifted up the bike just tiny amount, but somehow I hit that front left wheel of the ATV and as soon as it hit, boom, the bike went over. I immediately went over on the ground. I hit the ground. I rolled several times. I don't know how often, but I rolled a really long time. I remember feeling and hearing it and I could hear my helmet smashing on the sand as I was rolling along. And I could also hear the sound of the ATV next To me. And it was going ba boom, ba boom, ba poom. And I'm rolling. And all I can think in my mind in that weird slow motion moment that happens when something like that is going on, All I thought in my mind was, please, God, don't let that land on me. Because, you know, an ATV, I can be 600, 800 pounds. And if that had landed on me, you know, I probably wouldn't be here with you today. That would probably been. That'd been it for me either, you know, crush my skull or break my spine or something terrible could have happened. Luckily, it didn't land on me. I got knocked out. And when I awoke, my friends were. Kind of. One of my friends was gathered around and some of the other friends were coming in and was kind of like, hey, are you okay?

Are you okay? And I kind of looked up and.

I was seeing stars. And I just didn't really understand where I was at. And more friends came around and they were kind of like, prod me. Are you all right? And we had a medic traveling with us as part of this ATV tour. You know, whenever they send a medic on an adventure with you, you probably know it's a bad idea. Just saying, probably should have known.

Like, hey, this random guy, he's a.

Doctor, he's going with you in case you get hurt. That should have said, let's not do this. Anyway, he comes over and he starts feeling, you know, all over my body for broken bones and then all over my stomach and my chest cavity for any internal swelling or bleeding. And ultimately kind of said, well, sit up. So I went to sit up and I passed out again. Came back to lots of stars. Seeing everything. Totally like that thing where you're, you're. You're seeing stars, but it's also like a big black veil is in front of you and you feel really heavy and kind of out of it. Those are common things for a major concussion. So if you ever fell or hit your head in your house, or you ever got hit by a car, or you ever were in a position of playing sports where you had a concussion and you saw the stars and you.

Felt that heavy black veil and you.

Felt very heavy, that was probably a serious concussion and something to be very alert, aware of. And I bring that up because I think that sometimes it takes something, you know, shocking or takes something that psychologists might call a critical incident to shift our attention onto things. See a nutritionist and know your food insensitivities. I know this sounds like, wait, he just Went left turn on me. But no, a huge part of your brain health is your overall nutritional health. In fact, almost everything impacting your brain comes from nutrition. Everything going into your brain comes from. Goes into your mouth. Think about that, right? You've heard of a mind body connection. Well, there's the brain body connection. Anything that goes in your mouth is likely to affect your overall physical health, right? What you eat takes care of your body. How you take care of your body is your brain, right? So we got to get your nutrition right. And a lot of people experience a tremendous amount of mental fog and fatigue because they're eating things that they're allergic to. And this took a long time for most of us, I think, to come around to in the health space. And that's really important. So that if you haven't done recent, and I mean in the last two years, full workup with a nutritionist, I cannot recommend something more highly. During this, I had a friend of mine, helps me run one of my companies. He's, you know, in his 40s, and he just discovered he's allergic to eggs. He's in his 40s. He says, Brendan, every morning for 40 years I've had eggs. He goes, and you know, I always had. I always thought I had allergies to the rest of the world. You know, my eyes were always puffy in the morning, but, you know, by mid afternoon they'd come back and I had the sniffles in the morning. I just thought, you know, that's how it is for people. For 40 years, this person suffered not knowing what he's allergic to. But this happens for tons of people. Tons of people are suffering literally the mental challenges that come from things that they just shouldn't put in their mouth. I mean, literally, mental challenges. Anxiety can be associated with having things that you should not be eating, right? Allergens don't cause just mental fog and like runny noses or inflammation. Allergens also cause literally loss of competent capabilities. Allergens cause us to be less effective at work. It affects mood, it affects focus, it affects overall brain function and brain flow. Like, it's a big deal. So if you don't know you're allergic to and you're eating it all the time, that's one reason the fatigue sets in. That's one reason you might be struggling with focus. And I know that might sound basic, but when I ask people, it's like 9 out of 10 have not been to a nutritionist ever. Ever. I'm like, you've never? That's crazy. Have you? They'll take their car in to get their oil checked, but they've never gone to a nutritionist. I'm like, what the hell? This is the car. This is the vehicle. This is the vehicle to all of your joy. This is the vehicle to your lifespan. This is the vehicle to everything. So you need to be very attentive to what goes in it.

So as an example for me, I.

