This is Optimal Health Daily, the myth of special, and start where you are, both by Roger Lawson of roglawfitness.com, and I'm Dr. Neal.

Hello, happy Sunday, and welcome back to Optimal Health Daily, where I simply read to you from the best health and fitness blogs for free.

It's like an audiobook, but with articles instead,

and from a bunch of different authors, and always with permission from the sites. And on Fridays,

I answer your questions. You can send one in at oldpodcast.com slash ask, or email your question

to health at oldpodcast.com.

But with that, let's keep this intro nice and short.

Jump into today's article and continue optimizing your life.

The Myth of Special by Roger Lawson of Rajlawfitness.com.

To save you the mental gymnastics of having to imagine a 21-year-old Raj

wearing a traffic vest doing who knows what, I've posted a little gem from the

vault of adorability and delight. Okay, fine, it's just my eye photo collection. At the time,

I weighed 165 pounds, soaking wet, with a hearty meal in my belly. I was new to exercise,

and one factor that propelled me forward was the desire to look mad sexy. Despite my neophyte

status, do you know what that didn't stop me from doing?

Jumping to a new exercise plan every two weeks. I'm being generous with past Raj here,

thinking that I needed an advanced program that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen Hawking, and the

entire team at NASA designed just for me. I was spending $200 plus dollars a month on supplements like fat burners,

meal replacement powders, and superfoods and pills I couldn't pronounce the name of if you held

a rocket launcher to my face. I scoured magazines, message boards, and obscure GeoCity's websites

for any zany and exciting nuggets that I could add to my battle plan. To say I was deep

in the information creep is an understatement. Looking back, it's no wonder that I spent a long

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