231. TJ Dillashaw: On Biohacking, Longevity, Injury Recovery and Life After UFC
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to be a champion, you can't leave no stone unturned, you got to have all energy |
| 0:03.3 | systems trained to the best ability. Chasing peak performance and longevity go hand in hand. And if you treat the body the way that it was intended to be treated and you recover the right way, you eat the right food, you supplement the right way, your performance is so much better. Well, you suffered through a lot of injuries during your career. I mean, I know that you fought with two blown-out shoulders. |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah, I mean, just wearing terror from wrestling |
| 0:23.2 | since I was eight-year-old through college You suffered through a lot of injuries during your career. I mean, I know that you fought with two blown-out shoulders. |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, I mean, just wearing terror from wrestling since I was eight-year-old through college and then more so as being a professional. You were doing stem cells early on in your career to try to preserve as much of that time as you had. you had. I do all my research trying to figure out like, what are like the Kobe Bryant's |
| 0:36.1 | doing in the world to preserve themselves or whatever it may be to keep me in the game |
| 0:40.3 | without having to get surgery. So you get the stem cells, you come back, you win another championship. Yeah, I win the world title back. Wow. Now that you're more woke to longevity and wellness, you've got this brand out there, which I'm sure you're pouring your soul into. What made you say, this is the next career path for me? Something I've noticed from just training in my experience |
| 0:58.9 | is that, |
| 1:00.2 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, |
| 1:16.8 | where we go down the road of everything, |
| 1:18.9 | anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. |
| 1:22.9 | And today's guest is no stranger to biohacking. |
| 1:26.9 | Now he's into longevity. It's the everything in between that we're going to talk about today. And, you know, I've got two-time U.S. Bantamweight World Champion, T.J. Dillishaw, dude, I am so pumped that you are on the Ultimate Human Podcast, brother. I am beyond pump. This is exciting. I'm a fan of the podcast. I'm a fan of what you stand for and the whole Maha movement. So I'm, I'm ecstatic to be here. Thanks, man. I really appreciate that. You know, |
| 1:49.5 | I think that your journey is like so many professional athletes' journeys and so many A-listers, |
| 1:58.5 | celebrities, actors, people that have been, had careers where they were very much |
| 2:04.0 | in the public eye, you know, worked themselves to greatness. And then one day, it just ends. |
| 2:12.3 | Right? Yeah. And, you know, I've read a lot about you and, you know, how disappointed you were about the way that your career ended. |
| 2:20.5 | It didn't end the way that you would, you know, plan for it to end. |
| 2:24.5 | You know, you had some skirmishes along the way, which you've been very transparent about, you know, to your suspension for PEDs and, like, what you learned from that. |
| 2:33.9 | But I wonder for my audience |
| 2:35.5 | that maybe isn't into the UFC or into professional fighting or MMA, but understands that, |
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