Was very allergic, which I didn't know, to dairy for a really long time. Significantly allergic to it. But, oh, my God, cheese. Don't take away the cheese. I mean.

Oh, I loved yogurt. Oh.

Especially the sugary kind. That was horrible for me.

Oh, my God.

I love yogurt. Yogurt's healthy, right?

Come on.

I mean, I had all these crazy health habits that immediately stopped. Once I went to a nutritionist, I did a full panel. And so what I do is when I go to nutritionist, you might do this. Go see your nutritionist, and if you don't have one, find the best one in your town. And my favorite nutritionists to see are those who also treat athletes and work with athletes. So a nutritionist for your local football team, a nutritionist for your local baseball team. As an example. Like, you want pros? And sit down with them and say, my goal is optimum energy for my body. What do we need to do? And tell them, do all the tests. I don't care what you gotta pee.

On, what you gotta poop in a bag.

I don't care if you gotta take the mouth swabs and you gotta get.

12 vials of blood.

And yes, often, many of those things are part of this process. Do it. I don't care if you think it's gross. I don't care if you take your time and don't say, well, Brendan, but that can cost hundreds of dollars. I'm like, yeah. And you know what's really expensive? Death. You know what's really expensive? A brain that doesn't work well. You know what's really expensive? You feeling fatigued so you don't focus and get your work done on time. There's nothing more expensive than. Than poor health.

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Make sure you do test your home for toxins and molds. If you have not done that, let's say, and you've been living in your home for more than five years since you had the last inspection done, get the inspection, but request somebody come and test your house for toxins and molds. There's companies that come out and do it for, you know, 100, 200, 300, 400 bucks, depending on the home and where you live. But to come and get that done is so important. So important. I mean, you look at some of the biggest names in the health space. Many of them were inspired to get into health because they had toxins and molds. And they felt horrible for 10 years. Their kids felt horrible for 10 years. And they did everything. They cleaned up their diet, they got healthy and everything else, but the environment around them was toxic. Now, what can you do about that? I mean, you could do everything perfectly. But if there's mold in the attic or behind the shower, where you take a shower every day, or above the bedroom, I mean, you're gonna be in a place where things aren't good and mold and toxins literally eat away at brain function. I mean, it just terrorizes your brain because often it hurts. It causes so much inflammation that blood flow and oxygenation aren't getting the key cells. It kills off cellular health, which you don't want a bunch of your brain cells dying all the time in negative ways because of toxins and mold. So if you haven't done a test and you've been in your years, this might be a good thing to do because in five years, a significant amount of mold can grow. We discovered it. We redid the basement at one of my houses, and when we redid the basement, we were pretty stunned to find that one wall had mold all up in it. Now, this particular wall, what had happened was there was a faucet on the outside kind of dripping into the soil. Ultimately got into the house a little bit. And the previous homeowners knew about it, and they just walled it off and didn't do anything. And it wasn't caught on the inspection. And had we had someone come in who just focused on molds and toxins, they would have found it for sure. But we didn't discover it until we renovated the house. And it was like, wow, how much has that been affecting us? And you never know. So it's an important one. And you see all of these. This is basic stuff, but most of these things people don't do make excellent sleep, exercise and nutrition musts no longer optional high performers. Because I know if we can make sure you're getting that seven and a half to eight hours of sleep every night, or at least on a regular basis. We get your exercise up where you're activating your cardiovascular system way more often and you're eating right for your body type, your DNA, your gut, your brain, then you're gonna feel amazing. And guess what happens when you feel amazing? You get so much more done. I mean, you just do. Like, when you feel great, you're ten times more productive. When you feel great, you're awesome to your spouse and to the kids. When you feel great, you're an inspiring figure to other people. When you feel terrible, all of that is compromised. Your marriage is compromised when you feel terrible. So stop compromising on your sleep, your exercise, and your nutrition. You got to go away from just what is natural, default or comfortable. And you need to go into a high performance lifestyle. And that comes from focusing on these things. They're not a question for us. They're like, musts. Like, if you ever come to my event, it's kind of crazy how much we control what I have in terms of supplements, how I manage my sleep, manage my breaks. It seems crazy about how we have to go get this type of food or that type of thing or this has to be delivered to my room at this time. All of that is so that I can serve you at my highest level. Because, listen, we can all fake it one weekend with our health or with our energy for our spouse, but you can't do that month over month or year over year. They know. And the service you're providing your team, they know if you're wiped out, the service you're providing to your family, how you're trying to be as a role model, they know you can't fool them. So these are really important things and they're super simple.

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