39 Health & Happiness Hacks I’ve Learned in 39 Years

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Hello, friends! I’m celebrating my 39th birthday by giving you my top, best tips that have made me so much healthier and happier in my life – tiny tweaks that have made a HUGE difference. I share science-backed, expert advice I’ve tested for healthy eating, exercise, habit formation, career success, relationship success, gut health, energy, and so much more! You’ll also get a peek into my daily, weekly, and monthly routines. Whether you’re looking for actionable tips to improve your mornings, or make your meals simpler and more intentional, this episode has something for you! Check out the previous episodes of The Liz Moody Podcast discussed today: Want to Live to 100? Start Doing These 3 Things Today to hear Eric Topol on caffeine for longevity The 3 Simple Rules That Supercharged My Success to hear about my “Never be the one to say no to yourself” mindset EMFs, Microplastics, Red Light & More: The REAL Science Behind Today’s Biggest Wellness Topics to hear Dr. Vivian Chen on red light therapy Your Trickiest Healthy Eating Qs, Answered: Weight Loss, Protein, Gut Health, Longevity, And More to hear Dr. Tim Spector on fermented foods 5 Tiny Wellness Habits I’ve Noticed The Healthiest, Happiest People Do Differently to hear easy tips for reading more The Novelty Rule: How To Use My Neuroscience Hack That’s Changing Millions Of Lives to hear my most viral social media tip Match Theory: This Simple Mindset Hack Will Transform Your Relationships & Happiness to hear how to have authentic and deep relationships Why So Many Young People Are Getting Cancer + What You Can Do TODAY To Protect Yourself to hear from Dr. Sanjay Juneja Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Use our discount codes from our highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: Pique: go to PiqueLife.com/LizMoody for up to 20% off plus a special gift. Thrive Market: visit ThriveMarket.com/LizMoody and get a $60 FREE gift today & 30% OFF your first order Masa: visit MASAchips.com/Moody and use code MOODY for 25% off your first order. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 354. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. Today is my birthday episode, as you can tell
0:05.4	if you're watching the video, because I have this very sparkly, very disco-bally, very fabulous crown on.
0:10.9	And as a birthday gift from me to you, I'm going to be sharing 39 of the absolute best health
0:16.9	and happiness hacks that I have learned in the past 39 years. These are going to cover a really
0:21.8	wide range of topics from relationships to habit formation to gut health to energy, just like the
0:27.5	podcast. We kind of talk about it all. It is going to be the best of the best, these little tiny
0:32.4	tweaks that have made a big difference in my own life. And you're also going to get a peek
0:36.8	inside of my daily, weekly,
0:38.3	and monthly routines. So let's just jump right into it. Number 39, brush your teeth before
0:44.1	eating or drinking anything in the morning. Overnight, bacteria multiply in our mouth,
0:49.2	which is why most of us, myself very much included, wake up with very gross breath in the
0:53.2	morning. And if you eat or drink
0:54.9	before brushing, you're going to swallow a lot of those bacteria, which can disrupt your gut microbiome.
1:01.0	And it's also worse for your enamel, especially if you have anything acidic for breakfast.
1:05.1	So I wake up and literally the very first thing that I do is I brush my teeth and I scrape my tongue to break up those bacteria colonies.
1:14.2	Well, actually, the first thing that I do, the very first thing that I do is I pee.
1:17.1	And then that is the second thing that I do.
1:19.7	And then the third thing that I do every single morning brings us to number 38, which is I drink a big glass of water right after my pee and I brush my teeth.
1:28.4	I do that every single morning, ideally with some electrolytes or a pinch of mineral salt or sea salt in it. I had a
1:33.2	neuroscientist on the podcast and she described our brains as like a sponge. And overnight,
1:37.8	the sponge dries out and we need to rehydrate that sponge for it to work optimally in the
1:43.1	morning. And I was like, yep, that's enough
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