Vishen Lakhiani (founder of Mindvalley) recounts waking up at age 40 and realizing his health was failing—near obese, poor skin, hair loss, low energy—despite leading a global meditation company. After committing to research-driven change, he assembled experts (notably Diego Ronan) and developed a protocol called "Hollow Body." Over seven years his appearance, energy, skin, and hair improved; he no longer needs a daily 5pm sugar pick-me-up. The video introduces "five pillars to remarkable health," which intentionally focus beyond common topics (diet/exercise) to neglected areas like hormonal balance, the gut microbiome, and daily habits/routines.
Questions this video answers
20 million lives.
Age 40.
47 years old.
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I was teaching meditation to millions of people. My mind was good. My body was completely ignored. Ten years ago, I started the world's biggest mindset and meditation company, Mindvalley. Mindvalley has gone on to reach 20 million lives. Thousands upon thousands of case studies of transformation. But one day at the age of 40, I woke up, looked in the mirror and realized that my body was just not what I needed it to be. I was near obese, my skin was bad, I was losing my hair. I'd failed on almost all of my health goals and I was feeling tired and low energy. 5pm every day in the office, I needed to take a nap and then eat a Mars bar just for extra energy. That day, on my 40th birthday, I made a commitment to start applying the same detail of research to bring in the same experts that I sought to train my mind to my health. And this is what happened. The first picture you're going to see is a picture of me that year. This was a picture taken the day I began my health journey. Observe my face in that picture. Now, this is a picture of me taken just two weeks ago. And you can see I look younger, I'm less puffy. It even seems almost that my face changed. When I showed this to my friends, they were astonished. But this came about because I started shifting the way I thought about health. What I learned in seven years, I'm going to attempt to summarize to you with one of the key people who helped me transform my health so that you can take a step toward this type of transformation yourself. I was able to completely slow down the graying of my hair. Wrinkles disappeared, skin got better, energy levels transformed, and I no longer need a Mars bar at 5pm to keep my energy up. My life has transformed so much because of this. The impact it's had on my career, media appearances, my self confidence and my self esteem has been huge. Best of all, I've been able to take these learnings and apply it to my kids. My kids today score way above normal when it comes to health and fitness. If I could do this, you can too. Today I'm 47 years old. My whole concept of health has completely transformed as a result of this protocol. I knew I couldn't figure this out on my own. I had a team of hundreds of people working for me and identified research, bring together some of the top modalities in health. We looked at everything from nutrition, sleep, exercise, fitness. And then we discovered there were big gaping gaps in the entire map of human health that most people were completely blind to. I needed to find a really brilliant individual to lead all of this research. A man with an incredible mind that could see, see the patents, put everything together, and most importantly, could teach and transform others. That man is Ronan. Diego Ronan has a brilliant mind. He's an incredible researcher, and Ronan worked with us to develop many key health programs. And just one year ago, he put everything together and showed me his newest research that completely blew me away. It's called Hollow Body. And this is part of what you're about to discover today. You're going to learn the five pillars to remarkable health. These pillars are not what you expect. We're not going to be going deep into diet or nutrition or exercise. These are really common topics. We're going to look at the most common missing pieces in each individual's health puzzle. Things that people simply don't pay attention to, but that science says are so crucial for your health, such as hormonal balance, your gut microbiome, and your default habits and routines that you function with every single day.