Ryan Shank spends a day at Pritikin Longevity Center in Miami, a medical wellness retreat where 74% of participants stop diabetes medication and 83% stop hypertension medication. He eats strict, low-salt meals, plays polo in Wellington, and gets turned away from a steakhouse for his outfit.
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2024, I'm on my wellness kick. I'm doing a week-long kind of like wellness retreat here. It's this place, Pritikin Longevity Center. There's a medical component, um, and basically people come here and they like literally reverse type 2 diabetes. Like, it's crazy. So, um, basically today is day 5 here. All the food is like no salt, super clean, a lot of vegetables. They're really focused on caloric density. Um, look, look at this. 74% eliminated diabetes medicine, 83% eliminated hypertension, 9 pounds average weight loss. It's really cool. There's like classes. We're in, uh, there's a lunchtime scheduled at 12 o'clock every single day. This is a gym. Like earlier today we had a strength class, so we did cardio. I'm in the green group. So then we had cardio at, uh, 7:30, and then at 8:15 you do like a strength class. So they'll do class down here for like 45 minutes. I'm totally not allowed to go in here, but I'm going to. How long does it take you to eat a pear? This is a— is it a long time or a short time? It's a long time. It's a long time. You've been eating the whole— I'm milking this pear. I kind of like it that I'm like eating a pear in the video. So then this is the, um, this is the beautiful luxurious— this is Dom, this is Haley. Character development. This is the beautiful cafeteria here. Is it good? No, it's fine. Like, it's fine. It's not good— I wouldn't say good. It's um, it's fine. 1, 2, 3! Fuck you! All these like massive like buildings billionaires are, they all like ride horses and this is their, um, town that they like live in because it's like an equestrian village. So they all are down here. So the amount of money here, stupid. The playground for the rich and famous. So what are we doing here? Yeah, exactly. I know. We're about to turn in. Hey guys, we're here at Santa Rita Polo Farm in beautiful Wellington, Florida. We're about to go play some polo. What's up to this guy? What's up? How are you? How you doing? Good. This is my friend. How you need to play paintball? It's good, it's good. Yeah, I like your Gucci shoes. Oh, you see? New style. That's good. I'm meeting with your son today. Really? Yeah. Good luck. Yeah. Yeah. Life, life is the only thing we need. They need me to go, but I don't want to leave. Rest in peace to Lil Keith. Fuck a pigeonhole, I'm a night owl. It's a different mode. I'mma have to make a pan of 6 on a pinky toe. Hurt you with a shooting guard. Just let a nigga know I will hack That was sick. That was a great game. That was a great game out there. We put it all on the field. We got the dub. I know I'm like sprinting down the field on a horse I like don't even know how to ride really. He just stopped. Yeah, yeah. What? Every day it goes. I just thought it was funny because it said hey, because I feel like it'd be a good transition. All right, we just got done playing polo and now I'm at Starbucks. I'm about to meet Wambolini Jr. and we're going to talk, uh, about business. He's a model, the professional polo player. He's one of my friends, he's an entrepreneur in Miami, so we're going to just chat about some business ideas. I'm meeting with your son today. Really? Yeah. Good luck. How are you, man? Good, how you doing? Okay, okay. Because like— okay, good. You can't get a reservation, it's so annoying. You have to have a concierge or something. So I'll meet you later, man. Alright, thank you so much. So much. Anytime. You're the best. So we're downtown Miami and what happened? South of Fifth. They won't let us into Poppy Steak— oh! Oh no. They won't let us into Poppy Steak because they said no athletic wear. So we have to go get pants from Target and change and then come back and see if they still honor our reservations. Alright, that's the day today. We were at Pritikim in Doral, went up to Wellington, played some polo. Came back down to Miami, just had dinner at Poppy Steak. Now we're going home. It's like almost midnight. This is the latest I've been up in like the past, like, week. I usually was in bed at 9 PM. So that's it for the day. See you guys tomorrow.
